Example sentences of "not [vb pp] [n mass] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
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| 1 | This has not stopped people trying . |
| 2 | Surely it has not received £250,000 or more . |
| 3 | ‘ My ability to concentrate is limited and I have to avoid stressful situations , which is why , for example , I have not given media interviews . |
| 4 | Moscow has increased the number of countries with which it has commercial dealings from four in 1960 to over twenty by the end of the 1970s , but the volume of trade has not exceeded $30 million with more than eight ( Argentina , Brazil , Uruguay , Peru , Bolivia , Mexico , Colombia and Nicaragua ) and it is only with Argentina , Brazil and Nicaragua that it has risen above the $100 million level . |
| 5 | Not answered 9% |
| 6 | Not answered 1% |
| 7 | Not answered 4% |
| 8 | Not answered 4% |
| 9 | Not answered 4% |
| 10 | Not answered 23% |
| 11 | Not answered 2% |
| 12 | Not answered 2% |
| 13 | Not answered 2% |
| 14 | Not answered 2% |
| 15 | But you 've not , you 've not had people yet , why ca n't you er |
| 16 | The first criterion can be satisfied , of course , without its also being true that even if x ( any other event or condition or set of them ) had also occurred , then if we had not got cc we would not have got e . |
| 17 | While this has not affected sales , it has had a negative impact on profits , Sage noted . |
| 18 | A Sylvie for whom the promise of America with him had not borne fruit . |
| 19 | Sir Bryan Carsberg , director general of Telecommunications , gave the order because operators had not raised £660,000 for a compensation fund to pay those whose phones had been used without permission . |
| 20 | Intelligent input/output board supplier , Byfleet , Surrey-based Specialix Ltd , says its flagship product , the transputer-based RIO controller , is n't going down the storm that it had hoped it would : even OEM deals with the likes of Groupe Bull SA have not boosted sales , says marketing director , Ian Cummins , ‘ RIO is not selling as well as we thought it would … and our estimations on its performance in the market are nine months ahead of what has actually happened ’ . |
| 21 | The French had not disappeared , and he had not imagined them.They were in Frasnes . |
| 22 | ‘ But it would not have happened if Suter had not put £4m into the plant , ’ he said . |
| 23 | India 's foreign-exchange reserves would have disappeared had it not borrowed $1.8 billion from the IMF in January . |
| 24 | The fact that costs are not sunk means production is timeless — nothing has been committed at any point . |
| 25 | People only wish to see doctors when they are sick , but the National Health Service has not encouraged people like me to seek preventative health advice . |
| 26 | Not stated 1% ( figures apply to non-virgins only ) |
| 27 | Skynner says the question he is most frequently asked is whether therapy has not dampened Cleese 's power of comic invention : is a happier Cleese not a duller one ? |
| 28 | We know that does n't work very well — it has n't stopped people smoking . |
| 29 | It has n't given people proper jobs . |
| 30 | ‘ Why , we have n't seen Flora for years . ’ |