Example sentences of "[not/n't] [vb pp] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 In the run-up to the country 's first multiparty elections for 43 years , scheduled for March 25 , the ruling Hungarian Socialist Party ( HSP ) was shaken by revelations during January that the Interior Ministry 's security police had not stopped covert surveillance of the activities of opposition politicians , despite the enactment during the past 12 months of laws and constitutional amendments creating a multiparty system [ see pp. 36399 ; 36960-61 ] .
2 The SEC in the US has not stopped corporate scandals , but it keeps an army of lawyers busy .
3 However the representatives of NEC and Fujitsu reserved comment , saying that they had not received official notice of their position and that they looked to the future to reveal this .
4 Had he not received immediate hospital treatment he would have died , ’ said the judge , at Norwich Crown Court .
5 First Edition ( AP ) — The World Health Organisation said Bulgaria 's ethnic Turks have not received equal access to or equal use of the public health system
6 They had not received antimalarial treatment within the preceding 7 days and were 4–14 years old .
7 The police had not received proper support from Labour Ministers , leading to poor pay and loss of experienced manpower .
8 If you believe that you have not received proper service , the Bank will do all it can to investigate your complaint objectively .
9 I am delighted that my hon. Friend the Member for Bedfordshire , South-West ( Mr. Madel ) mentioned an important issue which has not received satisfactory answers in Committee , nor is likely to , in what will remain of the Report stage after the guillotine .
10 Finally , one area which has not received full justice in our coverage is the extensive empirical tradition of examining industries case by case to develop views on efficiency .
11 Such views have not received widespread acceptance , however , and as time goes by the chances of a reinstatement of some form of gold standard look more and more remote .
12 Of the patients surveyed , 501 had received advice on contraceptives from a general practitioner and 102 from a community family planning clinic , and 163 had not received medical advice ( no information was available from three patients ) .
13 Bruce Palmer , a partner , said he had helped Mr Tancock set up Global Finance earlier this year , but had not received independent confirmation of what the company did .
14 * Evidence is growing that BSE may be transmitted through the generations , after a third cow which has not received contaminated feed has been placed under a restriction order on the grounds of suspected infection .
15 It is probably because an episode of acute constipation had not received adequate treatment .
16 The relationship between the socio-economic character of a local authority ( L.A. ) and its expenditure on education is a crucial issue but it has not received adequate research attention .
17 A somewhat more complex issue that has not received adequate attention in Britain is the meaning of the word ‘ profit ’ in the context of trusts , and some of the ideas being discussed resemble the strategies that have caused the Internal Revenue Service to question the tax exempt status of some American not for profit hospitals .
18 By contrast , LIFFE has not received comparable backing , either moral or financial , from UK banks or the UK government .
19 If there is a muddle , it is because the end of the cold war has not stripped western countries of their other interests in Africa , notably economic ones .
20 Section 47 of the Education ( No. 2 ) Act 1986 has not criminalised corporal punishment by a teacher ( although in some cases striking a pupil excessively was and still is an offence ) .
21 They 'd not favoured local women for security reasons .
22 The church has a strong hold on education , the clergy command great respect from the population and the church leaders , like other Colombian elites , have not favoured social change .
23 Due to its short running time , overall details of aircraft and events are not given great depth , but to the collector of archive aviation films this tape will be a welcome addition to the home library .
24 This poses a particular problem for Britain with her emphasis on the free-trading potential of the EEC , an objective which is not given similar prominence by her fellow Members .
25 Stone recurrence in these patients seems to be less than those not given adjuvant therapy but the length of follow up is shorter .
26 For example , the Church of Scientology has fought in the courts of Australia to be defined as a religion in order to be able to claim tax-exemption , while The Science of Creative Intelligence ( Transcendental Meditation ) has fought in the courts of the United States to be not given religious status so that it can be taught in the public ( State ) schools — a practice denied to religious organisations by the First Amendment of the United States ' Constitution .
27 This is an affect well known in some domesticated animals like sheep , it 's well known that if sheep are , if , if , if , if ewes are well fed just before they mate , they 're much more likely to er to twin than if they 're er not given extra food supplement and nowadays erm farmers wh wh who , who breed sheep for lambing er frequently feed , feed ewes a special diet just before er conception for that very reason , the rate of twinning increases .
28 How often in the past have I not given due credence to relatives ' statements of how bad the client was ?
29 One of the key planks of Majorism , for example , is an insistence on the integrity of the United Kingdom ; a view set out in his election speeches , though to his reported annoyance not given due weight in TV campaign coverage .
30 Estimating cholera-related deaths was made more difficult because the spread of the disease was not given official recognition , reportedly because of fears that it would adversely affect the country 's lucrative shrimp trade .
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