Example sentences of "that [verb] not [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 That has not prevented them exercising a great influence on our cultural development .
2 They may have nothing to offer , but that has not stopped them holding press conferences or making public statements .
3 That has not got you into the Kingdom of God .
4 I do have a question and , and it has n't made , that has n't made it particularly clear as to where we are , you hinted that , and I think that was also seconded here that there might now be a post of some kind to carry on for instance the thing that I 'm particularly worried about is that there 's a sort of hiatus in the heartbeat awards , which I think would be a tragedy if that happened , and I want to be absolutely sure that that is , is n't so .
5 Fare-fixing ( two or more airlines fixing a price for a route ) has always been forbidden by the EC , but that has n't stopped it .
6 America 's first hostile bids did not go over the heads of the managers , but that did not make them friendly .
7 The curse of Ham could be used as an excuse to justify the enslavement of African negroes but that did not make them members of an entirely different species ; and anyway the American Indians were not even black !
8 That did not make him a criminal under section 14 .
9 But that did not make it any easier to break the news .
10 ‘ As a matter of policy , NatWest chose to shed market share in property lending in the late-1980s , but that did not protect us from bad debts .
11 However , the five who rejected the appeal over the beating of a seven-year-old boy in an English boarding school stressed that that did not mean they condoned corporal punishment in principle .
12 Underneath it all , Markby suspected , Simon was badly frightened at the result of his action — but that did not mean he had not intended to do it .
13 That did not satisfy him either .
14 I was writing sonnets myself , but that did not satisfy me .
15 The catty among her sisters ( and the hatreds that rive the small band of women MPs have to be experienced to be believed ) called her Angela Brazil , but that did not stop her being the most popular girl in the school .
16 Paisley was back in prison , this time for his part in the Armagh demonstrations , but that did not stop him characterizing the Cameron Commission as a betrayal of the Ulster people to the rebels .
17 I did not know where I was , but that did not stop me saying , ‘ I 'm here ’ .
18 He ‘ saw ’ himself , ludicrously ill-dressed for the narrow and rock-tumbled track , gaping like a foppish caricature of the Lake Tourist : but that did not unsettle him .
19 But that did not perturb me .
20 That did not prevent her from being thrown down a mineshaft to her death in 1918 .
21 He told the American writer , John Malcolm Brinnin , that he had learned , from working on the film production , more about writing for the theatre than he had learned in the theatre itself , but that did not prevent him from vetoing the idea , proposed by Sherek , that The Cocktail Party should also be filmed .
22 But that did not prevent him seeing the possible significance of what she had told him .
23 For a long time I did not know whether the notes I was accumulating would be published one day , but that did not deter me .
24 All through my teens it had to be a very rainy Sunday indeed that did not find us perched on the Cow and Calf a crop of murderous rocks resembling neither cows , calves nor any other animal , ' or out at Bolton Abbey , negotiating the stepping-stones across the wide but shallow Wharfe ; or eating our sandwiches on Haworth Moor as we looked down on the Brontes ' parsonage and re-enacted the highlights from Wuthering Heights in our romantic young heads .
25 Although at the time some of these vehicles seemed , and have since proved , to be new forms of dinosaur , that did not exempt us from our obligation as educators to prepare our students for the world of work some ten , twenty , thirty years ahead when they would be the key executives in the publishing industry .
26 As Edward could hardly understand a word the man said either , that did not surprise him .
27 That did not surprise her , for Miss Watson lived at the school-house next door , and might be busy with her last minute chores .
28 That did not surprise her .
29 That did not surprise her .
30 That did not cause them to escape the sharp edge of Jesus 's tongue .
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