Example sentences of "not [vb pp] or [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The historian was at his best , he maintained , not as an analyst but as ‘ a craftsman of synthesis , a weaver of other men 's threads ( and some of his own ) into patterns which they had not foreseen or even suspected ’ ; and he was forthright in claiming , at a time when it was not fashionable , that the contemporary historian was just as capable of such synthesis as historians of earlier centuries . |
| 2 | If the assurances were not given or subsequently broken , the firm could be taken to court . |
| 3 | Frequently , indeed , local languages are not examined or not counted in the final mark to determine selection . |
| 4 | Note that a county court may transfer proceedings back to the magistrates ' court at any time before trial if the criteria for transfer are not met or no longer apply but the court must have regard to the child 's interests and the need to avoid delay ( APO , art 11 ) . |
| 5 | Where , however , the settlor is not domiciled or not resident or not ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom in any year of assessment the term does not include income arising under a settlement in that year in respect of which the settlor , if he were actually entitled thereto , would not be chargeable to income tax by deduction or otherwise by reason of his now being so domiciled , resident or ordinarily resident . |
| 6 | In some of the odes , this compositional method has a wayward look , perhaps leaving the modern reader with the suspicion that the poem is structurally flawed.1 It is not particularly troublesome in " Diffugere nives " ; even so , there are throughout the poem points at which a reader needs to take connections on trust , or ventures to read them into the text , because they are not foregrounded or overtly articulated . |
| 7 | Shiva had seen Rufus some years before , though he was absolutely certain Rufus had either not seen or not recognized him , while he was equally sure Adam knew perfectly well who he was . |
| 8 | In the twentieth century they were succeeded by men like A. S. Peake ( Primitive Methodist ) , C. H. Dodd ( Congregationalist ) , H. Wheeler Robinson ( Baptist ) and P. T. Forsyth ( Congregationalist ) whose work was similar to Barth 's and whose ‘ true spiritual stature was not seen or even glimpsed ’ until after the Second World War . |
| 9 | I really wanted to be close to the sea again , which I had not seen or even smelt for so long . |
| 10 | If that option is not offered or not taken up , the first process quickly transforms itself ( by the operation of the SKIP guard ) to the second . |
| 11 | The newspaper had , it reported , contacted some of those whose views the advertisements claimed to express , and found that they had not approved or even been aware of the advertisements . |
| 12 | Moreover , the covenant to perform on the part of the original lessee is merely a covenant to perform in so far as another party , similarly liable , has not performed or otherwise discharged the obligation . |
| 13 | We know already that in crucial ways children and adults can feel miserable and alone in families and communities , particularly when their needs are not recognised or when , even if recognised , they can not be met properly . |
| 14 | Action : Keyword MODULE-RELATIONS-ARE not found or wrong spelt . |
| 15 | Action : Keyword ISSUE not found or wrongly spelt . |
| 16 | Action : Keyword CREATED-BY , MOD-BY , CHECKED-BY or APPROVED-BY not found or wrongly spelt . |
| 17 | Action : Keyword ON not found or wrongly spelt . |
| 18 | Action : Keyword IN-PACKAGE , COMMENT or FOR-JOB not found or wrongly spelt . |
| 19 | Action : Keyword DESCRIPTION-IS , CODE-IS or BINARY-IS not found or wrongly spelt . |
| 20 | Action : Keyword ENVIRONMENT not found or wrongly spelt . |
| 21 | Action : Keyword LAST-CHECKED-ISSUE not found or wrongly spelt . |
| 22 | Action : Keyword LANGUAGE-IS , CODE-CHARACTERISTIC or IS-DEPENDENT-ON not found or wrongly spelt . |
| 23 | Action : Keyword IS-TESTED-BY , IS-DESCRIBED-BY , REQUIRES-SOURCE-OF , REQUIRES-BINARY-OF , CONTAINS-SOURCE-OF or CONTAINS-BINARY-OF not found or wrongly spelt . |
| 24 | Action : Keyword HEADER-FORMAT-IS not found or wrongly spelt . |
| 25 | Action : Keyword STATUS not found or wrongly spelt . |
| 26 | Action : Keyword IN-FILE not found or wrongly spelt . |
| 27 | Action : Keyword SELECTED-ISSUE , PREFERRED-ISSUE-IN-FILE or LATEST-ISSUE-IN-FILE not found or wrongly spelt . |
| 28 | He could not know that Sophia was taking a keen interest in him and had even been considering him — provided he were not divorced or otherwise unsuitable-as a husband for her sister . |
| 29 | This is conceptually similar but not identical to the phenomena described by Matza ( 1964 : 33–68 ) as the subculture of delinquency : both consist of ‘ precepts and customs that are delicately balanced between convention and crime ’ ; both ‘ posit objectives that may be attained through ( crime ) but also other means ’ ; both ‘ allow ( crime ) but it is not demanded or necessarily considered the preferred path ’ ; and both consist of ‘ norms and sentiments ’ which are ‘ beliefs that function as the extenuating conditions under which ( crime ) is permissible ’ . |
| 30 | There have of course been many other visits which were either not documented or else which were presented in an ephemeral form . |