Example sentences of "[noun] not [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And Barnsley 's advantage could have been cut from five to two points had Keegan 's side not lacked the creative nous to topple them . |
| 2 | Now are these two units not doing the same job ? |
| 3 | There are big prizes at stake , although Roy , Judy and the other contestants do n't yet know it , they could win a car not forgetting a bendy bully for the mantlepiece . |
| 4 | She thought that she knew who the lucky man might be , and it took all her strength of mind not to betray the dreadful emotions which merely thinking of him aroused in her . |
| 5 | The only study not to find a clear positive relationship between volume and volatility is the cross-section study of 25 futures by Telser and Higinbotham ( 1977 ) . |
| 6 | She considered it very remiss of the Social Work Department not to inform the Social Work Committee of what guidelines or policy it intended to use as a stop gap measure . |
| 7 | O. alberti is similar to O. gracilis Koehler , 1914 ( Fig. 23 ) from the West Indies ( Albatross Stn 2751 16° 54'N : 63° 12'W 1236 m ) the main differences appear to be the arrangement of the oral papillae and tentacle scales which are more regularly arranged in O. gracilis not forming an irregular line along the edge of the adoral shields . |
| 8 | It was an apparent attempt not to highlight the deep rift between herself and her estranged husband Charles on the one day of the year which is symbolic of happy families . |
| 9 | Banking and Tory party sources say that ministerial proposals to charge students a proportion of their tuition fees and other more radical ideas have been abandoned in the face of tough Treasury opposition , the perceived weakening of Mrs Thatcher 's position following Mr Nigel Lawson 's resignation , and her declared intention not to serve a full fourth term if re-elected . |
| 10 | A buyer under a tender offer , on the other hand , faces no such restriction unless he has stated or implied his intention not to make a full bid . |
| 11 | Prime Minister Geoffrey Palmer named a new Cabinet on Jan. 31 after he had requested the resignation of those ministers who had announced their intention not to contest the general election which was due later in 1990 . |
| 12 | Differences in economic priorities had emerged soon after Germany indicated its intention not to authorize an early cut in interest rates . |
| 13 | Distancing himself from the CPSU , he promised as President not to represent a single political trend but to involve the full range of " public thought " in government . |
| 14 | Addressing the inaugural session on June 16 , Italy 's Health Minister Francesco De Lorenzo appealed to the United States not to jeopardize the 1992 international AIDS conference , to be held in Boston , by continuing its immigration ban on entry by HIV-infected individuals . |
| 15 | ( 3 ) The tenant should resist a provision not to agree the reviewed rent under the underlease without the landlord 's approval , as the time it could take to obtain such approval could result in the undertenant changing its mind . |
| 16 | The courts have also refused to interfere with a policy direction not to enforce a particular law . |
| 17 | Daily Mail journalists voted for industrial action over plans not to recognise the National Union of Journalists in a postal ballot . |
| 18 | No-one minds a few Greenpeace loonies demonstrating , but when you get nice middle-class housewives not wanting a nuclear station in their back-yard , you 're in trouble . |
| 19 | When we are privileged to know this in advance ( and I think that it is wrong in nearly all cases not to tell a dying patient ) it is a time for preparation and repentance , and ultimately of acceptance . |
| 20 | One agent suggested today that the QPR striker stands to have £500,000 added to his price tag at a stroke if he enjoys a successful debut not to mention the guaranteed lucrative spin-off of joining the England players ' pool . |
| 21 | The old Grenfell charm must have been working even under all that hair not to mention the scruffy beard . ’ |
| 22 | Or for a student studying literature not to grasp a wide range of ‘ readings ’ of the works of Jane Austen , for instance ( including Marxist , feminist and post-structuralist readings ) . |
| 23 | Chancellor Helmut Kohl 's decision not to support the French proposal to fix the conference date in Strasbourg highlights his concern that the question of European monetary union and the inevitable transfer of powers from West Germany 's Bundesbank to the new European central bank would get caught up in the German general election next autumn . |
| 24 | The manoeuvring ability left to the Callaghan government was now slight , following the decision not to call an early election . |
| 25 | Instead , the debate here focused on the bonuses Charlton 's players will receive for getting to Italy ( £25,000 per man ) and the Sports Minister 's public criticism of Irish television for their decision not to screen the other tie in Group Six , between Hungary and Spain . |
| 26 | And it says the decision not to assign a psychiatric nurse was made on medical and not financial grounds . |
| 27 | Mr Shamir refused to reverse his decision not to allow the United Nations to investigate the killing of at least nineteen Arabs by Israeli security forces . |
| 28 | In June opposition parties had boycotted parliament in protest against the government 's decision not to appoint a special tribunal to try Azam for war crimes allegedly committed during the 1971 war of independence [ see pp. 38967 ; 39007 ] . |
| 29 | Moreover , the NUM decision not to hold a national strike ballot , but opt for the ‘ domino-effect ’ instead , was based on a belief that the former was too risky because the self-interested attitude of groups such as the Notts . |
| 30 | [ For Bush 's Dec. 3 decision not to cancel the Argentine leg of his Latin American tour see p. 37914 . ] |