Example sentences of "[verb] not [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although he did not specify how this was to be achieved , he promised not to increase the unpopular goods and services consumption tax ( GST ) . |
| 2 | It is important to try not to let the negative memories predominate but to remember instead the many good and happy times together . |
| 3 | While this might seem to be stating the obvious , the fact is that this issue has not received a great deal of systematic ( as opposed to post hoc ) discussion in the literature . |
| 4 | Diplomats asked Buckingham Palace to warn her against any trip to the island , which has not received a royal visitor for many years . |
| 5 | It is not difficult to see why corporate crime has not received the same publicity as murder , robbery , theft , rape and so on — both in the mass media and in the study of crime . |
| 6 | The World Bank board has approved a loan towards Chile 's Pangue dam project , even though the project has not received the full environmental assessment required under the bank 's operating guidelines . |
| 7 | If , after a set period of time PI has not received the expected mail message , it will ‘ time-out ’ and continue with its normal operation , assuming that the message has been deleted . |
| 8 | However , the Nationalism Today faction has not adopted the antisemitic conspiracy theory of politics in order to attract financial support , but it may attempt to seek such support because it holds antisemitic beliefs . |
| 9 | This law has not served the best interests of air safety even though it might have satisfied a curious public . |
| 10 | Currently it is not possible to give 100% reassurance that an at risk individual has not inherited the faulty APC gene , unless they are shown not to have the family mutation . |
| 11 | VS Naipaul has not created a credible woman character , which is a fairly major fault . |
| 12 | Their disappearance has not caused the same level of concern as the disappearance of tropical rainforests , but the report points out that some temperate forests are as rich in species as rainforests . |
| 13 | Even now , Grant has not heard the sorriest details about Charlotte 's chronicle of misery during this nightmare waiting period . |
| 14 | The inability to confirm this well-known fact has not spoilt the sudden acceptance of the placebo as something with at least a false concrete explanation rather than being some form of gothic magic about which it is better not to speak . |
| 15 | The South Korean conglomerate Hyundai plans to fell 300,000 hectares of forest in the Bikin river area and has not consulted the 2,000 Udege , who hunt and fish in the forest , Survival International reports . |
| 16 | James , who played at Tottenham last Saturday , has not kept a clean sheet in his 12 first team appearances , while third choice Hooper excelled in last week 's reserve clash with Leicester . |
| 17 | Paradoxically it has not developed a formalised set of principles or immutable knowledge which could , for example , be structured into an academic text-book about socio-technical systems . |
| 18 | However , the fact that a person has a specific skill will not absolve an occupier who has not exercised a sufficient degree of care ( Ogwo v Taylor ) . |
| 19 | The fact that the visitor has a specific skill is not in itself sufficient to absolve the occupier where he has not exercised the requisite degree of care . |
| 20 | He confessed that the model he had in mind was Pascal 's letters , but alas his pamphlet has not achieved a similar immortality . |
| 21 | The physiotherapist has to be encouraging at all times , but this stops short of praising the patient when he has not achieved a required movement . |
| 22 | But the depth of the speech 's radicalism has not reached a wider public . |
| 23 | Whilst the situation has not reached the endemic proportions of mentally ill people who are homeless in America , the situation of these groups in Britain is serious enough to warrant consideration and a commitment to funding of decent support in the community . |
| 24 | ( c ) Agricultural produce which has not undergone an industrial process is exempt ( s. 2(4) ) . |
| 25 | Secondly , even if the applicant has not sought the alternative remedy , judicial review may still be allowed if the applicant alleges malice on the part of the decision-maker ; or if the court thinks that the applicant 's interest in the action is of such importance that it deserves judicial protection : an example would be personal liberty . |
| 26 | However , if the user has not accessed a particular field type during the current session , the user must enter the required value and press TAB . |
| 27 | IBM Corp 's fall from grace , which led to Standard & Poor 's Corp downgrading its senior ratings to double-A-minus from triple-A , has not affected the triple-A asset-backed certificate ratings of IBM 1990 , 1991 and 1992 Tax-Exempt Grantor Trusts , the rating agency said after reviewing the situation . |
| 28 | Second the suspension of mandatory inflation accounting by the profession ( in 1985 ) has not affected the nationalized industries , who continue to report current cost accounts , by government direction . |
| 29 | Thus , although there has been an extension of fraud as credit facilities have expanded , this has not affected the central principle on which the regulation of fraud is based — that at all costs ‘ free enterprise ’ should not be discouraged by fear of prosecution . |
| 30 | Despite the application of exfoliative bile and brush cytology , some 20–30% of patients with malignant biliary strictures will remain undiagnosed either because of a lack of cell exfoliation from the tumour or because the tumour is producing extrinsic compression on the biliary tree and has not affected the biliary epithelium . |