Example sentences of "[vb past] not [vb pp] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well anyway erm they it was interesting , they all seemed rather positive and the reason they were positive is because they perceive him as classless , as somebody who 's actually come up the hard way , who 's experienced the down side of life and who 's nevertheless , through hard work and perseverance and so on , triumphed over that , and actually reached the highest post in the land , and erm they seemed to feel that there was a erm that this was a good thing , that somebody who 's had experience of erm the less privileged side of life , somebody who , and I quote ‘ was n't born with a silver spoon in is mouth , and did n't got to public school and that sort of thing knows more about what 's life for the average person ’ and I agree with that . |
| 2 | As Tower Hamlets had not consented to the proposed user Chetnik were prohibited during the material period from allowing the warehouses to be occupied . |
| 3 | It was held that volenti did not apply on these facts as the plaintiff had not consented to or absolved the defendant from subsequent negligence on his part . |
| 4 | They might not dare to admit it , but they did n't like the changes they saw around them ; they enjoyed television 's recreations of more confident times , when they had had a country to be proud of , when people had reached maturity at forty and had not pandered to youth . |
| 5 | Morton was on the point of killing the Dragoon when the soldier begged for quarter , adding that he had been forced into the army and had not wanted to be a soldier . |
| 6 | A Planning Committee had been meeting weekly in 1969 , but the College had not wanted to be too rigid in imposing teaching methods . |
| 7 | But his thoughts had not turned to his business dealings with Klein more than once during the journey . |
| 8 | His surprise in finding her there had not turned to relief as , in normal circumstances , it ought . |
| 9 | But let us think about what would have happened if the Allies had not retaliated to the indiscriminate bombing of this country and the dive bombing tactics of the Luftwaffe on refugees on the continent . |
| 10 | Vincent — partly because of exhaustion — had not written to a soul in months . |
| 11 | Fretting that he still had not written to Liza , he proved to be a difficult patient in more ways than one . |
| 12 | She wanted to know why he had not written to her . |
| 13 | Since most of the prostatic cancers detected in this study had not metastasised to bone and were well or moderately well differentiated these patients might have suffered if detection had been delayed . |
| 14 | The firms will be liable for poor work and other breaches of professional standards and requirements , unless they can prove that they had not contributed to the misconduct which was wholly attributable to some other individual ( including partners , employees or non-members ) . |
| 15 | Although physical geographers had not contributed to their development , these model sequences were increasingly evident in research writings as knowledge of the sequence in one area and correlation between areas were necessary to proceed towards explanation of local and then of regional patterns . |
| 16 | He said the brakes were worn but it had not contributed to the tragedy . |
| 17 | Thus Verity , the generation construction engineer , replied to an enquiry in September 1949 as to why the engineers had not reacted to a draft contracts procedure sent to them six months ago : |
| 18 | The fact that the Queen was pro-German would have been particularly hurtful to the Emperor personally , for only he had not succumbed to the general enthusiasm for a war he had never wanted and for which he feared the country was ill-prepared . |
| 19 | At this there was a muted growl of support from those in the hall who had not succumbed to a heavy lunch . |
| 20 | He had not asked to be made ‘ controller ’ of the Pessarane Behesht cell in Paris . |
| 21 | He knew perfectly well that the software was going into the Ministry of Defence , he had not asked to what use it would be put when it was installed , and he certainly hoped there would be more of the same . |
| 22 | Nevertheless five men , who had been imprisoned because they deliberately and flagrantly disobeyed the orders of the NIRC , and so imperilled the rule of law and ‘ our whole way of life ’ , were released although they had not asked to be released and had made clear that they had no intention of apologizing to the court for their behaviour or of desisting from that behaviour . |
| 23 | They were very young , and totally dependent on the Durbeyfield couple : six helpless creatures who had not asked to be born at all , much less to be part of the irresponsible Durbeyfield family . |
| 24 | By looking at him now you could sense that future , and his eyes reminded you that he had not asked to be born . |
| 25 | He had not intended to be so sharp but Cranston 's secretive arrival had unnerved him . |
| 26 | The Oral Replacement Workers had not explained to them that this would be the case , ie. that the lobon-gur solution only treats the dehydration and malnutrition resulting from diarrhoea rather than the purging itself . |
| 27 | The accused 's conviction was quashed because the judge had not explained to the jury that the sale amounted to theft only if the victim had a " proprietary right or interest " in the video . |
| 28 | A fact , by the way , she had not communicated to the police . |
| 29 | Perhaps he had not said to himself that in a marriage between two like this , someone was going to have to know a little less clearly what they had wanted . |
| 30 | So John Emburey was handed the captaincy that could well have been his years earlier if he had not gone to South Africa in 1982 , thereby losing the Middlesex captaincy to Gatting after Mike Brearley retired . |