Example sentences of "not [vb pp] [adv prt] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The stability of the organochlorines , an advantage in their industrial applications , ensured that they were not broken down in the natural environment . |
| 2 | In addition , cardiac surgery was not carried out in the two districts studied . |
| 3 | It 's not trotted out in the old history books as one of the conferences , or one of the congresses rather . |
| 4 | The next generation which is taking over the reins of industry is a generation who were not brought up in the same milieu that I was brought up in . |
| 5 | Even if it is not read out in the endless rounds of buying and selling shares , then the message , passive though it might be , should still find its way into the living rooms of a high proportion of homes in the Sheffield region . |
| 6 | I think it 's particularly useful as a way of gaining entry to ideas about childhood — what children are for , why to have them — that are n't written about in the official records , that is , in the textbooks of child analysis and child psychology , and in sociological descriptions of childhood . |
| 7 | Although I was n't brought up in the Jewish faith — my mother would n't hear of it — he still passed on to me all those standards that were part of his own upbringing and would never tolerate what he from time to time described as my ‘ unacceptable behaviour ’ . |
| 8 | Er children are n't brought up in the same maternal way as they are in in this country , and many other countries . |