Example sentences of "[vb -s] [not/n't] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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. ) . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | This law has not served the best interests of air safety even though it might have satisfied a curious public . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Brown claims that Government has not faced the failures of the present Labour 's ‘ quack ’ cures will damage patient — Ridley Queen 's speech debate . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 " . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Even now , Grant has not heard the sorriest details about Charlotte 's chronicle of misery during this nightmare waiting period . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | But this simplistic account of that crucial phase of evolution has not stood the test of modern investigation . |
| 22 | Unfortunately the detailed work on which that revision is itself based has only been published in Soviet journals in Russian , so has not stood the test of scrutiny by Western astronomers . |
| 23 | If the child says , ‘ I dislike Auntie Kate ’ but seeks her company , holds her by the hand when they go out for a walk , and so on , we would conclude that he has not understood the word dislike . |
| 24 | I am afraid that the hon. Gentleman has not understood the working of housing benefit . |
| 25 | The diversity of papers produced for the conference in November 1988 which gave birth to the association , as well as the enthusiastic reception accorded to the novelist and film maker Sembene Ousmane when he addressed the participants , suggest that the teaching of African literature in French has not involved the depoliticisation of its content that often occurs when works of art become the object of academic study . |
| 26 | The fact that the visitor has a specific skill is not in itself sufficient to absolve the occupier where he has not exercised the requisite degree of care . |
| 27 | The man who kicks his car because it refuses to start ( and he has not checked the petrol gauge ) is not unlike the toddler who kicks the table for walking into him . |
| 28 | Insurers say a non-smoker is someone who has not puffed the weed for 12 months and does n't plan smoking again . |
| 29 | But Mr Maurice Barnes , chairman of the AMA housing committee , said it was disappointing that the commission has not asked the Government to reverse the housing benefit changes . |
| 30 | I invite the hon. Lady to read the newspapers even if she has not asked the operator about plans for the use of its facilities . |