Example sentences of "[not/n't] [adv] [vb pp] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Consequently , these refugees are not merely attracted emotionally to return to Palestine but live under the pressure of a hostile environment which will continue to encourage them to leave Lebanon . |
| 2 | In 1965 Anthony Crossland , the Labour Secretary of State for Education , issued Circular 10/65 which requested those local authorities which had not already done so to submit to him their proposals for the reorganisation of their secondary schools along comprehensive lines . |
| 3 | It required those LEAs who had not already done so to submit to the Secretaries of State , by the end of the year , information about their plans for making their schools comprehensive . |
| 4 | They do not control the party ; they are not well organised enough to do so . |
| 5 | The ‘ Nepmen ’ had not yet prospered sufficiently to replace the ‘ bagmen ’ , those petty speculators of War Communism . |
| 6 | Legislation , however , is a dangerous invention : ‘ It gave into the hands of men an instrument of great power which they needed to achieve some good , but which they have not yet learned so to control that it may not produce great evil ’ . |
| 7 | Leakey added that elephant populations had not yet recovered sufficiently to allow trade to resume , but predicted that talks with pro-trading states would continue . |
| 8 | Thus , for eurobond firms London has offered a pool of suitably trained labour ; in recent years , low levels of personal and corporate taxation ; a reasonable tax regime for financial instruments ( e.g. ability to issue bearer eurobonds that effectively pay interest gross and absence of turnover taxes — a particular handicap for the Swiss ) ; a supply of suitable premises ; the absence , since 1979 , of exchange controls ( although initially exchange controls were seen as an advantage , since eurobonds did not interfere with onshore sterling markets ) ; prudential and monetary regulations that have not historically tended significantly to raise the cost of funds , distort or prevent competition among domestic or international intermediaries ; English law ( widely accepted as a basis for international financial business ) ; the English language ; and political stability . |
| 9 | With a wide , delighted smile , because she had n't really expected ever to see him again , she teased , ‘ Are you following me ? ’ |
| 10 | He was n't really equipped mentally to handle this . |