Example sentences of "[verb] [not/n't] [verb] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I have in mind the fact that it was not seriously disputed , at any stage during the election , that eight out of 10 families would gain as a result of Labour 's tax and spending proposals ; and yet a number of people who would undoubtedly be beneficiaries of what we were proposing appear not to have recognised that . ’ |
| 2 | I think some of the erm er they 've crossed all the P Way ones out and er appear not to have crossed any of the works , bridges , B E S out . |
| 3 | It may be that ‘ post ’ will need progressive reinterpretation to include telex , facsimile transmission and other forms of ‘ electronic mail ’ but international conventions appear not to have explored these possibilities thus far . |
| 4 | Yet with treaties , lack of protest is viewed as irrelevant ; the strong presumption that a State is not bound by a treaty which it has not accepted means that lack of response to a treaty communicated to it entails no acceptance . |
| 5 | Despite the garbled report in The Engineer , Trippier has not tried to impose any tighter deadline than 31 December 1995 for a total ban — which would be almost impossible for UK industry to meet . |
| 6 | It is quite often the case that the person making the arrangements has not had to do this job before and so relies heavily on what he remembers from other funerals he has attended and on the undertaker 's advice . |
| 7 | I hope also that British Coal has not helped to produce some of the briefs that we have heard in previous coal debates . |
| 8 | One of the people he 's conning is Sir Epicure Manhom who wants a life of ease and luxury and has been giving the alchemist loads of money in order to tu to , to perfect this and funny enough the alchemist has n't managed , has n't managed to do this , to get the person 's money . |
| 9 | He pointed to a couple of other technical inferiorities , and went on to note that DEC still has n't managed to convince any of the semiconductor manufacturers to take on the production of Alpha — it looks as though DEC will have to make it itself . |
| 10 | Mummy has n't got to buy those she |
| 11 | Thank God we have n't been bombed , and Theresa has n't had to put that gas mask on the baby . ’ |
| 12 | I think I am the only one who has n't had to pay any fines for not missing a tournament . |
| 13 | There 's no one who has n't had to confront this problem . ’ |
| 14 | Well as Michael says , we 're not proud of the results er , and we 're not going to try and dress them up , Michael has n't tried to do that and I certainly do n't intend to . |
| 15 | Owing to the limited dispersal area and the possibility of enemy air attack in the Clyde area , the decision was made not to risk ferrying any more to Renfrew until the 23 Spitfires already on the ground had been transferred to the docks in Glasgow . |
| 16 | yeah doing , doing the maths you see I do n't have to do another science next year |
| 17 | I should have preferred not to have to raise this matter in an Adjournment debate . |
| 18 | I dare to go further : some of the most gifted and earnest among my contemporaries — I think of Edgar Dowers in the United States and Geoffrey Hill in the United Kingdom ( though I except Hill 's wonderful Mercian Hymns ) — fall short of pleasing me as they might , because they seem not to have followed this rule of thumb , and their language is habitually for my taste a shade , or several shades , too grandiloquent or ‘ literary ’ . |
| 19 | ‘ It is dramatic stuff , I believe , though I confess not to have read any . |
| 20 | Erm or a need to I du n no find some sort of facility in common . |
| 21 | PSR1706–44 , which has just reached the shell , seems not to have done this yet . |
| 22 | Although the government continued to suspect him , he seems not to have taken any further part in rebellious activities and tried to dissuade his old friend Thomas Russell [ q.v. ] from organizing another rebellion in 1803 . |
| 23 | ‘ If Lineker had stayed , Tottenham would have not have received any fee for him . ’ |
| 24 | The majority of those young people who leave home to live rough are found not to have chosen this course but , rather , to have had it thrust upon them by circumstances . |
| 25 | Matriarchal planter culture appears not to have overcome this difficulty of development completely . |
| 26 | Also if you 're in rented accommodation you 're claiming housing benefit , you 'll probably have n't got to pay any rent , specially if it 's Council there 's relief , relief from paying |
| 27 | You claim not to have found any lighter , is that it ? ’ |
| 28 | Ramsay had hoped not to have to bring this forward if it could be avoided . |
| 29 | Despite Dustin 's worries over the script-'I learned not to try to build more of a character than the text can support' — his performance is one of threads and patches , full of actorish tics and attempts at pathos . |
| 30 | Im not going to argue this one . |