Example sentences of "[vb -s] [that] [verb] not " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is hard to think of any aspect of Gertrude Stein 's Three Lives that has not been covered , except the exploratory and explanatory uses to which she puts the black woman who holds centre stage in that work . |
| 2 | The need for speed meant that the training packs were based on information drafts that had not yet been passed by Parliament , let alone checked , so inevitably errors crept in . |
| 3 | There was a conspiracy among Labour Members to put on the record points that do not arise from the report . |
| 4 | Similarly , young emerging leaves and shoots that have not yet developed a tough skin are easier for fungus spores to penetrate as they are for sucking and biting insects , and this is why the first signs of mildew especially are always to be found on such tissue . |
| 5 | In some respects they use new language and embody in a formal text rules that have not been specified in that way before ; this has indeed been the way the laws of war have developed for 150 years . |
| 6 | She refuses to be ornamental and will not go with her husband on state trips that do not interest her . |
| 7 | At the Royal Brompton alone there are 113 patients waiting for heart-lung transplants — transplants that do not always work . |
| 8 | The ‘ open cup ’ principle holds good for most types — there are just two or three growth habits like Bourbons and Musks that do not lend themselves to it too well , and we will deal with them later . |
| 9 | Presumably , if any of those Kurds who desperately clung to snowy slopes at border mountains , trapped between the armies of three states that did not recognise them , had been able to reach an aeroplane and fly to Britain , they would have qualified for asylum under the 1951 convention . |
| 10 | So within a hundred years , man learnt to make recordings of sound with sufficient fidelity to fool the human ear — at least , sounds that did not come from several different points in space at the same time . |
| 11 | Stores were distributed in pony treks that carried not only ammunition and food but also mail and the force 's own newspaper . |
| 12 | If you start from scratch and design processes that do not need high temperatures , you can use solar energy to the full . |
| 13 | Therefore , letter strings that form words are considered to be more plausible than letter strings that do not form words . |
| 14 | For both left and right visual fields it takes longer to reject as " illegal " , in a lexical decision task , pseudo-homophones ( letter strings that do not constitute words but sound like real words , e.g. " bloo " , " rayne " ) than letter strings that look like real words but do not sound like real words . |
| 15 | The unprecedented exhibition at the Australian National Gallery until 25 October , ‘ The age of Angkor : Treasures from the National Museum of Cambodia ’ , shows thirty-three stone and bronze works that have not been seen outside Cambodia before . |
| 16 | A Swedish study of 19 bottle-fed babies with colic found that over 70 per cent improved when changed to formula feeds that did not contain whole cow's-milk protein . |
| 17 | Studies using these stimuli demonstrated further properties of visual system celts that had not been previously identified ( Enroth-Cugell and Robson 1966 ) . |
| 18 | Fourteen-year-olds with kids and thick mascara , slim with strange fat faces that had not lived , but had overseen , screaming and crying , the birth of offspring from the trunk below . |