Example sentences of "[adv] not [vb pp] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had no idea what the country was like , I had purposefully not wanted any description of the landscape , city or culture . |
| 2 | It has a vital role in promoting the use of machine-readable data particularly amongst historians who have hitherto not used this type of material . |
| 3 | There was at first some confused skirmishing over the actual terms of the Charter — the College 's solicitor , Mr France , had apparently not seen some amendments and had agreed to others from the practitioners ' side without fully informing either the College professors or William Dick . |
| 4 | In the past the ATB had perhaps not paid enough attention to this aspect . |
| 5 | And they couldn't 've well for example with taxation , they could 've erm not taxed the rich peasants at all and then just put all their erm their sort of focus upon the poor peasants and got their income through them and also with land , they could 've just not given any land to poor peasants who were inefficient and given it all to the rich peasants and really gone for a capitalist state . |
| 6 | However , little is known about the effects that environmental change and its local perception have on fertility behaviour , and debates about population and environmental change have generally not absorbed recent research in the social demography of Africa . |
| 7 | Just as important , but generally not accorded due attention , are such factors as the clearing up of fallen and accumulated debris from under shrubs , hedges , fence bottoms and odd corners , all of which are hibernating havens and breeding grounds for all manner of enemies . |
| 8 | He had dishonestly and intentionally not fulfilled that obligation . |
| 9 | Following a decade of political and socio-medical pressure to retain elderly employees , industrial management had still not given significant attention to the effective utilization of older workers . |
| 10 | In Britain the reforms which were introduced in the White Paper Working for Patients in 1989 were never widely understood and have still not won public support . |
| 11 | For one blinding moment she knew absolutely that Galileo should have died for his truth , and yet had also been right to retract because he had still not known one particle of the whole . |
| 12 | ‘ Not least among these is how you close the dental school and maintain the specialist services its staff have provided , if the repeatedly-promised , but still not delivered dental hospital is not established . ’ |
| 13 | If the debt is still not paid 14 days after the goods are seized they can be sold . |
| 14 | By 1 April 1990 Mr Wilson , a Daily Mail journalist , and 14 of his colleagues had still not signed new contracts . |
| 15 | Although the railway 's opening ceremony had taken place on 25 October 1865 , the company was probably not granted running powers over the joint line from Stretford Bridge Junction to Craven Arms until several months had elapsed , for BCR trains did not begin to run into Craven Arms station until 8 January 1866 . |
| 16 | I mean she 's probably not got any money . |
| 17 | has also not received any mail since our arrival . |
| 18 | U K I A S was not consulted about this proposal beforehand and have so far not received any details about it . |
| 19 | Murdock was a man of considerable genius and is often not given enough credit for his contributions to science and engineering . |
| 20 | In BANGLADESH and MEXICO , for example , people are often not told that sterilisation is permanent . |
| 21 | The man had plainly not left British shores and London itself was worlds apart from where he came from . |
| 22 | This has however not deterred previous hagiographers . |
| 23 | It concerned a young woman , Ann Fook , who had allegedly not passed any urine naturally for about 26 weeks , ‘ during which time it was vomited up ’ . |
| 24 | Why not run some trains beyond the intended terminus at Middlesbrough to the coast Saltburn and Whitby ? |
| 25 | Why not put grilled fish . |
| 26 | Why not let local circumstances and relative departmental strengths be determinate ? |
| 27 | With spring in the air , why not let some flower power go to your head . |
| 28 | In an unsigned editorial it tried to explain it by saying that there were too many explicit photographs of homosexual acts in the book ( Mapplethorpe takes pictures of oral sex , of a man pissing in the mouth of his partner and of men buggering each other in various ways , including with a fist ) , and that the authors had therefore not left enough space for his more restful images , such as his ‘ superb studies of people and flowers ’ , which the author of the editorial obviously sees as representing Mapplethorpe 's angelic side . |
| 29 | Never been in trouble at all like and and I 've certainly not seen any trouble . |
| 30 | It is certainly not intended that intrusion of any kind should be encouraged into an area of the child 's experience which must be sensitively respected , and this must be kept in mind when reading the section ‘ My family ’ . |