Example sentences of "[verb] [not/n't] [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though he , too , declared the distinction between written and unwritten constitutions old-fashioned , it is a pity that his summary has not served as a starting point for subsequent commentaries on the British ‘ constitution ’ . |
| 2 | However , although the Cross Country route has not emerged as a high-speed line per se , it now features a number of useful long-distance trains mainly aimed at the leisure market . |
| 3 | I also find it incredible that the demise of Aldershot has not led to a positive reaction to assist the smaller clubs . |
| 4 | This situation has not led to a decline in enrolments : except for a brief period at the beginning of the crisis , the demand for education has been sustained . |
| 5 | The Bank of England ( 1990 ) has concluded that the withdrawal of market participants has not led to a reduction in the quality of service or reduced liquidity or competitiveness in the market . |
| 6 | In Latin America , the supporters of Spalding 's view would argue that the working class has not developed into a fully fledged class for itself . |
| 7 | In the meantime , ‘ community policing has not developed into a partnership between police and public in the fight against crime . |
| 8 | Clearly our valuable training input to the local area has not featured as a priority on the local Labour Party agenda . |
| 9 | At the time of writing , the UK Parliament has not progressed beyond a draft Bill . |
| 10 | This has not made for a smoothly running society , whose members all feel part of a common enterprise . |
| 11 | Nobody who has not lived in a dungeon could understand how absolute the silence down here is . |
| 12 | Griffiths , who has not played for a month because of a rib injury , watched Cardiff overwhelm London Welsh on Saturday and is expected to train with the club next week . |
| 13 | Andersson has not played for a month but trained with United for the first time yesterday and made an instant impression . |
| 14 | ‘ If you look at past efforts to launch soccer here in the States it has not met with a great deal of viewing support , ’ said Bill Sherman , a vice president with the McCann Ericson advertising agency . |
| 15 | These same tests should be satisfied before a magistrate commits anyone for trial in relation to a libel which has not appeared in a newspaper or periodical . |
| 16 | Sir Kenneth Newman — then commandant — suggests that the book 's claim to attention is that its contents are contributed by insiders ; while in their introduction , the authors claim it goes some way to challenging Holdaway 's claim ( 1979 ) that ‘ research from the Police Staff College has not resulted in a major project on the police ’ . |
| 17 | The choice of Mr Bernerd ( who recently hit the headlines in connection with the case of ex-Heritage Minister David Mellor and Ms Antonia de Sancha ) as the company 's financial backer , seems to have been an uneasy choice and has not resulted in a long-term commitment to the gallery at a difficult time for the art market . |
| 18 | The matter has not resulted in a bitter enmity between us , you know . |
| 19 | The eastern Australian passive margin is one region where there has been a fruitful interchange of ideas and data between geomorphologists and geophysicists , although this has not resulted in a consensus as to either the history of uplift or the mechanisms that have caused it . |
| 20 | Erm but it has n't to the best of my knowledge it has not resulted in a rash of of developments and motorway intersections . |
| 21 | This follows on for from our concern about industrial development in the Harrogate District and that is that we are very pleased that the Harr that the North Yorkshire County Council has not embarked upon a strategic exceptions policy . |
| 22 | ‘ She has not spoken for a month . |
| 23 | Microsoft Corp announced that its chief financial officer and executive vice-president of worldwide operations Frank Gaudette , 57 , died early on Friday after an eight-month fight with lymphatic cancer ; the Redmond company says that it has not thought about a successor . |
| 24 | Does the Minister understand that the arrogance and insensitivity of his hon. Friend , who has not agreed to a meeting for about four months now , has been noted not just by Mr. Johnston but by every farmer in the north-east of Scotland ? |
| 25 | The leading Spanish master , who has not shown in a commercial gallery in London since 1965 , was the subject of a study at the Hayward Gallery in 1990 . |
| 26 | Wasps hooker Kevin Dunn has not recovered from a bruised shoulder and is out of the tie at Rosslyn Park . |
| 27 | If persuasion does not work , ‘ green conditionality ’ might be the answer in some cases , unpopular though it would be ; and for the really hard cases , sanctions , provided there is sufficient of a consensus to back them and the industrial world has not sunk into a mood of profound fatalism about the impossibility of stemming the greenhouse gases . |
| 28 | It has not listened on a whole series of points , even though I am very grateful that amendments have been agreed to in the course of our debate this evening . |
| 29 | The apparent undulose character of the inversion surface at top Carboniferous level may be an indication that the basement has not behaved in a particularly homogeneous fashion during the various basin inversion episodes . |
| 30 | The Centre of African Studies in Edinburgh has always maintained a focus on the whole of Africa , and has not concentrated on a particular region — such as West or Southern . |