Example sentences of "[vb -s] not [verb] [pers pn] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The manager has not given me any indication whether I will play but I am ready and it would be nice if I could . |
| 2 | Their popularity , however , has not made it any easier to reconcile conservation and development . |
| 3 | However , the Scottish Office has not had it all its own way . |
| 4 | It has n't asked me any questions about how weird my machine is or wh what are you doing with an Amstrad or anything . |
| 5 | That brave young man who has n't contacted you these many years ? |
| 6 | Oh he has n't eaten it all mummy |
| 7 | Now we do n't he has n't given you any of those here . |
| 8 | As your man is single and has n't given us any name apart from his father 's , I take it he 's unattached . |
| 9 | I mean it has n't done it any good all the in Amy 's bedroom where where it had to put the copydex it 's all got brownish and , has n't it ? you can see where the . |
| 10 | In an elderly upper-crust voice , I complained about ‘ This business of trying to jam the other chaps ' telephones — y'know , it has n't done us any favours at all , frankly . |
| 11 | I 'm surprised Geoff has n't told you this over the years |
| 12 | But he 's had his own little campaign to rubbish it now , just because he has n't got it any more . |
| 13 | Many of the old cases could indeed be subsumed within the new doctrine , but it does not cover them all . |
| 14 | It has survived so long because abolishing it would have been more trouble than it was worth , but that does not make it any better in itself . |
| 15 | To know that a particular animal dance , or brightly coloured display , operates as a territorial device or as a sexual arousal mechanism does not make it any less beautiful . |
| 16 | To understand the function of bird-song does not make it any less enchanting . |
| 17 | Anticipating the problem does not make it any less likely to occur , but planning and preparing for it helps one to cope with it , and will emphasize that professional and consistent judgment has been exercised . |
| 18 | But this does not make it any less true . |
| 19 | This realization does not make it any easier to accept that our own mercurial organ is the right size and shape for our body . |
| 20 | Offensive lack of cooperation may make the task of the constable more unpleasant , but it does not make it any more difficult than would a civilised refusal to help . |
| 21 | It does not make it any easier to do what we have to do , but it makes seeing what we have to do much clearer , because it then becomes obvious that Serbia has been the blatant aggressor in the war and that its aggression simply can not be tolerated by the international community . |
| 22 | The fact that this is happening so widely does not make it any less unwelcome , and I would like to express my own thanks to staff for their steadfastness and continuing hard work in these conditions . |
| 23 | Thucydides does not tell us all we need to know about these encroachments on Peloponnesian League allies , and there are other encroachments which he scarcely mentions at all . |
| 24 | The Bible does not tell us more than that . |
| 25 | ‘ … we are of course much gratified to hear of your safety and that your expedition is progressing so prosperously : at the same time the Letter although a long one does not tell us half the things we most wished to know : it does not say ought of your movements , when we may expect you home , how Mrs Gould is , whether your attendants have answered your expectations , how Mastr . |
| 26 | Another interesting question is whether you have any right of redress if , while continuing to pay your salary , your employer does not give you any work to do , perhaps sending you home and saying for some reason , ‘ Do n't call us , we 'll call you ’ . |
| 27 | Compliance with the Building Regulations does not give you any legal rights to encroach on your neighbours land , no matter how small the encroachment may be . |
| 28 | While the private person/other distinction accounts for most of the variance , it does not explain it all . |
| 29 | It has been seven years that life does not bring me any joy and being totally blasé , I have decided to put an end to those viragos . |
| 30 | A more substantial criticism of this line of thinking is that , being sociological and stating what is the case , it does not offer us any positive conception of what could be the case . |