Example sentences of "[vb past] not [be] [vb pp] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He enjoyed not being known as Inspector Rose , he enjoyed the sausages from Spratling 's Colonial Butchers , he enjoyed kedgeree , and most of all he enjoyed the fresh fish brought in by the landlady 's schoolboy son . |
| 2 | Conservative MP Keith Hampson expressed the view in 1977 that the new institutions had not been planned as part of an integrated post-school system , but by default . |
| 3 | Again , the vast majority , 77 per cent , felt that their work effort had not been affected by taxation rates ; 13.1 per cent reported disincentive effects and 10.1 per cent reported the opposite . |
| 4 | In the noble eloquence of his plea for conciliation with the colonists , Burke , who based his case on the proposition that they had not been represented at Westminster , drew a strange and illogical conclusion . |
| 5 | He asked why it was said that if Denmark and Britain rejected the treaty they would have to leave the EC , when this had not been said of France or Germany . |
| 6 | The point he seems to have missed is that even if the BBC had not been outbid by Sky for coverage , it was , I think , unlikely that we would have seen ( a ) ball-by-ball-by-ball coverage ( not highlights ) during social hours on the following day . |
| 7 | The same would have happened in the lower house if Solidarity 's share of seats had not been limited in advance to 35% . |
| 8 | Some were gentlemen who felt strongly , like his lordship himself , that fair play had not been done at Versailles and that it was immoral to go on punishing a nation for a war that was now over . |
| 9 | Prost has to finish four points ahead of Lauda to be champion ( having more victories ; it would have been three if Monaco had not been curtailed by rain , but then , if rain had not fallen , Prost would not have won in Monaco ) . |
| 10 | She also made a handsome donation although she had not been asked for money . |
| 11 | They had not been asked about materials because a layman 's opinion , or even a manufacturer 's label , was not reliable . |
| 12 | Ferrari argued that proper procedures had not been followed in Portugal and that Mansell had been unable to hear the instructions on his radio as he travelled at 170 mph past the pits . |
| 13 | This would have remained the impression if Scriven had not been followed by Dr David Fowler of the Institute of Terrestrial Ecology ( ITE ) . |
| 14 | On Oct. 3 , however , the head of the Iranian committee in charge of Iraqi PoWs , Ali Nazaran , announced that " the unilateral release of prisoners by Iran had been stopped " because Iran 's example had not been followed by Iraq . |
| 15 | Sometimes on progresses through the country she would depart from her official schedule and visit some village that had not been sanitized in advance . |
| 16 | If rats , traditionally used for studies on urine flow , had not been replaced by dogs , just because larger animals were needed , the new drug , chlorothiazide , would have been missed , since its activity in rats is insignificant . |
| 17 | Perelandra shows that even on the mythopoeic level this most difficult of doctrines had not been absorbed by Lewis . |
| 18 | So Protestant opinions had not been silenced by Arran 's change of heart after the initial heady days of 1543 ; and the Rough Wooing had not broken the link between the English and the hopes of Scottish Protestants . |
| 19 | In Jean et Blonde , the hero 's beloved , although English , is described in terms of perfection , and the fact that ‘ There was just a suspicion in her speech/ That she had not been born at Pontoise ’ is a very minor and venial offence against courloisie . |
| 20 | Charles Innes , an experienced lawyer who advised Lord Dundas in political matters , had no doubt about the desirability of acting to meet Glassford 's wishes , pointing out that Carrick had not been dismissed for malversation , which would have made reinstatement a difficult matter , but for ‘ some piece of neglect or inattention ’ , and in fact another of Dundas 's correspondents appeared to get closer to the heart of the difficulty when he met with Glassford , reporting that |
| 21 | Under the previous system , works whose value had not been declared for taxation purposes were subject to taxation on the full sale price which was a severe disincentive to sellers . |
| 22 | He had not been prepared for Cheltenham the same as some horses are , because there had been a last-minute change of plan for him and he would not have been really galloped hard . |
| 23 | He had not been prepared for John to stand on the floor of the penthouse , complaining . |
| 24 | Held , dismissing the appeal , that although an adult patient was entitled to refuse consent to treatment irrespective of the wisdom of his decision , for such a refusal to be effective his doctors had to be satisfied that at the time of his refusal his capacity to decide had not been diminished by illness or medication or by false assumptions or misinformation , that his will had not been overborne by another 's influence and that his decision had been directed to the situation in which it had become relevant ; that where a patient 's refusal was not effective the doctors were free to treat him in accordance with their clinical judgment of his best interests ; that in all the circumstances , including T. 's mental and physical state when she signed the form , the pressure exerted on her by her mother and the misleading response to her inquiry as to alternative treatment , her refusal was not effective and the doctors were justified in treating her on the principle of necessity ; and that , accordingly , the judge 's order had been properly made ( post , pp. 786G–H , 795B–F , 796F–H , 797B–F , 798A–B , E–G , 799B–G , H — 800B , E–G , 803C–D , F — 804B , F–G , H — 805B , F ) . |
| 25 | Despite being one of the commonest and most widespread birds in Britain , until recently it had not been studied in detail . |
| 26 | … the court … must act on the valuation unless there be proof of some mistake or improper motive … as if the valuer has valued something not included or had valued it on a wholly erroneous basis … from Lord Eldon 's judgment in Emery v Wase ( 1803 ) 8 Ves Jun 506 , where the difference between valuations of £4,000 and £6,000 was said to warrant judicial suspicion that the valuation had not been made with attention to accuracy : but the case was decided on the basis of the court 's duty to protect the property of married women . |
| 27 | The Divisional Court , dismissing the prosecutor 's appeal , held that the requirement to provide a specimen of blood had not been made in accordance with section 7(4) since the defendant had not been given an opportunity to express a preference for giving a sample of blood or urine . |
| 28 | But last night other umpires stressed that Oslear had not been sacked as chairman because of his battle to support Lamb . |
| 29 | On Jan. 16 the Central Commission on the Population and House Census announced the continuation of the census in areas where it had not been completed by Jan. 14 . |
| 30 | Swan , who had not been invited to Grunte 's party , or to Andrew Neil 's , or to anyone else 's , took himself into the Lanes where he ate a plate of fish , chips and Heinz tomato sauce and drank two pints of lager . |