Example sentences of "[verb] [not/n't] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A bruising-looking man in a navy-blue , pin-striped suit with trousers frayed at the turn-ups and a beige and brown shirt of the sort that is supposed not to show the dirt . |
| 2 | At the local elections in May 1976 , the Conservatives won control of the council and on 7 June told the Secretary of State that they proposed not to implement the plans for the conversion of the five grammar schools into comprehensives and sixth-form colleges . |
| 3 | Although he did not specify how this was to be achieved , he promised not to increase the unpopular goods and services consumption tax ( GST ) . |
| 4 | The group 's chairman , Sir Simon Hornby , promised not to break the agreement first , but pledged a strong response if someone else did so . |
| 5 | But many species appear not to like the sound of a motor or a throbbing propeller . |
| 6 | He nodded , appearing not to notice the blush staining her cheeks . |
| 7 | It is important to try not to let the negative memories predominate but to remember instead the many good and happy times together . |
| 8 | In the end an expensive system is installed not to fulfil the task but to do lots of other fascinating things that do not need doing . |
| 9 | The Scottish Secretary , Ian Lang , is expected not to accept the report 's recommendations and instead opt for a period of public consultation . |
| 10 | It is not difficult to see why corporate crime has not received the same publicity as murder , robbery , theft , rape and so on — both in the mass media and in the study of crime . |
| 11 | Sometimes we may apply relatively simple yardsticks , such as whether the school has or has not received the newly recommended material and whether it is using it . |
| 12 | The buyer has no lien over rejected goods and therefore must hand them over on request even though he has not received the return of his purchase money , Lyons v. May & Baker ( 1923 K.B. ) . |
| 13 | The increase in complaints may have something to do with the fact that we believe that it is important that if someone has not received the care to which he thinks he is entitled from the NHS , his right to complain should not be a well-kept secret , as has too often happened in the past . |
| 14 | Just because the regional dimension has not received the attention afforded to monetary union , that does not mean that it is less important to our future economic well-being . |
| 15 | If , after a set period of time PI has not received the expected mail message , it will ‘ time-out ’ and continue with its normal operation , assuming that the message has been deleted . |
| 16 | The World Bank board has approved a loan towards Chile 's Pangue dam project , even though the project has not received the full environmental assessment required under the bank 's operating guidelines . |
| 17 | Hughes is convinced that the North West , its tales of achievement drowned out by London 's much-trumpeted experiences , has not received the credit it deserves for its wartime resilience . |
| 18 | However , the Nationalism Today faction has not adopted the antisemitic conspiracy theory of politics in order to attract financial support , but it may attempt to seek such support because it holds antisemitic beliefs . |
| 19 | This law has not served the best interests of air safety even though it might have satisfied a curious public . |
| 20 | Currently it is not possible to give 100% reassurance that an at risk individual has not inherited the faulty APC gene , unless they are shown not to have the family mutation . |
| 21 | Brown claims that Government has not faced the failures of the present Labour 's ‘ quack ’ cures will damage patient — Ridley Queen 's speech debate . |
| 22 | The Book of Kells has not survived the centuries complete and has lost some of its printed pages , or perhaps the plan for the illumination was never completed . |
| 23 | It is interesting to note that Rolfe & Nolan 's chairman is Tim Hearley , also chairman of C. H. Industries , which , unfortunately , has not survived the recession ; administrators were appointed in March . |
| 24 | The next report however carried the sad news that the " Female Compositors Society has not survived the ailments of its infancy : it closed at the end of the year " . |
| 25 | Their disappearance has not caused the same level of concern as the disappearance of tropical rainforests , but the report points out that some temperate forests are as rich in species as rainforests . |
| 26 | While the core objections to the reforms are founded on points of principle , the anger of solicitors and others has been fuelled by the fact that civil legal aid has not caused the rise in the total bill for legal aid . |
| 27 | Even now , Grant has not heard the sorriest details about Charlotte 's chronicle of misery during this nightmare waiting period . |
| 28 | The inability to confirm this well-known fact has not spoilt the sudden acceptance of the placebo as something with at least a false concrete explanation rather than being some form of gothic magic about which it is better not to speak . |
| 29 | The South Korean conglomerate Hyundai plans to fell 300,000 hectares of forest in the Bikin river area and has not consulted the 2,000 Udege , who hunt and fish in the forest , Survival International reports . |
| 30 | But this simplistic account of that crucial phase of evolution has not stood the test of modern investigation . |