Example sentences of "not [vb pp] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wickham 's initial feeling was that if it were true the only surprising thing was that Barron had not flown away sooner . |
| 2 | ‘ You sure you 've not flown before ? ’ |
| 3 | Sister Dew , who had not flown before , let out a cry at seeing fields and houses beneath her . |
| 4 | Some of them are on N two , that erm , not necessarily , in fact the majority of the forms in the supporting guidelines on manuals are not versioned yet but they , we followed the advice of Roy there and we have listed them in each of the guidelines with a statement of erm , we 've just , I mean , a clear listing there of each form and when we actually go to introduce the next time , reprint , we will then put version codes on them . |
| 5 | It had not stopped there . |
| 6 | To visit Tyler 's Hard , even Oxford , in mourning for her sister made a kind of sense , yet the photographs proved she had not stopped there . |
| 7 | If it is not stopped quickly , pent-up hatred will force open these gates of hell , flooding much of the Balkans . |
| 8 | Registration is compulsory — though voting is not — but there are still some people who are not registered either by accident or because they wish to avoid declaring their residence . |
| 9 | He 's not registered anywhere . |
| 10 | The problem was that OpenForum ‘ 92 was originally intended to be an exhibition as well , and the relatively late decision by the organisers to focus more on the conference side was not communicated clearly enough to some of the exhibiting vendors . |
| 11 | It can be seen that this was a way of ‘ blaming the victim ’ : it seems as though the young person had failed to find a job because they had not filled in the application form properly or were too untidy , rather than because there were not enough jobs . |
| 12 | The details are not filled in . |
| 13 | Many of the other major transitions were not filled in , however , and paleontologists thus concentrated on developments within well defined groups . |
| 14 | It applies also to someone signing a document with the blanks for the particular transaction not filled in but agreeing to , or authorising , another to fill in those blanks later , United Dominions Trust v. Western ( 1975 C.A. ) . |
| 15 | However , Bukharin 's ideas were not formed solely by what was currently happening in Soviet Russia ; rather he viewed what was happening there as a part of a much larger upheaval on a world scale . |
| 16 | This is a common feature of the rational expectations hypothesis and it provides an obvious way of testing the hypothesis , for if on estimating equation ( 3.18 ) we found ‘ widely different ’ coefficients on , widely different estimates of α t , then it would suggest that either equation ( 3.6 ) is untrue or expectations are not formed rationally . |
| 17 | Clearly memories are not formed instantaneously , as if by throwing a switch , but are built up over a period of hours after the event to be memorized has occurred ; during this build-up the form in which any memory is stored changes . |
| 18 | Their son Rhys suffers from Batten 's disease , which will cause blindness , dementia and death by the age of seven if he is not treated soon . |
| 19 | The police can only guess at the scale of the problem , for stealing from gardens is not treated separately in station crime-books . |
| 20 | He said he was not treated badly and that he was with other political prisoners . |
| 21 | If women are not treated equally either in pay or promotion prospects , it is either because absolute equality has to be refined to incorporate differences in education or productivity , or because the constitution ignores the wish of Japanese women to give priority to their household duties . |
| 22 | However , the decline in resources directed to the public sector and the encouragement of moves towards owner-occupation under the Conservative government have prompted criticism that the three main forms of tenure ( owner-occupation , private-rented and public-rented ) are not treated even handedly . |
| 23 | We can complain if we 're not treated properly . |
| 24 | The bees in fact should be treated at all times , so is the belief , as if they were people ; and people who were very ready to take offence if not treated properly . |
| 25 | She knew that the conditions in the camps meant they would die if they were not treated properly , which meant coming to Stoke Mandeville hospital in Buckinghamshire . |
| 26 | ‘ These are very specific injuries which if not treated properly can ruin someone 's sporting future , ’ said Nigel . |
| 27 | The 1919 Murray 's Handbook asked in a revealing suggestion that travellers should watch out for instances when third-class passengers were not treated considerately and should report them to the management . |
| 28 | However , the existence of such objects is always apparent to authors , so that they are not treated wantonly when a document is edited . |
| 29 | The formulae are systematically presented , but grammar is not treated systematically . |
| 30 | In responses to a recent questionnaire from members of Age Concern England 's governing body , it was notable that few saw concessionary entitlement to services as discriminatory and patronising , only necessary in a society which implicitly recognises that older people are not treated fairly . |