Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [not/n't] [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.

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1 But it is that same obstinacy or , put another way , determination to win , that has not only made him a successful captain , but also into one of the most feared batsmen in the world .
2 er in regard to er th the quote there has been no agreement on the line , that refers to the fact that agreement has to be m erm come about with the actual erm East Sussex County Council and Surrey County Council and that er although a joint meeting of Planning and Highways what , some two years ago , took a view as to the line , that has n't actually meant that there is agreement at this stage where the line can be implemented and I would have thought that 's what that refers to .
3 This has not yet turned specifically against the institutions of the EEC .
4 The fact that this has not yet led to a fundamental delegitimisation of the state 's role has led some Marxists to develop a more sophisticated awareness of the divergent forces operating upon the growth of government .
5 But even this has not yet arrived .
6 No doubt the field will eventually clarify and mature and the terminology will be designed with precision so that meaningful concepts , tools and methods are unambiguously clarified and distinguished but this has not yet happened .
7 In most Second and Third World countries this has not generally happened .
8 However , this has not necessarily proved to be the case when the time has come to commit the words to celluloid .
9 I fear that this has not necessarily taken place in every case .
10 NME , for instance , has always included substantial coverage of black popular forms — soul , reggae , hip-hop — although this has not always met with their readers ' approval .
11 This has not always happened , as is examined later .
12 Surprisingly this has not directly affected the rate at which interrogation produces admissions .
13 This has not only created severe problems for the national parliaments , who are finding the huge quantity of legislation difficult to scrutinise , it also represents a seepage of power to Brussels , since the best way of attaining power is simply to grab it , whether or not you have a mandate .
14 This has not only exposed the underlying differences between Likud and Labour which the initiative papered over .
15 It 's not got the creative thing , which , I mean , competition , to get a a ten , or a nine , you 've got ta really have some creative element in it , this has n't quite got that , but it is a very strong picture and , and very nicely photographed so I 'll give this one , eight .
16 What about all that 's gone before , like Delta 5 , Au Pairs , Raincoats — this has n't suddenly happened .
17 Now this has n't really got going yet .
18 Thus , although the bonanza expected by some has not yet materialised , exploration has far from exhausted the possibilities , and the results have at least demonstrated beyond question that gas accumulated and survived in producible quantities in the Eastern Overthrust Belt , despite the disturbed condition of the strata and the passage of time .
19 Though CSE grade 1 had been deemed to be the equivalent of a good O level pass , this had not really brought the two into line : the equivalence was granted as a concession to the increasingly academic ambitions of the secondary modern schools , and , later , as a consolation to those pupils in comprehensive schools who thought they had been wrongly ‘ deselected ’ away from O levels .
20 Police acknowledgement that this had n't actually happened was delayed until after the press coverage .
21 Some had n't even got buds .
22 One minstrel was supposed to have not just glorified his master but saved his life as well :
23 Taking the new ball at 294 for three had not immediately provided a breakthrough , and DeSilva , on 80 , looked set to steer Sri Lanka to a sizeable first innings lead .
24 Taking the new ball at 294 for three had not immediately provided a breakthrough , and DeSilva , on 80 , looked set to steer Sri Lanka to a sizeable first innings lead .
25 I must admit , some of you probably were brought up on Meccano , and certainly not in the mo mo more sophisticated technology we 've got at the moment , but the point is , a lot of these have n't really seen this part of what I call the basic technology itself and er , it was interesting because we were trying to build up some kind of game for their summer fair and the game was quite obviously er , you know er propel a ping-pong into a er series of slots with er , bit like bingo to a certain extent , where you can actually er give prizes for the various holes you could actually penetrate and things like that .
26 So far as the actual patterns of support are concerned , one can say more confidently that these have not simply declined from a high point , but have undergone various changes and fluctuations , according to the circumstances under which people lived .
27 A result of our own R&D , these have not only enabled us to increase margins but have also raised our market share in Europe and the USA .
28 If there is a time to sew and a time to reap , the latter has not yet arrived .
29 TopLog International has not yet put pen to paper with Univel Inc to support Unixware , as reported last week ( Ux No 399 ) .
30 In chapter seven of The Form , leading his disciple on from the initial perspective of striving to order her inner life as if she should die tomorrow — a challenge which sets the adrenalin running and wonderfully sharpens awareness — he potently reminds her in terms of his own cultural coinage that the world is indeed " charged with the grandeur of God " by instructing her to see all her physical experience in terms of the sacrifice also offered at the Mass : By means of keeping in remembrance this little incantatory prayer at meals and indeed at all times not otherwise taken up with prayer or speech ( " and thynk it noght anely whils etes , bot bath before and after , ay bot when prayes or spekes " , 7.104.39 – 40 ) the disciple will maintain a constant perception of all aspects of sustaining life as a divine gift mysteriously available in time only through the processes of death and resurrection .
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