Example sentences of "not [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They will certainly have the fullest support of my Department and the Government in that and I hope that they will have the fullest support of Opposition Members , too , although that has not come through in this debate . |
| 2 | The situation was desperate : Holmes was away on a case , and not expected back for some time . |
| 3 | In other cases the particular translation of a sign may fail to show similarity : the Danish and British signs for WOMAN are different , but the British sign LADY resembles the Danish sign WOMAN ; such information is not picked up by this method of data collection . |
| 4 | where you 're just watching , helping , washing a few cups with somebody and , and then going on a course one or two days a week , and then you 're consider whether being took on and even if you 're not took on at that place at least you 've got something to say you 've done when you 're |
| 5 | She knew something , though not all , of his day 's programme : she 'd rung The Randolph at 10.45 p.m. and learned from the tour leader that her husband had not turned up at any point during the day to fulfil his commitments — and that in itself was quite out of character . |
| 6 | It is important to notice here that Freud is talking about a part of the ego as being built up from the social and cultural surroundings , but that the whole ego is not built up in this way . |
| 7 | It was certainly not bogged down by any kind of personal dogma , and I resent that accusation . |
| 8 | This assumption is not borne out by any evidence — after all , the dolphins have no perceivable technology — but it is fair to guess that at least some intelligent species will develop an advanced technology . |
| 9 | ‘ Ministers have not only not spoken out against this irresponsibility but now can not speak persuasively against these boardroom excesses because so many ex-Cabinet Ministers are themselves among the beneficiaries of these excesses , ’ he said . |
| 10 | The fog had not set in at that time , late afternoon , and the dockers were able to describe the men as respectable-looking young gents in peaked caps . |
| 11 | These exhibits were mostly just single figures , not set out in any kind of tableau , but isolated in their stage clothes with just a name plate for company . |
| 12 | Columbus was not cut out for this sort of work . |
| 13 | The Middlesex slow left-armer began this winter 's campaign as one of the world 's top ranked spinners , but he has not lived up to that reputation . |
| 14 | The the the they 're not fitted in to any framework of stronger structures to back er the proposals put before us er er t today . |
| 15 | Railway stock sent from Black Sea ports to another area , the Middle Volga , was not sent back for more grain , but for the most part ended up in Siberia . |
| 16 | Has she not improved out of all recognition ? ’ |
| 17 | The money is frozen in the hands of a third party and not paid out to either side . |
| 18 | The career of artists as diverse as Queen and Public Enemy would have been very different if Nile Rodgers and Bernard Edwards had n't come up with this landmark tune . |
| 19 | Keegan said : ‘ Obviously there may be some truth in it , but it has n't come out from this end . |
| 20 | You had n't turned up for that date . |
| 21 | I mean we noticed that with the referrals and everything but it was purely that you had n't got down to that point to ask for them . |
| 22 | I think the occasional piece which encouraged your readers to rediscover the genuinely great figures of the past — Gene Vincent , for example — would be useful , especially if it was n't tied in with some promotion or record release |
| 23 | I suppose if I had n't gone back into that room they 'd have found some other way of leaving the message . ’ |
| 24 | Apart from the fact that I 've never known her dig up a weed or pick a single daffodil , she simply is n't cut out for that kind of work . ’ |
| 25 | She just was n't cut out for this sort of thing ! |
| 26 | that that green was n't put on for that competition . |