Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [not/n't] " in BNC.

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1 That represents not merely an intensification of the use of the line but a change in its character .
2 And that represents not one family but two family each one represents a number of children , the misery that this is causing absolutely immense .
3 ‘ A lot of the credit for that goes not only to the photographers themselves who have argued their case for greater prominence , but a great debt is owed to people like the editor Harold Evans who pioneered the creative use of photography in papers .
4 That doth not smack of observation ;
5 The history of the mammals in the Tertiary involved not only this one major diversification , but several , with major extinctions between , so that the largest mammals of the earlier parts of the Tertiary are not related to the large mammals of the Recent .
6 Unless the modulus of 1 is close to unity , the numbers appearing in Ar ( r large ) are either inordinately large or small ; in practice therefore it is usual to find not Ar but a matrix proportional to it : at each stage in the power evaluation , a homologous element is reduced to unity .
7 Yes been hopeless has n't it ?
8 Being deaf has n't stopped Karen fulfilling her ambition to be a hairdresser .
9 It is widely believed he already has a short two per cent stake although Allied has not detected his presence on its share register .
10 Section 47 of the Education ( No. 2 ) Act 1986 has not criminalised corporal punishment by a teacher ( although in some cases striking a pupil excessively was and still is an offence ) .
11 The responsibility for that lies not with the west , but with the CIS itself .
12 That has not prevented them exercising a great influence on our cultural development .
13 We have built up a great deal of knowledge about the historical side of the palaces but that has not been presented to the public . ’
14 That has not happened .
15 That has not discouraged a rival , TWA , from offering to buy the airline .
16 The effect of that has not been forgotten by either of the main parties .
17 That has not prevented assertions that it plays a particularly significant role in trusts .
18 But it is that same obstinacy or , put another way , determination to win , that has not only made him a successful captain , but also into one of the most feared batsmen in the world .
19 We have lost volunteers but that has not weakened our position . ’
20 That has not stopped other European countries ( such as France ) from installing regulators that resemble the SEC more than the SIB .
21 ( Unfortunately , the fact that many projects have produced attractive material which is extremely effective in the hands of some teachers but that has not been widely successful may reasonably be interpreted either as an aim- or a style-mismatch , or as a dissemination problem . )
22 The extent to which witnesses , including the applicant or respondent , were believed or disbelieved , if that has not already been stated under 3 , and the information upon which the court relied upon reaching its decision .
23 Inevitably , er that has not been entirely acceded to , and indeed to some extent er I can hardly be surprised as events move on during the course of the enquiry .
24 That has not changed at all in twenty centuries .
25 We should consider Spain 's experience since joining the exchange rate mechanism because that has not been an easy option for Spain .
26 I understand that has not been invited to speak to the Committee yet but perhaps you might consider this at the time of him producing his annual report next April .
27 The tape of a phone conversation , late in the siege , that has not been heard publicly before .
28 Thus in Europe , automobiles have been subjected to a good deal of standardization in matters concerning safety and pollution , but that has not precluded the car industry from providing a vast range of choice in terms of styling and performance .
29 That has not happened .
30 I had hoped that some progress would be made in the autumn and I am disappointed that that has not happened .
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