Example sentences of "not [verb] [vb pp] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whether Marx held such a view or not has had great importance for later Marxist polemics , and we shall return to this question . |
| 2 | ‘ She 's not getting paid one cent as far as we know . |
| 3 | I could not have received better treatment anywhere in the world . |
| 4 | In terms of sheer quantity the material and human help provided by Mussolini and Hitler — aircraft , tanks , armoured vehicles , small arms and ammunition , the 70–80,000 Italian ‘ volunteers ’ and the German Condor Legion with its own 600 aircraft and 200 tanks — may or may not have exceeded Soviet aid to the Republic . |
| 5 | The authors accept that the course may not have given adequate time to practical skills , but the participants ' inaccurate view of their own skills contributed to their lack of success . |
| 6 | No details on coherence of the supersecret X-ray laser demonstrated two years ago at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory have been reported in public , but it seems that that device probably would not have generated coherent output for similar reasons |
| 7 | If Mr. Howell 's argument is correct , the school , even though over-subscribed , could not have adopted these sibling and proximity criteria in deciding which of the applicants ' parental preferences were to succeed and which fail . |
| 8 | Without Bully , her Red Riding Hood character would not have made much impression , but with the black-faced wolf-like dog following her she won loud applause . |
| 9 | Hence the major cause of unemployment lies outside the government 's responsibility and a Labour government would not have made much difference . |
| 10 | He insisted : ‘ I could not have made that statement . |
| 11 | Hospitals in the eighteenth century may not have made national mortality worse ( Cherry 1980 ) , but they were too few to improve the national health . |
| 12 | Personally , I 'd not have made any heavyweight preparations but avoided giving any clues until the last moment . |
| 13 | It would not have made any difference in that borough . |
| 14 | Thank goodness my vote would not have made any difference . |
| 15 | Of course , I could not have expressed this view to Mr Farraday without embarking upon what might have seemed a presumptuous speech . |
| 16 | In addition , it should be observed that although the Act of 1988 entered into force on 1 December 1988 , the validity of registrations effected under the former system was extended by section 13 until 31 March 1989 , and hence owners and operators who might not have fulfilled that requirement in the past were given a reasonable transitional period in which to comply therewith . |
| 17 | Erm he will not have asked that time honoured question do you have a car otherwise he knows what er |
| 18 | It is beyond dispute that advances in medicine and improvements in living conditions have enabled individuals who at previous times would not have survived severe illness or chronic handicaps to live on , perhaps with some disability , into their seventh , eighth , and ninth decades . |
| 19 | I actually put forward an amendment , to the police authority , whereby we take that er , million pounds o , of pensions , and by a certain amount of slight of hand , it be put back into county balances , and then re-allocated back to the police authority for this year , and that would have added an extra million to the base budget and it would not have cost this county council one extra penny . |
| 20 | Beforehand she had combed her hair by the light of the flashlamp , smoothed and rearranged her clothes but even if she had n't Moran would not have noticed this evening . |
| 21 | And let me tell you , if you were to have come into our servants ' hall on any of those evenings , you would not have heard mere gossip ; more likely , you would have witnessed debates over the great affairs preoccupying our employers upstairs , or else over matters of import reported in the newspapers ; and of course , as fellow professionals from all walks of life are wont to do when gathered together , we could be found discussing every aspect of our vocation . |
| 22 | Unfortunately , Emily Bronte never went to Ireland ( nor did her grandfather travel to England ) , so I am afraid she would not have heard any story ‘ at the fireside on the farm at Drumballyroney in Co . |
| 23 | Bridge lengths vary from three to four rigs on the Leine to an average ten rigs on the Weser and really , given the practised excellence of the crews , this last thirty-one-rig bridge of Exercise Neptune 's Gallop 1989 should not have aroused much emotion , but it did made the thirtieth of June a little bit different . |
| 24 | If they had done that in '31 , we would not have played any cricket . |
| 25 | Surely that gun could not have wreaked this havoc ! |
| 26 | But it has also been suggested that the animal 's heart could not have pumped enough blood to nourish a head any larger , or one that was in fact more solid than the light , airy structure of the skull of many known species . |
| 27 | ‘ She would not have exhibited such joy as you are doing , ’ said the new Lord Dacre drily . |
| 28 | The two enquiries above clearly have a common source — delays at the DHSS — but the bureaux recording system would not have highlighted that difficulty . |
| 29 | Treitel ( 8th ed. ) , p. 87 says of Ward v. Byham : ‘ One basis of the decision is that the mother had provided consideration by showing that she had made the child happy , etc. : in this way she can be said to have conferred a factual benefit on the father , even though she may not have suffered any detriment . ’ |
| 30 | We knew on the other hand that Redbridge and Waltham Forest was not a competent authority and it could not have achieved this scale of planning . |