Example sentences of "not [be] [vb pp] [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apart from the public launch , the campaign seems to have not been extended to seeking actual local authority support , although I may be wrong on this . |
| 2 | Barrie Lamb stated that the job would have been completed earlier had DRPS not been diverted into rescuing additional rolling stock such as their current working steam loco , a Peckett 0-4-0 ST which is undergoing extensive winter repairs . |
| 3 | Her men had not been called upon to go ; she knew no-one who was in the army , or who flew the Tornado jets . |
| 4 | In these matters Emilia Frere knew more than she , for the woman had crossed the threshold of the married state ; she had delivered herself over to the meeting of the flesh as Louisa had not been called upon to do ; she had experienced what the uninitiate could only surmise . |
| 5 | The deceased was over ninety ; so Lydia and Betty had not been called upon to express great regret or commiseration among the villagers . |
| 6 | Moreover , says Correa , high densities in Third World cities have not been achieved by building high-rise blocks , but by omitting play spaces , hospitals , schools and other parts of the social infrastructure . |
| 7 | With all due respect to my fellow countrymen , German prisoners of war have not been noted for escaping from England , not since the First World War . ’ |
| 8 | The Left now completely rejected MacDonald 's concept of " gradualism " which had not been subjected to searching criticism until some three or four years before he left the party . |
| 9 | On the other hand , he could not remember a time when it had not been taken for granted the Hall would one day be his own . |
| 10 | It has not been proved by drilling . |
| 11 | A company that paid the telephone bills of 250 service engineers might easily face a sizeable demand for employer 's and employees ' NIC , especially if back years have not been dealt with according to the letter of the law . |
| 12 | Palace , FA Cup finalists in 1990 , currently lie second from bottom of the Premier League , and Coppell 's efforts have not been helped by sniping on the sidelines from his chairman Ron Noades . |
| 13 | The fact that goods have not been paid for does not prevent ownership in them passing to the purchaser unless , of course , they are subject to a properly communicated and valid retention clause . |
| 14 | She knows from home that many trains do not run because thousands of peasants have not been paid for hauling wood to the engine fuel-dumps for the whole of 1920–1 , and so have refused to carry on . |
| 15 | Selling goods that have not been paid for appears to need redress . |
| 16 | On the other hand , only 25 per cent of the Kosovo electorate turned out to vote , most of these being Serbs , following calls by ethnic Albanians for a total boycott , and Tanjug reported that in Kosovo some 400 polling stations had not been opened for voting by the local authorities . |
| 17 | It was useless to baptize people who had no understanding of the faith , or who had not been persuaded by teaching to espouse Christianity . |
| 18 | The new occupants of the off-licence , also Asian , have not been attacked since moving in three months ago . |
| 19 | Penwith and Kerrier hundreds were obviously poorer than the eastern parts of the shire ; a high proportion of men were taxed on wages who had not been thought worth mentioning in the earlier survey , many of them poor immigrants variously described as tinners or labourers . |
| 20 | Even if ‘ non market ’ legal topics , where no economic root is discernable , can not be analyzed by applying law and economics ( there being heated debate among distinguished scholars as to whether such analysis is ultimately valid ) , the interdisciplinary use of economics and law to analyze a legal problem with an economic foundation is a more soundly based proposition . |
| 21 | Once this process is underway they can not be dislodged by flushing the uterine horns . |
| 22 | Miss Tan could not be charged with running a brothel because she worked alone in her basement flat . |
| 23 | However , you would not be limited to advising on existing law . |
| 24 | Do not be limited by seeing only what is said . |
| 25 | In turn this can not be obtained through asking each part of the organisation for its views . |
| 26 | Care has to be taken with the adjacent values , which can not be obtained by reading off distances on the graph paper ; they must be obtained arithmetically . |
| 27 | In these circumstances the child would not be rewarded for completing the task . |
| 28 | The moral vacuum can not be filled by preaching , exhortation and moralisations . |
| 29 | An agent can not be prohibited from taking further instructions from the principal , and a principal can not be prevented from giving instructions to the agent . |
| 30 | Dr George Carey held out an olive branch to opponents by saying clergy opposed to women priests would not be barred from becoming bishops . |