Example sentences of "[pron] [vb -s] [not/n't] [verb] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have all gone through the same system ( which seems not to have harmed us ) , and it is difficult to accept that current students should be taught differently . |
| 2 | Captain Edward Tupper made attempts to organise at various fishing ports from April 1910 , and claimed a fishing membership of 5,000 for the NSFU in 1919 which appears not to have survived the post-war depression . |
| 3 | On the one hand the theologians of the fifth century were also experts in rhetoric , even if the style they chose as being appropriate to their religious works was different from that used by Sidonius in his letters and poems ; on the other , Sidonius is known to have composed some ecclesiastical works including an epitaph for the ascetic Abraham , poems for various churches , as well as a version of the Mass which appears not to have survived . |
| 4 | But this shift should be seen in the context of the total demands of the elderly on resources which appears not to have risen so fast ; they have so far not been a dependent burden of significant dimensions despite their growing numbers , though as Thomson points out , this could change in coming years . |
| 5 | In the case of a matrimonial home which does not have registered title , it would seem to be accepted practice to assume that the title was properly investigated at the time of the husband 's purchase , so that all the husband 's solicitors need to abstract to the wife 's solicitors is the conveyance to the husband , any mortgage , any " sales-off " ( or other transactions affecting the title ) , and details of the covenants affecting the property . |
| 6 | Smith 's unfavourable opinion , which does not seem justified in respect of Coleman 's professional career , is expressed in what seems to be is an inexplicably biassed manner . |
| 7 | She has n't got rid of it . |
| 8 | She appears not to have worshipped alongside her husband at the chapel ; he was a full member , and his daughters would later follow in his footsteps , but Ann never committed herself in quite that way . |
| 9 | If you give her anything else , she can do that as well , she tries not to get involved , but I try to keep giving her more , so she 's not getting bored with the job . |
| 10 | Oliver 's serenade will introduce us to Vitellia and Sesto , Annio and Servillia , and the Emperor Titus — ‘ and it will be clear that the first couple have a really terrible time , and that the second pair have a really nice time , and that the last gent , the one who does n't get married at the end , has to reconcile the emotions of the other four in himself . ’ |
| 11 | Well so that she has similar , so that she has erm you know money when she gets married or if she decides not to get married maybe she can use it for a , a house deposit . |
| 12 | But she does n't get called Melanie because |
| 13 | Erm , living there because all can do at the moment , is work in a shop or a restaurant or something like that and she does n't get paid as much as she 'll get on Social Security so it 's not worth it , |
| 14 | One can be attributed incomer status in any local community because one does not have close kin in the area , because one was not born there or , simply , because one has not become known in them one can not claim membership in terms of any of these attributes . |
| 15 | Genius is precisely the word one does not feel tempted to use . |
| 16 | The arts world has almost grown accustomed to the hand-to-mouth condition in which it is kept , but what it has not become resigned to over the long period of Tory rule is the positive hostility to its aims and values . |
| 17 | It clearly existed in Bedfordshire , because of Shearman 's perception of its importance ; it was evident in the Kettering scheme because Miss Green instinctively knew its significance to fellow disadvantaged adults ; it appears not to have emerged in East Suffolk possibly because it was not assiduously pursued . |
| 18 | He appears not to have had a ready answer to this question ! |
| 19 | The association with Fahreddin Acemi of the only information in the Turkish sources about the activities of the early Muftis may well not be entirely coincidental , for in one very important respect he seems to have differed from his two predecessors in the traditional list , Molla Fenari and Molla Yegan , in that he appears not to have held a kadilik simultaneously with the Muftilik , whereas Molla Fenari and Molla Yegan apparently both held the kadilik of Bursa at the same time as the Muftilik . |
| 20 | He seems not to have received a post until 964/1557 , but was then given the Kasim Pasa medrese in Istanbul at the level , thus bypassing the 20- , 30- and 40-akce grades : he would not normally , of course , receive a medrese the salary of which was less than his pension had been . |
| 21 | He seems not to have whined , and his only complaint , posthumously recorded by Bunting in his obituary of Pound , is drily judicious : he ‘ said in the Thirties that Eliot had got stuck because he could not understand Propertius [ i.e. Pound 's Homage ] and ill the rest had not stuck a few books earlier still ’ . |
| 22 | Although the government continued to suspect him , he seems not to have taken any further part in rebellious activities and tried to dissuade his old friend Thomas Russell [ q.v. ] from organizing another rebellion in 1803 . |
| 23 | He seems not to have thought , for example , about the future role of the Communist party or the way in which elections — of which he is a living symbol — might shape a future Soviet Union . |
| 24 | And even if they are , he does not feel bound to like them . |
| 25 | Either way , Brady says he does not feel threatened as Celtic move towards the end of a second successive season without a trophy under his management . |
| 26 | However , as long as he makes sure that he does not become dehydrated by having regular fluid intake I ca n't see what harm this will do him . |
| 27 | He does not get distracted with such secondary factors as qualifications , experience and disposition . |
| 28 | In some senses you know when it happens to a male student , he is not he does n't have confirmed for him the sense that he is only a sexual object and that this is yet more of the way in which he is always perceived . |
| 29 | HE does n't have hit singles . |
| 30 | no he does n't seem bothered about electrics does he ? erm tapes and things |