Example sentences of "[not/n't] [vb pp] [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | But a minister has not given evidence to the committee ‘ in living memory ’ . |
| 2 | The report deeply angered Price Waterhouse because it had not given evidence to Senator Kerry 's subcommittee . |
| 3 | With an effort she said , ‘ Listen , Frank , and you can pass this on if you want to : I 've not given Sleet to Mr Kennedy , nor sold it to him . |
| 4 | For the clinical and educational professions ( and the lay notions which derive their values from them ) , their very practice makes it clear what fact it is that you ‘ come to terms ’ with : you have not given birth to a member of the human species as we define it , and to which we allocate certain rights and social roles , but to an object of pathology — a ‘ monster ’ , to use a technical term employed in medical anatomy . |
| 5 | For the parent , the same phrase means the inverse : I have not given birth to the monster which my upbringing and socialisation led me to believe I 'd had , but to a normal member of the human species as I now define it . |
| 6 | Not , no , I , I 've really not given thought to that subject . |
| 7 | However , the following day , when the floorboards were removed to examine the beam , it was found to be so deeply cracked in two places that they ascribed the fact that it had not given way to a ‘ wonder of [ God 's ] providence ’ . |
| 8 | I have not given way to Opposition Members — |
| 9 | This embraces all overseas companies , but in practice this has not given rise to difficulties . |
| 10 | The remaining techniques have not given rise to general-purpose instruments but have proved useful in particular experiments . |
| 11 | Would streptomycin have become available if the example of penicillin had not given impetus to its investigation ? |
| 12 | We are not given access to her private emotional struggles , but we are clear that she can not reject social values . |
| 13 | But the biggest drawback is that there are very few places left in the world where the malaria parasites ( species of Plasmodium ) have not developed resistance to them . |
| 14 | Physically he is unusually sturdy and has not fallen prey to illness during his long confinement . |
| 15 | I wanted to meet Marius Durance — I 've always especially admired his work and it seemed crazy to be so close and not come face to face with him . |
| 16 | He had not expected Rain to be there and definitely expected her to leave before he did . |
| 17 | ‘ Repetition in the face of failure has not added credibility to this forecast , ’ the report noted drily . |
| 18 | The LIFESPAN username supplied to PI is not permitted access to the listed module . |
| 19 | The given user is not associated with the Design Change and , therefore , is not permitted access to it . |
| 20 | Perhaps , by her action , to convince him that she had not turned traitor to the King . |
| 21 | I would have suspected nothing if the counterfeit Taplow had not made reference to Purgatory . |
| 22 | The study points out : ‘ There are uncomfortably strong reasons for supposing that industry in Britain has not adopted microelectronics to the fullest extent possible and that in consequence it is already tending to fall behind our leading competitors . ’ |
| 23 | The area deserved a better treatment : I had not done justice to a part of northern England where I had wandered as a youngster and often visited later , developing an affection that has persisted into old age . |
| 24 | Only passing accounts of his life and work have appeared in the literature , and while brief references have been made to Nicholson 's excellence as a chemist , these have not done justice to his achievements , or set them against the London localities where they occurred . |
| 25 | Are there examples of successful theories which have not done justice to any of the espoused criteria ? |
| 26 | I dined out on that one for quite a while , but have not had occasion to be offered cream coronets of late . |
| 27 | The mother had not had access to her since January 1987 . |
| 28 | In March 1991 , a bank as unpaid mortgagee had taken possession of the debtor 's business premises and he had not had access to them since that date . |
| 29 | In 1986 , however , only 31% of all newly qualified Ph D graduates took up university employment ( Anderson 2 ) , and the boom period for academic jobs was around 1965 , when 53% of all such researchers found employment in universities , so that it may be that the majority of successful Ph D researchers over the period have not had access to those facilities which would have helped them to publish . |
| 30 | On Feb. 26 the Chief Prosecutor announced that charges of diversion of public funds against Honecker were being dropped since he had not had access to an account holding money paid by West Germany to buy the freedom of East German political prisoners . |