Example sentences of "[verb] not [vb pp] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Merson has not started in the last six games and his dramatic goal will not change Graham 's thinking overnight . |
| 2 | Falconer , who made an impressive start to his Ayresome Park career , has not figured in the first team since a knee injury in the Rumbelows Cup first round against Bournemouth . |
| 3 | However , Mr Major insisted : ‘ Our economic objective has not changed in the slightest . |
| 4 | So you 're quite sure he has n't gone in the other rooms then ? |
| 5 | I said to our Pam , Terry has n't looked in the bloody door . |
| 6 | That has n't changed in the past 20–30 years . |
| 7 | Nevertheless , in early agricultural societies that had not developed into totalitarian welfare states child-rearing assumed a new and crucial importance which it had not possessed in the primeval hunter-gatherer societies ( except perhaps by default : that is , by not really existing as a means of cultural repression ) . |
| 8 | Eugenius then tried to dissolve the Council he had not wanted in the first place . |
| 9 | On Oct. 6 the court sentenced 11 of the men including the MTP leader , Roberto Felicetti , and two of the women to life imprisonment for murder , wounding , robbery and rebellion , with the possibility of release after 25 years for good behaviour ; the remaining seven , including the priest , Fr Juan Antonio Puigjane , an MTP leader who had not participated in the actual attack , were sentenced to terms of between 10 and 20 years ' imprisonment for complicity . |
| 10 | The membership of the Commission comprised four members from each of Greece and Turkey , and three members from States that had not participated in the First World War . |
| 11 | There seemed to be a lot of faces I had not noticed in the original team . |
| 12 | Service , for 18 months , was compulsory for men over 19 who had not served in the Soviet army . |
| 13 | But he had not served in the Royal Marines for nothing . |
| 14 | Dulé 's canoe had not foundered in the first rounds of gunfire , but kept skimming on towards the Rebecca , with the remaining boats still around him , offering cover . |
| 15 | Writing in 1959 and with reference to Peter Townsend 's calculation that a fifth of the population had not shared in the general improvement in living standards since the war , Roy Jenkins argued : |
| 16 | They had not slept in the same bed for nearly two years . |
| 17 | The eating of eggs together had not figured in the romantic picture , perhaps no actual food had suggested itself . |
| 18 | The catastrophic and arbitrary loss of love that you had not earned in the first place . |
| 19 | Certainly she had seen something moving in the forest that day on Ridgery Steep , something fairly large , something white , and Allen had failed to see it ; but then it was possible that he had not looked in the right spot at the right moment and that his failure to see it was an accident . |
| 20 | a third had n't eaten in the previous twenty four hours . |
| 21 | That situation had n't changed in the past hour . |
| 22 | Anwar had n't compromised in the slightest , not nibbling a biscuit or sipping a glass of water or smoking a single cigarette . |
| 23 | The point we wish to make here should be an obvious one and can of course be made with respect to many of the other items which we have not italicised in the cited texts . |
| 24 | I have not wavered in the slightest degree in my attitude to this war , nor have I changed my mind as to the need of a final and complete settlement , but I want to say that in a war in which losses of such terrible magnitude are being imposed on all the Nations it appears to me not only wise but imperative that every country should use its political weapon to supplement all its military organisation , if by so doing it can defeat the enemy . |
| 25 | Apart from changing the landscape of Sudan , especially in the Gezira region to the south of Khartoum by canal construction , the irrigation projects have not resulted in the increased production of cash crops that was initially envisaged . |
| 26 | Coventry , who have not won in the three matches Regis has missed with a calf-muscle injury , trail 3-1 from the first leg , but Drinkell was optimistic , saying : ‘ It 's not irretrievable . |
| 27 | Well we have n't grown in the last three years as a service |
| 28 | the information there appears that there should be private companies I actually have n't looked in the Yellow Pages yet actually I should do that and you know and yeah |
| 29 | The Hampshire batsman said : ‘ The fact is I have n't figured in the last two England sides , and I have still got things to prove . |