Example sentences of "not [vb pp] a [adj] " in BNC.

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1 While this might seem to be stating the obvious , the fact is that this issue has not received a great deal of systematic ( as opposed to post hoc ) discussion in the literature .
2 The UFD , claiming that the government had not received a popular mandate , warned President Taya that its supporters would not accept the result .
3 Ecalpemos , after all , was not Greek and did not even sound so to Rufus who , unlike Adam , had not received a classical education .
4 A Downing Street spokeswoman said later they had not received a formal request from Mr Rushdie for a meeting .
5 As for making up and imposition , the tasks most often cited as barred to women , they could certainly not be carried out by anyone who had not received a proper training , and were rightly regarded as skilled work .
6 He described himself as a victim of a US plot to turn his country into a colony , and alleged that he had not received a fair trial .
7 Councillor Malachi Curran , the chairman of the Down Economic Development Agency , claimed the area had not received a fair share in the past and there was an onus on the government to ensure Down was not neglected .
8 Diplomats asked Buckingham Palace to warn her against any trip to the island , which has not received a royal visitor for many years .
9 Provided there 's access to the plane and the fuselage is not crushed a few minutes should tell us all we want to know .
10 It has been restored but not altered a great deal in modern times .
11 I have not heard a single argument — there was not a sentence in the Secretary of State 's speech — to suggest that the upper limit will be reached in the coming year .
12 We have not heard a single word .
13 Although the Koons ' work is also being shown in Strange Developments , Sherman 's work was not given a similar position of prominence , nor even hung in the same location as Koons ' , as if the exhibition organisers were emphatically hoping to avoid any challenging comparisons .
14 All fixed date actions to which the rule does apply are now subject to automatic directions ( see Chapter 11 ) and are not given a return day at the outset .
15 This is why graphology was not given a separate heading in our checklist of stylistic features in 3.1 ; it was understood that such features , where of stylistic interest , would be noted under the heading of foregrounding .
16 Even when an oxytocic agent is not given a small proportion of patients show an increase in plasma oxytocin concentration during the late second or early third stage of labour .
17 KATAHDIN : Unplaced behind Triomphe Modest over 6 furlongs at Nottingham on Tuesday , but this colt was not given a punishing race when running on very well to finish only a few lengths off the winner .
18 The apostles were not given a priestly role by Jesus and he left no instructions about how the Church was to be organized .
19 He claimed he was not given a fair hearing .
20 But when hospitals are struggling to stay within budgets such initiatives are not given a high priority .
21 This eminent folklorist , however , has not given a full consideration to the Celtic background .
22 ‘ It was to protect this operation that the press were not given a full briefing when the recent doping allegations were made .
23 DURING the 1992 general election the people of the United Kingdom were not given a proper chance to make a decision about the Maastricht Treaty .
24 He was not given a medical examination after he lodged his complaint ; however , he still bore scars from the torture one year after his arrest .
25 and they 're not given a large amount of money
26 The Bank has not given a formal ruling on this method of presentation from a capital adequacy perspective .
27 Mrs Piggott 's BUSTED ROCK was not given a hard race when 14½l sixth to Satin Lover at Ascot and is open to plenty of improvement .
28 Patients with little or no residual intraluminal tumour and a good lumen ( implying minimal risk of obstruction ) were not given a further follow up appointment .
29 If you have not taught a Special Needs class why not come along and find out about it this may be another avenue of teaching for you .
30 Paradoxically it has not developed a formalised set of principles or immutable knowledge which could , for example , be structured into an academic text-book about socio-technical systems .
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