Example sentences of "not [verb] [noun prp] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He invented a serious accident for his wife as an excuse not to see Eleanor for a while . |
| 2 | Even this warning did not prepare Robyn for the shock of the foundry . |
| 3 | Germany 's captain Nikki Pilic , who had barely put the debacle surrounding Germany 's Olympic nominations behind him , came in for criticism for not resting Becker from the second day 's doubles , especially after he had been forced to play himself into the ground to beat Luis Mattar over five sets in exhausting heat on the first day . |
| 4 | Further agreements in December 1887 and May 1888 extended the guarantee of the status quo to the integrity of the Ottoman Empire and Turkish rights over Bulgaria , while Spain agreed not to support France against the Triple Alliance . |
| 5 | There is some similarity between these issues , particularly when it is borne in mind that the theist does not regard God as a supra-terrestrial object for whose existence or non-existence no earthly observations could conceivably be of relevance . |
| 6 | Hilton interprets ‘ new mind ’ or ‘ new feeling ’ as the creation of contemplation , which now demanded far more than the old Benedictine ideal where the monk did not experience God in the achievement of higher states of consciousness but in the mundane details of daily life . |
| 7 | His typical working week would be short indeed if he did not consider Saturday as a normal working day — but was it ? |
| 8 | Although the CSCE committee meeting on Sept. 16 decided not to accept Macedonia as a regular member of the CSCE , on Sept. 18 in Prague the CSCE crisis committee on Yugoslavia decided to strengthen its permanent mission in the republic . |
| 9 | Whatever about the apparent failure of Desmond and his executives , is it not absolutely extraordinary that John V. O'Dwyer , of Arthur Cox , solicitor to and main board member of the Smurfit organisation , apparently did not brief Michael on the Independent 's retraction and the specific references to UPH and Desmond ? |
| 10 | The accent was good enough to fool Canadian-born Bernard Braden , who had appeared in The War Lover but had not met Crawford during the filming , into thinking he really was American . |
| 11 | But Flynn is not pushing Harper for a decision and is happy to leave things in the air for a fortnight or so . |
| 12 | Nevertheless , it would be naive to suggest that the draw has not presented Sardinia with an even bigger security problem than it had bargained for . |
| 13 | The Ethiopian Parliament was so exasperated that it passed a unanimous resolution in 1968 begging Emperor Hailé Sellassié not to visit Italy until the monument 's return . |
| 14 | It so happened that on one of these Sundays my CO strolled by at the same time , and the AOC asked him why he had not seen Mahaddie for a pilot 's course . |
| 15 | I had not seen Leeds at the time ’ ? |
| 16 | She had not seen Angela since the weekend before the one on which she had disappeared , but had spoken to her twice on the telephone . |
| 17 | Innocent did not associate Philip with the murder , but relentlessly sought the true murderers who were finally brought to justice in Rome in April 1203 and sent to the Holy Land . |
| 18 | Might we not accuse Sartre of the same ? |
| 19 | Against the advice of BR 's senior managers , he has decided not to sell BR in a single lump . |
| 20 | The headquarters ' 38-set ( see Appendix 5 ) could not contact Ryder on the MGB and Newman did not at first realise how few men were ashore . |
| 21 | If Jones has never heard of Tolstoy or read any of his books , it is meaningless to assert that Jones either likes Tolstoy as a writer or does not like Tolstoy as a writer . |
| 22 | Mother Francis had not told Eve about the letter . |
| 23 | We can see this idea expressed in international relations between states : the USA could not defeat Vietnam despite the fact that in terms of military equipment the USA had the most powerful weapons . |
| 24 | it 's not got Vich on the end of it , it 's Sloberdan Vich |
| 25 | It was agreed that they would not see Minton for a while . |
| 26 | Her friends on the bridge saw the boat , but they did not see Anne under the tree . |
| 27 | Many Christians do not see Jesus as a sacrifice in the same way . |
| 28 | She did not see Joe for a few days and then one Friday as she walked past she saw him in the teashop and went in to join him . |
| 29 | It must not be exaggerated ; the growth of the United States was enormous , but even that giant 's stride did not deprive Europe of the economic leadership of the world by 1914 . |
| 30 | The Greater York study did not designate Skelton as an area for expansion until two thousand and six , and no proposal exists in other plans for the making of an inset into the greenbelt on the basis of the need for expansion . |