Example sentences of "[verb] [not/n't] [vb pp] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are , however , good reasons to believe that the Earth 's radius has not increased significantly during the past 500 Ma or so . |
| 2 | It is worth adding at this point , in the context of discussion of the cost burden of the elderly , that according to further calculations by David Thomson ( 1987 ) based on Family Expenditure Survey data , the share of national resources going to the elderly has not risen proportionately with their numbers over the past two decades . |
| 3 | The club paid him the princely sum of £8 , a fee that has not risen much over the years according to some of Celtic 's more dour stars . |
| 4 | But the main reason why interviews prove ineffective is that the interviewer has not been properly trained and has not prepared thoroughly for the task . |
| 5 | Seaton has not grown much over the years due to lack of building land , though there are now new terrace-type cottages in the centre of the village . |
| 6 | Possible conflicts were discussed within TI , he admits , and ‘ we decided in principle that TI would come first ’ but , as yet , he has not disagreed vehemently with anything the ASB has produced . |
| 7 | Indeed , no accepted curriculum subject has not featured somewhere in the proposal documents . |
| 8 | Then Arthur Miller added : ‘ The thing to remember is that it has not gone away for ever . ’ |
| 9 | Johnston said : ‘ It has not gone anywhere near as well as I expected at Everton . |
| 10 | This new interest has not relied simply on a moral redefinition of ‘ crime ’ to draw attention to analogous , but uncriminalised , activities of the ruling class ( although that has been part of it ) . |
| 11 | But there is little doubt that charter-train profit can be read in seven-figure sums rather than six and that as a business venture , InterCity has not done badly at all . |
| 12 | But England has not done well in test matches lately — partly , the experts say , because neither one-day nor three-day games are a proper preparation for five-day tests . |
| 13 | The Landscape Institute publishes no percentage fee scale , and has not done so for many years . |
| 14 | The simple service has not altered basically over the years . |
| 15 | Critics claim this has contributed to a significant rise in homelessness and that the government 's policy on tenure has not contributed much to housebuilding . |
| 16 | In the past , the use of these uplands for sheep and beef cattle rearing has not conflicted significantly with the need to retain habitats such as moorlands , hill grasslands , high altitude montane vegetation , enclosed pastures and hay meadows , wetlands and native woodlands , which form the basis of the nature conservation interest of the 9.68 million hectares of upland in the UK . |
| 17 | Dodemaide , the Sheffield Shield player of the year , has been recalled after a three-year absence , along with Matthews , who has not played internationally since last year 's tour of the West Indies . |
| 18 | Formby-born tournament referee Alan Mills said : ‘ It was a difficult decision bearing in mind he has not played much in the last couple of months because of injury . |
| 19 | This has not consisted simply of middle-class reformers defining the working-class family as problematic , for which there is a long tradition . |
| 20 | But despite being subject to the second wave of pan-European reform in psychiatry since the 1940s , France has not moved away from the asylums with any speed . |
| 21 | Critics may argue that it has not moved enough with the times , is not as up-to-date in its special effects as its counterparts across the Atlantic , but this perhaps highlights its attraction . |
| 22 | Iceland , on the other hand , is located on a mid-oceanic ridge and consequently has not moved significantly with respect to its hot spot since the opening of the North Atlantic Ocean over 50 Ma BP . |
| 23 | Andrew Lloyd Webber has not slept properly for weeks . |
| 24 | In eight years of operation , the VSOE charter train has not strayed far from its original concept . |
| 25 | And although attendance during the rainy season was poor , the company 's projection of 11m visitors for the first year has not proved far from the mark . |
| 26 | So far this argument has not departed far from the ‘ radical social control ’ position outlined above . |
| 27 | The four claim the current administration has not responded adequately to the fast-moving demands of a modern-day sport . |
| 28 | DES has not responded sympathetically to those LEAs which have maintained that they should have the opportunity to determine the most appropriate way of fulfilling their monitorial responsibility . |
| 29 | ‘ While the Chris Hani case did have a tremendous impact on South Africa it has not taken away from investigations into the murders of Julie and Elizabeth . ’ |
| 30 | He has not performed even at county level or in tests when he played before . |