Example sentences of "[not/n't] [vb infin] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Whatever flickerings of potential this young tyro possesses , they can not cover up the fact that he is a painter with the imagination of a retarded adolescent ; no technical mastery ; no intuitive feeling for pictorial space ; no sensitivity towards , or grasp of , tradition ; and a colour sense rather less than that of Congo , the chimpanzee who was taught ( among other things ) a crude responsiveness to colour harmonies by Desmond Morris in the late 1950s . |
| 32 | Do not cover up aspects of your lifestyle , such as heavy drinking , which you think may make you look less respectable . |
| 33 | Why not zoom down to your nearest Radio Rentals Shop and you could be watching your memories on video again and again ! |
| 34 | To take David Lewis ' example ( D. Lewis 1973 ) , ‘ if kangaroos had no tails , they would topple over ’ ; it is of course always true that they might not topple over — they might be given crutches by a grateful and tourist-conscious government . |
| 35 | Also , horses will not eat around their own manure unless they are actually starving . |
| 36 | He must sit upright at a table to eat his meals : he can not eat off a tray sitting in bed or an easy chair . |
| 37 | That er goes on in relation to er criminal matters again and er er paragraph three hundred and thi , thirty three forty one er it picks up the subject of expert testament , namely er science , art , trade , technical terms , handwriting , foreign law er the ensuing pages in fact deal with that and then at paragraph thirty two fifty one er in the er section of subjects which experts may not testify on . |
| 38 | Because of the ‘ unconvincing nature ’ of the compromise , he could not make up his mind whether he should apply for membership . |
| 39 | She could conceivably be denied by Kitrina Douglas , the winner of this season 's St Moritz Classic and European Masters , although even if she were to win each of the last four tournaments , she still might not make up the £30,000 deficit on De Lorenzi . |
| 40 | It also brought up the art quote of the year , from one Ziff Fistrunk ( no , I do not make up the name ) , director of the Southside Chicago Sports Council , who organised the protest : ‘ I have trained players in Little League and semi-pro baseball , and at no time did I train them naked . ’ |
| 41 | ‘ Well , Piper , if you can not make up your mind , you are welcome to spend the night at the Police Station ; I have two empty cells at the moment . |
| 42 | They would say , not without truth , ‘ Britain claims to be head of the Empire , but can not make up her own mind . ’ |
| 43 | The reports of international commissions such as that of Brandt do not make up for this gap . |
| 44 | Mr Collor 's problem is that although money is no obstacle to his multi-million dollar campaign , it does not make up for the thousands of enthusiastic party militants campaigning for his rival . |
| 45 | But these are isolated groups which do not make up a force . ’ |
| 46 | Other Hamlets have been as wrong-headed : Laurence Olivier 's of 1948 , perhaps , which charted ‘ the tragedy of a man who could not make up his mind ’ , or Grigori Konzintsev 's Marxist version of 1964 . |
| 47 | The things which came out in therapy did not make up a complete , finished jigsaw , as I might have imagined . |
| 48 | The Great War and those more recent conflicts were put together and ‘ paid-for ’ on behalf of politicians who could not make up their minds or bring the problems to the debating-table ; who preferred the shouting and smearing , the innuendo and hate for their opponents ' parties , to the welfare and the good of their people . |
| 49 | She could not make up her mind whether to risk wearing them for the competition . |
| 50 | The recent price recovery can not make up for that much lost ground . |
| 51 | If the contractions can not make up their mind about starting or not , that is they come and go and labour is not properly established , take one dose of Pulsatilla 200 every 2 hours until the contractions do make up their mind . |
| 52 | France and the USSR have already indicated that they will not make up the deficit . |
| 53 | This word can convey several meanings but one of them expresses an inner state of mind so torn between various options that it can not make up its mind . |
| 54 | Wellington could not make up its mind , so nominated both . |
| 55 | In other words , technology does not make up for Europe 's high labour costs . |
| 56 | It follows that we can not make up a square matrix X of eigenvectors to satisfy ( 8 ) ; for this reason the matrix B is said to be defective . |
| 57 | I could not make up my mind which was cause and which effect . |
| 58 | And when a half-page profile of Jean-Claude appeared in Le Nouvel Observateur I really could not make up my mind whether he was more genuinely displeased than pleased . |
| 59 | The business class as a whole does not make up more than 0.2% of the population , although if its outer fringes are included it could approach 1% . |
| 60 | When current and capital expenditure in these areas is substantially reduced , private enterprise inevitably suffers , for it can not make up the loss by diverting its activities to other private sectors . |