Example sentences of "not [vb pp] [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It can be seen that this was a way of ‘ blaming the victim ’ : it seems as though the young person had failed to find a job because they had not filled in the application form properly or were too untidy , rather than because there were not enough jobs . |
| 2 | I treated myself to a night in the Ceilidh Place ; I had not given up the habit of including the dangly earrings and the flowery trousers in the rucksack . |
| 3 | The Titfords , it seemed , had not given up the Miscellaneous Repos business for good : an unmarried Scottish lady in her sixties , Jessie Grieve , was staying with them as a lodger ; what little she may have paid in rent would have been very useful , no doubt , as a means of eking out the family income . |
| 4 | Certainly Ferguson has not given up the ghost of trying to land the Championship . |
| 5 | He has not given up the running battle between them over the question of form , which started out with his victory on accommodation . |
| 6 | She has still not given up the search , but she fears some animals are exported to Ireland or to the continent . |
| 7 | You will appreciate that as Chairman I have not given up the fight to get as much financial aid and help as is possible to keep our heads above water ; we must fight to keep all that we hold dear and promote the Medau that we all benefit from both in health and fitness , and as teachers , financially . |
| 8 | She was also a kind of mascot of the liberal intelligentsia — had she not come up the hard way from the very bottom of the heap to stand by Miller 's side defying the anti-Communist witch-hunters who wanted to jail him ? |
| 9 | ‘ In fact , it was about the only game in which I 've not picked up a knock since the start of the season . |
| 10 | Irina however had not picked up the seriousness of his last words . |
| 11 | Fairbrother had not picked up the emphasis in that suggestion , and Richard decided to let it go . |
| 12 | Erm certainly on the rescue tenders , erm erm on , on each division would have that equipment , it 's not carried on every fire engine as far as I know now , erm I , I do n't see why it should n't but er again I think it 's a matter of cost , and , and carrying it about as well and finding the space for it , but certainly it 's at hand when it 's needed . |
| 13 | Tenants and their staff are not carried on the company payroll . |
| 14 | It was not because the rating system was bad , but because of the way in which the rating system was being carried out , attacking certain areas of domestic property , and , because the English had not carried out a revaluation since 1973 , Scotland got out of line . |
| 15 | Mrs Gordon ( 61 ) who lives in Kingshurst , West Midlands , and now works at a nursing home , admitted in an official statement released by solicitor Steven Jonas that she had not carried out a smear test before joining Dr Kumar 's practice , but claimed she followed a technique he taught her . |
| 16 | Currently , 6,000 inspections are not carried out every year . |
| 17 | Today , in east London , the public are cheering the Environment Commissioner of the European Community , Carlo Ripa di Meana , for issuing a directive that no work should be undertaken on the channel tunnel rail link because the Government have not carried out an environmental assessment . |
| 18 | Thailand has not carried out the death penalty for several years . |
| 19 | As Peugeot has not pushed up the prices of these new models compared to the old , the PC 553 ERP represents pretty good value for money . |
| 20 | Before papa died she had been a child , spoiled and cosseted and it was a pity she had not grown up a bit more quickly . |
| 21 | The astonishing achievements of Western civilisation in controlling and exploring the resources of the world , and the consequent increase in material wealth and standards of living , would not have taken place if the procurement of knowledge for its own sake had not mapped out the paths of which technology and investment for profit thereafter took advantage . |
| 22 | Have you not copied out the notes yet ? forms another property of metals that you have . |
| 23 | They have not handed over the arguments to be articulated by lawyers and scientists even now that they have taken the city and the tannery to court in a law-suit claim for $31 million . |
| 24 | A TELEVISION commentator who once referred to the Augusta crowd as a ‘ mob ’ so angered tournament officials that he was not invited back the following year . |
| 25 | He also had to keep secrets , for he knew the real shape of things : " I am surprised the ladies have not found out a way to employ women stay-makers rather than trust our sex with what should be kept as inviolably as Free-Masonry . " |
| 26 | This rejection of the system may be a result of poor analysis : the system analyst has not found out the user requirements . |
| 27 | It was also evident that they had not weighed up the consequences . |
| 28 | And she just knew that , if she had not brought up the subject of Tony , he would have invited her to join him in his walk along the shore . |
| 29 | This expansion of education has not brought about a similar increase in social mobility . |
| 30 | The word itself is so value-loaded that no judgement on whether contemporary trends in rural society have or have not brought about a ‘ loss of community ’ in the English village is realistically possible . |