Example sentences of "not [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More often than not Ma starts me off only to leave me stranded above the waterdragon with my–backside wedged into the Young Person 's Patent Toilet Seat Adaptor ( another trophy won from the WI jumble by Pa ) . |
| 2 | Since such institutions are the heaviest investors in commercial property , their requirements have driven the market , so that even landlords who are not institutions require an " institutionally acceptable " investment . |
| 3 | Ryan raises one of the questions the movie will have to answer in order to be successful : whether or not creativity gives you a licence to search and destroy . |
| 4 | The words used to make the feelings communicable to others from different cultures and sub-cultures are not attempts to turn emotions into intellectual propositions and to make them comprehensible in that sense . |
| 5 | What are called ‘ proofs for the existence of God ’ are not attempts to show that there must be a divine kind of thing ( we have no concept of a divine kind of thing ) , they just seek to show that if and when all other questions were answered we would still be left with this mystery : and this is what we shall call ‘ God ’ . |
| 6 | Whether or not attitudes changed in the next ten years , by the Act 1 & 2 Victoria cap 110 of 1837 abolished arrest by ‘ mesne process ’ by which , as seen , a debtor could spend time in prison before his case had been tried in court and judgement made on it . |
| 7 | A surprising number of accidents and incidents happen because pilots are in some way not 100% fit on the day in question . |
| 8 | I 'm not 100% fit yet and my initial aim was just to get through a game , but I 'm not philosophical in that situation . |
| 9 | Front against front , not hair blown |
| 10 | The history of that provision and its abolition demonstrates clearly that income arising in an overseas company which is , for instance , owned by an overseas trust , is not income arising under a settlement for the purposes of TA 1988 , Part XV , Chapters III and IV or indeed any of the other provisions of Part XV . |
| 11 | If not Ill have to SEND and import the message I want to quote . |
| 12 | Next morning , whether or not Jessica had meant to change the plan , the weather did it for them . |
| 13 | That 's it an approved credit guideline and er that is the problem at the moment that the approved er credit guideline for the non T S G schemes is really insufficient and is having to be propped up er from elsewhere within the budget , your Chairman yesterday met with the er gentleman er the suited gentleman from Bedford and , and er having er given them appropriate cups of coffee er , impressed upon them that the er the one point two was really insufficient for one or two million er , er credit approvals was really insufficient for the needs of Suffolk and er they went away did they not Chairman saying that they er appreciated the point whether you had success or not or perhaps to er wait until December ? |
| 14 | All the questions so far have related to hypnotherapy in general — whether or not regression forms part of that treatment . |
| 15 | The search process is system driven and not user driven . |
| 16 | The domestic skills I had acquired at school and perfected looking after Father when Mother died , were not skills valued by Helmut . |
| 17 | But not Fei Yen … ’ |
| 18 | QUEEN OF SHANNON had tears and not champagne flowing by winning at Salisbury yesterday — but she could not have picked a better moment . |
| 19 | Initially , we were a little uncertain as to the type of adverts to seek and in both your absences I checked with Gerry Senior who was very helpful in advising that we would be looking for the kind of events that might be held in the Centre and not adverts relating to , for example , recruitment . |
| 20 | Whether or not Lovebite consented in our Dionysian excesses , Lord Lane had declared them illegal . |
| 21 | William Durant , who ran GM , did n't want to be involved in the war effort and ordered the Lelands not t proceed with the idea . |
| 22 | Sometimes there is not opportunity to do that work immediately , even though one knows where to look for more information . |
| 23 | But must we go so far as to say that the USSR will not resort to force unless she is certain to get away with it ? |
| 24 | A Halifax Building Society survey found most elderly people with financial difficulties did not resort to credit as a panacea — ‘ their generation does not approve of credit . ’ |
| 25 | Something special to catch the eye , and never much of it ; thus was not money made , and Rose knew it . |
| 26 | He has not leisure to walk and he has not money to ride a distance to his work . ’ |
| 27 | The CSE boards were not university dominated . |
| 28 | French susceptibilities over sovereignty had not vet developed to the extent that they were to do by 1294 . |
| 29 | In all probability Craigbarnet did not really expect to displace Kirkton as collector , for as one of his friends put it , ‘ if your grace be not alrady ingaged it would be a great act of charity , but if you are he is willing to joyn him self wt any on[e] your Grace will name ’ . |
| 30 | The Financial Times added that , although Pearson has not plans to dispose of its oil services and fine china businesses for the foreseeable future , the company is likely to move towards being a ‘ more tightly focused media and entertainment group ’ . |