Example sentences of "not [vb pp] [adv] [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The simple service has not altered basically over the years . |
| 2 | and what you 've got to be very careful , cos you ca n't offer them and not come up with the goods |
| 3 | This argument can make little appeal to anyone not caught up in the artifices of philosophy . |
| 4 | Those regulations not carried out under the auspices of the SIB include insider dealing , takeovers and mergers , and the listing of new issues . |
| 5 | Finally , it is no use trying to escape by saying that ancient trade was not carried out by the nationals of ancient states but by non-citizens , so the Megarian decree can not have injured Megarian trade : the generalization about ancient trade should be corrected to read ‘ ancient Athenian trade ’ , which is what nearly all our information is about . |
| 6 | By whatever means possible , will the right hon. Gentleman get in touch with Ministers to ensure that , if it is right for the Government to gain publicity over Christmas for looking after a few hundred homeless , it should be right to do something about them now so that they are not turned out on the streets ? |
| 7 | Seaton has not grown much over the years due to lack of building land , though there are now new terrace-type cottages in the centre of the village . |
| 8 | But despite being subject to the second wave of pan-European reform in psychiatry since the 1940s , France has not moved away from the asylums with any speed . |
| 9 | Critics may argue that it has not moved enough with the times , is not as up-to-date in its special effects as its counterparts across the Atlantic , but this perhaps highlights its attraction . |
| 10 | In group F were to be found young children ( average age about 10 ) who sat , when they were not moved off by the police , on the wall in the front of the terrace , overlooking the dry moat . |
| 11 | The auditors should give the details required by 6 Sch in their report if disclosure is not made elsewhere in the accounts . |
| 12 | The auditors should give the details required by Sch 6 in their report if disclosure is not made elsewhere in the accounts . |
| 13 | An ESRC-funded study at the department of psychology of the University College of Swansea of 52 people in their twenties with Down 's syndrome found that there is obviously confusion about who can and can not vote , that there is clear overlap in the abilities of those who vote and those who do not and that decisions on voting are not made strictly on the abilities of the person with Down 's syndrome . |
| 14 | The club paid him the princely sum of £8 , a fee that has not risen much over the years according to some of Celtic 's more dour stars . |
| 15 | as if every sentence he had ever written had not cried out to the heavens that the man had as much integrity as a rotten tree-trunk . |
| 16 | Their rivalries were not washed away by the flows of commerce and finance . |
| 17 | The critical value of Shakespeare is not founded only in the texts ascribed to him , but in wider circulations and negotiations of Shakespeare within social frameworks , in the moment of his texts ' original production and in subsequent periods . |
| 18 | The greater part of their duties in terms of expenditure was not handed down to the boroughs but passed over to newly established joint boards for police , the fire brigade , passenger transport and the probation service because these functions require wider operational areas than the boroughs can provide . |
| 19 | ( It should be noted that these sexual hormones are not produced solely in the gonads . |
| 20 | they prove defective whilst ‘ in consumer use ’ ( i.e. not used exclusively for the purposes of a business ) . |
| 21 | Although arguments about women 's impurity are not used explicitly in the statements of the Vatican and various national episcopacies against women 's ordination , they are implied . |
| 22 | Such ideas , however , were not based entirely on the critics ' response to what was on display ; rather , they derived from opinions about O'Keeffe and her art that had been formulated by Stieglitz and his circle of friends and published before 1923 . |
| 23 | Even if the loan is not called in by the investors , there are likely to be other implications . |
| 24 | Yet , referring to section 6(c) of the Act , the Court of Appeal held that , although not bound directly by the injunctions , the newspapers could be in contempt if , in publishing material derived from Peter Wright 's manuscript , they intended to interfere with the administration of justice . |
| 25 | After the revolution , Andrei 's starlet wife loyally tried to defend her husband by portraying him as an opponent of the Comrade and the victim of persecution , but this unoriginal line of defence is not borne out by the facts , except insofar as all the members of the ruling group lived precariously . |
| 26 | This , as we have seen , is simply not borne out by the facts . |
| 27 | Unfortunately the predictions of this very simple hypothesis were not borne out by the facts of subsequent experience . |
| 28 | Any suggestion that this level of care is diminishing is not borne out in the findings of numerous studies . |
| 29 | In a redemption action the mortgagee was allowed full costs ‘ not tied down to the costs taxed . ’ |
| 30 | Several of the plant species have extra-floral nectaries but almost all the plants can be found growing away from the ant nests and the ants can form nests without the plants so that , despite the apparent advantages to both plants and animals , the relationship is not obligatory , though Codonanthe spp. are not found away from the nests . |