Example sentences of "[vb past] [not/n't] in [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those four orientations , listed not in the order provided by Dahl but in the order I believe to be most significant to an understanding to British political culture , are toward ( 1 ) problem-solving , ( 2 ) the political system , ( 3 ) cooperation and individuality , and ( 4 ) other people . |
| 2 | In 1917 he could refer Garvin to a speech made in 1905 where he stated his ideal for the British Empire : ‘ we think of a group of states , all independent in their own local concerns , but all united for the defence of their common interests and the defence of a common civilisation , united not in an alliance — for alliances can be made and unmade — but in a permanent organic union' . |
| 3 | Most of the provisions of the Housing Act 1988 relating to private sector renting apply equally to housing associations , but the most important change relating to housing associations came not in the Act but by ministerial decision . |
| 4 | It would be an ironical stroke if investigations into the affair resulted not in the discovery of those happenings in which they had been guilty but only in those where they had been blameless . |
| 5 | Its importance within the city lay not in the speed of its rise — which was hardly spectacular — nor in its violence — for it could only do what Berlin sanctioned , but rather in the social and national spirit it fostered within the community . |
| 6 | The question of homage , on the contrary , was another matter : its significance lay not in the amount of service which it might subsequently furnish to the kings of France , but in the principle which it enshrined . |
| 7 | These final exchanges were to have taken place at the border town of Mundhiriya from March 14 , but did not in the event go ahead as scheduled . |
| 8 | Those who knew Hebrew took significantly less time to sort the pack than those who did not in the condition that required symbols having the same name to be put together . |
| 9 | Even with delays while the Office of Fair Trading considered whether to refer these takeovers to the Monopolies and Mergers Commission ( it did not in the end ) the whole process had taken only until the spring of 1991 . |
| 10 | I did n't in the beginning but I do now , she can be funny although a bit bitchy at times . |
| 11 | In a clear reference to last June 's revelations by Royal writer Andrew Morton in his best-seller Diana : Her True Story , the spokesman added : ‘ We did n't in the summer and we do n't intend to now . ’ |
| 12 | One time Grandma was coming to stay but did n't in the end because she had flu . |
| 13 | They did n't in the end not because Kevin Keegan refreshed parts Ossie Ardiles could n't reach but because their players were too good . |
| 14 | You 're too feisty and she did n't in the end , did n't she ? |
| 15 | It was true that those concerned with the enforcement of the law in this country were apprehensive that the abolition of the death penalty would be followed by an increase in crimes of violence ; but their predecessors had in the past opposed for the same reason the abolition of the death penalty for offences less serious than murder and their apprehensions had not in the event proved justified . |
| 16 | Anti-immigrant feeling had not in the past been strong in Belgium , although in May young north African immigrants had rioted in Brussels , prompting the government to reinforce its policy of integrating immigrants [ ibid . ] . |
| 17 | The customer was the original owner and provided he had not in the interim lost his ownership , he transferred that ownership to X. However , the court upheld the finance company 's claim that the customer had by the doctrine of estoppel lost his ownership to the finance company . |