Example sentences of "not [verb] a [noun prp] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But they still managed to put up a brave show and could have won had Crusaders goalkeeper Kevin McKeown not stopped a John Drake thunderbolt in 74 minutes . |
| 2 | Look out anyone not using a Hayes Microcomputer Products Inc modem but receiving Hayes press releases — and it will be hail and farewell in the middle of this item , because the company has started putting the cryptic line H-0193GB+++AT at the bottom of each page of its electronically distributed releases : the UK office says this is part of the corporate format — it is completely incidental , of course that the sequence will cause any modems that do n't use Hayes 's patented escape sequence to drop off-line . |
| 3 | But there 's lots of wildlife around , if you happen to be in the right place at the right time , and not singing a Betty Boo number at the top of your voice . |
| 4 | Confident clients with strong management teams may not need a KPMG presence — provided it is made clear to potential purchasers that price is not to be discussed . |
| 5 | It does not need a PRS licence as copyright exists for only 50 years . |
| 6 | Surely in 1993 we do not need a Great Homer Street system of trading as it was in the 1920s . |
| 7 | Fine words will not bring a GATT deal — especially if mixed with threats |
| 8 | This may not prevent a GATT deal , though it does make one less likely . |
| 9 | AS I HAVE not attended a Booksellers Association conference since Eastbourne 1987 , I was surprised by the fact that the 1993 conference was somewhat inward-looking and said so little about the consumer . |
| 10 | Note that this particular facility does not do a CRC check , ie. it would not detect intelligent malicious tampering . |
| 11 | Films endorsing or encouraging depravity are not granted a BBFC certificate in Britain , and few such films were available as evidence to Royal Commissions until the advent of video . |
| 12 | After Tuesday 's goings on , he frankly did not give a Castlemaine XXXX for his chances of being called to the rostrum . |
| 13 | B B C radio Nottingham is proud and pleased to take you to the major of far away places so why not spend a November Tuesday night in Rochdale with us . |
| 14 | Do not use a Triton tube , but try a white or warm-white colour , such as Sun-glo . |
| 15 | Comprising originally the North East/North West to South West/South East network of trains which were routed to run through Birmingham New Street ( where they made a series of interchanges ) the Cross Country InterCity sub-sector is now responsible for all services which do not use a London terminus . |
| 16 | The above example of a minimax punishment strategy was not subgame perfect because , in the subgame beginning in the period just after a defection , the minimax choices did not constitute a Nash equilibrium . |
| 17 | This need not suggest a Machiavellian strategy ; it may just be sensible caution in the face of uncertainty about both the external and the internal corporate assessment . |
| 18 | IBM claims that it runs Windows 3.1 standard-mode applications , including multimedia ones , and ‘ major ’ enhanced-mode applications ; not requiring a VxD device driver , with performance comparable to that of native Windows 3.1 . |
| 19 | IBM claims that it runs Windows 3.1 standard-mode applications , including multimedia ones , and ‘ major ’ enhanced-mode applications ; not requiring a VxD device driver , with performance comparable to that of native Windows 3.1 . |
| 20 | An impressive 17 per cent of the potential readers were not buying a Sunday paper at the moment . |
| 21 | The Home Office sent a detective to report on the movements of ‘ the French people ’ — they were assumed to be foreign as they did not have a Somerset accent . |
| 22 | Bath do not have a Willie Ofahengaue to launch those killer moves from the back row , but with Barnes , Guscott and Swift they do have a midfield and a right wing fully capable of cashing in on the Campese option . |
| 23 | Overseas investment firms dealing in the UK will generally not need authorisation if they do not have a UK office and deal only with other professionals and large institutional clients . |
| 24 | Overseas persons are overseas ( or indeed UK ) securities firms ( whether brokers , dealers , banks , or investment managers or advisers ) who do not have a UK office for investment business ( even if they are authorised under the FSA ) . |
| 25 | In addition , even if it does not have a UK office , a non-UK firm nonetheless needs to be authorised for investment business carried on from a non-UK office with customers or counterparties in the UK on a services basis unless the FSA 's overseas person exemption applies ; this indeed also applies to UK firms ( see page 43 below ) . |
| 26 | Under the overseas person exemption , many types of investment business which are actually carried on in the UK ( albeit from a non-UK office ) , are in effect treated as carried on outside the UK for the purposes of the FSA ( and so do not require authorisation under the FSA ) if the firm does not have a UK office from which it carries on investment business and : ( 1 ) The firm deals with or through , or arranges transactions with , an FSA-authorised person , such as a UK stockbroker , or an exempted person , such as a listed money market institution , acting within the terms of its exemption ( para 26 of Sched 1 ) ; this applies even if that person is an affiliate ; ( 2 ) the firm did not solicit the business in contravention of the FSA 's restrictions on the issue of investment advertisements and cold calling ( para 27 of Sched 1 ) . |
| 27 | And to discover the rest of it , why not take a Sealink ferry from Harwich to the Hook of Holland ? |
| 28 | ‘ Hand up anyone who did not attend a Sunday School last Sunday . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ I 'm not running a Sunday School outing . |
| 30 | We know little of how the Politburo reached its decisions-it did not produce a Richard Crossman — although some information has been provided by members in the glasnost period ( for example it appears that , as in the British Cabinet , formal votes were rarely taken ) . |