Example sentences of "[verb] not [verb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The have-nots promised not to acquire nuclear weapons . |
| 2 | By the way , I hope this might be considered for the ‘ Star Letter ’ as I find distribution to my local newsagent leaves a lot to be desired — if the distributor has not received enough copies , he does n't get any ! |
| 3 | Surprisingly , the Heisenberg programme , designed to keep the best researchers within the university system until jobs for them became vacant , has not received enough applicants . |
| 4 | I am delighted that my hon. Friend the Member for Bedfordshire , South-West ( Mr. Madel ) mentioned an important issue which has not received satisfactory answers in Committee , nor is likely to , in what will remain of the Report stage after the guillotine . |
| 5 | Recent literature has not dated these classics — an indication of a lack of its ability to transcend them . |
| 6 | The mandatory penalty of life imprisonment for murder makes issues of relative culpability non-justiciable at present , since the length of imprisonment is ‘ determined or partly determined behind the scenes by someone who has not heard any representations by or on behalf of the prisoner on grounds which the prisoner does not know ’ . |
| 7 | It is remarkable that this sexist labelling has continued as long as it has , even though most of the research on differences attributable to sex has not supported these labels . |
| 8 | If there is a muddle , it is because the end of the cold war has not stripped western countries of their other interests in Africa , notably economic ones . |
| 9 | Campaigners claim that the company has not examined other approaches , such as water conservation and the cleaning of existing reservoirs . |
| 10 | Voluntary services , however , may sometimes be mobilised for people whose distress has not reached pathological proportions . |
| 11 | This is not to say that the USSR has not sought political dividends from economic ties . |
| 12 | His changes , designed to tighten the defence for another tilt at the European Cup , has not pleased all critics and he knows his twin requirement is about as tough as football can provide . |
| 13 | Clearly then the arousal condition has not impaired all forms of memory for the story , the arousing scenario itself appears to be more memorable than the non-arousing version . |
| 14 | The LDDC has not given local authorities long enough to respond to planning applications ; some community groups have not been consulted ; until 1986 , all meetings were held in secret ; and the LDDC has paid only lip-service to local plans produced by the boroughs concerned . |
| 15 | For this reason , our holiday prices are aimed to entice those who usually fly or use their own car to travel on superbly comfortable coaches as the means of reaching resorts and regions where tourism has not exceeded sustainable levels . |
| 16 | In twelve long hot summer weeks , putrefaction has not touched these remains . |
| 17 | It has not fulfilled those hopes except in certain ‘ closed circuit ’ situations , where the viewers are very restricted in number , or others where the main channels are used but at unsocial hours . |
| 18 | The Office for Fine Arts has not made definite plans about the procedure to be followed but it is thought that those institutions which already have some of the works of art on loan will be allowed to keep them , while the museums will be able to choose from what is left . |
| 19 | These circumstances arise where the person who has died has no relatives or friends who would undertake the organisation , and has not made advance arrangements . |
| 20 | Of the big six , only Arthur Andersen says it has not made any redundancies and accountants emerged in one survey as the professional group most likely to have their houses repossessed . |
| 21 | MGM 's auditors Peat Marwick also highlighted the risk that litigation could result in large damages the company has not made full provisions for . |
| 22 | The court 's job is to ensure that the administrator has acted within the rule of law , and has not infringed civil rights and freedoms . |
| 23 | Lisa Milroy has not exhibited new paintings in London since 1988 when she showed with Nicola Jacobs , although there was a museum exhibition at Glasgow 's Third Eye Centre and in Southampton the following year . |
| 24 | This has not prevented all sorts of writers , particularly those of a philosophical bent , in continuing to assert the unresolved mystery of cave/particle duality . |
| 25 | The fact that the form is exhausted , however , has not prevented those novelists held to be of a satirical bent from making squillions of pounds : Tom Sharpe , Clive James and Keith Waterhouse ( above ) all shift paperbacks like nobody 's business , and good luck to them . |
| 26 | Observational surveys by Tombaugh , Kowal and the Infrared Astronomical Satellite ( IRAS ) would almost certainly have revealed another Pluto or larger planet , but their failure to do so has not stopped many predictions from being made , including two more in just the past year . |
| 27 | The SEC in the US has not stopped corporate scandals , but it keeps an army of lawyers busy . |
| 28 | But this has not stopped some librarians latching on to the high cost of conservation as a reason for dispersing valuable books . |
| 29 | Cargill says it has not patented any genes from indigenous Indian plants and has not exported any seeds from India . |
| 30 | In irritable bowel syndrome the 3 cycles per minute component was increased independently of changes in bowel habit , but further work has not confirmed these findongs . |