Example sentences of "[conj] [noun prp] [verb] [not/n't] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Deeper down in the chest , where Tod does n't often burrow , the women get appreciably younger and are to be seen in things like shorts and swimwear . |
| 2 | I missed Ozawa 's sheer rhythmic energy at times , such as in ‘ Porcus 's Introduction ’ , where Baudo does not quite manage to bring out the basic dance rhythms behind the music . |
| 3 | Although Noverre did not specifically name them he described these dancers ' particular characteristics as having similar physiques and technical expertise as the danseurs classiques but they were not always so well-proportioned and usually possessed a natural sense of comedy . |
| 4 | It was a measure of his upset that Karel did n't even notice he was repeating himself . |
| 5 | Like him , we are disappointed that Germany has not yet signed up and we hope that it finally will . |
| 6 | Americans still had an important role to play in war-ravaged Europe in ensuring that Germany did not again threaten the security of Europe , and in being on hand to help counterbalance if necessary the enigmatic and possibly dangerous USSR . |
| 7 | Aelfflaed 's testimony suggests that Aldfrith had not certainly engineered his son 's succession and that Osred 's triumph over Eadwulf was the work of a powerful faction at court devoted to the preservation of royal power in the hands of the descendants of Oswiu . |
| 8 | She thought sadly of all the things about his war that Johnny did not yet know . |
| 9 | In 1983 , however , it seems that Pakistan did not seriously test Soviet terms for a withdrawal of forces from Afghanistan , and in May the Pakistani Foreign Minister failed to obtain the concurrence of the United States for the draft settlement reached the previous month . |
| 10 | It is unfortunate that Dustin did not similarly mime the songs he sings while strumming a guitar ( an instrument he studied for the part ) , because his singing voice is strained and uncomfortably high . |
| 11 | By now this was so unusual that Karen did n't even realize I 'd come until I told her . |
| 12 | One of the bizarre things I find today is that England does n't really like traders . |
| 13 | Although Christopher did n't really see much of them did he ? |
| 14 | Are you aware that Janice does n't really love you ? |
| 15 | One feels that Stott has not quite entered Ravel 's world of here , particularly as he told the pianist Marguerite Long that the tempo throughout should be the same and even used the word ‘ métronomique ’ ( Au piano avec Maurice Ravel ; Paris : 1971 ) . |
| 16 | From our unpublished data we conclude that TBP does not directly bind to internal pol III promoters ( or to cryptic TATA-sequences in the plasmid-vector ) . |
| 17 | Sometimes he would even say that Tom had not only gone home but had subsequently died of cancer . |
| 18 | We may generously assume that Hippel did not really believe what he said , but was merely putting a rhetorical flourish on a widely-accepted piece of wisdom . |
| 19 | It was revealed many years later that Sid had not actually bought the winning ticket but had found it mysteriously floating in his half-time Bovril . |
| 20 | It was her misfortune , Guy reflected briefly , that Matilda had n't also inherited the Conqueror 's skill at diplomacy . |
| 21 | He never took into account that Eddie did n't really want to make a career as a racing driver — ’ |
| 22 | There are other ways people have tried to protect the minority , one is by saying that the , that you can generate a certain set of rights from within the democratic procedure in a different way , that is if democracies flourish people need certain liberties , people need to express their own opinions , people need to be able to do what erm assemble where they need to and so on but more common is the view that democracy should be limited by constitutional would present the minority and this is a view that Mill does n't really defend in representative government although it seems to be very close to his view and on liberty , that is we limit the spear that this government has control over so we ca n't , so in this view erm democracy is given a very limited role . |
| 23 | Then a Professor of German Literature applied his literary mind to the Gospels and declared that they were a work of fiction and that Jesus had not actually existed ? |
| 24 | Another thing , perhaps , we should notice right at the very beginning is that Jesus did n't actually speak in pa , in in er , in chapters , and they 've lost , they 've been put in for our convenience , and chapter fifteen is not the beginning of a new incident Jesus had already been speaking to the people , he had been teaching them in chapter fourteen . |
| 25 | Peter Lilley as a right winger has to combine his reputation as a zealous cutter of the state sector with a departmental budget that eats up to forty percent of the hole , one MP groans , rather inconsequentially , a weeks social security payments would buy a warship , even Kenneth Clark and Michael Portillo , sharpening their axes have to admit that Lilley did not exactly invent unemployment personally , but the burgeoning budget for invalidity benefit , together with much anecdotal evidence , suggest that somebody in Whitehall , well before his time , decided to cut the unemployment figures artificially by allowing , even encouraging people with little hope of jobs to remember that troublesome pain in their backs , and in the process get better benefits . |
| 26 | For some reason that Jinny did not quite understand , it was the last straw . |
| 27 | Its message was that Africa had not yet produced a generation of political leaders capable of providing the leadership it needs . |
| 28 | ‘ Inspector , ’ broke in the sergeant , determined to pose some important questions that Blanche had not yet bothered to ask . |
| 29 | Dexter distrusted the whole concept , fearing that Blanche did not just operate at the rational level of searching for evidence and reassembling facts , but that she so thought herself into the mind of murderer and victim , that she communed with spirits . |
| 30 | She shrank into the furthest corner just as the door was pushed open , thankful that Jack had not yet seen fit to light the sconces against the shadows of late afternoon . |