Example sentences of "[not/n't] [vb pp] [det] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Observational surveys by Tombaugh , Kowal and the Infrared Astronomical Satellite ( IRAS ) would almost certainly have revealed another Pluto or larger planet , but their failure to do so has not stopped many predictions from being made , including two more in just the past year . |
| 2 | If the birds or Australia had not received that degree of attention from the scientific ornithologist which their interest demanded ’ , he wrote in his preface to Mammals of Australia , ‘ I can assert , without fear of contradiction , that its highly curious and interesting Mammals have been still less investigated . |
| 3 | I know that many sportsmen have not received this kind of support , so I am all the more grateful for it . |
| 4 | However , it found that funds donated by miners in East Germany , Hungary and the Soviet Union were highly likely to have contributed to a trust held on behalf of the NUM by the Miners ' Trade Union International , a forerunner of the Paris-based International Miners ' Organization ( IMO — of which Scargill was president ) , and that the NUM had not received any benefit from this trust , although the IMO had received " substantial advantages " at the NUM 's expense . |
| 5 | Crawford reminded the committee that he had not received any salary for a month , but offered to accept £245 for termination . |
| 6 | She and her husband Don , 37 , a pathology researcher at nearby Cambridge University , had not received any warning of repossession . |
| 7 | Paul Hunter , who runs a coach company which ferries schoolchildren to and from sports grounds , claims he has not received any money from the council for the service in recent months . |
| 8 | I certainly have not received any communication from any individual in my ward in favour of hunting . |
| 9 | Only aerial defence depicted in the film was the efforts of two Air Corps pilots , George Welch and Kenneth Taylor , in their P–40s which had been parked at the auxiliary field at Haleiwa and not received any attention from the Japanese . |
| 10 | Channel 7 had assumed that the codes for accountants and solicitors were ‘ very much the same ’ and , said Mr Hyde , they had not received any indication from the Institute that a problem existed . |
| 11 | U K I A S was not consulted about this proposal beforehand and have so far not received any details about it . |
| 12 | has also not received any mail since our arrival . |
| 13 | follow-up notes including a note of a date to telephone if you have not received any news from the interview and what you have learned from the interview ( see p. 63 follow-up for interviewees ) . |
| 14 | I have not received any representations about the allocation of parliamentary time for private Members . |
| 15 | So far the company has not registered any enthusiasm for such a payment either . |
| 16 | If he is a friend , he has not communicated that fact to any member of the inspectorate . |
| 17 | The original division between those mentally handicapped children who were considered educable and those who were not formed some basis for the future classification of the mentally handicapped . |
| 18 | I emphasise that in taking that step , we have not formed any view on the planning merits of the proposal . |
| 19 | There were some worries , of course : I had not formulated any principles for the evaluation of an experience which was developing under our eyes ; and there were some obvious discrepancies between what students experienced in different schools . |
| 20 | It is certainly not intended that intrusion of any kind should be encouraged into an area of the child 's experience which must be sensitively respected , and this must be kept in mind when reading the section ‘ My family ’ . |
| 21 | There is something very impressive of state and royalty in the march of these sixty or more elephants ; and if I had not regarded this display of magnificence with a sort of philosophical indifference , I should have been apt to be carried away by such flights of imagination as inspire most Indian poets . |
| 22 | I 've not heard any grumbles about them at all . |
| 23 | I 'm not heard any word from Commercial Union yet |
| 24 | The mandatory penalty of life imprisonment for murder makes issues of relative culpability non-justiciable at present , since the length of imprisonment is ‘ determined or partly determined behind the scenes by someone who has not heard any representations by or on behalf of the prisoner on grounds which the prisoner does not know ’ . |
| 25 | Though I had worked out every detail for me and the wheelbarrow , I had not given much thought to the Land Rover . |
| 26 | I have not given much thought to that question , for the simple reason that I do not follow the elaborate paranoid theory advanced by the hon. Gentleman who believes that I am so worried about those annual reports . |
| 27 | Murdock was a man of considerable genius and is often not given enough credit for his contributions to science and engineering . |
| 28 | At the Appeal today , Lord Lane said dabbling in heroin is dabbling in potential death , but Clarke , a machinist from Malvern , was not given enough credit for the fact that he had pleaded guilty . |
| 29 | The Councillor contended that the Committee had been overinfluenced by the need to make economies and had not given enough consideration to the local view , shown in letters and at a local meeting at which opposition to closure had been unanimous . |
| 30 | Ernst & Young thought that the APB had not given enough weight to the collateral changes which would be required , the timescale involved in the changes , and the very substantial costs which would arise . |