Example sentences of "not [verb] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This section does not cover the first £25 each claim each person except loss of deposit claims . |
| 2 | The Queen 's cousin made a public plea to construction giant Trafalgar House not to demolish the last hangar at Brooklands in Weybridge , Surrey . |
| 3 | On second thoughts , she wished she had not uttered the last sentence . |
| 4 | She would definitely not make the first move . |
| 5 | It is unlikely , though , that we can handle all these if we can not make the first distinction systematically ( and the alert reader can no doubt find mistakes of this sort within this book ) . |
| 6 | He started his career at Everton , but did not make the first team and has since played at Bolton , Chester , Lincoln , West Brom and Preston . |
| 7 | He did not want the next one to start soon . |
| 8 | not got the second part , anyway , he phoned up about ten to two and said , but , but before that she had said that he had met Mark |
| 9 | Rush out and get one — or at least be sure not to miss the next edition out soon . |
| 10 | In particular , the European Court did not answer the second question posed for its consideration by this House , which was concerned with the criteria to be applied by the national court in deciding whether or not to grant interim protection of the rights claimed . |
| 11 | US officials believe they have not heard the last of the Soviet proposal for naval nuclear disarmament , which was carefully phrased to echo a similar plan put forward unofficially by the veteran US arms negotiator , Mr Paul Nitze . |
| 12 | But what persuades me that we have not heard the last of Havel the writer is that he combines a total commitment to social freedom and individual responsibility with an extraordinary ironic detachment . |
| 13 | ‘ You 've not heard the last of this , ’ Swire Sugden threatened as he stormed out of the church hall . |
| 14 | You can not treat the second that way ; it simply affirms for some people a principle it denies to others . |
| 15 | In fact , by Christmas 1988 , after three months solid debate , it had still not completed the first of the five subject areas laid down by Energy Secretary Cecil Parkinson at the start . |
| 16 | If the OED were left as no more than a monument to the English of the twentieth century it would not remain the twenty-first century 's dictionary for long . |
| 17 | Indeed Joanne was unlucky not to claim the first set , having served for it at 5–3 . |
| 18 | He had not enjoyed the second half of the show quite as much . |
| 19 | But Paris had not solved the last enigma . |
| 20 | I had not expected the twentieth century to show such a steep decline both in numbers and in quality , though I was less surprised to see the cultural importance of the nineteenth century . |
| 21 | Most Scout and Guide troops did not survive the Second World War . |
| 22 | ‘ They know they have no option but to stay in the job and try and do better , but the harsh truth is that those who have high production costs and low productivity will not survive the next three or four years of rapid transition . ’ |
| 23 | I am afraid that I could not catch the last part of my hon. Friend 's question , but I agree with him about the importance that he attaches to the single market . |
| 24 | And not to benefit the first marriage and not to benefit any of the children . |
| 25 | Labour would not win the next general election on its own and should accept electoral reform , David Owen , SDP leader , told a Plymouth meeting . |
| 26 | With current policies the Conservatives will not win the next election ; even with better policies they might not win it . |
| 27 | At times , house air waybills use neutral formats that do not identify the first airline . |
| 28 | Tallis 's case is convincing , though he has certainly not said the last word on the matter , and there may well be further arguments from those who are professionally engaged in linguistics . |
| 29 | Memorex reported a $120m net loss for the nine months to December and the New York rating agency says that it does not expect the fourth quarter net outturn to be much better . |
| 30 | If the communication option of the first process is taken up , the environment can not tell it is not operating the second ( for exactly the same option is present there ) . |