Example sentences of "and [verb] [not/n't] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 The general tenor of the article is that " Englishing " becomes a personal matter , raising questions of aesthetics and taste not readily accommodated within the framework of a theory of translation .
2 It 's like she had a multi-barrelled gun , and has n't just shot herself in the foot , but shot herself everywhere and blown her own head off , and no-one seems to have noticed .
3 And now we have Sliver which was the subject of much wrangling and has n't exactly set the world on fire .
4 So if anybody you know did that and has n't yet repaid them I would strongly advise you to do that .
5 She 's still undergoing treatment and has n't yet made a full recovery .
6 Bill stepped into this personalised galaxy aged 13 and has n't yet emerged .
7 She just fires off and has n't really grown up .
8 Is he erm bring himself down a bit to Nick 's level , cos Nick and has n't really got any position ?
9 His family has been farming the same land for generations but this year he has sown no cereal crops and has not even bothered to string the hops in the hop gardens .
10 Oxfam is regularly approached with inventions and has not yet decided whether it will be able to do something with the ’ friendly fuel ’ .
11 As was the case with others alleged to be implicated in this affair he left the colony , and has not yet returned , notwithstanding strenuous efforts on the part of the prosecuting authorities .
12 Benjamin ‘ Bibi ’ Netanyahu , the recently elected leader of the dispirited party , is concerned above all to maintain unity , and has not yet shown his own hand .
13 ‘ For forty years ’ , claimed a liberal statesman in 1855 , ‘ the middle class has governed the nation ; it has lost the New World , compromised the stability of society and has not yet learnt how to form a government . ’
14 Great Britain has lost an Empire and has not yet found a role Dean Acheson , West Point , 1962
15 Great Britain has lost an empire and has not yet found a role .
16 Besides , the temperature would continue to rise over the next few decades even if greenhouse gases stayed as they are , simply because the world is so slow to warm up , and has not yet responded to what is there already .
17 On it we would have found the names of other distinguished old Summerhillians … unfortunately , Eric has been delayed at Stonehenge , and has not yet got to grips with the design .
18 Compatibility With the exception of certain disk-fiddling utilities , as previously mentioned , Xtradrive exists very happily with everything we 've thrown at it , and has not yet provided any cause for palpitations or sticky moments of any description .
19 More recently formed LSW , however , is considerably colder and fresher than previously formed LSW and has not yet spread beyond the Irminger Basin .
20 Now the publication of examination results has become routine , and has not apparently delivered the goods ( we look at this in Chapter 4 ) .
21 ‘ The Halcyon still has green straw and has not fully necked over yet , so is some way off .
22 Equally , psychology has been seeking acceptance as a ‘ real ’ science , and has not therefore wanted to emphasize the social side of human action , but rather the physiological , behavioural and physically measurable aspects of human behaviour .
23 The linesman called it wide — Australian umpire Wayne Mckewan , who had been forced to demand ‘ Silence , s'il vous plaît ’ , almost as often as he had needed to call the score , agreed — and Forget not only lost this point but the next two as well to be 15–40 .
24 I need time and space not just to get over the appalling things which have happened to me in which you do not seem to show much interest but also to think through where the two of us are at .
25 It began to prove its value when the members of pupils ' own groups helped each other and came not always to rely on the initiative or instruction of the teacher-tutor .
26 Local Dyslexia Associations are also full of information , and there are by now quite a lot of books which have been published which are — both for parents and teachers — which are veyr easy to follow and do n't necessarily involve one in many evenings and weekends of cudgelling the brain .
27 It is on one level a time of transition between one set of viewpoints , and the gradual emergence of another , if you like , the conscious pantisocracy and the unconscious ‘ shapes and thoughts ’ , but it is a moment at which the two not only meet , as the river Alph becomes a fountain , but merge and seem not only to contradict but support one another .
28 In the event of my dying before remarriage , I DEVISE and BEQUEATH all of my real and personal estate whatsoever and wheresoever not already disposed of as to my freeholds in fee simple and as to my personal estate absolutely to the issue of my union with JACQUELINE MYRTLE MITCHELL , the property to be held in trust for the said issue , the trust allowing monthly sum of not less than FIVE HUNDRED POUNDS to the said JACQUELINE MYRTLE MITCHELL to pay for the upbringing of the said issue , this arrangement to cease on his or her attaining the age of twenty-one years , whereupon a quarter of the remaining estate — whether in freehold property , stocks , shares or chattels shall be granted in perpetuity to the said JACQUELINE MYRTLE MITCHELL , and the remainder to be granted to the said issue .
29 And know not how to act in this new Being .
30 The Kings rule is undermined by the lively and intelligent Nail , whose thirst for justice and learning not only topples the dictatorship , but helps to convince the King that this was no way to run a country .
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