Example sentences of "[vb -s] [not/n't] [verb] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is not difficult to see why corporate crime has not received the same publicity as murder , robbery , theft , rape and so on — both in the mass media and in the study of crime . |
| 2 | If , after a set period of time PI has not received the expected mail message , it will ‘ time-out ’ and continue with its normal operation , assuming that the message has been deleted . |
| 3 | However , the Nationalism Today faction has not adopted the antisemitic conspiracy theory of politics in order to attract financial support , but it may attempt to seek such support because it holds antisemitic beliefs . |
| 4 | Their disappearance has not caused the same level of concern as the disappearance of tropical rainforests , but the report points out that some temperate forests are as rich in species as rainforests . |
| 5 | The inability to confirm this well-known fact has not spoilt the sudden acceptance of the placebo as something with at least a false concrete explanation rather than being some form of gothic magic about which it is better not to speak . |
| 6 | The fact that the visitor has a specific skill is not in itself sufficient to absolve the occupier where he has not exercised the requisite degree of care . |
| 7 | Secondly , even if the applicant has not sought the alternative remedy , judicial review may still be allowed if the applicant alleges malice on the part of the decision-maker ; or if the court thinks that the applicant 's interest in the action is of such importance that it deserves judicial protection : an example would be personal liberty . |
| 8 | Thus , although there has been an extension of fraud as credit facilities have expanded , this has not affected the central principle on which the regulation of fraud is based — that at all costs ‘ free enterprise ’ should not be discouraged by fear of prosecution . |
| 9 | Despite the application of exfoliative bile and brush cytology , some 20–30% of patients with malignant biliary strictures will remain undiagnosed either because of a lack of cell exfoliation from the tumour or because the tumour is producing extrinsic compression on the biliary tree and has not affected the biliary epithelium . |
| 10 | Fash 's packed schedule — he often holds business meetings well into the small hours and averages just five hours sleep a night — has not affected the common touch which makes him such a popular figure at Wimbledon . |
| 11 | The fact that his team is full of professionals has not worried the Internal Revenue Service , though there is some sensitivity about just how close to the wind the foundation sails . |
| 12 | These same restrictions apply to the siting of council houses but this aspect of the policy has not engendered the same weight of opposition since it does not represent the interruption of an existing right , that is to say the ‘ right ’ to build private houses almost anywhere . |
| 13 | John Ruscoe , dressed in manure-encrusted boots and a plaid shirt , has not seen the Liberal Democrat leader anywhere near his Finstown farm . |
| 14 | The abolition of those taxes has not done the average family any good , has it , or those at Lloyd 's ? |
| 15 | It would take a musical analysis to find out whether the offerings to which these two extremes respond are really worlds apart ’ ( Adorno 1976 : 13 ) , we know that the question implied in the final sentence has already been answered in his own mind , just as surely as we know that he has not done the musical analysis but simply conflated Elvis and … whom ? |
| 16 | The result is that a student may have answered half the paper in a manner worthy of a Law Lord , and yet obtain a third class because he has not answered the other half . |
| 17 | If it is breaking down , it is to some extent because the international community has not recognised the separate nature , if not the independence , of that part of Somalia . |
| 18 | Sometimes overstriking has not obliterated the original coin or ‘ undertype ’ completely , and detailed examination enables both undertype and overtype to be identified . |
| 19 | Fresh dolphin meat , however , has not met the same opposition , because it has been marketed under the name of chancho marino , or ‘ sea pig ’ . |
| 20 | It is not surprising that this controversial Directive has not met the 1993 deadline , which the UK , centre of the European art market , says will drive the trade to the US , Switzerland or elsewhere . |
| 21 | However , a more recent study , with larger numbers of patients and controls , drawn from an identical ‘ genetic pool ’ has not confirmed the initial report ; not particular haplotype of either type I collagen gene was found to be associated with cirrhosis . |
| 22 | Something which is particularly curious is that increased government expenditure has not produced the egalitarian society which was intended . |
| 23 | There are many laboratory techniques for measuring time in speech , and measurement of the time intervals between stressed syllables in connected English speech has not shown the expected regularity ; moreover , using the same measuring techniques on different languages , it has not been possible to show a real difference between ‘ stress-timed ’ and ‘ syllable-timed ’ languages . |
| 24 | Worse for them , whether they go on backing Mr Gorbachev or opt for some other tough guy , the rattle of gunfire has not had the intended effect . |
| 25 | ‘ At least he is symmetrical but his left leg has not had the same exercise so it 's not the same size as his right . ’ |
| 26 | Though Halsey 's figures reach only up to the mid-1960s , other data show that the expansion of universities from the late 1960s onwards has not benefited the working class as much as the professional classes . |
| 27 | ‘ The Homocide Act does not effect this problem , for the Act has not superceded the common law on the point . |
| 28 | Yet he has allowed the excess creation of credit to continue , and has not used the obvious policy of overfunding to mop up the excess money supply . |
| 29 | Parents who are very concerned about weight loss are often tempted to give the pudding even if the child has not finished the main course because they are getting some calories into the child . |
| 30 | War has not improved the Baathist regime 's unenviable record on civil rights . |