Example sentences of "[num] [noun pl] [conj] [verb] not " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Chief Secretary has spoken for 22 minutes but has not mentioned the autumn statement . |
| 2 | Insurers say a non-smoker is someone who has not puffed the weed for 12 months and does n't plan smoking again . |
| 3 | He has lived at his Glebe Farm home for more than 30 years but had not relished fighting for its survival . |
| 4 | Bachet said that he had checked this for more than 300 numbers but did not know how to prove it . |
| 5 | Of the richest thirty-five countries in 1958 , all but six had the required level of primary education in 1920 ; vice versa , of the fifty countries that had not achieved the minimum level of primary education in 1920 , only one was among the developed countries in 1958 . |
| 6 | At a guess I 'd say he 's probably been dead five or six hours but do n't hold me to that . |
| 7 | We know of one family collection consisting of 10 pictures that have not been seen by the general public . |
| 8 | And when you say ‘ no up-to-date trading figures ’ , it was only the last six months that had n't been prepared . |
| 9 | For reasons which are not stated the legislature in 1988 made it essential for a successor to live in the dwelling house during the period of six months but did not amend the Act of 1985 so as to impose either a six months ' period or residence in a particular dwelling house in the case of a council house . |
| 10 | The extra name was written by hand on the scorecard , which cost 10 centimes but did n't disclaim responsibility for the last wicket to fall ! |
| 11 | Other men confirmed that they had been subjected to her unwanted attentions and ‘ filthy language ’ over six years but had not reported her . |
| 12 | If the employee has been working for you for up to eight weeks and does not have a linking letter or a Leaver 's statement , phone your Social Security office and ask if the start of the PIW you are dealing with links back to a claim to a Social Security benefit . |
| 13 | The show , which lasts a good three hours and does not contain a dull moment , works around an interesting format , whereby neither comedian is supporting the other , but both perform three sets each . |
| 14 | We waited for three hours and did not move . |
| 15 | I 've had my Commodore 64 for only three months and have n't yet , and wo n't in the future , miss a copy of ZZAP ! 64 . |
| 16 | The Pacific , though , had already waited three years and did n't seem in any particular hurry this year either . |
| 17 | For example , borrowings under the compensatory finance facility have to be repaid in quarterly instalments beginning three years and ending not later than five years after the date of the borrowings , whereas the enlarged access repayments are required twice a year beginning three and a half years and ending not later than seven years after the date of the borrowings . |
| 18 | The authors argue that ‘ attempts to evaluate effectiveness have shown little or no benefit , ’ although among the references they quote are three studies that did not entail counselling in the accepted sense of the term at all , two of which produced distinctly positive results . |
| 19 | She learned that Maxim had an elder sister — oddly , she 'd always assumed he must have been the first child — who had married a Quaker school-master and lived up North , had three children and did n't work , ‘ Except at disapproving of the Army , ’ Maxim added . |
| 20 | Come and see the 100 species of monkey who live in the park 's 17 acres and do n't miss the colourful flamingoes , the chimpanzees ' tea party , the playful penguins or feeding time for the sea-lines . |
| 21 | The earliest of these were collected in a volume of Cantiones which he published in 1575 jointly with Tallis , thus marking Elizabeth I 's grant to them of a twenty-one year monopoly of music printing ; others followed in two sets of Cantiones sacrae ( 1589 and 1591 ) and two of Gradualia ( 1605 and 1607 ) , a corpus of work almost as varied in technique and sometimes as ‘ madrigalian ’ in word-painting as that of Lassus — some of which Byrd may well have known — or of Alfonso Ferrabosco the elder ( 1543–88 ) who was his friend and colleague in the Queen 's service for sixteen years and wrote not only ‘ madrigalian ’ motets but simple Latin hymn-settings in a style very similar to Byrd 's . |
| 22 | The next time he awoke , they blistered the back of his hands with cigarette burns , but this time , mercifully , he had passed out within ten minutes and did n't regain his senses for nearly two hours . |
| 23 | ‘ On my fourteenth birthday I bought a really cheap guitar and chord book from Argos and sat in my room for about 6 months and lear n't to play the entire Siouxsie & The Banshees first album . ’ |
| 24 | The coeliac patients were originally diagnosed according to the procedure recommended by the European Society for Paediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition and had all been on a complete gluten free diet for at least five years and did not present symptoms indicative of active disease . |
| 25 | Arsenal won their first five matches and did not lose until the tenth . |
| 26 | Erm the er desire that I twelve conveys to encourage district councils to make special provision in their you know to emphasize high density employment in their city centres is understood , no quarrel with that , but if you ca n't , if you feel unable er at county level to be absolutely explicit , that a district would be free if it so chose , it might not choose to do so , if it so chose to make I twelve decisions that did n't come out of its I five , er they would n't have to come out of its I five allocations , unless you can be clear that they 're free to do that , erm it suggests to me sir that may be it 's I twelve that 's that 's getting in the way , erm and w that might well be something we can do without . |
| 27 | It held 250 books and did n't attempt to divide them by author , title or illustrator . |
| 28 | These are calculated for our sample of 1608 men who were unemployed longer than 28 days and did not give retirement as their reason for their pre-cohort entry job . |
| 29 | His career of sado-sophistication , or ‘ snobbery with violence ’ as it was dubbed , brought his sales up to eighty million copies and does not need chronicling again except to point the contrast between him and his forbears in popular secret agent fiction . |
| 30 | Heffer wrote for the two Telegraphs and had not been himself since Mrs Thatcher had been sent packing . |