Example sentences of "[verb] not [noun] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I should like to make it clear that the suggestion that BAT has been ‘ dumping ’ this pesticide in Kenya has not foundation of truth whatsoever . |
| 2 | Use this where your employee has not entitlement to SSP or where that entitlement has run out but he or she is still sick . |
| 3 | Chairman Coun Bill Lockit said : ‘ We need support not criticism from business people . ’ |
| 4 | Since the mid-nineteenth century there had emerged in Catalonia a vigorous nationalist movement , most of whose protagonists nevertheless sought not separation from Spain but regional autonomy , the defence of Catalonia 's distinctiveness and the enhancement of her position and influence within Spain as a whole . |
| 5 | Now a court has imposed a cock-a-doodle-do n't curfew on Horace to stop the dawn din in the village of Brook , Hants . |
| 6 | My question however concerns not accuracy in labelling but rather the means whereby an exhibit of objects might draw on theories of ‘ otherness ’ in order to explore the role of design in the production of identity . |
| 7 | Were the paleness and emotion on his face as he arrived not fury at Pipkin 's performance but symptoms of poison ? |
| 8 | ‘ Lovers give not thought to actions and words , joy and sorrow , past and future . |
| 9 | But there are often insurmountable practical difficulties in doing this given that , under most random sampling procedures , it is individuals who have to be contacted not types of individuals who satisfy the quota controls as in quota sampling . |
| 10 | The answer is to elicit not intuitions OF meaning , but intuitions ABOUT meaning , which , although they are one step removed from the primary object of interest , can , if properly chosen , be clear and reliable . |
| 11 | The words used by the testator did not set up a trust , for they represented not testation with respect to his own property ( which would , of course , have been legitimate ) but an attempt to deprive one of his daughters of her right to free testation . |
| 12 | In an effort to recoup some of his lost prestige , he attempted to do by negotiation what he dared not attempt by force and so conceived a plan for the purchase by France of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg , the acquisition of which would strengthen France 's eastern frontier . |
| 13 | The market is changing not year by year , but month by month . |
| 14 | Slipper of the Yard objected to some passages in Delano 's book but did not resort to litigation . |
| 15 | His hatred for those who crossed him having once shared the bonds of mutual loyalty was unbounded , but equally he never forgot old services performed , and , apart from the ‘ Night of the Long Knives ’ in June 1934 , he did not resort to purges within the Party . |
| 16 | She was calm and did not rail in spite , that night , as they waited for the island 's noises to change to the night 's flutings and clicks and sighs . |
| 17 | I loved it when a whole pile of notes met me in the morning and I did not surface till lunchtime . |
| 18 | ‘ You going on all right , girl ? ’ enquired Mrs Yaxlee who , though she did not commune with nature , was nevertheless comradely with it . |
| 19 | Its leaders claim Lee Harvey Oswald did not gun down JFK and insist there was a cover-up . |
| 20 | For Tip it was probably because he very nearly did not caddie for Arnold Palmer at all . |
| 21 | He could also make an error of judgement in his choice of sailors , at least one of whom turned on him the moment they were inside the door and threatened to beat him up if he did not hand over money . |
| 22 | The Lords in MPC v Caldwell [ 1982 ] AC 341 did not advert to deception offences when determining the law of objective recklessness . |
| 23 | If you are not sure about the right way to connect something in a mains power supply circuit , do not resort to trial and error . |
| 24 | it is against freedom of trade and natural justice to subject one group of solicitors to extra rules because they do not practice in partnership ; |
| 25 | The expected loss of foot passenger traffic to the Tunnel will enable an upgrading of services to other users and provide spare capacity for those who do not book in advance . |
| 26 | And , but he did n't sort of point and say anything . |
| 27 | ‘ If yer do n't git in line fast enough ivery time yer 'll never git a ‘ undred , ’ was the Old Stager 's greeting in praise of the innings . |
| 28 | ‘ United do n't build-up for games in the same way but perhaps they 'd want to try it . |
| 29 | It has been pointed out that the only propositions of which this is true are ‘ analytic ’ propositions — those that contain not statements of fact but rules about language . |
| 30 | The incident was not reported in the press and probably would have gone no further than the arrest and trial of the Falangist aggressors , had not protests from Generals Galarza and Varela ( who was present at the mass ) threatened to turn it into a major governmental crisis . |