Example sentences of "not [vb pp] [adv prt] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lord Owen and his new UN colleague , Thorvald Stoltenberg , Norway 's former foreign minister , have not given up hope for the Vance-Owen peace plan . |
| 2 | At this stage , Browns Lane has not given up hope of getting rear seats into the convertible , but it is proving a hard task , and it is probably that only the coupe will be a two-plus-two . |
| 3 | United have not given up hope of signing the England international despite having a formally faxed £3.5 million offer for the striker thrown in the bin by Sheffield Wednesday last Friday , after a verbal offer had been refused the previous week . |
| 4 | IPSWICH Witches have not given up hope of 23-year-old Pole Miroslaw Kowalik riding in tomorrow 's Star of Anglia meeting at Foxhall Stadium ( writes Elvin King ) . |
| 5 | He had not given up hope of reshaping it along the lines he had already supported in the abortive Fouchet Plan . |
| 6 | Police in the Irish Republic have been alerted but the RUC has not given up hope of finding the chestnut thoroughbred which romped to victory in the all-Ireland derby two years ago and up to 100 other races . |
| 7 | Although the buoyant Lewis camp have not given up hope of staging the Holyfield fight here , they estimate that it would cost them a massive £17.5m purse to do it . |
| 8 | Similarly in Britain , a party can win several thousand votes in each constituency yet not come out top of the poll in any ; in consequence , it amasses a large popular vote but no seats in Parliament . |
| 9 | At the very least , why have we not picked up traces of their domestic radio and television ? |
| 10 | By a notice of appeal dated 29 November 1991 the debtor appealed on the ground that the court had no jurisdiction to make the bankruptcy order because she had not carried on business in England or Wales within three years prior to the presentation of the petition . |
| 11 | The debtor says that she has not carried on business in this country since 8 May 1987 , the date upon which the business was sold . |
| 12 | A lot of local authorities which have not set up criteria for assessments do n't have staff specifically to do them . ’ |
| 13 | He has refused to rush legislative changes through , but he has not ruled out proposals on electoral reform which could be put before the electorate either in a referendum or at the next general election . |
| 14 | A UNION representing workers at Stockton Borough Council has still not ruled out action over plans to cut jobs . |