Example sentences of "not [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But of course the water is not heaped up into a cube and so it is perhaps more appropriate , though less convenient , to think of this mass of salt water in its actual context — as a veneer-thin skin which lurks in those troughs and valleys which fall below the mean circumference of the earth 's planetary spheroid . |
| 2 | In her letter to BR Mrs. Buttigieg asked why the registration number of her car was not checked out against the season ticket holders ' records . |
| 3 | McKeown has not given up on the north 's hope for next year 's Classic , who was found to have a temperature after finishing last in the Somerville Tattersall Stakes . |
| 4 | Marx found the answer to this problem in his belief that , in the Asiatic system , the community is not broken up by the growth of private property and internal differentiation , as happens in classical city states or in feudalism , because the integrity of the community is maintained centrally by the State itself . |
| 5 | If only Oliver had not fallen over on the path he would not have gone to spend the night with Marjorie and Mr Sargent . |
| 6 | Time to Declare by David Owen ( Penguin , £7.99 ) — Had he not fallen out with the Alliance , this passionate rebel male might well have been a key figure in this the general election . |
| 7 | American unionism has had the inestimable advantage of being born in a land whose social landscape was not cluttered up with the debris of a feudal age . |
| 8 | Consequently the density reduction due to the high temperature of the fluid going into an upflow is not cancelled out by a density increase due to high concentration . |
| 9 | Illes had not come up through the state bureaucracy , and his appointment as deputy state secretary was looked upon as a " statement of intent " by many in the environmental lobby . |
| 10 | The government has still not come up with a dump for the masses of intermediate wastes , such as fuel cladding , that the plant would produce . |
| 11 | One can speculate that if Mezey had not come up with the idea of dispensing with two hospitals , and of the remaining four being given a quadrant of the region to serve each , the idea that it was an RHA rather than local management responsibility to deal with the issue , might never have stuck in the minds of senior regional officers . |
| 12 | and what you 've got to be very careful , cos you ca n't offer them and not come up with the goods |
| 13 | The old scribe would shake his head : ‘ I could have tried for 20 years and still not come up with an opening paragraph like that , ’ he would say . |
| 14 | ‘ I tell you what , ’ he said , after thinking for a few seconds , ‘ as you 're so keen on horses why not come up to the farm when you 've got some time to spare and help my young niece in the stables ? |
| 15 | Then if he still has not come out of the tent I will go down there while it is still light , very quietly , and see if I can see , without getting too close , how he is . |
| 16 | Branfoot said : ‘ Matt has not come back with an answer but we are still in the early stages of negotiation . ’ |
| 17 | But no , she could not ride tomorrow , her boots had not come back from the shoemaker 's . |
| 18 | Edward had not come back from the construction firm at David with anything saved up , but then , she had hardly expected him to . |
| 19 | Fings are changin' now though , an ? it 's not come about by the kindness o' the employers . |
| 20 | ‘ In fact , if you 're not otherwise engaged , why not come along to the wedding with me ? |
| 21 | Armed with your bridging loan , you are effectively a cash buyer , not caught up in a chain , and you can use this position to your advantage , demanding and getting a good discount . |
| 22 | This argument can make little appeal to anyone not caught up in the artifices of philosophy . |
| 23 | She had not looked in on the gallery this visit . |
| 24 | That is to explain why it is not picked up in the narrative , but it does not explore the more significant matter of the effect of what the compiler has done . |
| 25 | A man … ( most of the examples in mathematics textbooks refer to men : women are invisible — a point not picked up in the Cockcroft Report which devotes a whole chapter to why girls perform less well in mathematics than boys do ) … earns £74.50 for a 48 hour week . |
| 26 | This can result in errors which can be costly if not picked up by the tenant 's solicitor . |
| 27 | However , the firm will have to make the prescribed disclosure that all or most of the FSA protections do not apply if ( even though it does not have to do so ) it tells a private customer that it is a member of SFA or is otherwise FSA-authorised ; or ( 2 ) It is carried on with or for customers in the UK , but the FSA 's overseas person exemption would have applied if that non-UK office had been a separate person from the UK office ( see page 40 above and also below ) or , presumably , is outside the territorial scope of the FSA in any event ; or ( 3 ) The business is that of an appointed representative of the firm and is not carried on in the UK . |
| 28 | The reform was not carried through in the House but the phrenologists urged or reformers elsewhere and , indirectly , their enthusiasm led on to William Forster 's Education Bill of 1870 which established in Britain the system of elementary schools for all . |
| 29 | As a matter of practice execution is often not carried out pending the hearing . |
| 30 | Care should be taken to ensure that the tenant 's works are not carried out under an obligation to the landlord or the tenant could be disadvantaged on rent review . |