Example sentences of "[verb] [not/n't] [adv] [verb] [det] " in BNC.

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1 But on this trip Gooch has not even had that pleasure and it is imperative now for England 's chances of winning back the Ashes from Australia this summer that their weary 39-year-old captain quickly recovers in health and spirit when he returns home on Saturday week .
2 KPMG Peat Marwick has not independently verified any of the information contained herein .
3 But the Conservative Government has not simply spent more money on the NHS .
4 has not yet done any work for you
5 Britain has not yet received any formal demand for the extradition of the demonstrators who threw bricks at the Iranian embassy in London and smashed windows .
6 But the FDA has not yet given this approval .
7 ADOLESCENT SUB-FERTILITY ( OR SUB-FECUNDITY ) — A physiological condition of teenage girls during the first few years following menarche , when their fecundity has not yet reached that of the level of adult women .
8 It has not yet reached that target and I urge it to re-examine its spending allocations to make sure that it does .
9 He has not yet had enough time to close the gap , to find a way of associating Conservative values with a public political culture .
10 In the absence of other worm supplies it may be hard to resist the temptation of feeding tubifex , particularly if one has not yet had any casualties following feeding .
11 The mosaic of room XVIII at Lydney has not yet provided such evidence for revision .
12 Compatibility With the exception of certain disk-fiddling utilities , as previously mentioned , Xtradrive exists very happily with everything we 've thrown at it , and has not yet provided any cause for palpitations or sticky moments of any description .
13 Although a small proportion of patients with primary sclerosing cholangitis develop colitis only after the biliary presentation — follow up of AIDS related sclerosing cholangitis patients ( particularly those with pathogen negative diarrhoea ) has not yet yielded any patients with non-infective colitis .
14 A UN MISSION has not yet found any detainees in Swapo refugee camps , prison camps , bases and other facilities in Angola and Zambia , the UN Special Representative for Namibia , Martti Ahtisaari , said yesterday .
15 T.W. Mayer Jr was to write in 1837 : ‘ Pathology … exhibits considerable progress , though it has not yet attained that perfection which is desirable ’ .
16 It has not yet transacted any business but will look at ways to develop commercial opportunities .
17 Furthermore , the government ( Minister of Land , 1966 , 3 ) has not only sanctioned this growth when , as long ago as 1966 , they stated ‘ that townspeople ought to be able to spend their leisure in the countryside if they want to ’ but following a report of the House of Lords ( HL Select Committee 1973 ) has also endorsed and encouraged recreational uses when they accepted ( Secretary of State for the Environment , 1975 , 1 ) that ‘ recreation should be regarded as one of the community 's everyday needs and that provision for it is part of the social services ’ .
18 Labour has not only neutralised most of those policy areas which make it unpopular ; more importantly , it has virtually erased the opportunity for Tories to accuse Labour of being run by the ‘ loony left ’ .
19 In the OECD area as a whole , industry 's share of total employment passed its peak only in 1969 , and its subsequent reduction in importance was more modest than in the UK , which , almost uniquely , has not only lost much factory employment but also suffered a net loss of factory output from 1974 to 1988 .
20 The manager has always remained the same , but the TV presenter has not only changed each time but there have been serious discrepancies in the age , gender and sexual proclivities of this mysterious media personality .
21 This will be facilitated if the method of reporting clients ' needs in the bureaux corresponds with current social policy issues but the classification of the information system has not always enabled that natural transfer of information .
22 The linesman called it wide — Australian umpire Wayne Mckewan , who had been forced to demand ‘ Silence , s'il vous plaît ’ , almost as often as he had needed to call the score , agreed — and Forget not only lost this point but the next two as well to be 15–40 .
23 You know , if it was a dog that was lost , if it was a cat that was lost , if it was even a pigeon that had got lost they 've got some homing device , but the sheep has n't even got that , it ca n't even find it 's own way home .
24 And , look at Ken , I mean , he has n't even got any genitals .
25 She , she has n't even offered any help ?
26 erm John Major has n't yet done that , but the poor chap 's only been in office a hundred days , I mean this is a hundred days today .
27 But gossip has n't always had such bad press .
28 ‘ Helen has been adequate up till now , though she has n't actually seen this operation .
29 Well , he has n't actually collected any in and I 've been doing a lot of work at home for it , you know , masses .
30 I mean it has n't actually had any grow
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