Example sentences of "to [verb] [not/n't] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A case in point is those forms of nationalism committed to policing not only actual geographic borders and literal or legally defined aliens , but symbolic and ideological boundaries ( both internal and external ) between the normal and the abnormal , the healthy and sick , the conforming and the deviant . |
| 2 | For example , Peter Winch comes at least close to maintaining not only that there can be no action outside some governing public rules but also that a full account of the rules obeyed also yields a full account of the action done . |
| 3 | Well he 's got ta get all the tiles up he 's got to has n't he ? |
| 4 | Got ta be worth going to has n't it ? |
| 5 | But so many applications for an official search are rejected that the Registries have a printed list of four frequent reasons for rejection , as follows : ( 1 ) no plan on search of part ; ( 2 ) plan lodged does not enable the property searched to be identified on the filed plan ; ( 3 ) the estate plan referred to has not been approved by the Registry for use with Form 94B ; ( 4 ) approval of the estate plan has been withdrawn , therefore any application for a search must be accompanied by a plan . |
| 6 | This leads us back to considering not the detective short story but the crime short story , the equivalent of the crime novel we have looked at , one of those stories which has in it no more than , in Stan Ellin 's words , " that streak of something wicked " . |
| 7 | I had become far too used to hearing not conspicuously brilliant boys called Socrates and Aristotle , and to addressing the ill-favoured old woman who did my room out as Aphrodite , to smile . |
| 8 | In the early days of November the members of the Cabinet fell to arguing not whether there should be an election at all upon the issue , but exactly when it should take place . |
| 9 | Here the person referred to did not expect to be alone at the bar . |
| 10 | Unfortunately , two of the people I spoke to did n't know there was more than one strip on the race-course and the one who did — a non-pilot — failed to tell me that Newbury was busy building a new runway in the centre of the course . |
| 11 | Oh you saw er you 'd seen this because er you had friends all over , I mean , the fact that you went to did n't er tt get rid of all your friends . |
| 12 | Well I thought that cycling built power in the leg muscles , it 's , I mean it ought to did n't it ? |
| 13 | Well the Australians are at least trying to did n't have much success apparently |
| 14 | Had to did n't they ? |
| 15 | I know you said you were able to did n't you ? |
| 16 | when they do n't have erm , when you have your election form and that and you send it in , do do n't they come round if you have n't sent it back , or do they just , they used to did n't they ? |
| 17 | I gave my last one to did n't I ? |
| 18 | Catherine you said you wanted to did n't you ? |
| 19 | Ken Vasey did n't have to make a save in the first half , did n't really have to did n't give Charlton a chance , and even in the second half when Charlton came forward more and more , they did n't really have any chances erm one that Lee volleyed over the bar , one that was headed over the crossbar , and the chance that went in the net , so they still did n't have many chances , but erm United somehow erm construed to drop two points , and erm yes , dreadfully disappointing . |
| 20 | Automation is the key to making not only a good product but the best product . |
| 21 | Automation is the key to making not only a good product but the best product . |
| 22 | Someone moved me out , sooner or later , and it was probably just as well , for my attempts to find anyone to talk to had not prospered . |
| 23 | Such is the case , for instance , in ( 69 ) below , where the phrase the notion that suggests surprise at someone having done such a thing as was done , thereby implying that the speaker would not have thought such audacity possible if the occurrence of the event referred to had not come to his knowledge : ( 69 ) … one of those heroes , the air ace Billy Bishop , was recently the focus of a bitter wrangle between the National Film Board and the Senate . |
| 24 | and then , then your metal you used to have to had n't you ? |
| 25 | you tend to thinking not very warm . |
| 26 | That 's what all boils down to does n't it at the end of the day and you have n't succeeded as far as I can see in convincing people , those three thousand signatories , that erm it 's not going to affect their lives and the quality of their lives and their their environment adversely . |
| 27 | The actual matrix to design it , yet it comes back to does n't it ? |
| 28 | behave think of them as less than have to does n't it |
| 29 | you do sometimes these are the best Morroc 's , but , same , the stall I go to does n't stand on Tuesdays only Wednesdays and Fridays and Saturdays , here are |
| 30 | Yes it saves the er er the use of excess energy when you do n't need to does n't it ? |