Example sentences of "not [verb] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We understand the president-elect is not seeing any heads of government , ’ he said . |
| 2 | Where that popular base does not exist such laws are only imposed on the population with great difficulty , if at all . |
| 3 | Equally , if an institution has excess funds at the moment , and expects interest rates to rise , it will be acting rationally if it does not lend those funds out , except very short term . |
| 4 | Observational surveys by Tombaugh , Kowal and the Infrared Astronomical Satellite ( IRAS ) would almost certainly have revealed another Pluto or larger planet , but their failure to do so has not stopped many predictions from being made , including two more in just the past year . |
| 5 | But this has not stopped some librarians latching on to the high cost of conservation as a reason for dispersing valuable books . |
| 6 | Margaret Irwin told the Royal Commission on Labour in 1893 that she did not think many women were " at case " outside Edinburgh . " |
| 7 | But leaving that aside , as I have already explained , the court will not be ‘ hearing and determining the swap cases together ’ and I do not think those words can be stretched so as to include the present procedural arrangements . |
| 8 | I do not think these objections are very serious . |
| 9 | Do not think these days are days they are the sacrificial priests of the telephone |
| 10 | The builders are not using any nails in the construction , in an effort to build an authentic cultural centre . |
| 11 | Even those companies not using these products directly find that they are affected by the de facto standards introduced by IBM . |
| 12 | That is the pathway we have gone down , and in consequence we have reduced the amount of food that is given to our cows that could be eaten by man from 50 per cent to 14 per cent by getting the input from grass and porridge oats : food that would otherwise be wasted in a system that is not using these animals to pick it up on the way . |
| 13 | In the interests of unity , Constantine deliberately blurred distinctions between Christianity , Mithraism and Sol Invictus — deliberately chose not to see any points of contention between them . |
| 14 | These other offences do not cover all eventualities , and , moreover , it may be argued with some force that child sexual abuse at home ought to be labelled separately . |
| 15 | The above discussion does not cover all aspects of thematic structure , but it is probably sufficient for our current purposes . |
| 16 | Section 7 clearly does not cover such contracts , although the SGSA ( treating them as contracts for the supply of services ) would imply an obligation to use reasonable care and skill under s 13 . |
| 17 | Asking a question such as " Should Britain spend more on defence or on education ? " and requiring a single response one way or the other does not cover those cases where a person might feel that more should be spent on both , or , for that matter , less on both . |
| 18 | Hunting organisations claim however that the planned cull will not allow caribou numbers to increase quickly enough and does not cover enough areas . |
| 19 | This insurance does not cover any consequences of war , invasion , act of foreign enemy , hostilities ( whether war be declared or not ) , civil war , rebellion , revolution , insurrection or military or usurped power ( other than under Sections 2 , 3 & 6 ) while the Insured Person is away from the British Isles provided always that the cover so provided is subject to cancellation by the Insurer by giving seven days notice by registered letter to HCI Club Holidays . |
| 20 | The current guidelines do not cover these matters and this will obviously vary from project to project . |
| 21 | Once Celie finds out her sister was still alive and had been writing to her for all this time but she had not received any letters because Albert had intercepted the letters , she stopped writing to God . |
| 22 | U K I A S was not consulted about this proposal beforehand and have so far not received any details about it . |
| 23 | But Hindley and Catherine were angry because they had not received any presents , and refused to let the strange child share their room . |
| 24 | I have not received any representations about the allocation of parliamentary time for private Members . |
| 25 | By the way , I hope this might be considered for the ‘ Star Letter ’ as I find distribution to my local newsagent leaves a lot to be desired — if the distributor has not received enough copies , he does n't get any ! |
| 26 | Surprisingly , the Heisenberg programme , designed to keep the best researchers within the university system until jobs for them became vacant , has not received enough applicants . |
| 27 | However , this not only removed local accountability ( the original motive for introducing the new system ) but it also did not affect many areas of the country which were faced with high community charges . |
| 28 | This does not affect all farmers equally , however . |
| 29 | Acoustic forecasts had wrongly predicted that any noise generated by the blasts would not affect any towns or villages . |
| 30 | ‘ This does not affect any claims for compensation . |