Example sentences of "[vb base] not [vb pp] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | you do n't christened at a baptist church |
| 2 | ‘ I 've not played for a long time and to get a goal in the first ten minutes was incredible . |
| 3 | Dave was off with his hernia Ross , Wayne Lindsay we 've not seen for a year , I mean I know things have been difficult for the last year |
| 4 | ‘ I 've not come for a drink . |
| 5 | I 've not spoken to a soul in the last fortnight , except for you — sorry , no offence meant . |
| 6 | Our young labourer Kevin , whom I 've not mentioned for a while , gets the strenuous pick and shovel jobs . |
| 7 | The chub take slugs absolutely savagely , as though they have not fed for a week and their very lives depend on seizing that particular specimen . |
| 8 | Thus to bar from the courts data that have not appeared in a peer reviewed journal could be foolhardy . |
| 9 | Anyway , we thought it would be suitably ironic and some sort of justice for having been booted off the Argent tour to cover that song , especially as Argent have not existed for a long time . |
| 10 | He may have been joking , but his fatalistic sentiment was in the sane vein as a cruel remark made as Davies 's men departed in triumph : ‘ We understood Eastbourne were the only team who have not applied for a postal vote in the General Election . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ It is clear that the extensions to permitted opening hours have not led to a marked increase in overall consumption , ’ the report concluded . |
| 12 | For the most part , however , the various reassessments have not led to a complete rejection of Marxist theory , but to lively controversy about , and substantial revision of , some of its central concepts — those of class , party , ideology , the state , the capitalist mode of production , the transition to socialism — in the course of which Marxism has been greatly influenced by recent work in the social sciences and the philosophy of science . |
| 13 | Strange , I thought , I have not heard of a prominent baseball authority with that name . |
| 14 | i have not heard of a similar setup at least — the only player who is remincent in norway of flo and almost as good in the air has been out injured this season so the setup has not been tried and maybe never will — at least it shows that coach Egil ‘ Drillo ’ Olsen — thinks — which might not be said of Mr Turnip . |
| 15 | So I I 'm extremely pleased that the County Council have not gone for a strategic exceptions policy . |
| 16 | Specifically exempted are agricultural produce and game which have not gone through an " industrial process " . |
| 17 | I have not toyed with a parachute chord |
| 18 | ‘ It is the first time in eleven years as a manager that I have not worked with a contract and it is like an air of freedom . ’ |
| 19 | They have not arrived at a favourable view of the monarchy because the balance sheet falls in the black . |
| 20 | More likely , we may suppose that we have not arrived at an exact specification of one or more of the ten . |
| 21 | Reflecting the substantial barriers to international integration , prices have not come to an equilibrium across countries . |
| 22 | ‘ The Guilds have not put on a Mystery here these five years or more ! ’ |
| 23 | We have not dealt with a report from the Advisory Centre for Education saying that the number of complaints from parents who had not got their first choice of school had doubled . |
| 24 | ‘ Switzerland have not qualified for a major tournament since the 1966 World Cup finals and have grown used to losing . |
| 25 | No , I have not switched to a lecture on rally driving , your helicopter is moving forwards and you want to stop it . |
| 26 | And the latter do better — and are worth more in the telecoms market place — than ‘ ingenieurs maison ’ , who have not graduated from an engineering or telecoms school , have difficulty in making the all important transition from ‘ technicien ’ to ‘ cadre ’ status , and tend to form the most militantly unionized ‘ lumpenproletariat ’ of say , the DGT or Alcatel . |
| 27 | ‘ I have not suggested for a moment that I regard all humanity as rotten , ’ George said icily . |
| 28 | Given that the remedies under consideration in the present case are primarily of an in personam character , perhaps a closer analogy is to cases concerned with the circumstances in which English courts have granted or refused injunctions to restrain creditors , who have not proved in an English bankruptcy , from taking proceedings abroad or compelling them to refund property obtained abroad . |
| 29 | To presuppose this is both contradictory and dangerous ; contradictory because the West can not insist on a certain outcome from free elections and still uphold democracy ; dangerous because , if the confusion of the two in the public mind persists , there will be many more instances of superpowers subverting elected governments because they have not opted for a market economy . |
| 30 | Easiest to cut are the big projects which have not got beyond an existence on paper . |