Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] in the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | She was not clad in the garb of her order but attired in a pale blue dress trimmed with the copper hue of squirrel fur . |
| 32 | ‘ [ the appellants ' ] ordered documents may show not only what inquiries the appellants made or did not make in the performance of their duties as auditors , but what they were told and by whom , |
| 33 | Other directors are understood to be satisfied that he was not implicated in the fraud and had no knowledge of it . |
| 34 | The fundamental aspects of FRED 1 have generally not altered in the process of conversion from exposure draft to standard . |
| 35 | When I went to what was in effect not merely the memorial of the fifty aft after fifty two years of the people , but of course really the funeral service of the pit and when I went to that here was the chance to dedicate that also , we did it actually at the Memorial Garden where all the pit people are buried and that is right you see , picking up out of the past not sticking in the past , and arranging it as you might say as in that banner to move on into the future . |
| 36 | But she was not resting in the hollow , she was floating in it . |
| 37 | Firstly , alternative pronunciations of the same word are not distinguished in the lexicon from pronunciations of different words . |
| 38 | It is not intended in the case of outboard motors that any deduction should be made until the engine is over 3 years old . |
| 39 | If a small child rejects medicine dispensed by one of the medical posts scattered throughout the region , parents will not persist in the face of the child 's refusal ( see Robarchek 1980 ) . |
| 40 | What the song means and what story lies behind it are typically not explained in The Lord of the Rings , but remain in suggestiveness till The Silmarillion . |
| 41 | All of the grooms , except one who was asleep on some hay bales , had chosen not to sit in the car with their charges , and I imagined it was because of Leslie Brown 's daunting presence : racing lads on the whole felt a companionable devotion to their horses , and I would have expected more of them to be sitting on the hay bales during the day . |
| 42 | Lucien felt he should not answer in the affirmative . |
| 43 | The actual women themselves — or rather girls , for they seem mainly to have been under 18-who worked in these experimental offices , are not heard in the debate , silenced not so much by their sex perhaps , as by their mostly humble circumstances and extreme youth and inexperience . |
| 44 | Electoral alliances were not favoured in the Party , and the radicalism of local Labour Parties was of a different character from Liberal radicalism . |
| 45 | On the whole , they were not favoured in the allocation of regional selective assistance where there was an element of discretion on the part of the Department of Industry . |
| 46 | To a man of Joyce 's stamp it added a degree of humiliation and defeat , in that the wound was not sustained in the course of open battle but as a captive of what he soon called his ‘ sub-human ’ enemy . |
| 47 | Yet the choreography is by a Russian who studied among the Spanish peasants and worked out his design with the help of a particular peasant , a natural dancer , whose passion for dance was such that his life ended tragically when he found he was not to perform in the ballet . |
| 48 | The majority of farmers were probably sceptical and decided not to invest in the system , because the Scientific Farming Machinery Co appears to have ceased trading a year or so after announcing their new gas injection equipment . |
| 49 | Her home number was not listed in the directory so it had to be the stage door . |
| 50 | It will be interesting to see where the matches against Auckland involving Scottish Exiles and a District Select ( venues are not listed in the draft fixture list ) will be staged . |
| 51 | The fact that the endometrial sampling is not listed in the statement of fees and allowances ( section 42 , minor surgery ) as a minor surgical procedure for which payment may be made would preclude most from adding vabra curettage to their repertoire . |
| 52 | The reasons for the distinction were not given in the Panel 's official statements , but appeared in a newspaper article , which explained that ‘ the difference was that Forte had conducted valuations to ensure that the value of its property had been maintained or increased … |
| 53 | The type of family and marriage which they operated was not given in the nature of man or in other supernatural and suprahistorical sources , but in the economic and political circumstances of their time , in this case by capitalism . |
| 54 | This mortality combined with the dilution effect of the rapidly growing herbage renders most pastures , not grazed in the spring , safe for grazing after mid-summer . |
| 55 | For all those reasons sir , we invite you to report that these two fields should not remain in the greenbelt . |
| 56 | But it remains in the BBC 's history even if it does not remain in the history of the Labour Party . |
| 57 | If all three aspects are not addressed the 240 additional cannon fodder will not remain in the system either . |
| 58 | She has also been told that she must not remain in the room after 11:30pm and that the campus is off limits for her 18-month-old miniature dachshund . |
| 59 | He finds it sad that the USM and fund markets have not developed in the way that they were expected to at the outset . |
| 60 | The Spirit becomes in effect a weak counterpart to the male Logos : I say weak because clearly the Spirit is not differentiated in the sense in which the Logos is associated with a male human being . |