Example sentences of "not be [verb] [prep] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | About three-quarters of pupils in the lowest third knew how many days there are in certain months , although a number of pupils when interviewed said they had not been taught by their parents or at school any way of remembering the number of days in the months . |
| 2 | Fragment RY' had not been detected in our previous mapping of the ASFV genome ( 19 ) , and it has now been sequenced with synthetic oligonucleotides in a Pst I M13 clone which also overlaps parts of RK and RE' ( Fig. 1 ) . |
| 3 | The cruise missile also has not been tested to its full distance overland , because the United States does not have the space . |
| 4 | Combined with my relief that a resting-place had finally been found was satisfaction that I 'd had him with me for those first few hours and that he had not been whisked from his bed by complete strangers and reappeared , repackaged , at the crematorium a week later . |
| 5 | Hence in the present case Mr. Dennis had not been divested of his interest under the joint tenancy when his wife died . |
| 6 | Soap stars such as Michael Cashman , formerly of EastEnders , and the comedy actor Gorden Kaye of ‘ Allo , ‘ Allo ! , have not been pilloried for their homosexuality . |
| 7 | Just as the notion of civil rights has not been fixed in its eighteenth-century formulation but has undergone continuing expansion , so too with the rights that go with academic freedom . |
| 8 | " Profit " lies here also and some members of this school might have passed their lives in prim obscurity had their names not been made by their own publicity . |
| 9 | The right hon. Gentleman has not been listening to his hon. Friends . |
| 10 | As a result , as far as farmers are concerned tree planting has not been integrated into their work patterns or land management , nor has it led to enhanced levels of interest among previous participants . |
| 11 | City workers who had not been contacted by their own company were advised to call their normal switchboard number for direction . |
| 12 | Someone said that O had not been seen at his job in the video hire shop for the whole week either . |
| 13 | The second , however , has not been seen in our study or in others and could be related to the possibility that gastric acid secretion might not necessarily be raised when NSAIDs are taken on longterm basis , three years in this study . |
| 14 | I shall , however , be content for the purpose of this appeal to adopt the narrow approach , which avoids the need to discuss the proper scope of the rule , a point which has not been argued before your Lordships and has hitherto been seriously discussed only by the academic writers . |
| 15 | A man , it is said , who had seen better days , but whose humour and wit had not been impaired by his fallen fortunes . |
| 16 | Is it not a fact that if the link with earnings had not been broken by his Government 10 years ago — indeed , nearly 12 years ago — a married pensioner would be £28 a week better off this April ? |
| 17 | But he insisted he knew nothing about either the debt or the court case because the bill had not been sent to his home . |
| 18 | Third World communities who remain free of our degenerative diseases have been found to live on diets which contain a much higher percentage of carbohydrate than ours — carbohydrate obtained from cereals which have not been stripped of their dietary fibre , fibre-rich vegetables ( potatoes and other root vegetables ) , legumes and fruits . |
| 19 | Remember to keep rhubarb that has not been stripped of its poisonous leaves well away from similar-looking cabbage or spinach ; remove green parts and sprouting eyes from your potatoes . |
| 20 | Above all , from her point of view , they had not been converted from their fierce and dangerous gods to the love and freedom that the Holy Catholic Church was supposed to confer . |
| 21 | Although she had not been prepared for his barrage of questions and had answered them almost truculently , she had made Nicky think twice about her simply because she seemed more direct and independent than most of the girls he knew . |
| 22 | It is worth remembering , however , that juries have not been noted for their sympathy towards rape victims . |
| 23 | A few years back , I bought an old desk at an auction and , when I got it home , found that the drawers had not been emptied by its previous owner . |
| 24 | Held , allowing the appeal , ( 1 ) that the appropriate means of achieving fairness to an accused with regard to disclosure to the defence of material in the prosecution 's possession was a matter to be determined by the particular legislature , executive and judiciary concerned ; that although the Jamaican practice , particularly in relation to inconsistent previous statements , would normally be an acceptable means of achieving such fairness it did not extend to every situation in which fairness required the prosecution to make material available to the defence ; that where the prosecution intended a witness 's evidence to be based on his statement to the police and to deviate significantly from his deposition , the prosecution was under a duty to supply the defence with a copy of the statement before the trial ; and that , therefore , since the deceased 's husband and sister had given evidence inconsistent with their statements , and important testimony had been adduced from them which had not been foreshadowed in their depositions , the failure to disclose their statements to the defence constituted a material irregularity ( post , pp. 161H — 162A , B , B–C , 165C–E ) . |
| 25 | All are believed to have been sentenced to death for criminal offences but a warrant had not been signed for their executions and some were still appealing against their conviction . |
| 26 | Another reason why so many women reject the battery of contraceptive weapons on offer at the family planning clinic is that the arsenal has not been designed with their needs in mind . |
| 27 | The presence of IBS in individuals has not been linked to their fibre intake and its presence in countries such as China makes it unlikely that a single dietary factor such as fibre deficiency is at fault . |
| 28 | But England coach Mal Reilly insisted the 26-year-old , who has scored 23 tries this season , has not been disciplined for his outspoken comments on Kiwi referee Dennis Hale before the Cup final . |
| 29 | Questioned on whether the party 's credibility to campaign on such issues had not been hurt by its vote with the Government in order to secure seats for Scottish representatives on the European Community 's Committee of the Regions , Mr Salmond said the SNP was ‘ entitled to vote in such a way that secures better representation for the people of Scotland . ’ |
| 30 | In any proceedings it shall be a defence for the accused to prove that , at the date of the alleged contravention , the instrument had not been issued by Her Majesty 's Stationery Office . |