Example sentences of "[verb] not [verb] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The study points out : ‘ There are uncomfortably strong reasons for supposing that industry in Britain has not adopted microelectronics to the fullest extent possible and that in consequence it is already tending to fall behind our leading competitors . ’ |
| 2 | ( h ) Leaving aside the Court of Appeal decision in Lawrence , the overlap occurs where the accused obtains the property by deception but has not obtained ownership at the moment of the appropriation . |
| 3 | The purchaser would still expect , rightly , to be able to obtain a remedy from the seller under the Sale of Goods Act even though he has not obtained ownership of the copyright subsisting in the computer program . |
| 4 | ‘ Members will be pleased that the Chancellor has not increased tax in this Budget , but will watch the impact of the tax increases proposed for 1994-95 and 1995-96 … we are pleased that tax on whisky is not to be raised , but perhaps the tax basis should be brought into line with tax on other alcoholic drinks , ’ said Andrew Moore , director of the chambers . |
| 5 | Physically he is unusually sturdy and has not fallen prey to illness during his long confinement . |
| 6 | Yet there is evidence that evaluation has not kept pace with the development of courses in bibliographic instruction . |
| 7 | Organ donation has not kept pace with the demands for transplantation , and a considerable minority of patients die having been accepted for , and while waiting for , transplantation . |
| 8 | Sadly , teaching of languages in schools has not kept pace with the relevant technological advances , but we find now that it is almost never necessary to recruit an individual specifically for linguistic skill . |
| 9 | While lesbian visibility has increased , community acceptance has not kept pace with it . |
| 10 | Thus Jowell has commented that ‘ the major omission of the report is its failure to see development control 's place in a planning system whose scope has expanded radically since 1968 … somehow development control has not kept pace with this change ’ . |
| 11 | Intel Corp has put off first deliveries of the P5 microprocessor to the first quarter of next year from the fourth quarter this year , but says that the move has not affected progress on the follow-on P6 , which it had said would start sampling as soon as the fourth quarter of next year , suggesting it will come very hot on the heels of the P5 . |
| 12 | Any measurement of the problem — ‘ an essential precursor to effective action ’ — is dependent on access to accurate information , but AA found that ‘ the introduction of computer-based monitoring systems has not gone hand in hand with the development of reporting and management systems ’ . |
| 13 | He , of course , has not lost rhyme with his plain saying — his final line fits comfortably into his structure . |
| 14 | But a minister has not given evidence to the committee ‘ in living memory ’ . |
| 15 | This embraces all overseas companies , but in practice this has not given rise to difficulties . |
| 16 | Labour has not made headway with that point . |
| 17 | As with bad debts , the purchaser will insist on warranties covering the scope and extent of creditors and the fact that all creditors have been paid in accordance with usual practice in the ordinary course of business and that the vendor has not delayed payment of the creditors as completion approaches . |
| 18 | This has not prevented overflow after heavy rainfall , however . |
| 19 | ‘ God has not bestowed talent on me for me to dance attendance on a woman , and thereby waste my youth … . ’ |
| 20 | The hon. Gentleman has not produced evidence of a general trend . |
| 21 | All this progress with tokamaks has not brought work on other confinement systems to a standstill . |
| 22 | In conclusion , it seems that the increasing incidence of audit committees has not yet brought about any significant improvement in perceptions of corporate accountability and has not restored confidence in financial reporting . |
| 23 | The vehemence of the attack on the Government has not surprised Church of Scotland observers . |
| 24 | ‘ Repetition in the face of failure has not added credibility to this forecast , ’ the report noted drily . |
| 25 | Apart from really dirty hands my family has not used soap for many years and our friends still come to visit us , even the blunt ones who are not slow to call a spade a spade ! |
| 26 | The last Soviet troops left the country in 1958 and Romania has not taken part in any Warsaw Pact exercises since 1968 . |
| 27 | Although he has not taken alcohol in twenty-five years , the craving for it is still there . |
| 28 | Although fox hunting has not taken place in Hyde Park for many years , an impressive Hunt Ball was held in the Polish Hearth Club in Kensington last week for Shropshire 's United Pack . |
| 29 | I 'm not very sure it 's prudent if you 're indicating your own incorruptibility as a poet to put it in the future tense in the first place , and when you continue as Pope does ‘ Envy must own , I live among the great ’ as he starts to describe his own life and you realise he 's bringing in touches about himself which really have very little to do with the particular role as poet , it becomes quite clear that that depersonalisation process has not taken place in the case of Pope . |
| 30 | It is accordingly advisable for the lease to contain a right to terminate the lease if reinstatement has not taken place within a reasonable period . |