Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [not/n't] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The real restriction of his freedom arose not so much from the restraints of his colleagues as front the fact that his Plymouth speech inevitably created an election atmosphere which he found difficult to control . |
| 2 | Why that is so extraordinary is that governors of institutions of that kind tend not to want to give interviews to the press ; they keep their views very much to themselves . |
| 3 | To start with the computer made not a blind bit of difference . |
| 4 | The credit for securing this freedom belongs not so much to the legislators ( many of whom now profess themselves appalled at developments ) but to a few courageous publishers who risked jail by inviting juries to take a stand against censorship , and to the ineptitude and corruption of police enforcement . |
| 5 | His resignation arose not so much because an audience was to be debarred from geology , as because women were to be debarred from the audience . |
| 6 | Is it really relevant that most of that military money produced not a single weapon ? |
| 7 | In this type of use , to is intercepted at the final moment of the movement it denotes , so that the adjective or main verb evokes not only how the person designated as the support of the infinitive was predisposed towards the realization of the latter 's event , but also his feelings at the time of its occurrence . |
| 8 | The Chancellor abolished tax relief on ( new ) Life Assurance Policies in the 1984 budget , but has made no move to abolish , or phase-out MITR — indeed speculation in some parts of the Conservative party before the 1987 Election centred not on whether there would be a reduction , but whether there would be an increase in the maximum level of relief permitted ( the previous increase was in 1983 , also a general election year ) . |
| 9 | Indeed such is the pressure for adequate car parking that there are a surprising number of cases where brewing companies have applied for permission to demolish not only outbuildings but adjacent cottages , some of them listed … ’ |
| 10 | On the other hand we can decide that this is not properly an intervention at all , but the paraphrased rendering of an insight about language whose formulation belongs not to de Man but to Proust . |
| 11 | The duty of broadcasting and journalism in the world struggle became not to reflect the truth but to choose what should be true , in the interest of public policy . |
| 12 | Ossie has not signed a contract but we have shaken hands on a three-year deal . ’ |
| 13 | Your steel-mesh underflesh has n't quite knitted properly . |
| 14 | Judges are receiving firearms training from police but have threatened to go on strike as promised protection has not materialised . |
| 15 | For example , if an authority has granted planning permission to A but building has not yet started , B might be able to get the permission revoked . |
| 16 | English Heritage pays tribute to the work of Wandsworth borough council in ensuring that , if the owner of the building has not done the work , the council has done it and billed the owner . |
| 17 | Remains showing this design can be seen in a number of towns , especially where the city has since declined in importance and later building has not obscured the pattern . |
| 18 | Well , they erm , they use the latest techniques , agriculture has n't become , er , has n't stagnated in the presence of protectionism , because there 's always been an incentive there for farmers to maximize their yields . |
| 19 | It then goes on to look at erm , why agriculture has n't been included in the GATT up until now , and prospects for a solution within the GATT . |
| 20 | But because agriculture has n't been in G A T T or up until recently has n't been in G A T T agricultural protectionism has grown throughout that period right . |
| 21 | Now agricultural erm one of the reasons why agriculture has n't been included in the G A T T is because governments right from all sorts of countries have said hands up why agricultural policy , this is a domestic policy , it 's got nothing to do with international trade , right there 's no international dimension to it right , you ca n't come in here and t tell us that we 're erm disbanding these protectionist measures right . |
| 22 | But agriculture has not stood still . |
| 23 | God he 's spent he 's spent all his grant has n't he ? |
| 24 | The grant has not improved in any real sense to today 's figure of one point seven win wrong one point seven five million and now it 's the government 's intent to reduce the grant by stages until nineteen seventy , nineteen ninety seven it will be removed completely . |
| 25 | What photographer has n't heard of Picture Post — though I suppose the American in me world argue that all those magazines were imitators of Life . ’ |
| 26 | With the coil tap not selected , the toggle switches from the front ( single ) to the back ( humbucker ) pickups . |
| 27 | But its uptake has not been popularly received in Britain . |
| 28 | Avnet Inc 's proposed acquisition of Hall-Mark Electronics Corp has not gone down to well with Standard & Poor 's Corp , which said it may cut the distributors $100m of A-plus-rated subordinated debt . |
| 29 | The few people left that Intel Corp has n't non-disclosed about the P5 will be able to glean some details at next months Hot Chips Conference in California : the P5 will be previewed and presentations made on Alpha , a 200-MFLOPS PA-RISC , HyperSparc , the ARM 600 , something that looks like Sun 's Tsunami and LSI 's single-chip 33020 X terminal controller . |
| 30 | Oracle Corp has n't been in the applications business that long , but the company is already onto release 9 of its Oracle Applications suite of financial , government financial , manufacturing , and personnel applications . |