Example sentences of "[not/n't] [vb pp] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , CITES ' attempts to regulate the trade have not stopped the illegal trade . |
| 2 | The Eastern Arts report of nineteen eighty six was never completed what the Eastern Arts did in actual fact was to produce a draft report and promised that the final report would be complete and circulate it as to date which is nineteen ninety-one we have not received the final report of the Eastern Arts appraisal . |
| 3 | Many a good dog has been ruined when he has done something good and , for some reason , not received the right response from the handler ; in other words , the wrong association has been created . |
| 4 | If , after a set period of time PI has not received the expected mail message , it will ‘ time-out ’ and continue with its normal operation , assuming that the message has been deleted . |
| 5 | Had he not heard the Arab League spokesman that morning , promising that the Syrian ‘ peace-keepers ’ would ‘ strike with an iron fist ’ at any resistance ? |
| 6 | The third night , above the rattling progress of a late train , he had pummelled Zoë with his fists , and not heard the frightened crying of his children , when she had said that no fucking way was she going to be holed up for the rest of her days in bloody , bloody Damascus . |
| 7 | But although the GTP produced a massive land boom , it was not given the vast land grants of its predecessor , the CPR . |
| 8 | If Heisenberg 's matrix mechanics , or Schrödinger 's wave mechanics , had not given the right answers for the behaviour of objects like hydrogen atoms then certainly no one would have got very excited about them . |
| 9 | The other family were made aware of the need for the venous sample some 24 hours before it was taken and were then not given the normal result for a further 24 hours . |
| 10 | ‘ They are not clear on their objectives and are not given the technical tools to use on the field so that they can not play to their potential . |
| 11 | The result was that a constituent of mine — and no doubt many hundreds of others who have just been referred to by the Minister as being included in the 1,200 people who received grants — was short changed and not given the full amount . |
| 12 | Yes Chairman I 'd like to second that and just to erm say very briefly that er erm I , I very much welcome the report and the speed with which the Chief Officer is seen to have addressed most of the issues there are one or two bits that , that were of course were in fact posters , posters er be dealt with erm I have to say I still have some concern erm that the Chief Fire Officer and his team are so well supported on a very broad front on their decision making and their professionalism and yet on other matters of sound advice which has been given by er who are turned aside and just simply not given the proper consideration that they should have as in that er respect Chairman and I , I , I have some concern , erm it , it would not surprise me indeed if the , Her Majesty 's Inspector of er er brigades , when he comes round himself , has some comment to make on that since I think he 's expectations as well are almost as high as mine is . |
| 13 | His preaching was an outstanding success , and whatever exceptional divisions Joyce 's work may continue to provoke among his readers , and whatever perhaps less exceptional divisions George Craig 's lecture may create among some of the audience in respect of the substance of his arguments , and how could it not given the generous measure and richness of what he offered , there would be no division on the quality of his craftsmanship and the beguiling nature of his themes . |
| 14 | Kidd reflects that at the time he was not given the unqualified support by other members of P-E who felt that the search approach was still inappropriate for a consulting firm with resident consultants on client premises and that it could injure the firm 's consulting practice . |
| 15 | And if pupils are not taught the basic disciplines of rhythm — then things become impossible . |
| 16 | Much of the bad publicity on housing accrues to Labour-controlled local authorities that have mismanaged their resources , let down their tenants , do not implement the right to buy , have been short-sighted about the role of the housing associations and have not developed the enabling role . |
| 17 | Critics within the BBC hierarchy claim Mr Hussey , his vice-chairman Lord Barnett and director-general John Birt have not consulted the main board of governors in major policy decisions . |
| 18 | She was also glad that she had not squandered the remaining money Mrs Gracie had given her ; from what Paul said it was going to be needed . |
| 19 | Governments and the EC , he argues , have not realised the inherent threats to manufacturing in the West . |
| 20 | Soviet Foreign Minister Shevardnadze showed that the USSR had not forgotten the ZOPFAN impulse in informing Sitthi that ‘ there can be no calm or stability in a region in which there exist foreign military bases and which is not protected from the military rivalry of non-regional powers ’ . |
| 21 | I still hated and feared the thought of the wild animal inside me , and I had not forgotten the desperate dangers of the day before . |
| 22 | But Villa had not forgotten the enterprising football that has taken them second in the Premier League , and in an eight-minute spell before the interval , they twice worried Ipswich keeper Clive Baker . |
| 23 | Had he not enjoyed the new dispensation of sexual freedom ? |
| 24 | She had not misread the general gist of his words , imprecise though they were . |
| 25 | The fact that researchers in the psychology of driving have not stressed the potential effects of such arousal is particularly surprising given that feelings of risk are often considered to be one of the most important variables in the control of normal driving . |
| 26 | The planning officers ' report considered by the district council 's northern area planning subcommittee on March 24th stated : ‘ Initial comments indicate the council have not considered the current proposal in detail and have not therefore as yet decided to support the scheme , indeed some of the council have strong reservations ’ . |
| 27 | Some philosophers might suspect that I have not considered the behaviouristic theories in their most sophisticated form . |
| 28 | Why have the laws of war not addressed the nuclear weapons question more successfully ? |
| 29 | But it has not solved the huge problems inherited from the past |
| 30 | The Stolypin reforms , Soviet historians would maintain , had not solved the basic problem which made revolution inevitable . |