Example sentences of "[verb] not [verb] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Having always been on the periphery of Europe it has not hindered our successful trading in the past . |
| 4 | ‘ The DoT has not given us definite promises and has discouraged us from expecting too much . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ The package will get the headlines because he has not done anything nasty . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Viktor has not done anything wrong . |
| 9 | 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 ) . |
| 10 | Whitlock , who has been at the centre of the storm , has not made himself available to take part . |
| 11 | Perhaps Lucker has not made himself visible enough to justify the cost . |
| 12 | ‘ It 's unproven technology , and Microsoft has not made it clear that it wants it as a server ’ . |
| 13 | Your political editor has inadequately researched his statement that the Prime Minister ‘ has not made his religious views known ’ ( report of 20 March ) . |
| 14 | ‘ No , perhaps it has not crossed your young imagination . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | ‘ He is a smashing , modest lad who has not shown his full repertoire yet . |
| 19 | The basic trouble is that the Palestinians ' historic espousal of ‘ moderation ’ has not won its indispensable and commensurate Israeli response . |
| 20 | Equally , however , the substantial de facto mobility out of the manual working class has not dissolved its traditional collectivist propensities , at least so far as trade unionism is concerned . |
| 21 | The scale of his windows and free-standing or hanging glass assemblages has not overwhelmed his lyrical impulse and painter 's training and approach . |
| 22 | And although he is a teetotal sabbatarian lay preacher who now attends the Church of God , Seawright has not allowed his religious principles to come between himself and working-class loyalists who do not share his temperance and sabbatarianism . |
| 23 | … [ He ] has never abandoned his aims for a Union of West African Soviet Socialist Republics and has not abandoned his foreign affiliations connected with these aims . ’ |
| 24 | For example , my own Confession , Eastern Orthodoxy , has not found it easy to translate its great liturgical and spiritual treasures from rural and primitive existence to the urban and sophisticated life of modernity . |
| 25 | I am sorry that the Minister has not found it possible to agree with the reasonable amendment . |
| 26 | She tried not to imagine his sympathetic brown eyes looking into hers , and his disarming smile when she spoke to him , perhaps their hands touching as she passed him the local anaesthetic — This is no use ! she admonished herself , rubbing energetically at a stainless steel trolley . |
| 27 | The lad has done a lot for the club out in the middle and in the dressing room , but has n't answered our prime need — someone to knock over the opposition . |
| 28 | Although Southall likes to wear black — he was head to toe in it on international duty for Wales in Belgium on Wednesday — he has n't lost his colourful sense of humour . |
| 29 | This has n't stopped me admiring , respecting and feeling affection for Steffi . |
| 30 | The Marquis of Blandford still has n't visited his estranged wife Becky , even though she 's critically ill in hospital after a hunting accident . |