Example sentences of "[vb -s] not [verb] [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kevin Ball , who has not played since being carried off injured in the semi-final win over Norwich , is back in contention for a place . |
| 2 | These administrative arrangements broke down some of the barriers in co-ordinating services , but grassroots co-operation has not appeared to be necessarily easier than elsewhere in Great Britain . |
| 3 | The Woonerf , though without doubt a valuable contribution to safe living areas , has not proved to be a universal solution . |
| 4 | At one time it was thought that high-fibre diets containing bran would be successful , but this has not proved to be the case . |
| 5 | With very few exceptions , however , this has not proved to be the case , largely because Latin American states have retained a high degree of integration with , and dependence on , the developed capitalist economies . |
| 6 | The index has not proved to be a reliable feature of either constipation or diarrhoea . |
| 7 | The January 1989 white and fawn dog finished second in a 631 metres open at Sunderland , and switching to Middlesbrough 's inside hare has not proved to be any problem . |
| 8 | Although he might perhaps have done better to observe Wittgenstein 's adage , ‘ Whereof one can not speak , thereon one must be silent ’ , one can not help regretting that he has not tried to be less vague about the nature of personal growth . |
| 9 | Since July 1984 , death from alcoholism has not had to be reported to the coroner . |
| 10 | Oh , yes , indeed , a close friend of mine has been working on the history of a very large British company and he 's just seen the proofs produced from the printers from the typescript which was typed in his own office , and apart from the fact that their computers can change the typefaces and improve the whole thing , the work has not had to be re-keyboarded , as they would say , re-typed in at all . |
| 11 | Oh yes , indeed , a close friend of mine has been working on a history of a very large British company and he 's just seen the proofs produced from the printers from the typescript which was typed in his own office , and apart from the fact that their computers can change the typefaces and improve the whole thing , the work has not had to be rekeyboarded , as they would say , retyped in , at all . |
| 12 | But one of the few countries he has not designed for is his homeland Hungary . |
| 13 | It was quite a car and who has n't dreamed of being a repo man ? |
| 14 | But on the other hand they 're not having to deal so much with another executor there is n't there has n't got to be so much to and fro correspondence and therefore the workload will be somewhat less and that 's likely to balance the extra responsibility element . |
| 15 | You know , but there not , there lovely , lovely people and they 're do anything for you , but we say to them , you know , oh well life 's boring and your know sort of , and , but , life has n't got to be boring , when you 've got no money wor worries life should n't be boring . |
| 16 | As things have turned out it has n't proved to be a serious drawback so far ; and your mother , who has temporarily left home , is very happy for me . |
| 17 | Sadly , of course , it has n't proved to be the entire answer because the original FOND resource can only cope with the four basic stylistic variations ; Plain , Italic , Bold and Bold Italic . |
| 18 | The Pentagon does not care to be investigated by the FBI . |
| 19 | True education does not consist in being taught just anything , any more than true religion consists in believing just anything . |
| 20 | In a series of clumsily transalted catch-all statements he declared , Arte Povera ‘ does not aspire to be a unique definition of works of art ’ . |
| 21 | He considers religion without morality to be inconceivable , and if it denies any of the virtues we normally associate with morality , such as , truth , mercy and goodness , it does not deserve to be called religion . |
| 22 | Should it be unconcerned with the practical affairs of men and take no action to solve men 's problems it does not deserve to be called religion . |
| 23 | There were a few diplomatic handshakes as the players left the field at the end , but it seemed a relief that an extra week lay between this Test match and the next , and it could only be hoped that work would continue behind the scenes to impress upon these cricketers , especially the more excitable ones , that the game does not deserve to be abused . |
| 24 | Phena , despite her odd ways , does not deserve to be hurt further , does not deserve to have it all dragged up and dissected . ’ |
| 25 | Still , while it does not pretend to be comprehensive , The Spirit of the Letter manages to provoke many questions about the protean and varied role of lettering , from typography to bravura calligraphy , public inscriptions to computer-generated letter forms . |
| 26 | In contrast , the style of some of the chapters of this book does not pretend to be academic . |
| 27 | The construction of that generality does not pretend to be the only possible one — the same event could operate in all sorts of different ways in different series , temporalities , which would mean that , strictly speaking , it was no longer the same event , for it would have been dispersed in their different rarefactions . |
| 28 | What follows does not pretend to be an exhaustive summary . |
| 29 | His paper is , therefore , partisan — it does not pretend to be other and it is itself part of the discourse in support of psychodynamic theory . |
| 30 | The notion that the media have ‘ amplified ’ football violence may have been tenable ten or twenty years ago , but the current scale of hooliganism does not appear to be much exaggerated by the media . |