Example sentences of "[not/n't] [vb pp] [pron] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He thought that Craig might have lost some votes because people had not forgiven his voluntary coalition heresy but recognized that , had Craig emulated Paisley and created a reputation as an active constituency MP , he would have retained the seat . |
| 2 | These are increasingly hard to get — a Coventry welfare rights centre had so many claimants complaining that they 'd not received their statutory entitlement to maternity grants that the centre has printed a special complaints form . |
| 3 | Had Joss Barnet not joined her this morning she might have felt quite differently about the plan . |
| 4 | He had not asked her one question , had not given her one chance to explain . |
| 5 | She seemed to be almost floating and Maggie was astounded that the sharp stones had not given her enough pain to waken her . |
| 6 | ‘ The manager has not given me any indication whether I will play but I am ready and it would be nice if I could . |
| 7 | Unfortunately , you have not given me enough information about your medical condition or the drug which you were taking to enable me to say definitely whether or not you can make a claim . |
| 8 | Unfortunately , you have not given me enough information about your medical condition or the drug which you were taking to enable me to say definitely whether or not you can make a claim . |
| 9 | If they had not given him some food , he surely would have died like his mother . |
| 10 | It is understood doctors have not given him any timescale for the progress of the cancer . |
| 11 | Jimmy Carter 's limited experience in politics had not given him adequate preparation for the demands of the White House . |
| 12 | As the conservative Senator Nunn said , in the fateful debate giving the president the powers he ( and the pro-Israeli members of Congress so fervently ) sought , Bush had not given him compelling reason for committing huge American forces to combat . |
| 13 | If Marshal Piłsudski and Colonel Beck , the Polish leaders in Warsaw , were upset that France had not given them stronger backing over the Wilia crisis , then they were also relieved to find that Hitler was not prepared to go to war over the city — at least not yet . |
| 14 | They may not , for instance , be prepared to risk having any kind of emotional engagement ( I recently worked with a group of headteachers for whom this seemed to be a problem ) ; or they may not trust each other or the teacher ; or the ‘ hidden curriculum , of the group 's own dynamics may cut across the drama 's requirements ( for instance if the strong natural leader within the group is not given her usual leadership function within the fiction ) ; or the group may concentrate too hard on preparing material for ‘ showing ’ so that they miss out almost entirely on ‘ playing the drama game ’ ; or they may dislike drama or really want to perform a play or are simply not in the mood to submit to the experience . |
| 15 | Indeed she had not given it another thought since last seeing it in Matthew 's sitting-room . |
| 16 | I knew that they had not given you enough time to recover from the pneumonia . |
| 17 | ‘ I was not saluted , I was not given my proper form of address . |
| 18 | I ca n't really go along with these performance figures — not given our last intelligence reports on the MiG projects into the 80's . ’ |
| 19 | In practice though , as we saw , Beccaria thought that most people had not developed their rational insight sufficiently for this to be the case — full rational insight had only been achieved by ‘ some few thinking men in every nation in every age ’ . |
| 20 | This has often treated technology as an end in itself , and not queried its wider relationship to firm activity or weighed its contribution to performance . |
| 21 | The Army have not dropped their controversial access conditions as was reported , but have amended them following the representations they have received from the BMC and the views that were expressed at the Castlemartin meeting in March . |
| 22 | Equally , however , the substantial de facto mobility out of the manual working class has not dissolved its traditional collectivist propensities , at least so far as trade unionism is concerned . |
| 23 | The scale of his windows and free-standing or hanging glass assemblages has not overwhelmed his lyrical impulse and painter 's training and approach . |
| 24 | Although she had been seen at the school less frequently over the past few years , rehearsals and contracts were organized so smoothly that the dancers had not noticed her gradual disappearance . |
| 25 | The company has not presented its own profit and loss account as permitted by section 230 of the Companies Act 1985 . |
| 26 | The parent company has not presented its own profit and loss account as permitted by Section 230 of the Companies Act 1985 . |
| 27 | She 'd given up and love had not visited her lonely shore in years . |
| 28 | Had been told that the Prince , his son , had not visited his new wife 's bed for several days , and not through pressure of work . |
| 29 | Amitha : I was n't involved in setting up the Group , having then not accepted my lesbian identity , but from what I could see there was a lot of resentful and suspicious comparison between the BWG and the LGWG . |
| 30 | Many clerics have not accepted his overnight promotion to the rank of ayatollah . |