Example sentences of "[vb -s] [not/n't] [verb] [to-vb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's perhaps the only committee , if one dare call it a committee of this council , where the chief officer has n't troubled to come to the budget review and represent the interests of his committee . |
| 2 | ‘ Your uncle , as you know , comes in at ten past twelve on the dot and Carrie a few minutes after , that is if she has n't stopped to gaze in the shops . |
| 3 | You may , you may have lec the lectures are supposed to finish at the end of this term , but if , you know , a lecturer has been ill or has n't managed to get through the stuff erm , you may have some lectures next term , but er |
| 4 | He does not bother to turn on the bedside lamp . |
| 5 | Rule utilitarianism is often advocated , on grounds of fairness , as necessary to counter the excuses of the ‘ free rider ’ who does not bother to stick to a moral rule because enough others are doing so to produce its benefits . |
| 6 | ‘ You have been very clever — in fact , too clever ’ and the goodie saying , ‘ Kill me , but let the girl go ’ must be taken as read , but Casaubon does not fail to intone after the not tremendously exciting climax , ‘ Maybe I imagined the whole thing . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Sandy is a knight who does not fail to rise to the occasion , ’ Mariot observed . |
| 8 | The notice does not appear to operate as a warning and neither could it raise the defence of volenti non fit injuria ( Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977 , s. 2(3) ) . |
| 9 | It could be argued however that according to the theory of bureaucracy the Central Bank would operate monetary policy to suit its own needs , and also that monetary policy ought to be operated by a body that is accountable to the electorate ( a central bank is not , although the Bundesbank does not appear to suffer from the above problems ) . |
| 10 | Dr Freeman said bone loss does not appear to occur in every anorexic woman . |
| 11 | The proposed broadening of the granting of investment aids for the purpose of protecting and improving the environment ( part of Article 3 ) is to be welcomed although it does not appear to square with the basic investment aid objectives of such plans because it appears to mean that environmental investment per se will qualify for support , even if not part of an agricultural improvement . |
| 12 | The exploitation of informal carers especially women — does not appear to enter into the calculations . |
| 13 | Yet the Home Secretary does not legislate to deal with the cause of disturbances . |
| 14 | Cricket club president Brian Kneeshaw has said the club does not want to move from the Green Lane site . |
| 15 | Here I would suggest that if the beginner does not want to invest in a full set , he should settle for the 3 , 5 , 7 and 9-irons , sand wedge , plus a 3 and a 5-wood . |
| 16 | A cat does not want to die with the smell of humanity in his nostrils and the noise of humanity in his delicate peaked ears . |
| 17 | Paul does not want to think about the Poll Tax . |
| 18 | In this climate , the academic in English and other subjects in the humanities , who is busy , who publishes a lot , who goes to conferences , can not but be preferred to the quiet scholar , who keeps a low profile , even seems rather idle , but is taking his time over a major piece of scholarly writing that may involve many years ' work and which he does not intend to give to the world until he is ready . |
| 19 | He will continue to study for his external law degree at the University of London , but does not intend to train as a barrister — an idea that he toyed with for a while . |
| 20 | This statutory right does not extend to consent to the donation of blood or organs . |
| 21 | It must be stressed again that this section of the chapter does not attempt to look at the level and nature of racial discrimination in Britain . |
| 22 | The additional part , which does not have to do with the connections stated by independent conditionals , is perhaps particularly necessary in connection with our conviction about the explanatoriness of the causal items . |
| 23 | First , the bidder does not have to deal with a series of forms of acceptance from accepting shareholders , making sure that they have been completed properly and dealing with any lost share certificates . |
| 24 | Fortunately , the researcher does not have to go through the bound volumes one by one to see what they contain . |
| 25 | The difference between this and the two previous outcomes is that under this procedure the agency does not have to go through the whole decision-making process again . |
| 26 | If the local authority knows that it wishes to privatise and not use local authority employees at all , it does not have to go through the compulsory tender procedure . |
| 27 | The product does not have to remain in the packaging and the mere possibility of someone having tampered with the goods is not sufficient to exonerate the defendant . |
| 28 | He realises that he does not have to conform to the laws which have been set down by his community . |
| 29 | The part has an enlarged on-chip primary write-back cache rather than the write-through cache of the 80486 , which means that the CPU does not have to wait for the cache controller to copy stored data back to main memory . |
| 30 | The requirement of leave gives the court control over the proceedings from the very start , and because the respondent does not have to appear at the leave stage , it is relieved of the need to take any steps to get a weak claim struck out . |