Example sentences of "[verb] not [verb] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During his campaign , he promised not to raise taxes for the middle classes ; he is now faced with the realisation that if he is to cut the deficit and fulfil his promises to improve social welfare , education and training and to overhaul health provisions , then tax increases which extend beyond the seriously wealthy are unavoidable . |
| 2 | 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 . ’ |
| 3 | ( 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ 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 . |
| 6 | Physically he is unusually sturdy and has not fallen prey to illness during his long confinement . |
| 7 | Inheriting wealth has not led Laing into a flamboyant lifestyle by any means . |
| 8 | Yet there is evidence that evaluation has not kept pace with the development of courses in bibliographic instruction . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | While lesbian visibility has increased , community acceptance has not kept pace with it . |
| 12 | 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 ’ . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 ’ . |
| 15 | He , of course , has not lost rhyme with his plain saying — his final line fits comfortably into his structure . |
| 16 | But a minister has not given evidence to the committee ‘ in living memory ’ . |
| 17 | This embraces all overseas companies , but in practice this has not given rise to difficulties . |
| 18 | The US said yesterday the contras should not disband this week , as required by a regional peace agreement , because Nicaragua has not fulfilled conditions of the pact . |
| 19 | Labour has not made headway with that point . |
| 20 | Belonging to a generation of British artists who make biomorphic compositions , MacIlraith has not made paintings for six years , although he exhibited his drawings with Anthony Brown in 1991 . |
| 21 | The office is not highly institutionalized and she has not made changes in this respect . |
| 22 | It has put in it 's place , a , er a general purposes and finance sub- committee , this is this one referred to , it has not made allowances for who shall serve on it per county , all it did , it called it together very quickly , and to cut costs to authorities , it 's based the meetings in Bristol instead of Exeter , and it was suggested by the chairman of W R A D , that perhaps any volunteers coming onto it , erm , would in fact come from the surrounding counties . |
| 23 | Nonetheless it is perhaps surprising that the librarian has not crossed swords with the law over obscene and indecent literature before now . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | The non-proliferation treaty has not prevented countries like Israel , India and South Africa from secretly developing nuclear weapons , but at least they have not gone public with them and no country has officially added itself to the nuclear weapons states . |
| 26 | Also , it has not prevented Israel from repeatedly proving its prowess in war , which is usually regarded as a proof of strong government . |
| 27 | This has not prevented overflow after heavy rainfall , however . |
| 28 | The important role which larger donors have come to play in ‘ supporting ’ African economies has not prevented governments from retaining their entrenched political priorities . |
| 29 | In fact only one DCSL has a teaching qualification , but this has not stopped others from becoming fully involved in curricular discussions in project schools . |
| 30 | Nevertheless , it would be naive to suggest that the draw has not presented Sardinia with an even bigger security problem than it had bargained for . |