Example sentences of "not [vb pp] with [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | After the last exchange of prisoners in mid-September , Iran had refused to release an estimated 17,000 Iraqi prisoners , claiming that Iraq still held 20,000 Iranians not registered with the International Committee of the Red Cross ( ICRC ) . |
2 | It is sad that film sound-tracks are not treated with the same care that goes into the pictures . |
3 | The general fast was not regarded with the same favour everywhere ; in London it was dubbed ‘ General Farce ’ by the National Union of the Working Classes , which organised a demonstration . |
4 | The RC15K row counter is not included with the electronic KnitRadar either and has to be bought separately . |
5 | But the question is not pursued with the same tenacity and intensity as when a child dies in tragic circumstances . |
6 | ‘ If you look at past efforts to launch soccer here in the States it has not met with a great deal of viewing support , ’ said Bill Sherman , a vice president with the McCann Ericson advertising agency . |
7 | French Prime Minister Michel Rocard conceded that the initiative had " not met with the least response from the Iraqi side " . |
8 | In brief , it would seem that Anselm , like many reformers , had not reckoned with the solid weight of inertia on most matters , and positive dissent on others . |
9 | General seismic and other expenditures not connected with a specific exploration licence are written off to the profit and loss account immediately . |
10 | They also knew they were not connected with the humanitarian assistance programme ( NHAO ) that was eventually run for the contras by the State Department , since those aircraft were ‘ beautiful brand-new L-100s , the most beautifully painted things ’ . |
11 | The persistence of such complaints , which from time to time were endorsed by local persons not connected with the woollen trade , suggests that these " oppressions " were widespread and long-lasting . |
12 | The Labour Research Department — not connected with the Labour Party — has been investigating what happens to ministers when they lose office . |
13 | They resolved that , if the money was now obtainable , it should be applied to assist the funds of the journal designated at that time the Veterinary Record ( not connected with the present journal of that name ) which was edited by professors of the College . |
14 | Rescuers said the incident was not connected with the earlier search . |
15 | What is the point of having the ultra-powerful weapon if it is not armed with the correct ammunition ? |
16 | It is like using an elephant gun to fire air-rifle pellets ; inappropriate , inaccurate and completely point of having an ultra-powerful weapon if it is not armed with the correct ammunition ; it is like using an elephant gun to fire air-rifle pellets ; inappropriate , inaccurate and completely unbalanced . |
17 | The aircraft was not equipped with a take-off-out-of-trim warning device . |
18 | Hilton 's mystical theology is not conveyed with the passionate poetry that characterises Rolle 's writing , it is not attended by the rigours of the Cloud-author 's sense of that transcendent God who can not be known in any recognisable sense of the word , the visionary experience of Julian of Norwich , or the endearingly unbalanced enthusiasm of Margery Kempe . |
19 | Thus , true poetry is an entity to which the property POETRY truly applies , while Charlie 's old school is an entity such that the relation between it and the description CHARLIE 'S SCHOOL belongs to the time labelled by the word " old " , and a certain winner ( when not used with the indefinite sense ) is an entity of whom or which the description WINNER certainly holds ( or so the gambler hopes ) . |
20 | We want to ensure that people are not landed with a second taxation system which is as unfair and unjust as the poll tax . |
21 | It is important that the category of children with moderate learning difficulties , which has escalated to frightening proportions , is not replaced with a new category of disruptive pupils . |
22 | People are not born with a repressed set of experiences , but they acquire them , although at times Freud seems to suggest that some parts of the repressed material of earlier generations is inherited . |
23 | If we are not provided with a reasoned argument in its support , why should we accept , as if it were self-evident , that accuracy and acquisition orders are the same ? |
24 | The fieldworker was not provided with a formal set of interview questions to work through systematically ; a formal questionnaire is replaced with modules or sets of questions organized around specific topics . |
25 | Thus , in a thoroughly typical way , man , who is not endowed with an instinctive love of animals or care for them , achieves the ability to make a success of animal-husbandry as a form of economic life by channelling his otherwise rampant aggressiveness back against himself as a force of conscience which frequently expresses itself in pastoral cultures as a vengeful and recriminating god of the sky . |
26 | Now , not satisfied with the immediate success of the furnishing fabrics , Bernard revived his twenty-year-old plan to produce wallpaper , using designs taken directly from fabrics , and sent Meirion and Dai Jones to Holland to buy a paper printing machine . |
27 | Still not satisfied with the delicious idea of a soldier taking the doubtful reading matter away in a wheelbarrow , Dostoevsky adds , in Stepan 's reportage , ‘ and covered it with an apron ; oui , c'est cela , an apron ’ — as if in the eyes of Stepan there was something specially affronting or sinister , anyhow notable , about the apron . |
28 | It is likely to form the basis for an assertion that the injury was not inflicted with the requisite intent . |
29 | The regulators are not left with a free hand as the rules will still have to satisfy statutory purposes , a central part of which is investor protection . |
30 | They are not left with the diminishing glow of a receding experience . |