Example sentences of "not [vb pp] [noun] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 It said the family of Mr Johnson must feel they have not received justice in respect of the death of their son .
2 The report deeply angered Price Waterhouse because it had not given evidence to Senator Kerry 's subcommittee .
3 With an effort she said , ‘ Listen , Frank , and you can pass this on if you want to : I 've not given Sleet to Mr Kennedy , nor sold it to him .
4 I have not given way to Opposition Members —
5 This embraces all overseas companies , but in practice this has not given rise to difficulties .
6 Six transplants were not given cover by HBIG .
7 Physically he is unusually sturdy and has not fallen prey to illness during his long confinement .
8 I wanted to meet Marius Durance — I 've always especially admired his work and it seemed crazy to be so close and not come face to face with him .
9 People whose parents or early carers have not enjoyed contact with infant bodies nor valued their bodily functions may find it difficult to enjoy either their own body and its sensations or the body of another .
10 He had not expected Eleanor to beard his lodgings in Earls Court , especially as he had given Mrs Avery the same instructions about visitors as he had given Nurse Goodman .
11 The non-proliferation treaty has not prevented countries like Israel , India and South Africa from secretly developing nuclear weapons , but at least they have not gone public with them and no country has officially added itself to the nuclear weapons states .
12 On a final distribution , the trustee can ignore any creditors who have not lodged proofs of debt , after receiving notice of the trustee 's intention to declare a final dividend on a specified date ( s 330 ) .
13 With a guilty start she remembered she had not phoned Glyn since Paris .
14 I would have suspected nothing if the counterfeit Taplow had not made reference to Purgatory .
15 Lee , speaking at a news conference at an hotel near his Wilmslow home , said that so far he had not made contact with Swales .
16 I made my statement because , against the criticism that on occasions we have not made statements on incidents in Great Britain , I believed it important that there should be one .
17 Present them with a vision of a world in which meals were eaten at a table instead of on the knees before the flickering screen ; in which conversation was commonplace ; political and social ideas worked out by individuals , not spoon-fed into the mind by paid commentators ; a TV-less world in which we danced and sang and played charades to entertain ourselves or even popped round to the neighbours ; in which our children were not fed visions of death and dead bodies on the daily news , their infant imaginations no longer turned feverish and fearful by the sobs and sorrows of the bereaved ; nor subject to the cruel , disagreeable and frequently morbid fictional fantasies of others — would we not really vote for this ?
18 Voluntary landscape agreements have not saved acres of hedgerows , heath or woodland and even those trees that remain in lowland England are an ageing population because insufficient planting has taken place over the past thirty years .
19 When I look at the results of other development efforts , I have also not seen improvements in cost of maintenance .
20 He saw Anna occasionally but he had not seen Freda for years though he had to admit that he might not have recognised her had he passed her in the street .
21 Zambia had not seen Alix for months , ever since she 'd set up home with the kid with prosthetic limbs who claimed his disfigurement was due to a variety of fantasies , all of which were subject to detail change , and none of which ever sounded convincing .
22 It was clear that the honest promises of 1944 had not been fulfilled : the secondary moderns had not secured parity of esteem , and never would .
23 She had not had money for clothes , and neither the time nor the inclination to experiment with make-up and other items of fashion .
24 Asia had not had visitors since October although some were arriving shortly : one had had to postpone a visit .
25 Have they not had pressure from people that would
26 In Finnegan v Allen [ 1943 ] 1 KB 425 , the Court of Appeal struck out a claim against an accountant who , it was alleged , had not valued shares in accordance with the instructions in the agreement under which he had been appointed .
27 My Lords , could I ask the Minister if she would agree that there have been some improvements in the accident and emergency departments , since consultants were appointed and how many accidents that er there are emergency departments have not got consultants in charge and leave it to junior doctors ?
28 Like David , I have not got access to Satellite TV so I am also stuck with teletext and very poor coverage from the BBC .
29 This means that your body has not produced antibodies to HIV , so you probably have not been infected by the virus .
30 In these circumstances it would have been astonishing if fundholding had not produced improvements in services for patients .
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