Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] [adv] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Try to go to bed only when you 're tired but do not stay up past a certain critical time , say one hour after you would normally go to bed . |
| 2 | It does n't work for her the mistress of the moment of sudden isolation at not seeing back to the black magician who fantastically juggles luminous hoops in the recto-rectangular hey put my mirror back . |
| 3 | It is worth stressing that this study did not arise out of a leisured academic interest but out of an urgent need for material to use therapeutically with highly-disturbed young people . |
| 4 | The first submission by Mr. Ashworth was that a public nuisance can not arise out of a lawful act , whatever its consequences , and as what is complained of here , namely heavy goods vehicles being driven along Medway and Bridge Roads , is a lawful act , no public nuisance can arise . |
| 5 | If it is correct , in general , that a public nuisance can not arise out of the lawful use of a highway , as Mr. Ashworth submitted , it is not , in my judgment , because there is no unlawful act . |
| 6 | The ‘ facts ’ of a pollution , like other forms of deviance , do not exist independently of the interpretative judgments which enforcement agents make about them . |
| 7 | In any situation where there is felt to be problems , these will not exist independently of the human beings involved . |
| 8 | But it is all too evident that there does not exist anywhere at the present time an active political movement which would be capable of initiating such a development , and if such a movement came into existence it would encounter immense difficulties . |
| 9 | As well as lines , Sumitomo had to install filters at each end of the lines to check that traffic that ought to be kept on the LAN does not disappear on to the WAN . |
| 10 | The stealing networks did not disappear entirely in the early years of the twentieth century , but their geographical range and the extent of their operations was sharply curtailed . |
| 11 | There has been an encouraging 23% increase in general manufacturing R&D expenditure , but yet again , as a percentage of profits , the UK 's 11.7% does not compare healthily with the global 95.4% . |
| 12 | Their chaos and squalor did not compare well with the pristine beauty of Jerba and , as a lone male out of season , I was prey to a horde of street hustlers . |
| 13 | However , it was also claimed that feminism and gender issues were not treated seriously by the senior management . |
| 14 | It will not make up for the insufficient level of public services that Cleveland has been given by BR . ’ |
| 15 | Kristeva 's model is not intended either as a concise account of feminism 's recent history nor as an orderly , linear chronology for feminists to follow ( though she does seem to think that each of her stages represents an improvement over the one before ) . |
| 16 | Relatively few rural residents appear to rely solely on public transport , perhaps because it is not regarded nowadays as a worthwhile alternative — Moseley et al . |
| 17 | INSPIRATION may not spring readily from the prosaic-sounding north Midlands town of Southwell but it is the black stuff that dreams are made of in the eyes of Ron and Richard Muddle , the father and son team of racing entrepreneurs extraordinary . |
| 18 | The answer is not to fall back on the offensive utilisation of a harmless birthday , but to write into constitutions strict regulations about terms of appointment . |
| 19 | What he will not have overlooked is that Churchill — for 10 years ( between 1929 and 1939 ) , the only comparable ‘ outsider ’ within the Tory Party — did not vault straight into the prime ministership . |
| 20 | Mr Yeltsin , meanwhile , asked the 1,033 members of the Congress of People 's Deputies not to go ahead with a planned impeachment vote . |
| 21 | The judge has also decided not to go ahead with a preliminary trial on two key issues in the case , scheduled to begin on January 15 , which would have broken new legal ground . |
| 22 | The petition calls on the secretary of state to ask BS not to go ahead with the planned transport switch and to urge BR to promote the Red-mire branch for freight and passenger traffic . |
| 23 | Would not it be legally wise and politically sensible not to go ahead with the compulsory order to bring in bulldozers until difficulties with the European Commission and local people have been resolved ? |
| 24 | ‘ The ambition is certainly not to go along at the existing size , growing by 5 per cent a year . |
| 25 | It may be a boundary drawn for the toddler 's safety ( ‘ You are not to go out of the front gate ’ ) ; it may be to do with the teenager 's wellbeing ( ‘ You do an hour 's homework ’ or ‘ You have to tell me who you 're out with and where you 'll be ’ ) . |
| 26 | Another powerful reason why improved mud buildings are not catching on in the tropical Third World is that for poor families , housing is not the first priority . |
| 27 | The stability of the organochlorines , an advantage in their industrial applications , ensured that they were not broken down in the natural environment . |
| 28 | I would have smiled at the Kafkaesqueness of the situation , had I not broken out in a cold sweat and had I at that stage not been ignorant of Kafka 's existence . |
| 29 | In other words , without it one can not explain why at the present time there is a maldistribution of world wealth and income such that the countries of the Northern hemisphere contain only 25 per cent of the world 's population but obtain 80 per cent of the world 's income , while the countries of the South contain 75 per cent of the world 's population but obtain only 20 per cent of the world 's income . |
| 30 | Otherwise women and children did not earn independently in the proto-industrial household in its cloth or hosiery branches . |