Example sentences of "not [verb] [conj] [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although there was evidence of cosmic order in the motions of sun , moon , and stars and in the cycle of the seasons , this order was not regarded as securely established but had continually to be achieved by the integration of conflicting divine wills or powers . |
| 2 | The historian was at his best , he maintained , not as an analyst but as ‘ a craftsman of synthesis , a weaver of other men 's threads ( and some of his own ) into patterns which they had not foreseen or even suspected ’ ; and he was forthright in claiming , at a time when it was not fashionable , that the contemporary historian was just as capable of such synthesis as historians of earlier centuries . |
| 3 | If the assurances were not given or subsequently broken , the firm could be taken to court . |
| 4 | The full fiery rage of the nun was something that Mrs Carroll had not expected and never wanted to know again . |
| 5 | This conflict between tariff reformers and free traders was to lead to the ‘ agreement to differ ’ convention in January 1932 , and the resignation of the Liberals from the government in September 1932 ; but , until they resigned , the National Government was a genuine coalition in the sense in which that term is used on the continent : a government comprising independent yet conflicting elements allied together , a government within which party conflict was not superseded but rather contained — in short , a power-sharing government , albeit a seriously unbalanced one . |
| 6 | But many of the outputs of governments are themselves public goods , so the problem is not resolved but merely transferred . |
| 7 | In some of the odes , this compositional method has a wayward look , perhaps leaving the modern reader with the suspicion that the poem is structurally flawed.1 It is not particularly troublesome in " Diffugere nives " ; even so , there are throughout the poem points at which a reader needs to take connections on trust , or ventures to read them into the text , because they are not foregrounded or overtly articulated . |
| 8 | In the twentieth century they were succeeded by men like A. S. Peake ( Primitive Methodist ) , C. H. Dodd ( Congregationalist ) , H. Wheeler Robinson ( Baptist ) and P. T. Forsyth ( Congregationalist ) whose work was similar to Barth 's and whose ‘ true spiritual stature was not seen or even glimpsed ’ until after the Second World War . |
| 9 | I really wanted to be close to the sea again , which I had not seen or even smelt for so long . |
| 10 | ‘ I do not believe that mathematically constructed pacts and alliances are the way forward either for Liberal Democrats or for others . |
| 11 | At his christening his mother gave him a second forename , ‘ Arthur ’ , which he did not like and never used . |
| 12 | When the parent is consciously or unconsciously seductive , and the child 's early fantasies are not mediated and finally renounced , the young person can remain fixated in love like the Brünnhildes and Queen Bees mentioned earlier in this chapter . |
| 13 | Moreover , the covenant to perform on the part of the original lessee is merely a covenant to perform in so far as another party , similarly liable , has not performed or otherwise discharged the obligation . |
| 14 | In terms of an automatic ‘ welfare consensus ’ , the social contours of British society have been altered irrevocably , partly by the Thatcher revolution , partly by deeper economic trends , which Thatcherism did not create but successfully harnessed to its political project . |
| 15 | She was lying naked on bare boards in an empty room , not bound but somehow bounded , and a man whose face she could never see , his mouth so sweet it was like eating candy to kiss him , made violent love to her . |
| 16 | Action : Keyword MODULE-RELATIONS-ARE not found or wrong spelt . |
| 17 | Action : Keyword ISSUE not found or wrongly spelt . |
| 18 | Action : Keyword CREATED-BY , MOD-BY , CHECKED-BY or APPROVED-BY not found or wrongly spelt . |
| 19 | Action : Keyword ON not found or wrongly spelt . |
| 20 | Action : Keyword IN-PACKAGE , COMMENT or FOR-JOB not found or wrongly spelt . |
| 21 | Action : Keyword DESCRIPTION-IS , CODE-IS or BINARY-IS not found or wrongly spelt . |
| 22 | Action : Keyword ENVIRONMENT not found or wrongly spelt . |
| 23 | Action : Keyword LAST-CHECKED-ISSUE not found or wrongly spelt . |
| 24 | Action : Keyword LANGUAGE-IS , CODE-CHARACTERISTIC or IS-DEPENDENT-ON not found or wrongly spelt . |
| 25 | Action : Keyword IS-TESTED-BY , IS-DESCRIBED-BY , REQUIRES-SOURCE-OF , REQUIRES-BINARY-OF , CONTAINS-SOURCE-OF or CONTAINS-BINARY-OF not found or wrongly spelt . |
| 26 | Action : Keyword HEADER-FORMAT-IS not found or wrongly spelt . |
| 27 | Action : Keyword STATUS not found or wrongly spelt . |
| 28 | Action : Keyword IN-FILE not found or wrongly spelt . |
| 29 | Action : Keyword SELECTED-ISSUE , PREFERRED-ISSUE-IN-FILE or LATEST-ISSUE-IN-FILE not found or wrongly spelt . |
| 30 | This is conceptually similar but not identical to the phenomena described by Matza ( 1964 : 33–68 ) as the subculture of delinquency : both consist of ‘ precepts and customs that are delicately balanced between convention and crime ’ ; both ‘ posit objectives that may be attained through ( crime ) but also other means ’ ; both ‘ allow ( crime ) but it is not demanded or necessarily considered the preferred path ’ ; and both consist of ‘ norms and sentiments ’ which are ‘ beliefs that function as the extenuating conditions under which ( crime ) is permissible ’ . |