Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [not/n't] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The agents or lecturers became not only dramatic figures in the theatre of the public meeting but combatants , for example on the occasions when Thompson and some colleagues debated the West Indian Peter Borthwick and associates at Glasgow in 1833 and in 1836 the American defender of slavery , Breckinridge . |
| 2 | That is , later transformations tend not to interfere with or undo the effects of earlier ones in the generation of a surface from a deep structure . |
| 3 | Being uncomplicated , the riders tend not to take much notice of it and in their minds , they have already finished . |
| 4 | The reasons for failure in these projects tend not to lie in the technical side , though the technology is complex , nor in the economic side , though the cost of these systems is very high . |
| 5 | However these products tend not to be as rich in calcium as dairy products and red fish . |
| 6 | With respect to strategy Japanese enterprise groups tend not to adopt the conglomerate model which is more common to large firms in the United States or Britain as the locus of their strategic initiative , preferring instead the keiretsu form . |
| 7 | Groups became not merely bands , but ‘ ensembles ’ , deploying electronics , synthesisers and , in one case , something called ‘ crossover music theatre ’ . |
| 8 | It was a mercy we did , for X-rays revealed not only back trouble , but a massive abdominal aorta aneurysm . |
| 9 | In Los Angeles , discussions centred not merely on drug usage as a topical exploitation subject for movies but also on the widespread and varied substances which were readily available , being increasingly used and largely blamed for the incredible recent upsurge in violence within the protest movement . |
| 10 | In any case , big birds tend not to bother cracking nuts , but swallow them to be pulverised with grit in their muscular gizzards . |
| 11 | Prisoners tend not to re-offend , family relationships are maintained , and above all , through education prisoners are provided with the opportunity of a different role in society . |
| 12 | As a consequence of these practical deficiencies , the principle of strict traffic segregation has been replaced in most Western societies by a repertoire of policies developed not just to improve traffic safety , but to do so without detracting from the quality of life in residential districts . |
| 13 | Parties to commercial contracts tend not to terminate the contract even in cases of breach of condition , but will normally be happy to allow the other party to make good any breach . |
| 14 | The team processes cases more quickly and closes them earlier ; of those that remain open , relatively few are reassessed , but cases tend not to be kept open for ‘ monitoring only ’ . |
| 15 | Many of the projects arose not just because they seemed to be suitable topics for academic research , but at the direct instigation of teachers or sometimes students . |
| 16 | However , the renaming of revered academically institutions has not been without problems . |
| 17 | The prevalence of this dimension of psychiatric disturbance in institutions has not been reported . |
| 18 | During the late 1920s republican ranks swelled not only with members of an expanding , educated urban middle class but also with recently active monarchists . |
| 19 | However , approval from the relevant authorities has not yet been gained . |
| 20 | Whilst the general power to cap the rates of all authorities has not yet been used , the switch in emphasis from concern with local government spending to local authority spending has nevertheless been marked . |
| 21 | Where God has spoken and spoken clearly , rationality comes into its own ; where God has not spoken , or for his own reasons has not spoken clearly , there is the area of mystery . |
| 22 | The most convincing way to interpret Sinhalese perceptions of the colonial courts lies not in the judicial proceedings of Dutch or Kandyan times , but in the cultural precedent set by perceptions of the gods and spirits of popular Buddhism . |
| 23 | Whether MDC's co-operative outlook would survive market-led development pressures that contravene local authority or community wishes has not yet been tested . |
| 24 | The recent history of community care projects has not been encouraging ( Grundy , 1986 , p. 22 ) But this is precisely the sort of area to which research needs to be directed in the immediate future of relative demographic stability , because it is so crucial and because our ignorance of future patterns of demand is so great . |
| 25 | Choice between these competing theories of relationship among the Recent forms has not received consensus ( compare refs 23 , 24 to refs 21 , 22 , 25 ) . |
| 26 | So far the volume of queries has not been large , but this probably reflects the fact that many users get help from other users at their institution . |
| 27 | Although these parameters are well cited in the prediction of melting temperatures for defined-sequences RNA duplexes , the striking relationship between the enthalpy and entropy of stacking interactions has not previously been highlighted in the manner shown . |
| 28 | They 're furious that a promised reduction in hours has n't happened , although health chiefs say they 're doing all they can . |
| 29 | The new phenomenon of a deficit on manufactured trade has not , however , created any crisis in the UK 's international position : even the decline in net exports of manufactures has not fulfilled the prediction implicit in the adage ‘ export or die ’ . |
| 30 | The abolition of those taxes has not done the average family any good , has it , or those at Lloyd 's ? |