Example sentences of "[verb] [not/n't] [verb] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was important that she ring her parents to let them know not to expect her that day . |
| 2 | In return , it promised not to play its one trump card — water . |
| 3 | AT&T Co chief financial officer Alex Mandl told the annual meeting the company is ‘ thinking about ’ an increase in the dividend it pays : AT&T has not raised its quarterly dividend since March 1990 , when it rose to $0.33 per share from $0.30 . |
| 4 | But because you 're an old-fashioned , besotted old woman I 'll laugh at you while I tell you that your dear Andrew has not missed my wifely attentions at all . |
| 5 | The World Bank has subsequently identified this as a major weakness in the design of projects , but has not acknowledged its own role as the prime engineer of the approach . |
| 6 | INFANT — A child who has not reached his/her first birthday ; i.e. 0–11 completed month or 0 year old . |
| 7 | Having always been on the periphery of Europe it has not hindered our successful trading in the past . |
| 8 | ‘ The manager has not given me any indication whether I will play but I am ready and it would be nice if I could . |
| 9 | ‘ The DoT has not given us definite promises and has discouraged us from expecting too much . |
| 10 | Allen has not seen his adopted daughter since the allegations of child molesting exploded in August and is only allowed to see his natural son , four-year-old Satchel , twice a week while the custody battle continues . |
| 11 | In this Court we have nothing to do with the question of whether the legislature has or has not done what foreign powers may consider a usurpation in a question with them . |
| 12 | ‘ The package will get the headlines because he has not done anything nasty . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Viktor has not done anything wrong . |
| 14 | You should advise your LIFESPAN Manager , who should ensure that the charge code directory is accessible to LIFESPAN ( if logical names are being used , these should be set up in the system table ) and has not exceeded its allocated disk quota ( if enabled ) . |
| 15 | Whitlock , who has been at the centre of the storm , has not made himself available to take part . |
| 16 | Perhaps Lucker has not made himself visible enough to justify the cost . |
| 17 | Their popularity , however , has not made it any easier to reconcile conservation and development . |
| 18 | ‘ It 's unproven technology , and Microsoft has not made it clear that it wants it as a server ’ . |
| 19 | Your political editor has inadequately researched his statement that the Prime Minister ‘ has not made his religious views known ’ ( report of 20 March ) . |
| 20 | ‘ No , perhaps it has not crossed your young imagination . |
| 21 | The company has not presented its own profit and loss account as permitted by section 230 of the Companies Act 1985 . |
| 22 | The parent company has not presented its own profit and loss account as permitted by Section 230 of the Companies Act 1985 . |
| 23 | Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG has stuck resolutely to mainstream computing technologies and has not pioneered anything exotic since Siemens years ago inherited the scientific machine developed by Telefunken Computers GmbH , and that did n't last long . |
| 24 | GM has reduced its financial exposure in Brazil , but it has not reduced its long-term commitment : the continuing success of its assembly plants there depend crucially on the quality and reliability of its local suppliers , all of whom need continuing sources of assistance to upgrade their capabilities as technologies and competitive standards shift . |
| 25 | The practical consequence of this must be that the individual who in his personal development has not mastered his basic instinctual drives but finds instead that the state masters them for him experiences none of the narcissistic gratifications of self-mastery but all of the privations which the agencies of state control enforce on him . |
| 26 | ‘ A guide who has not encountered his own passions , his own inner conflicts , who does not truly know his darkness and his light , will be of no value in the spiritual battle . ’ |
| 27 | 3.10:TOP weight Shoon Wind has not shown his best form for quite some time , while recent Sedgefield second Galadine is nothing special . |
| 28 | ‘ He is a smashing , modest lad who has not shown his full repertoire yet . |
| 29 | However , the Scottish Office has not had it all its own way . |
| 30 | The basic trouble is that the Palestinians ' historic espousal of ‘ moderation ’ has not won its indispensable and commensurate Israeli response . |