Example sentences of "[coord] not [indef pn] [vb past] " in BNC.

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1 No similar difference was noted in primary schools where two thirds of all schools had a health policy whether or not one existed at regional level .
2 In addition , whether or not one had attended a catholic school may have had little effect on sexual values or mass attendance but it did increase catholic activism and racial tolerance ( Greeley , McCready , and McCourt 1976 ) .
3 During a second-half stroll , Barnes Mark II hit a total of 21 passes — and not one fell to a Palace player .
4 The rest of the cast seemed blissfully unaware of his absence , and not one questioned her about her own disappearance .
5 The headmistress and the governors of the school named were justly irate , for , they stated with concerted vehemence , no child had witnessed the recovery of the body of a murder victim from the canal : those children who had not been making stegosauruses out of old egg boxes had been learning an Ashanti war dance , and not one had been in the playground , which was the only vantage point from which body recovery would be observable .
6 Last February , we monitored their reactions and not one said they would not come back . ’
7 They passed , apparently oblivious , intent only on their own business ; but hardly a soul in the village failed to pass at some time during that day , and not one missed a detail of what was there to be seen .
8 However , he became a victim of Sod 's Law and not everybody appreciated his play .
9 Clearly , everyone present had to understand what commitments were being entered into , and not everyone knew Latin or was bilingual in Romance and Old High German .
10 It is the rhetoric of Romanticism — ‘ the egotistical sublime ’ — and not everyone liked or likes it .
11 But not everything went the Hoads way at the Jockey Club HQ .
12 The survey found that everyone , expected I B M to be involved in corporate social responsibility programmes , but not everyone knew what our programmes were .
13 Paradoxically , my own company has always given plenty of headroom , but not everyone perceived it thus .
14 There were those who admired Lewis 's moral courage in being thus prepared to testify for the Christian faith , but not everyone found the spectacle altogether edifying .
15 The Derwent valley , which exemplifies along its bottom so much industrial history of the water-power age , attracted large mills from the beginning by reason of its fast-flowing river ; but not everyone admired the result as Wright of Derby did .
16 But not everybody accepted its startling assumptions .
17 But not everybody saw it that way at the time .
18 The revelation was there but not everybody had eyes to see it .
19 The Collector , for some reason , was attracted to ladies who were overpowered by the fumes of sleep in his presence , but not everybody enjoyed it as much as he did .
20 But not everybody read that far .
21 But not everybody shopped at the Co-Op did they ?
22 But not everybody preferred one-day cricket : in sport , as in other social activities , the effects of media were controversial .
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