Example sentences of "[pron] [vb -s] not [adv] [verb] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Those who took part in the sessions found it enjoyable and good fun , ’ commented Andrew , ‘ and although everyone has not yet managed to pack it in , the early feedback is encouraging . ’ |
| 2 | The branch obtained last year from Chirbury to Minsterley remains with its ground unbroken , and yet the directors of the Bishop 's Castle are not ashamed to appear in Parliament with a demand to use so much of the Cambrian as will permit the former to effect communication with the Mid-Wales , another abortion over which no one can be found to preside save Mr Whalley , and which has not yet ventured to publish a return of traffic , or to submit an account of its income and expenditure for public inspection . |
| 3 | The odd man out is the smallest instrument , the high-speed photometer , which has not yet managed to see anything because its work is hindered by the jitter . |
| 4 | In terms of review of staggered hours erm the review is sort of a constant one which has not really come to head yet , in terms of actually being able to write something down , so I 'm we 'll be able to as soon as we , as soon I 've something which we erm , come to any conclusions in terms of staggered hours . |
| 5 | This in fact repeats more generally what was stated with regard to environmental competence by Article 130R(4) of the EEC Treaty , inserted by the Single European Act , under which ‘ the Community shall take action relating to the environment to the extent to which the objectives … can be attained better at Community level than at the level of the individual Member States ’ , a provision which does not yet appear to have been the object of scrutiny by the European Court of Justice . |
| 6 | Some are published by Kenny McKenzie 's Taranis , an imprint which does not yet seem to have hit the Spring and Autumn Books numbers of The Bookseller . |
| 7 | When that need arose there is clear enough indication of the availability of collective response from a continuing association which does not always need to have been preserved as a formal organisation . |
| 8 | I find it shameful that you try to promote the measure which does n't even begin to address the basic problem of housing . |
| 9 | There are two dangers to be avoided , if you can avoid them , in the choice of chambers : reading with someone who is too busy , who can not spare the time to give you instruction , except possibly over a snack lunch , and reading with someone who has not enough work to give you proper experience . |
| 10 | The gaoler who usually dealt with Cameron was called Jamie — he called himself Jamie , like a little boy who has not long learned to speak . |
| 11 | To the linguist , it is clear at once that she has not really managed to speak JC , she has just made an imitation of it which might fool people not really familiar with that language . |
| 12 | She does not principally want to know what the data signify in themselves but how texts reflect processes of communication , and how and why they were used to organise purposeful action , make valid claims , or to express feelings . |
| 13 | For , like the most envious of step-mothers , she does not really want to leave anything worth having to John Major at all ; she wishes to live in Thatcherland , surrounded by mirrors all perpetually claiming her to be the one and only . |
| 14 | She does n't even attempt to push any buttons . |
| 15 | She does n't even have to ask … people just feel obliged to run her errands … as though they were atoning for something . |
| 16 | she does n't also want to forget |
| 17 | ‘ She does n't always have to upset the table , though , when she is there , does she ? ’ remarked Henry Tyler in a tone that at least one ambassador had been known to call ‘ eminently reasonable ’ . |
| 18 | She says she does n't really want to earn money from the revelations but simply wants to set the story of the Yorks ' marriage straight . |
| 19 | Instead of just cooking up three dimensions with all of the responsibility that modelling and casting can involve , she ‘ plunders ’ the freshness of a medium she does n't fully understand to bring spatial illusion into her own sculptural space . |
| 20 | She ca n't cook , she does n't especially want to learn to cook , and I have only the sketchiest notion of British cooking . |
| 21 | One does not usually bother to mention it , but we shall make it explicit this time . |
| 22 | However , the " Big Book " of Alcoholics Anonymous , written a mere four years after the birth of that Fellowship , says " to be gravely affected , one does not necessarily have to drink a long time , nor take the quantities some of us have . " |
| 23 | It must have looked very bad , but I 'm afraid one does n't always stop to think how a situation appears to an outsider . ’ |
| 24 | One does n't always have to make those assumptions , of course . |
| 25 | It does n't have to be quite the same , one does n't always have to have red and gold . |
| 26 | ‘ He has n't even tried to find out how I am , has he ? ’ |
| 27 | Darkman has been billed as Sam Raimi 's move toward mainstream Hollywood , though given the current fascination for comic-book movies , he has n't really had to move that far . |
| 28 | And he has made a lot of easy promises that he has not yet had to keep . |
| 29 | I wrote to the Secretary of State , but he has not even begun to justify the Government 's action . |
| 30 | Risky , certainly ; but it has n't yet failed to get the class — and the child concerned — to argue strongly that while there 's life there 's hope ! |