Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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31 Molecular hydrogen is rather fragile ( in interstellar terms ) , and is destroyed by shock waves with velocities greater than about 50 km s -1 and can not exist behind the leading shock .
32 These arguments apply just as much where there is a non-cumulative several liability , not annexed to a joint liability , as they do where it is so annexed .
33 Perhaps what has saved it is the fact that it is not situated on a major road .
34 Rather unexpectedly , the lighthouse is not situated at the far extremity of the headland , the Point of Stoer , but two miles short on the west side .
35 TWO men accused of killing a pensioner when a mugging went wrong had the charge found not proven at the High Court in Glasgow yesterday .
36 I left the hotel early and in pleasant sunshine , wearing a light jacket and bow tie , but alas did not bargain for a sudden change in the weather .
37 If the arms race is not stopped in the Middle East , any hope of the long-sought peace dividend will simply disappear , crippling even further the UK and US economies .
38 Whatever the wedding organizers decide , it is important to let the toastmaster and the speechmakers know , so that they are prepared and do not disappear at the vital moment .
39 It does not disappear from the monetary sector .
40 It seemed a rather broad question , and one for which Lord John could not think of a specific answer .
41 Nutty could not think of a good answer and nor could Mr Sylvester , so Nails was allowed to come .
42 Any team which can not think of a new rhyme , or repeats one that has been chosen earlier , drops out until only one team is left .
43 On the way home , she found that she wanted to cry again and could not think of a possible reason why she should .
44 Now I can not think of a single occasion over the years , my adulthood when I have been going to theatre arts events of any kind when I 've actually gone out and bought anything as a result of sponsorship of a programme I 've been looking at .
45 Isabel could not think of a single thing to say .
46 I could not think of a single thing that Quigley had ever done for me .
47 The Gallup survey , commissioned by the Daily Telegraph , also found that more than a third could not think of a single thing about Britain of which to be proud .
48 He admired a point which Stead had made about Polynesians and Christianity , but worried that he could not think of a Christian anthropologist .
49 But for the moment she resolved that she would not think of the loathsome interview again until she was in Prague .
50 Do not think of the personal injury work in isolation .
51 He did not think into the human heart , as Wordsworth has done .
52 But , I told myself as I took a service elevator up to the roof , I should not think in the past tense .
53 You do not think like a civilised man , although your behaviour has become civilised , and so he can not ascribe to your actions motives which are suspect — or not according to his understanding . ’
54 ‘ Then why not knock on the damned door ? ’
55 At present domestic labour is organisationally inefficient because it is not socialised like the industrial sphere , which counterbalances increased productivity through mechanisation .
56 Agree that Practice Rule 15 be not amended at the present time .
57 Having three or more moles greater than five millimetres in diameter ( ones you can not cover with the blunt end of a pencil ) ;
58 The DTI could have responded by saying that the absence of the monitoring return was a serious matter , that it would allow a short extension , but that ‘ consideration would need to be given to revoking the licence if a satisfactory and duly verified monitoring return were not received by the specified date . ’
59 ‘ Wearing a white beret in among Australians , New Zealanders and every type of nationality out there brought some great wolf whistles , which were naturally not received in the right manner .
60 Forward contracts are relatively easy to arrange , although the exporter is committed to supplying the currency agreed to the bank even if the export deal is cancelled or payment is not received within the forward contract period .
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