Example sentences of "[not/n't] [vb pp] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Within hours of the closure of the polls , news of Aristide 's victory led to scenes of national euphoria not witnessed since the overthrow in 1986 of the notorious Duvalier family dictatorship . |
| 2 | The earliest steam-pumps of Thomas Newcomen and others in the eighteenth century were not erected from the kind of detailed and accurate drawings customary by the nineteenth . |
| 3 | ( Some nuclei that are not aligned with the field also take part in fusion reactions , although at a slower rate . ) |
| 4 | The pulsar is also spinning rapidly with a period between I ms and a few seconds , but its magnetic dipole axis is not aligned with the spin axis . |
| 5 | The proposed assembly will allow only simple rotation ( ie a revolute pair ) , while the pin is not aligned with the slot . |
| 6 | Carole Peacock 's Disney Special is an eye catcher of a Rokkaku , not flown in the melee of competition . |
| 7 | The proposed government centre ( not yet a palace ) was not situated at the end of converging boulevards , but occupied an already partially derelict and vacant site . |
| 8 | A Soviet Government statement on 3 July 1987 suggested that ‘ all warships not situated in the region be shortly withdrawn from the Gulf and that Iran and Iraq in their turn should keep from actions that would threaten international shipping ’ . |
| 9 | After all , exploitation had not stopped with the theft of the gold . |
| 10 | Several harassers , not stopped at the outset , will claim that the victim ‘ wanted it ’ or did n't seem to mind . |
| 11 | The event was arranged must later that the other meetings , and was not publicised in the consultation literature maildrop . |
| 12 | The Act was not amended by the Race Relations Act 1976 , which meant that the mental element required for the commission of the offence remained restricted to intention to cause racial hatred , as opposed to the likelihood that racial hatred would be stirred up . |
| 13 | ( 2 ) If the results of blood and urine tests are not received by the database within three weeks of such a prompt a reminder is sent . |
| 14 | Meanwhile , the carrier may issue the private key to the transferee in the belief that the latter accepted an honest receipt message sent to but not received by the transferee . |
| 15 | Sadly , the notes referred to money and medicines that had been sent by the family but not received in the prison . |
| 16 | If notice of resignation is not received before the day on which the annual subscription becomes due , the member shall be liable to pay his annual subscription for that year . |
| 17 | The Labour party cloaks under expressions such as ’ attack on civil rights ’ the fact that such people have not registered for the tax and have been indulging in tax avoidance , a practice for which the Labour party still shows some sympathy . |
| 18 | The remaining two pups were not registered with the AKC , as they were not thought to be of high enough merit . |
| 19 | His three spinster daughters , whom he had not registered at the parish church in any way , were all baptised as adults at Badcox . |
| 20 | He and three passengers travelling with him were arrested , on the grounds that the car was not registered in the name of the driver . |
| 21 | The strike was related to the refusal of the bantustan authorities to recognize the National Union of Mineworkers which it regarded as foreign since it was not registered in the bantustan , but in South Africa itself . |
| 22 | The proportion of the unemployed identified by the survey who were not registered in the period 1978–81 is shown in Table 3.4 . |
| 23 | The Chairman 's vice chairman 's and treasurer 's posts , not filled at the A.G.M. were filled at the first meeting of the new session 1991 — 1992 as follows ; Dr. A. J. Watson chairman ; G. W. Davidson , vice chairman and Mrs. P. Fisher , treasurer . |
| 24 | The Chairman 's vice chairman 's and treasurer 's posts , not filled at the A.G.M. were filled at the first meeting of the new session 1991–1992 as follows ; Dr. A. J. Watson chairman ; G. W. Davidson , vice chairman and Mrs. P. Fisher , treasurer . |
| 25 | In a second study , Kennedy ( 1972 ) found that repetition after 1 year was less common in patients admitted to the Edinburgh Regional Poisoning Treatment Centre ( 12 per cent ) than in those who made attempts and were not referred to the Centre , irrespective of whether the latter were referred to psychiatrists elsewhere ( 38 per cent repeated ) or not ( 37 per cent repeated ) . |
| 26 | As we saw in this chapter , more recently it has been found that this account of processing can not be correct for at least three reasons : ( a ) there is evidence that syntactic and semantic processing is not delayed until the end of the clause ; ( b ) there is evidence that information about the specific wording is retained after the end of a clause if that clause contains nonspecific words which subsequent clauses will disambiguate ; ( c ) specific wording will also be retained if it has pragmatic significance . |
| 27 | If it turns out that she is not like her husband linguistically , the difference is not treated like the difference between miners and public schoolboys . |
| 28 | ‘ It is not treated by the trade in Britain with anything like the respect it is given in France . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Why , Alyssia thought , she had not jumped at the idea the moment it was suggested was anybody 's guess . |