Example sentences of "[vb -s] [not/n't] [vb pp] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Tsar has not heard tell of him and wo n't know him ; maybe he will be allowed to join the wedding procession . " |
| 2 | The current use of restriction orders ( section 41 ) circumvents this problem and has not led to abuse . |
| 3 | Indeed , it may be that it goes further , and effectively means that the seller has not undertaken to deliver the goods at all , so that it may be argued that the seller has undertaken no obligation and , prior to delivery , there is only a unilateral contract under which the buyer is committed to pay if the seller delivers . |
| 4 | In cases of " innocent publication " , where the defendant has not intended to criticise the plaintiff ( either because the defendant did not realise that the words would be understood to refer to the plaintiff or the defendant is unaware of special circumstances which make them defamatory ) liability may be avoided by making an " offer of amends " under s4 of the 1952 Defamation Act . |
| 5 | a person commits an offence if , for payment or not , he knowingly exposes or delivers to another person who has not consented to receive it any item which , on the ground that matter contained or embodied in it — ( a ) is concerned with human or animal sexuality , or ( b ) depicts violence or cruelty , or ( c ) is gruesome or disgusting , may , if taken as a whole , be expected to outrage the majority of persons who are likely , having regard to all relevant circumstances , to read , see or hear it . |
| 6 | It is to the new government 's credit that , in its first budget , it has not sought to loosen the constraints , but to carry on living within them . |
| 7 | It is clear from these statutory provisions that in general Parliament has not sought to remove the responsibility for formulating admissions policy from the governors , although requiring admission of a minimum number of pupils and consultation between the governors and the local education authority as to the contents of the policy . |
| 8 | Regardless of how diverse the local population or economy is in each neighbourhood , the neighbourhood planner has not sought to ensure even representation and , indeed , in most cases representation did not reflect the local socio-economic profiles . |
| 9 | But it has not sought to gain the backing of an official international financial institution . |
| 10 | Yet community education in working-class communities has not grown to offer a radical alternative to traditional adult education provision . |
| 11 | However , if the landlord has not elected to waive the exemption from VAT , VAT will not be chargeable on the rent . |
| 12 | Given this assertion , the idea that we should consider the denial of this assertion in order to find out whether there is a presupposition in what the speaker has not asserted seems particularly counterintuitive . |
| 13 | As the intervention system remains entirely in place , and as the Community has not decided to try to make savings by reforming the system to make it less attractive , it seemed to us to be the wrong way to tackle the problem . |
| 14 | One can be attributed incomer status in any local community because one does not have close kin in the area , because one was not born there or , simply , because one has not become known in them one can not claim membership in terms of any of these attributes . |
| 15 | The arts world has almost grown accustomed to the hand-to-mouth condition in which it is kept , but what it has not become resigned to over the long period of Tory rule is the positive hostility to its aims and values . |
| 16 | Yet with treaties , lack of protest is viewed as irrelevant ; the strong presumption that a State is not bound by a treaty which it has not accepted means that lack of response to a treaty communicated to it entails no acceptance . |
| 17 | Even though Dr. Vann 's practice has not applied to become a fund-holding practice you mentioned the GP fundholder brochure which , while mentioning the 50 per cent . |
| 18 | Find a 1980 Toyota Corolla or 1982 Nissan Sunny that has not succumbed to rust , and you can buy with confidence . |
| 19 | He asked me that same question at the conference but , like Pontius Pilate , has not stayed to report my answer . |
| 20 | For example , in circumstances where there may be legitimate public concern about the violation of human rights by the new regime , or the manner in which it achieved power , it has not sufficed to say that the announcement of ‘ recognition ’ is simply a neutral formality . |
| 21 | He was showing off , as is the way with adolescent boys in the first flush of manhood ( let he who has not sinned throw the first stone ) , and , as is the way with adolescent boys in the first flush of manhood , he slipped and fell in the pool — collapse of stout party etc . |
| 22 | My telephone has not stopped ringing with colleagues accusing me of changing my allegiance and forsaking my birthright . |
| 23 | These blades are horribly sharp , so sharp in fact that one form has not needed sharpening in eight years and has cut around 200,000 straps ! |
| 24 | This , and the multiplication of that half-breed known as ministers of state , is a product of a political inflation which even the present Government has not attempted to control . |
| 25 | The company has not attempted to sell its products abroad , but feels that if it is ever to expand again , then overseas markets are the only feasible method . |
| 26 | Even the SRHE/Leverhulme enquiry carried out during the early 1980s was arguably weakest on the curriculum , and although the Society has organized conferences on curricular issues ( most recently that on Education for the Professions ; Goodlad 1984 ) , it has not attempted to tackle the overall questions of what is taught and what ought to be taught . |
| 27 | The Regional Council has not attempted to argue that increased levels of infill can and do compensate for a shortage in the HP4 supply . |
| 28 | His hon. Friend the Member for Edinburgh , Central ( Mr. Darling ) has not attempted to get into this murky area . |
| 29 | The fatal addiction of the human race to trouble is something which , even at 50 , has not ceased to amaze me . ’ |
| 30 | But so far , the government has not dared to predict when good results may come . |