Example sentences of "[vb -s] [not/n't] [verb] [prep] [pron] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anyway , he has not spoken to me all day . ’ |
| 2 | Martyn referred to Miller 's use of works by those better versed in scientific aspects of gardening , to whom due acknowledgment is given , and concluded with an appreciation of the author 's own industry : ‘ As to the practical part , he has given t is hardly anything but from his own knowledge and of the great number of plants mentioned in his book there are scarce any which he has not cultivated with his own hands . ’ |
| 3 | But no news is good news , and Mr Clarke has been drawing some comfort from the fact that he has n't heard from his own local family doctor . |
| 4 | The company reserves the right to veto or restrict the provision of additional facilities such as juke-boxes , fruit machines , pool tables , etc. , but does not specify from whom these must be hired or demand a proportion of the takings ( this attitude is in contrast to most of the national brewery companies and does something to explain why Palatine are regarded as good employers/landlords by their licensees ) . |
| 5 | a sentence is not autonomous , it does not exist for its own sake but as part of a situation and part of a text . |
| 6 | In other words , time does not exist in its own right but is a characteristic of the universe . |
| 7 | sort that cultural otherness does not carry with it any necessary hierarchy of superiority/inferiority which can be appropriately labelled by such terms as " primitive " , " backward " , " underdeveloped " , " childish " , " ignorant " , " simple " , " primeval " , " pre-literate " , or whatever . |
| 8 | Obviously , recognition does not carry with it any guarantee of military protection . |
| 9 | It may be that with a patient who is terminally ill or aged , the doctor 's obligation does not extend to anything more than the relief of pain and making the patient comfortable . |
| 10 | Love does not insist on its own way ; it is not irritable or resentful ; it does not rejoice at wrong , but rejoices in the right . |
| 11 | ‘ Love does not insist on its own way ’ . |
| 12 | Rye flour does not rise on its own , but may be mixed with wheat in different proportions and can be baked into a variety of tasty breads . |
| 13 | If the oratory of George Bush does not convince on its own , consider an extract from the Sunday Times magazine : it is about conditions in a refugee camp . |
| 14 | The conglomerate , acting through its ‘ directing mind and will ’ , does not deal in its own shares ; instead it uses information generated by its clients ( or , on occasion , information generated from within the conglomerate itself ) to make profits , or to cut losses , by trading with the public , or even by giving advice to clients , at a time when it ( the conglomerate ) has access to unpublished price sensitive information pertaining to publicly traded securities . |
| 15 | ‘ My life does not belong to me any more , Miss Everdene , but to you . |
| 16 | He does n't dance on his own for long . |
| 17 | Well I 'm sure he does n't go on his own a , with shoes on like that ! |
| 18 | And then later on the script she ha to say he had to say to her well , call her , you leave her and if she does n't come to you that 's not your dog and take her to the pound and have her put down . |
| 19 | So i it does n't come into it that ! |
| 20 | P.C. Clifford , the driver of the car , got her name and address and a statement from her , though it does n't amount to anything more than that she was looking over the bridge and saw the body . |
| 21 | Even now she does n't play on her own very often . ’ |
| 22 | It does n't sound very much like Michael Caine , but then it does n't sound like your own voice either and that 's all that matters . |