Example sentences of "[adv] not [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Is my hon. Friend worried — as I am — that the Bill will perhaps not get through to the next stage given the fact that this morning the Northern Region Councils Association — a Labour-dominated body — wrote to every Member of Parliament in the northern region asking them to be present for this important debate ? |
| 2 | Although public awareness of the Third Reich is probably greater in Germany than in the US , the organisers were right not to cut down on the documentary material . |
| 3 | You were just saying , you know , that we should just walk in the streets and things like , but I would just not walk out in the streets at night , I 've got to be in the car with the doors locked and , and I just would n't walk out in the streets at night , not because any thing has happened to me , but its just through what I 've heard , I 'm just terrified . |
| 4 | The computer model at Britain 's Meteorological Office predicts that the fires ' effect on this year 's monsoon will probably not stand out against the monsoon 's annual variations . |
| 5 | Town 's top scorer , Paul Bradbury was also not missing out on the action and came close on three or four occasions , but Simmons was playing excellently to deny him . |
| 6 | But the most surprising difference was that their axes of preferential response were clearly not lined up with the axes of the on-off directionally selective type , and when Clyde Oyster and I analysed this in more detail we found what is shown in Figure 5 . |
| 7 | As a matter of practice execution is often not carried out pending the hearing . |
| 8 | This , as we have seen , is simply not borne out by the facts . |
| 9 | She did not even go as far as her room — the sound of the door being unlocked , opening and closing again should surely not carry down to the hall . |
| 10 | There were visits of this kind at which institutions were told flatly not to come back to the CNAA for validation , for a variety of reasons . |
| 11 | ‘ If I am wearing a pure white carnation I am best avoided on that day because it means I am in a bad mood , ’ he said , adding that he always warns new acquaintances of this fact but has as yet not lived up to the threat . |
| 12 | For a party you could prepare all four — and why not finish up with the orange and almond dessert on page 16 . |
| 13 | Why not stand up for the uniquely British spirit embodied by Richard Lester ( who 's American — DQ ) , Rita Tushingham , Shelagh Delaney , Tom Courtenay , etc . |
| 14 | ‘ Why not join in with the others , if you want to learn ? ’ |
| 15 | ‘ I tell you what , ’ he said , after thinking for a few seconds , ‘ as you 're so keen on horses why not come up to the farm when you 've got some time to spare and help my young niece in the stables ? |
| 16 | ‘ In fact , if you 're not otherwise engaged , why not come along to the wedding with me ? |
| 17 | My advice to the Government is that they can not sort out the problem this side of a general election , so why not get on with the job of laying the long-term foundations for a successful economy ? |
| 18 | ‘ Instead of going straight back , why not drive up into the hills and show Ashley the view ? ’ |
| 19 | Why not keep in with the people who really run racing , the villains ? |
| 20 | He appeared to allay this concern during the present hearings by admitting to mistakes , specifically not following up on the vague information available to him that there might have been a covert operation and unquestioningly accepting the repeated reassurances of his superior , the then CIA director William J. Casey , that government officials were not involved in illicit activities . |
| 21 | ‘ The ambition is certainly not to go along at the existing size , growing by 5 per cent a year . |
| 22 | If 1 Samuel 4 left them asking whether they could still regard themselves as the people of God , chapters 5 and 6 reassured them that their God had certainly not gone over to the Babylonians . |
| 23 | Ruth would almost certainly not come up to the flat . |