Example sentences of "not [verb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He says these new recruits to higher education , entering universities in large numbers are not seeing long-term change towards the market , so much as a reduced staff:student ratio , meaning less one-to-one contact , and larger , less frequent tutorial groups . |
| 2 | The owners are not seeing guilty behaviour when Rover slinks across the floor , they are seeing the submissive behaviour Rover displays in anticipation of the aggression , however mild , the owners are about to use in attempt to reprimand him . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | This preparation has been shown not to affect epithelial cell proliferation . |
| 5 | In the run-up to the country 's first multiparty elections for 43 years , scheduled for March 25 , the ruling Hungarian Socialist Party ( HSP ) was shaken by revelations during January that the Interior Ministry 's security police had not stopped covert surveillance of the activities of opposition politicians , despite the enactment during the past 12 months of laws and constitutional amendments creating a multiparty system [ see pp. 36399 ; 36960-61 ] . |
| 6 | In Madrid the NATO Secretary-General , Manfred Wörner told legislators attending a five-day annual NATO assembly on Oct. 21 that , while " an additional independent European force " would " not make practical sense " , a European force co-ordinated by the Western European Union ( WEU ) could prove valuable in areas outside NATO 's traditional field . |
| 7 | As he finally demonstrated over Cuba , he did not think Communist domination was worth the ruin of civilization . |
| 8 | Do you not think British Rail would have , have |
| 9 | Later , Crawford generously conceded to Sherrin that the decision was right and it was a lesson in not using substandard material . |
| 10 | By September contracts had been signed for the import of scarce food and consumer goods worth 43,000 million roubles , mostly on a barter or joint-enterprise basis ( that is , not using hard currency ) ; some of the imports were to meet the demands of striking miners [ see p. 36826 ] . |
| 11 | Data volumes can also be cut by not using full screen video . |
| 12 | It is that people are forgetting or just not using Andean technology , so they are exhausting the soil . |
| 13 | It does not cover professional negligence , etc . |
| 14 | The scheme is aimed at straightforward disputes ; it does not cover sharp practice or dishonesty by agents , and it is limited to England and Wales . |
| 15 | However the representatives of NEC and Fujitsu reserved comment , saying that they had not received official notice of their position and that they looked to the future to reveal this . |
| 16 | Had he not received immediate hospital treatment he would have died , ’ said the judge , at Norwich Crown Court . |
| 17 | First Edition ( AP ) — The World Health Organisation said Bulgaria 's ethnic Turks have not received equal access to or equal use of the public health system |
| 18 | They had not received antimalarial treatment within the preceding 7 days and were 4–14 years old . |
| 19 | The police had not received proper support from Labour Ministers , leading to poor pay and loss of experienced manpower . |
| 20 | If you believe that you have not received proper service , the Bank will do all it can to investigate your complaint objectively . |
| 21 | Finally , one area which has not received full justice in our coverage is the extensive empirical tradition of examining industries case by case to develop views on efficiency . |
| 22 | Such views have not received widespread acceptance , however , and as time goes by the chances of a reinstatement of some form of gold standard look more and more remote . |
| 23 | Of the patients surveyed , 501 had received advice on contraceptives from a general practitioner and 102 from a community family planning clinic , and 163 had not received medical advice ( no information was available from three patients ) . |
| 24 | Bruce Palmer , a partner , said he had helped Mr Tancock set up Global Finance earlier this year , but had not received independent confirmation of what the company did . |
| 25 | * Evidence is growing that BSE may be transmitted through the generations , after a third cow which has not received contaminated feed has been placed under a restriction order on the grounds of suspected infection . |
| 26 | It is probably because an episode of acute constipation had not received adequate treatment . |
| 27 | The relationship between the socio-economic character of a local authority ( L.A. ) and its expenditure on education is a crucial issue but it has not received adequate research attention . |
| 28 | A somewhat more complex issue that has not received adequate attention in Britain is the meaning of the word ‘ profit ’ in the context of trusts , and some of the ideas being discussed resemble the strategies that have caused the Internal Revenue Service to question the tax exempt status of some American not for profit hospitals . |
| 29 | By contrast , LIFFE has not received comparable backing , either moral or financial , from UK banks or the UK government . |
| 30 | They also agreed that there was not time to create a civil service law , but said that civil servants should be reassured that past political affiliation should not affect future job selection processes . |