Example sentences of "not [verb] [prep] [v-ing] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many parents would be shocked by rap songs about men mutilating female genitalia , with graphic descriptions that we would not reproduce in reporting a criminal trial let alone an article on popular culture . |
| 2 | Braverman quotes the editorial of a 1918 edition of the International Molders Journal , noting that ‘ A half-century of commentary on scientific management has not succeeded in producing a better formulation of the matter ’ ( Braverman 1974 , 136 ) : |
| 3 | I have not succeeded in finding a clear-cut English instance [ excluding Swift ] in which a satirist , on an economic issue , was attacking a social group clearly higher than the one he belonged to or had been hired to serve . |
| 4 | On Jan. 21 Ghozali said that he had evidence of Iranian interference in Algerian affairs which " was not confined to making a financial contribution " . |
| 5 | He did not believe in imposing a common blueprint across the country ; local circumstances would be taken into account . |
| 6 | Previous reports had suggested that such subgroups of patients did well in terms of survival in the short and medium term after transplantation , assuming that the development of renal failure requiring dialysis had not occurred before receiving a suitable organ , and quality of life has been shown to increase in absolute terms after such a procedure . |
| 7 | Left lesioned patients were not impaired in copying a single hand posture nor in flexing a single finger at the middle joint without simultaneous flexion of the other fingers . |
| 8 | The Labour Party was not deterred from developing a domestic program me despite the growing concentration on foreign affairs . |
| 9 | Many years ago the company purchased a property for its investment potential , but as a result of the slump in property prices the company could not sell without making a substantial loss . |
| 10 | It is , of course , desirable they should never be overworked or overstressed , and you can ensure that this does not happen by having a sufficient number so that it is always possible to rest some while using others . |
| 11 | They will absorb the collected Yes , Minister , and its sequel the collected Yes , Prime Minister , in their entirety but not think of opening a real political text . |
| 12 | It has in the past happened that a client has been advised by the agent to amend an order , has entirely agreed with that advice , but has at the same time pointed out that his authority does not extend to giving a final decision , and this can be awkward . |
| 13 | Pears is probably the best singing actor I have ever seen and heard , but the range of his abilities does not extend to playing a brutal fisherman . |
| 14 | The reasoning is not aimed at supporting a positive argument : it is negative and adversarial , and aimed at rejecting the arguments of other scholars and at excluding evidence that can not easily be accommodated into a unilinear historical canon . |