Example sentences of "[vb past] not [adv] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then in chronological order came the following : Hemel Hempstead ( 1947 ) replacing Redbourn as proposed in the Abercrombie plan , was designed to fill in the area between Harpenden , St Albans and Remel Hempstead itself ; Harlow ( 1947 ) , 23 miles north-east of London , expanded a small settlement of 4,500 people ; Crawley ( 1947 ) , a town of 9,500 population , lay astride the Brighton Road , 30 miles south of London ; Hatfield and Welwyn Garden City ( both 1948 ) lay very close to each other 18–20 miles north of London ( Welwyn was already a sizable town of 18,500 inhabitants ) ; Basildon ( 1949 ) met rather different objectives , planned not only to accommodate overspill but to tidy up an untidy area of shack development between London and Southend ; Bracknell ( 1949 ) replaced Abercrombie 's proposal for White Waltham , three miles south-west of Maidenhead , west of London . |
| 2 | Stepson of a rabbi and product of a broken home , Laszlo was brought up in an orphanage , and it is clear that from a very early age this intense , obstinate man sought not only to bring order to his own life but to control to an unprecedented degree the environment of his future family . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'd not even seen Leanne for about four months and then she was with him , but I got half my arm blown away . ’ |
| 4 | Macmillan flew to meet Kennedy in the Bahamas determined not only to obtain Polaris but also to do so with safeguards for its " independent " use . |
| 5 | ‘ Hellenism ’ meant not only speaking Greek as the main language of communication in the eastern half of the Mediterranean , but also games , gymnasia , theatres , and the diffusion of polytheistic cult . |
| 6 | Nizan chose not simply to suspend judgement , but to give public support to the Moscow version of events on the grounds that critical accounts of the Soviet state generally lacked both historical perspective and scientific rigour , and more importantly , that the defence of the Soviet Union in the torrid international political climate of the late 1930s was imperative . |
| 7 | the structural engineer 's design drawings did not clearly assign design responsibility to the steel fabricator |
| 8 | Although this last point is not in broad terms contentious , it should be noted that La Brant did not clearly establish criteria for judging complexity . |
| 9 | Can we not say that ‘ God was in the Buddha , teaching men the way of virtue and righteousness ’ , even though the Buddha did not clearly acknowledge God ? |
| 10 | He did not particularly like Franco whose view on life was rather cynical , redeemed only by the fact that he was quite willing to listen to Sandison 's halting efforts to tell his tale in Italian . |
| 11 | He did not particularly like children , though he liked trains . |
| 12 | However , there are clear baseline differences in disease severity between groups and the analysis did not properly address differences in response between treatments . |
| 13 | Probably the single most raised criticism of PageMaker in its earlier versions was that it did not automatically flow text from column to column or page to page . |
| 14 | When he arrived in America , Weill did not automatically expect New York ears to take to the music of the Berlin avant-garde in which he had played so prominent a part : instead he set himself the task of learning to write music with an American accent . |
| 15 | Unfortunately he found like others that even eminence in science did not automatically bring emolument , and in 1863 he contemplated moving to Manchester ; but Samuelson then came up with the proposal of producing a new Quarterly Journal of Science , which duly appeared in January 1864 under the editorship of Crookes and Samuelson . |
| 16 | Iris might be right in implying that Rick was the innocent victim of circumstantial evidence coupled with his own cowardly refusal to go to the police … but Rick 's innocence did not automatically confirm Barney 's guilt . |
| 17 | Clearly , given the large amount of data already impounded in share prices , and that few well-informed investors will be induced to trade index futures who did not already trade shares , the increase in information reflected in share prices is likely to be small . |
| 18 | The Court did not however read section 14(3) as restricting what might be done by different courts on different occasions . |
| 19 | While there seems to be no reason to doubt the account to this point in Molla Yegan 's career , a question is raised about Taskopruzade 's statement that he did not again hold office by a note of Molla Yegan 's ( the only example I have found of his signature ) appearing on a page of the dated 839/1435–6 , of Isa Bey , the son of Bayezid Pasa , containing the signatures of a number of notable scholars of the fifteenth century : the page , which has been reproduced in facsimile by Unver , seems indeed almost to have become an autograph book for leading scholars of the period . |
| 20 | Derek did not again see Alexander Atkins or his swarthy companion . |
| 21 | Japanese authority over Korea was confirmed by the settlement of the conflict in 1905 but Japan did not immediately annex Korea ; instead the Korean monarchy was retained and a Japanese resident-general was appointed in Seoul . |
| 22 | Berthelet did not immediately succeed Pynson as king 's printer ( the statutes of 21 Henry VIII — STC 9363.6 — when Parliament was in session between 3 November and 17 December 1529 , were printed by John Rastell ) but received his appointment early in February 1530 . |
| 23 | Thus unease over Soviet conduct in Eastern Europe and further afield did not immediately end Bevin 's search for ways to co-exist with the USSR despite a warning to Attlee on 10 April 1946 that , while he believed the Soviets preferred to expand without the risk of war , their policy might acquire a dynamic of its own , and result in an unintended conflict . |
| 24 | Marriage did not immediately cause Herbert to settle down . |
| 25 | Since pretreatment with TPA did not completely destroy histamine stimulated adenylate cyclase activity , it seems possible that the effect of phosphorylation by protein kinase C is to reduce the efficiency of coupling between the receptor and Gs rather than to abolish it completely . |
| 26 | The car did not normally carry passengers , but its seats were used that season by a small orchestra which played selections from ‘ The Gondoliers ’ as it made its romantic way along the Promenade . |
| 27 | An additional attractive feature for savers was the fact that societies did not normally levy transactions charges on accounts . |
| 28 | Blackwood 's did not normally take guests with neither luggage nor reservation , but losing one 's luggage and forgetting one 's hotel , and because of a British airline … |
| 29 | Paragraph ( e ) would be particularly relevant where the purchaser required the goods to be made or adapted from some use for which the seller did not normally supply goods . |
| 30 | Even gentlemen who did not normally display interest in babies sent anxiously to inquire about its progress . |