Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] [pron] [prep] [art] [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 | Analysis that is performed only occasionally or perhaps in one batch does not lend itself to the statistical interpretation underlying conventional QC systems . |
4 | He merely strengthens the conclusions of the three wise men , who think that there may have been some recent decline but who certainly did not atribute it to the national curriculum , as the hon. Gentleman did . |
5 | In the 1930s , Mr Justice Stone declared that the United States Supreme Court ought not to see itself as the sole guardian of the constitution . |
6 | The strong views expressed on both sides of the House — which in itself is unusual , divided as it is in its political structure — on the way that the right hon. Gentleman has carried out his job should send a clear message to the IRA : that it will not bomb its way to the conference table ; it will not affect us now ; it will not affect us during the general election ; and it will not affect us after the general election . |
7 | The strong views expressed on both sides of the House — which in itself is unusual , divided as it is in its political structure — on the way that the right hon. Gentleman has carried out his job should send a clear message to the IRA : that it will not bomb its way to the conference table ; it will not affect us now ; it will not affect us during the general election ; and it will not affect us after the general election . |
8 | French superstar Zafonic was pulled out of the St James 's Palace Stakes when owner Prince Khalid Abdulla decided not to risk him on the rain-softened surface . |
9 | Franco 's immobility in 1942 – 43 , his smiles first to one side , then to the other , were not the sign of an astute politician , but of the conservative strategist , determined not to risk anything by an impulsive action . |
10 | But let me tell you now about just a few of those entries which did not make it to the final but which , nevertheless , had several redeeming features . |
11 | The sort of people who wanted a house that size these days did not want it in the high street of a market town , and this young woman surely would not have the income to keep it up . |
12 | In a letter to Gilbert dated 16 November , 1840 he wrote : ‘ As I find the fauna of New Holland quite distinct and that of New Zealand to belong to an entirely different group of Islands I have determined not to include it in the present work ; you will therefore not go there … ’ |
13 | Perhaps Hincmar 's silence here was tactful , since Charles the Bald 's sons had not distinguished themselves in the traditional roles . |
14 | 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 . |
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16 | 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 . |
17 | ‘ You need not treat me like a half-witted child ! ’ |
18 | It was a lot stronger than I had imagined and so I did not treat it with the necessary respect . |
19 | In Ball , above , the court mentioned the " aimed at " doctrine but did not treat it as a separate element . |
20 | Ludens was a historian , but certainly did not regard himself as a Jewish historian . |
21 | Robin Smith does not regard himself as an automatic selection for this summer 's campaign against Pakistan , despite winning the Cornhill player of the year award . |
22 | 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 . |
23 | 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 . |
24 | Margaret Irwin herself accepted that the lack of success was caused by " the apathy of the women themselves … the woman does not take her industrial work as seriously as a man … [ she ] does not regard it as the permanent occupation of her life " .37 Margaret Irwin 's views are not to be dismissed lightly , but it is worth noting that she herself did not approach the question with any blazing convictions about equal pay . |
25 | It did not seem to me , in that incomplete version , quite to come off , and I still do not regard it among the successful poems . |
26 | Iran-contra , however , had always had another star , a more retiring one ; and he had not given anything like a full performance yet . |
27 | So while differential wage rates might explain the preponderance of women in the Mauritius EPZ , they do not explain it in the Mexican maquilas ( in-bond factories ) . |
28 | His knowledge of foreign issues was limited and Roosevelt had not consulted him in the brief period that Truman held the vice-presidency . |
29 | 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 ’ . |
30 | Ravel 's Chansons madecasses , though the music sweats with sultry southern heat , does not bathe one with the swirling sounds of his orchestral timbres . |