Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] [pron] [adv] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , given the small size of our anticipated samples and the fact that they would not lend themselves easily to quantitative analysis it was decided to focus in this study upon qualitative data . |
| 2 | Moreover , the proposed business units would span several establishments and would not lend themselves easily to rapid consolidation . |
| 3 | Following on from this , the superficial certainties of theoretical abstraction do not lend themselves easily to neat policy prescription , theoretical writing is necessarily partial , of limited value in helping people to see urban crisis from a different perspective . |
| 4 | It is difficult to judge the material of the shroud from its marble representation , for sculpture does not lend itself easily to such subtleties . |
| 5 | His family , friends and colleagues were not to see him again for 19 months . |
| 6 | Roman does not want you here at all , Signorina Hastings . |
| 7 | How can I be sure you have not given it away to another ? " |
| 8 | He declared that he could see no alternative to perestroika , but he won loud and prolonged applause when he observed that " all manner of rash radicalism , improvisations and dithering have not given us much in five years " . |
| 9 | I 'm not eating it quickly at all , it 's just catching a filling every time I eat it . |
| 10 | However , we shall not discuss them further in this book . |
| 11 | You know it , it was good and that 's , you know , and that 's not knocking you apart at all |
| 12 | At Hertford in 1705 , according to Tutchin , when it became clear that the Tackers " could not carry it there by Legal Votes " , the town magistrates created between 100 and 150 " Honorary Freemen , all of the Tackers side " , and managed to ensure a Tory victory . |
| 13 | I 've not had anything close to twelve years like it , since , I can tell you ! |
| 14 | I did not remember it quite like that , but I began to feel he was a good-hearted , sincere man . |
| 15 | He might desire her — he did desire her — but he would not marry her only for that ! |
| 16 | I did not meet him socially until 1975 when we were both invited as guest speakers to the annual dinner of the Newcastle-upon-Tyne division of the Royal Naval Reserves . |
| 17 | She had played a part that was alien to her nature and she had not played it well at all . |
| 18 | We can not have you here in all the circumstances . |
| 19 | Dave Mellor did not have it away with that repellent tart . |
| 20 | This would mean that all of the degrees in theology , faithful church attendance and good works are worthless if we do not have it together in this one area . |
| 21 | I 'm not giving you much at all . |
| 22 | I have been able to get on with ‘ getting better ’ simply because my colleagues have taken responsibility for my work load ever since the Executive Committee Meeting in July , and I can not thank them enough for all that they have done . |
| 23 | and I 've had that taken out because I could n't , I just could not stand it especially in hot weather ! |
| 24 | It does not bother me now at all . |
| 25 | Since he did not commit himself unreservedly to any party he earned a reputation for political inconsistency , and had to confront the hazards of non-alignment when war broke out in 1642 . |
| 26 | It was while touring the United States with Fred Karno [ q.v. ] in 1912 that he tried his luck on American vaudeville , principally in a duo with his common-law wife , Mae Dahlberg , who suggested his stage name , Laurel , although he did not adopt it legally until 1934 . |
| 27 | Pact of Steel or not , they could not support him physically without large injections of armaments and raw materials : if he went into Poland , and France and Britain sprang to her defence , Italy would collapse . |
| 28 | O. Wilson doctrine that man is " a real Brute already , an Ape , Satyre , Baboon " will not get us anywhere at all . |
| 29 | A property developer who was interested in bidding for a bus company would not put himself forward as such , but would acquire the acceptable face of a bus company . |
| 30 | He brought our conversation to an end by alluding once more to the past ; and in comparing the difference between his present achievements and the tribulations that had led up to it ( though he did not put it quite like that ) , he appeared to coin on the Spot an Epigram which , so far as I know , he never committed to print but of which there are echoes in The Family Reunion . |