Example sentences of "in [noun prp] [vb past] not " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even now , she thought , if ordeals like that first night in Nice did not happen again , it might yet be possible . |
| 2 | Madame Butterfly at the Teatro Regio in Parma did not offer us much in the way of solid information . |
| 3 | Six of 116 general practitioners in Surrey admitted not cleaning their thermometers while others did not bother to use them at all . |
| 4 | The weekend with chums in Chichester did not seem , on the Monday 's showing , to have left Micky Banks much time to look at his lines . |
| 5 | Lord Macnaghten in Pemsel did not aspire to a definition , but only to a classification of the then existing case law . |
| 6 | The EC had conditionally ended trade sanctions against Serbia on April 7 [ for their imposition see pp. 38559 ; 38684 ] , but warned of renewed sanctions , and even a severing of diplomatic links with Yugoslavia , if fighting involving Serbian forces in Bosnia-Hercegovina had not abated by April 29 . |
| 7 | It is therefore perhaps unsurprising that the problem over the loss of providing powers in Bedfordshire did not appear to be a major one in the context of such close co-operation and joint endeavour to promote the growth of rural adult education at that time . |
| 8 | Don Juan was in exile and his supporters in Spain did not have the military or political support necessary to effect a successful coup . |
| 9 | I told them how some years ago we in Scotland had not co-operated with the media . |
| 10 | He said the changes were unjustified because civil legal aid spending in Scotland had not increased in real terms from 1987-88 to 1991-92 . |
| 11 | It added dryly that heavy discounting by Texas Home Care in Scotland did not bode well for the sector , and included a range of profit downgrades — from previous forecasts of between £108m and £118m down to between £100m and £110m for this year , and between £110m and £125m for next year . |
| 12 | The social workers in Orkney did not go to the children 's teachers before the removal of the children to find out if there were any problems at school . |
| 13 | On a celebrated occasion in Wales a county court judge sitting in a civil case in Bridgend had not completed the case when the train was due to leave , so he continued it on the train and gave his final judgement in the station-master 's office at Llantrisant . |
| 14 | Since her social life in Northam did not exist outside school , she had no evening clothes , and had had nothing resembling a party dress since the age of six , when she had possessed a fetching little garment of pink satin . |
| 15 | Also the snowmobile ordered in England had not yet arrived . |
| 16 | Charles was not inclined to look too hard at what he was giving away in the charters he issued , and he issued two charters , one to the Earl of Carlisle and one to Sir William Courteen , which covered the same islands , probably because people in England did not know much about the geography of the area and possibly did not much care . |
| 17 | While the King found it convenient to have a source of income that Parliament could not touch or question , people in England did not reckon the advantages of colonies in terms of the grants of revenue that they could make . |
| 18 | Hardly a county in England did not possess extensive heathlands . |
| 19 | There was a tinge of envy in his tone , for his humdrum childhood home in Croydon had not provided him with the kind of ‘ things ’ his taste now craved . |
| 20 | Chinese students in Beijing did not march as their counterparts did in several provincial cities . |
| 21 | They had 7 sons and , as schools in Canada had not attained an acceptable standard , the parents decided that their sons should have the benefit of Scottish education . |
| 22 | ( e ) The House in Morris did not regard themselves as saying anything which conflicted with Lawrence . |
| 23 | Lord Lane CJ stated : ( a ) If there was a conflict between Lawrence and Morris , the latter was to be preferred , but the Lords in Morris did not see a conflict . |
| 24 | ( Just one of the confusing matters in this area of the law is that Lord Roskill in Morris did not say this . ) |
| 25 | The war in Abyssinia did not have much effect on the people of Fontanellato . |
| 26 | Differences between the studies include the fact that Canadian workers ‘ receive a substantial proportion ( 20–40% ) of their total exposure as an internal dose ( largely due to tritium ) , ’ that workers in Ontario did not have the types of chemical exposure received by the Sellafield workers , and that some of the control fathers with high doses were uranium miners . |
| 27 | It is surprising that some people in Liverpool chose not to pay their community charge , when they were urged not to do so by Labour Members of Parliament ? |
| 28 | In addition the head office buildings in Liverpool had not been purpose built to suit the needs of the company and they had become too small . |
| 29 | NIGEL MANSELL last night emerged the moral victor in his battle with the International Automobile Federation ( FIA ) even though an appeal court in Paris had not rescinded the decision to ban the Englishman from last Sunday 's Spanish Grand Prix . |
| 30 | The Minister said that all of the activities of the civil rights movement had indicated that it was predominantly a Republican body , and activities in Derry did not disprove that . |