Example sentences of "[not/n't] [vb pp] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , CITES ' attempts to regulate the trade have not stopped the illegal trade . |
| 2 | But this has not stopped the two companies , conscious of their high public profile , from starting to sell the deal to the viewers as well as the money men . |
| 3 | He took it up in a Pauline spirit , as a reparation ; now the least of Christians ( by special grace ) but once an infidel , and even if he had not persecuted the faithful , one who scorned the Faith , he would do what he could to convert men or stop them from straying away . |
| 4 | While this might seem to be stating the obvious , the fact is that this issue has not received a great deal of systematic ( as opposed to post hoc ) discussion in the literature . |
| 5 | The UFD , claiming that the government had not received a popular mandate , warned President Taya that its supporters would not accept the result . |
| 6 | Ecalpemos , after all , was not Greek and did not even sound so to Rufus who , unlike Adam , had not received a classical education . |
| 7 | A Downing Street spokeswoman said later they had not received a formal request from Mr Rushdie for a meeting . |
| 8 | As for making up and imposition , the tasks most often cited as barred to women , they could certainly not be carried out by anyone who had not received a proper training , and were rightly regarded as skilled work . |
| 9 | He described himself as a victim of a US plot to turn his country into a colony , and alleged that he had not received a fair trial . |
| 10 | Councillor Malachi Curran , the chairman of the Down Economic Development Agency , claimed the area had not received a fair share in the past and there was an onus on the government to ensure Down was not neglected . |
| 11 | Diplomats asked Buckingham Palace to warn her against any trip to the island , which has not received a royal visitor for many years . |
| 12 | The Eastern Arts report of nineteen eighty six was never completed what the Eastern Arts did in actual fact was to produce a draft report and promised that the final report would be complete and circulate it as to date which is nineteen ninety-one we have not received the final report of the Eastern Arts appraisal . |
| 13 | Many a good dog has been ruined when he has done something good and , for some reason , not received the right response from the handler ; in other words , the wrong association has been created . |
| 14 | It is not difficult to see why corporate crime has not received the same publicity as murder , robbery , theft , rape and so on — both in the mass media and in the study of crime . |
| 15 | But personal belief and professional judgement have not received the same attention . |
| 16 | The World Bank board has approved a loan towards Chile 's Pangue dam project , even though the project has not received the full environmental assessment required under the bank 's operating guidelines . |
| 17 | The papal legate in England in 1213 , Nicholas de Romanis , reported that he had not received the 1000 marks left to the pope ( nor the 500 left to the cardinals ) by the archbishop of York , Geoffrey Plantagenet . |
| 18 | If , after a set period of time PI has not received the expected mail message , it will ‘ time-out ’ and continue with its normal operation , assuming that the message has been deleted . |
| 19 | On second thoughts , she wished she had not uttered the last sentence . |
| 20 | Indeed it would be absurd if the following two cases were not treated the same : ( 1 ) A has two deposits each of £10,000 , and he assigns one deposit to B and the other to C ; and ( 2 ) A has one deposit of £20,000 , and he assigns one-half to B and the other half to C. |
| 21 | It 's wrong that everybody is not treated the same way . |
| 22 | Provided there 's access to the plane and the fuselage is not crushed a few minutes should tell us all we want to know . |
| 23 | It has been restored but not altered a great deal in modern times . |
| 24 | I have not heard a single argument — there was not a sentence in the Secretary of State 's speech — to suggest that the upper limit will be reached in the coming year . |
| 25 | We have not heard a single word . |
| 26 | Not heard an American or Canadian say that . |
| 27 | Had he not heard the Arab League spokesman that morning , promising that the Syrian ‘ peace-keepers ’ would ‘ strike with an iron fist ’ at any resistance ? |
| 28 | But Allen had not heard the like before . |
| 29 | Even now , Grant has not heard the sorriest details about Charlotte 's chronicle of misery during this nightmare waiting period . |
| 30 | The third night , above the rattling progress of a late train , he had pummelled Zoë with his fists , and not heard the frightened crying of his children , when she had said that no fucking way was she going to be holed up for the rest of her days in bloody , bloody Damascus . |