Example sentences of "[not/n't] [vb pp] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , CITES ' attempts to regulate the trade have not stopped the illegal trade . |
| 2 | While this might seem to be stating the obvious , the fact is that this issue has not received a great deal of systematic ( as opposed to post hoc ) discussion in the literature . |
| 3 | The UFD , claiming that the government had not received a popular mandate , warned President Taya that its supporters would not accept the result . |
| 4 | Ecalpemos , after all , was not Greek and did not even sound so to Rufus who , unlike Adam , had not received a classical education . |
| 5 | A Downing Street spokeswoman said later they had not received a formal request from Mr Rushdie for a meeting . |
| 6 | As for making up and imposition , the tasks most often cited as barred to women , they could certainly not be carried out by anyone who had not received a proper training , and were rightly regarded as skilled work . |
| 7 | He described himself as a victim of a US plot to turn his country into a colony , and alleged that he had not received a fair trial . |
| 8 | Councillor Malachi Curran , the chairman of the Down Economic Development Agency , claimed the area had not received a fair share in the past and there was an onus on the government to ensure Down was not neglected . |
| 9 | Diplomats asked Buckingham Palace to warn her against any trip to the island , which has not received a royal visitor for many years . |
| 10 | The Eastern Arts report of nineteen eighty six was never completed what the Eastern Arts did in actual fact was to produce a draft report and promised that the final report would be complete and circulate it as to date which is nineteen ninety-one we have not received the final report of the Eastern Arts appraisal . |
| 11 | Many a good dog has been ruined when he has done something good and , for some reason , not received the right response from the handler ; in other words , the wrong association has been created . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | But personal belief and professional judgement have not received the same attention . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | On second thoughts , she wished she had not uttered the last sentence . |
| 16 | It 's wrong that everybody is not treated the same way . |
| 17 | It has been restored but not altered a great deal in modern times . |
| 18 | We have not heard a single word . |
| 19 | I have not heard a single argument — there was not a sentence in the Secretary of State 's speech — to suggest that the upper limit will be reached in the coming year . |
| 20 | Had he not heard the Arab League spokesman that morning , promising that the Syrian ‘ peace-keepers ’ would ‘ strike with an iron fist ’ at any resistance ? |
| 21 | The third night , above the rattling progress of a late train , he had pummelled Zoë with his fists , and not heard the frightened crying of his children , when she had said that no fucking way was she going to be holed up for the rest of her days in bloody , bloody Damascus . |
| 22 | Although the Koons ' work is also being shown in Strange Developments , Sherman 's work was not given a similar position of prominence , nor even hung in the same location as Koons ' , as if the exhibition organisers were emphatically hoping to avoid any challenging comparisons . |
| 23 | All fixed date actions to which the rule does apply are now subject to automatic directions ( see Chapter 11 ) and are not given a return day at the outset . |
| 24 | This is why graphology was not given a separate heading in our checklist of stylistic features in 3.1 ; it was understood that such features , where of stylistic interest , would be noted under the heading of foregrounding . |
| 25 | Even when an oxytocic agent is not given a small proportion of patients show an increase in plasma oxytocin concentration during the late second or early third stage of labour . |
| 26 | KATAHDIN : Unplaced behind Triomphe Modest over 6 furlongs at Nottingham on Tuesday , but this colt was not given a punishing race when running on very well to finish only a few lengths off the winner . |
| 27 | The apostles were not given a priestly role by Jesus and he left no instructions about how the Church was to be organized . |
| 28 | He claimed he was not given a fair hearing . |
| 29 | But when hospitals are struggling to stay within budgets such initiatives are not given a high priority . |
| 30 | This eminent folklorist , however , has not given a full consideration to the Celtic background . |