Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] [pron] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I should think it probably would , but I do n't think that 's any reason for not starting it and for not seeing it as a major goal , because after all erm the travel market , as we 've heard , is extremely competitive erm people really do vote with their feet and if we do n't then people wo n't come here , and now we really have got a fight on our hands to encourage people to come here , particularly from North America . |
| 2 | Death is always a failure in hospital , and the business and routine of life in the medical and surgical wards do not lend themselves to a personal death ( Sudnow 1967 ) . |
| 3 | I 'm sure some of you last year or least last week or even last month , read about the black sack that had all the wonderful jewels in it that came into a charity shop and I think it 's a lesson for us all is n't it , not not to miss anything in a black sack , Jacqui . |
| 4 | You never miss an issue with our brilliant 15-for-12 subscription offer , so why not treat yourself to a specially-priced binder to keep them in , too ? |
| 5 | Unlike the other more senior competitors for the approval of the leader , she did not treat him as a fellow professional or even a well-informed client . |
| 6 | ‘ You need not treat me like a half-witted child ! ’ |
| 7 | In Ball , above , the court mentioned the " aimed at " doctrine but did not treat it as a separate element . |
| 8 | Ludens was a historian , but certainly did not regard himself as a Jewish historian . |
| 9 | The courts recognise these limitations , which are inherent in any system of taking evidence abroad ahead of the trial , but can not regard them as a sufficient objection to the making of the order . |
| 10 | That is not the proposition , but the fact that one does not ban it does not mean that , with the knowledge that we now possess , we do not regard it as a debilitating and dangerous influence on society , and especially young people . |
| 11 | Iran-contra , however , had always had another star , a more retiring one ; and he had not given anything like a full performance yet . |
| 12 | For example , in 1983 it was said that ‘ even where the husband had been violent , it would be reasonable for the wife to continue to reside in the matrimonial home but to seek a court order restraining his violence or barring him from the home ’ and in these circumstances the authority 's duty would be ‘ to advise the applicant so to do , not to accommodate her as a homeless person ’ . |
| 13 | Wessex region would not recognise me as a senior registrar until the college 's approval had been received . |
| 14 | ‘ That is , of course , if I 'm not keeping you from a million other engagements . ’ |
| 15 | Hamad Hasan did not describe himself as a free Zuwayi , but his ventures into gardening and trade , and his use of his agricultural knowledge and skills , were characteristic activities of free men . |
| 16 | My idea now is to get a type rating on the 700 , not to explore it as a journalistic exercise . |
| 17 | Be careful not to create anyone with a phoney Chelsea ‘ Sloane ’ accent or anything outrageous . |
| 18 | ( I should point out that I could not bring myself to a Japanese option ! ) |
| 19 | Clearly Parliament would last its full five years and the Government could not bring it to a premature end . |
| 20 | Indeed , the fact that he did not refer her to a different psychiatrist convinced me for a long time that I had misconstrued the situation . |
| 21 | ( iii ) It is important that pupils working towards level 7 and beyond have increasing opportunities to use spoken Standard English , and in particular that those who do not speak it as a native dialect should be helped to extend their language competence so that they can use Standard English with confidence . |
| 22 | Your father , and Elizabeth and the others , are very worried about you , because you have not visited them for a long time . |
| 23 | But no one has yet been able to identify ‘ extra ’ income , and enterprises do not show it as a separate category . |
| 24 | Yet I recently visited a hi-tech company which was fully conversant with activity-based costing yet did not do it on a regular annual basis . |
| 25 | One of Isaac Bashevis Singer 's characters in a short story tells the narrator-author : ‘ You once wrote that human nature is such that one can not do anything in a straight line . |
| 26 | He asked her not to remember him as a bad man but as someone who had made a mistake . |
| 27 | The Government have put large sums of money into the public services for many years , but have not proclaimed it as a great virtue . |
| 28 | The Christian communicators ' awareness of the essential role of the Holy Spirit does not provide them with a short cut to achieve instant impact . |
| 29 | This issue has also been addressed by other researchers , but the results do not provide us with a comprehensive national picture based on systematic analysis of the performance of non-traditional students . |
| 30 | The education process which the 1970s building surveyor had undergone in the fifties and early sixties had not equipped him for a meaningful and identifiable role in the profession of the seventies . |