Example sentences of "and [verb] not [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He spoke after Bronson 's owner appeared before York magistrates and admitted not keeping a dangerous dog under proper control . |
| 2 | This 40 Minutes Special ( BBC 2 ) was produced by Agnieszka Piotrowska , who never makes a bad programme and has n't made a better one than this . |
| 3 | Marwood has failed to win a regular place at Bramall Lane since his £300,000 transfer from Arsenal two years ago and has not made a single appearance this season . |
| 4 | Black could operate on the right for there is no challenge now from Robbie Dennison ( Wolverhampton Wanderers ) who did not sign his new contract until earlier this week and has not played a first team game this season — missing out also on the club 's Scandinavian tour . |
| 5 | After taking a direct hit on the right temple , Mr Loaf walked off and has not graced a British stage since . |
| 6 | This is not to suggest that life in a large mental handicap hospital is a fulfilling experience ; on the contrary , it has already been established that such places should not ideally exist and do not represent a suitable home for mentally handicapped people . |
| 7 | While PCs can have 9-pin and/or 25-pin serial ports , you should only find 25-pin ports on external modems — internal modems fit into an expansion slot and do n't require a physical serial port socket . |
| 8 | And do n't come a bloody car park do n't put the board up . |
| 9 | Being in love leaves this huge hole in your self , and if you 're adolescent , and do n't have a clear concept of yourself , then you are just a hole , an outline . |
| 10 | And do n't let a million postcards tell you otherwise . |
| 11 | That way , you know where to find them and do n't risk a lengthy search at the last minute , which may be boring and off-putting for both of you . |
| 12 | If you too believe you 're being exploited and do n't get a decent wage why not give us a call and tell us about it . |
| 13 | Dioxins are also suspected to migrate into drinks made with chlorine-bleached coffee filter papers and tea bags , although MAFF states that the amounts extracted are very low and do not present a significant danger . |
| 14 | Jacobite seditious words , by their nature , express the belief that James should be King and not William ; often the speeches recorded in the legal documents are short and cryptic , and do not offer a full explanation of how that belief came to be arrived at . |
| 15 | In particular , they are not associated with non-gonococcal urethritis and do not produce a typical vaginal discharge . |
| 16 | Textbooks have a register of their own and do not provide a suitable model for imitating in your essay-writing . |
| 17 | They rely for their action on enhancing the mechanical action of manual scrubbing and do not have a true chemical activity . |
| 18 | Certain tender varieties of narcissi , like ‘ Paper White ’ and ‘ Grand Soleil d'Or ’ , are naturally early flowering and do not need a natural or artificial cool period in order to flower quickly and healthily indoors , but they can not be planted outside afterwards . |
| 19 | Such organisations are flexible and constantly changing : they adapt to the environment in order to create or maintain the conditions necessary for success in the task , and do not become a mere part of the machinery as , for example , project teams are disbanded as soon as their task has been completed . |
| 20 | The changes in the early 1970s were modifications of existing procedure and did not represent a major shift in emphasis . |
| 21 | Held , allowing the appeal , that although ‘ action ’ in section 69 of the Solicitors Act 1974 was to be construed liberally it could extend only to forms of legal process and did not embrace a statutory demand , the service of which was merely part of the statutorily prescribed procedure for obtaining remedies afforded to creditors by a bankruptcy order and did not of itself initiate legal proceedings ; that a solicitor was therefore not debarred by section 69(1) from serving a statutory demand for payment of his costs before the expiration of one month from the date of delivery of his bill of costs ; and that , accordingly , since the statutory demand and petition were valid , they would be remitted to the district judge for hearing ( post , pp. 1029E–F , G — 1030A , 1031E ) . |
| 22 | Yugoslavia faded after an imaginative start and did not offer a serious threat until late in the game , when Mladenovic curled in a free-kick . |
| 23 | Following the jury 's decision , District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson declared a mistrial on the 12 unresolved charges and did not set a sentencing date for the single conviction . |
| 24 | In the light of the defendants ' knowledge of her state of health it was reasonably foreseeable that that would happen if they were negligent and did not obtain a satisfactory resolution of her affairs . |
| 25 | the arrangements for legal advice represented a wasteful use of resources and did not guarantee a reasonable service to all who need it ; |
| 26 | Maybe it was not direct aid and did not have a serious effect , but it seems difficult to imagine any sportsman , black or white , entering sport entirely unassisted . |
| 27 | When he applied to the court for permission to marry , as he was required to do since he was under twenty-one and did not have a recognised guardian , the magistrate at Bow Street refused ‘ as he was not in favour of a British girl marrying an alien ’ . |
| 28 | It soon became clear that breach of confidence was actionable per se , and did not require a contractual relationship between the parties . |
| 29 | The European Communities ( EC ) stated that it welcomed NAFTA provided that it abided by GATT rules and did not become a closed trade bloc . |
| 30 | Kuznetsk is interesting in that , unlike Irkutsk , it was not near any main communication arteries and did not develop a secure economic base before the October 1917 Revolution . |