Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The preceding decades has not witnessed governments unresponsive to electoral expectations and the nation 's problems . |
| 2 | Early in the year , SCS could report a record quarter for increases in sales , capital and membership , reflecting a picture of growth over the year that did not dispel fears of the adverse influence of political involvement on trade . |
| 3 | The dismissal of the Foreign Minister Argaña in July for publicly stating that the ruling Colorado Party would never give up power [ see p. 37651 ] did not dispel fears that the government 's undertaking to hold free elections in 1993 would be broken by his " stronista " ( Stroessnorist ) wing of the Colorado Party . |
| 4 | This did not dispel rumours , however , that the resignation was part of an effort to clean up the image of the justice system . |
| 5 | A lot of Tories wanted John Patten out of education , but even tough leaders do not sack ministers in mid-crisis . |
| 6 | But Eddie Richardson , branch secretary of Nupe , was concerned operation lists had fallen because patients were not seeing consultants . |
| 7 | motorist admits to not seeing boy who came from opposite pavement but accepted that motorist had only limited opportunity for seeing him . |
| 8 | Not seeing Jane , however , was no cause for regret ; she had none of the kindly qualities of her husband . |
| 9 | In the Game of Life not seeing things as they are is like not seeing the ball clearly when playing tennis , or not knowing where the white lines are . |
| 10 | The other is that humans are very good at not seeing things they know are n't there . |
| 11 | No , you 're not seeing things . |
| 12 | Faith is out of focus , not seeing God as he is , and temptation to doubt is inevitable . |
| 13 | And she will do anything to avoid another royal scandal — even if it means not seeing Charles while speculation persists . |
| 14 | John is apparently ‘ not seeing Hazers ’ any more . |
| 15 | Not seeing Fen for weeks or seeing him and knowing the futility of it all . |
| 16 | Leith asked promptly , sometimes not seeing Rosemary for days , but missing her now she was n't around . |
| 17 | Whatever the strength of Rosemary 's convictions about not seeing Travis again , however , see him she did — never by prior arrangement , though , and never in her own flat . |
| 18 | ‘ I 'm not seeing Travis tonight , if that 's what you 're asking , ’ she told him coolly . |
| 19 | Regret not seeing Prague though she might , perhaps , she began to wonder whether it was time she returned to England . |
| 20 | But his mother was disappointed at not seeing Tess . |
| 21 | ‘ You had a great loss in not seeing Coleridge , ’ she wrote to a friend at the end of June . |
| 22 | As far as he was concerned , homosexuality did not exist north of Hampstead ( or perhaps south of it , either ) and despite the fact that its local manifestation was sitting in front of him he would not be convinced . |
| 23 | If the vulnerable organic layers did not exist teeth would not rot so easily but then they would be brittle and would probably break early in life . |
| 24 | Because numerous theoretical approaches to visual word-recognition postulate horizontal interconnections between detectors evidence suggesting that such interconnections do not exist serves a vital function in adjudicating between theories . |
| 25 | The details of the story of this major theory change , a change that took place over one and a half centuries , do not lend support to the methodologies advocated by the inductivists and falsificationists , and indicate a need for a different , more complexly structured account of science and its growth . |
| 26 | Finally , evidence from what was arguably the most traumatic period for capitalism , the post-1929 Depression in the United States , does not lend support to the real-balance hypothesis : ‘ For the 1929–32 period as a whole there was an increase in real balances of 42 per cent , and a decrease in real income of 40 per cent ’ ( Patinkin , 1951 ) . |
| 27 | ECGD does not lend money to companies but does offer a number of schemes to banks to allow them to finance exports at interest rates which are often significantly below prevailing market rates . |
| 28 | I still have not forgiven Jack or the IAC . |
| 29 | I could not swallow pills until I realised that it was a psychological problem ( ’ Sticky pills ’ ) Monitor , 13 January , p 88 ) . |
| 30 | This is not to evade questions of strategy and tactics , merely to place them in an appropriate context . |