Example sentences of "not [vb pp] a [adj -er] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A rehabilitated person is one who has been convicted of and sentenced for an offence or offences and who has not committed a further offence or offences during the appropriate rehabilitation period and that period has expired . |
| 2 | In all cases the necessity of balancing professional and academic requirements has been recognised , with the inexorable move toward a ‘ graduate ’ profession being accepted responsibly , though more slowly than for similar professions : ‘ It is a matter for concern that , compared with other professions surveying has not made a greater impact upon university life and thought in general ’ ( Wells Report , 1960 ) . |
| 3 | ‘ I 've not seen a worse sea this year . |
| 4 | Just after we closed for press on Friday , news came through that NCR Corp 's chairman and chief executive Gilbert Williamson would retire from the company in May and would be succeeded by Jerre Stead , currently president of AT&T Co 's Global Business Communications Systems , which he is credited with having turned around ; Stead , 50 , will have the title group executive-NCR , and will be succeeded by Patricia Russo , currently vice president-national sales and service for the Global Business Unit ; although the switch is being presented as amicable , there are mutters that AT&T is concerned that NCR has not had a higher profile since acquisition . |
| 5 | Just after we closed for press last week , news came through that NCR Corp 's chairman and chief executive Gilbert Williamson would retire from the company in May and would be succeeded by Jerre Stead , currently president of AT&T Co 's Global Business Communications Systems , which he is credited with having turned around ; Stead , 50 , will have the title group executive-NCR , and will be succeeded by Patricia Russo , currently vice president-national sales and service for the Global Business Unit ; although the switch is being presented as amicable , there are mutters that AT&T is concerned that NCR has not had a higher profile since acquisition . |
| 6 | But the depth of the speech 's radicalism has not reached a wider public . |
| 7 | It 's no longer merely a handful of advocates who wonder why someone with such high-calibre material has n't made a bigger dent in the global public 's consciousness . |
| 8 | The pity of it was that she had n't made a bigger part for herself in the night 's scenario ; she was getting polite nods and hellos from people that she already knew slightly , and curious glances from most of the others . |
| 9 | We have n't seen a lovelier setting for golf and it is , by general acclaim , perhaps the best conditioned course in either county . |
| 10 | If you ca n't , you ca n't so easily if you have n't got a better car . |
| 11 | So we have n't got a better mouse driver . |
| 12 | ‘ He has n't got a better nature , ’ I said despondently . |
| 13 | The jury and I have n't got a higher degree in mathematics , you know . |
| 14 | Because up to this point they have n't achieved a lighter weight and they have conditioned themselves to believing they ca n't . |