Example sentences of "[verb] not [vb pp] such " in BNC.
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| 1 | This country has not faced such a decision in the past 300 or 400 years and I hope that we never shall . |
| 2 | The effect of a reservation against such a provision by the State of the forum where the conflict rules of that State lead to the application of the law of another Contracting State which has not made such a reservation is unclear . |
| 3 | He ignores the fact that the major argument for including the supervisor 's name in papers to which he or she has not made such a contribution is that it is the supervisor 's reputation which has attracted the research grant or ensured publication . |
| 4 | He ignores the fact that the major argument for including the supervisor 's name in papers to which he or she has not made such a contribution is that it is the supervisor 's reputation which has attracted the research grant or ensured publication . |
| 5 | Mr. Justice Henry is no respecter of persons , and I hope that the hon. Gentleman has not become such a respecter of persons that he supposes that those two people were dealt with out of any consideration for who or what they were . |
| 6 | My other self — my Chinese self — has not had such understanding . |
| 7 | Compare this to the golfer in diagram B. He has not taken such a positive approach to the same tee-shot , and has failed to stand behind the ball-to-target line before addressing the ball . |
| 8 | But fortunately his own cast has not taken such advice and under the musical direction of Marius Constant the singers soar above the lugubrious libretto based on Maeterlinck 's play . |
| 9 | ‘ I am now surprised if the parent involved has not got such a history . ’ |
| 10 | What I am clear about is that Parliament has not conferred such autonomy on a 16- to 18-year-old child by virtue of section 8 of the Act of 1969 , and that the common law , as interpreted by the House of Lords in Gillick 's case does not do so either . |
| 11 | Swedish Lutheranism , with its strong medieval roots , also has not forgotten such ideas entirely . |
| 12 | She goes oh , erm , yeah , just because we 've got ta house like this has n't got such a glamorous house |
| 13 | The House found that the defendant had not fulfilled such a duty to take reasonable care and was thus liable to the plaintiff for the damage caused to her health . |
| 14 | Kangas-Saarela et al found that babies whose mothers had received epidural analgesia with bupivacaine had higher neurobehavioural scores than those whose mothers had not received such analgesia . |
| 15 | I had not heard such a remark before . |
| 16 | As he waited he realized that he had not felt such keen anticipation and happiness since he had served in the front line at Magdeburg . |
| 17 | If governments had not run such deficits then the slump would have been far deeper , since the deficits worked partially to offset the collapse in demand which resulted from the big increase in OPEC savings and fall in investment . |
| 18 | IBM Corp is expected to announce today that it is switching to what it calls value-based pricing for mainframe software , charging on either a per-user or elapsed time used basis ; the company issued a cryptic statement in response to the Financial Times story alleging that Louis Gerstner had put the break-up of IBM on hold , saying that Gerstner had not said such a thing for public consumption and that he had no plans to do so . |
| 19 | Copa Bitoo , although internally differentiated , had not developed such a marked stratification system . |
| 20 | V. P. Singh visited the area soon after the disaster and told reporters that he had not seen such human suffering in any previous natural calamity . |
| 21 | Paddy Mayne , however , had not had such good luck . |
| 22 | He must listen attentively to the tales of how the amateur would have broken sixty-five in a competition last Saturday if he had not had such disgusting luck on the greens . |
| 23 | It cost me a deal in time and labour and money to get my castle back from them , and if we had not had such a pious garrison — all but the lame and bedridden in church ! — they would never have prised their way into the place . |
| 24 | Libyans had not resolved such contrasting usages . |
| 25 | The sideboard knocked the wall as he swung round and the noise groaned in the room that had not known such life since the night Francis Sutherland , drunk in front of weekend guests , told his wife , self-assured and aloof on the distant coast of the table , that she was a frigid bitch who needed seeing to and he did n't care who did it . |
| 26 | He had not laid such an imposition on the others , nor would he have tried to do so , for , he would have said , who am I , knowing so little of the world , to make laws and rules for my fellow creatures ? |
| 27 | When pressed why he , a trained detective , had not committed such important information to writing , he ha |
| 28 | Until early this century when American mink Mustela vison first began to escape from fur farms , there had never been such animals in the British Isles , not even the European mink M. lutreola , and our countryside had not experienced such a versatile and opportunistic predator before . |
| 29 | John had not expected such an overwhelming response , and as not even the Ballroom itself could contain such large numbers , he took them all outside into the street to make his selection . |
| 30 | She had not expected such direct questioning . |