Example sentences of "[verb] not [verb] [adv] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I dared not turn round now to look for a vehicle , but I held my breath and listened for one — there was only the sound of my rubber soles on the macadam and the noise of wind . |
| 2 | Steps were taken to reduce capacity : shifts were cut and shod time introduced but these measures did not go far enough to balance supply and demand . |
| 3 | I did not want a verdict that he was killed in action because he did not go out there to fight . |
| 4 | His mother , Barbara Edwards , of Cae Gwilym Lane , Cefn Mawr , said : ‘ I did not want a verdict that he was killed in action because he did not go out there to fight , he went out to keep the peace . ’ |
| 5 | Matthias did not reign long enough to consolidate his achievements for he died in 1490 at the age of fifty . |
| 6 | This was approached from two angles : first , what was known as the ‘ battle for the fourth grade ’ , an acknowledgement that substantial numbers of children either did not go to school or did not stay long enough to consolidate literacy . |
| 7 | Maclean , perhaps fortunately , did not live long enough to witness the collapse of the system he had built up . |
| 8 | Richard Cox did not live long enough to see the triumph of his apple , for he died in Colnbrook 20 May 1845 , eight years after his wife Ann . |
| 9 | But he was only young then , about thirty , and he did not have so far to fall . |
| 10 | Guido 's gaze was fixed seawards , watching the disappearing boat , and he did not turn round immediately to look at her . |
| 11 | The two deaths recorded during this study both occurred in patients who were moribund when first assessed and did not survive long enough to reach hospital . |
| 12 | They seem to be experiments in animal design that did not work efficiently enough to survive in the competition that became more and more intense as time passed and animal life proliferated . |
| 13 | I also thought that our style did not try hard enough to persuade or unite . |
| 14 | ‘ You did not come out here to admire the lights , I think ? ’ |
| 15 | Pillar or ‘ short climbing roses ' By and large , training and tying into a single pillar or post is only suitable for shorter growing climbers that do not grow long enough to clothe larger areas like walls and pergolas . |
| 16 | The fact that the group 's thorough investigation failed to reveal the existence of this mini ‘ statement of purpose ’ either in print or [ more likely ] in preparation could speak volumes for their assertion , repeated at regular intervals , that British Gas do not do enough internally to publicise environmental efforts . |
| 17 | This is the particular issue for debate at this meeting , and I do not presume here either to pre-empt discussion or anticipate what I will say later when I consider it in greater detail . |
| 18 | The long residence time generally means that any harmful bacteria that enter an aquifer do not live long enough to pose a threat to anyone using groundwater . |
| 19 | Conservatives tend to stress the ‘ will not ’ : jobs exist , but people do not take them ; jobs do not pay enough , or people do not try hard enough to find them . |
| 20 | ‘ And people do not understand how physically to vote . |
| 21 | This subject added : " Occasionally I hear the first movement of his Third Concerto , which I do not know well enough to construct in my mind when I am fully conscious . " |
| 22 | It was what they had expected of University , but had not hoped so soon to find . |
| 23 | He was angry with the hijackers and he was angry with himself because he had not moved fast enough to help Harald . |
| 24 | It was appropriate to the spirit of jazz ( and a useful antidote to the inevitable toe-curling staginess of awards ceremonies in general ) to present two bands of joint American-British instrumentalists who had not worked together before to see what would happen . |
| 25 | Lucien accepted this praise with downcast eyes , aware that the most accomplished of Mandru 's vibrancers were biting their knuckles in shame , because they had not practised diligently enough to emulate Lucien 's glowing performance . |
| 26 | They were interpreted as explaining why radiation had not spread out uniformly to create the newborn universe but had produced impurities , or primeval seeds , whose gravitational forces had attracted increasing amounts of matter to clump together to form galaxies , clusters of galaxies and stars . |
| 27 | The next great archbishop after Anselm was Thomas Becket , The monks of his day , like those of Anselm 's , believed that their archbishop had not tried hard enough to defend their rights . |
| 28 | Pebbles had not come this far to capitulate now , and at the wire she was a long-looking neck to the good . |
| 29 | This woman was not his wife , and she had not come out here to seek conversation . |
| 30 | It does not go so far to ensure proportionality as other variants , but would involve the least departure from the existing system , would retain single-member constituencies which many regard as being a valuable feature of the present system , and would be much the simplest to understand in operation . |