Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] [adv] [adv] [subord] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although our sense of smell does not compare as favourably as some of our other senses , it allows us to detect tiny traces of a very wide range of complex chemicals . |
| 2 | Since the opening of the Sterling Commercial Paper ( SCP ) market in 1986 , there have been regular issues but the market has not developed as quickly as national ( as opposed to euro ) commercial paper markets in many other European countries . |
| 3 | Older people do not adapt as easily as young people . |
| 4 | ‘ If a co-ordinated effort is not made as quickly as possible , the death toll could increase dramatically to become a major catastrophe , ’ said Mr Demoze Kebebu , regional representative of Ethiopia 's Bureau of Refugee Affairs . |
| 5 | It can not do any better than this since this is the iso-vote line which is tangential to the relevant Phillips curve . |
| 6 | The rapidly rising birth rate is only part of the explanation , since the birth rate has not risen as fast as urban populations have increased . |
| 7 | A cap on interest charged on misdeclarations , so that assessments of interest will not date back more than three years . |
| 8 | Lubricated condoms do not break as easily as non-lubricated ones . |
| 9 | Despite its impressive growth it represents only 5 per cent of the total population and is not growing as fast as evangelical sects . |
| 10 | For when I plead with him he says , ‘ I 'm not going any slower than this . |
| 11 | Users who have commented that , " It should look for phrases " or " Why does it do it word by word ? " can only be answered by saying that phrase searching often does not work very well because many books are not described in the catalogue by the phrases which searchers use . |
| 12 | Yet he should not weep too long because old stone face himself , Ivan Lendl , made five attempts to land a major title . |
| 13 | Asian ships did not go round the Cape of Good Hope to trade with Europe , and East Indiamen , as the Company 's ships were called , were so heavily armed and were so much safer from the risk of piracy that merchants found them useful carriers even though they did not sail as fast as local ships until the Company had its ships built of teak some decades later . |
| 14 | As algae does not multiply as quickly as some marine parasites the turnover in the pond need not be very fast . |
| 15 | When recall is delayed by 30 seconds , they are not remembered very easily as short-term memory has had sufficient chance to decay as short-term memory seems to decay after twenty or so seconds . |
| 16 | Items in angle brackets are not specified in the target text but they are not ruled out either since Chinese and Japanese do not have a category of number . |
| 17 | I would not go as far as one group which makes ‘ coupleness and a sense of call in husband and wife ’ one of their ten non-negotiables for church planters . |
| 18 | The question of images in churches was further addressed by two sets of injunctions issued by Cromwell in 1536 and 1538 , but even here the reforms did not go as far as some iconophobes would have liked , as they drew back from condemning all images and denounced only those that encouraged ‘ superstition and hypocrisy ’ and ‘ that most detestable sin of idolatry ’ . |
| 19 | They do not go as far as some countries , who plan to make actual cuts in emissions rates . |
| 20 | Several attempts , he wrote , had been made by " former prospectors " to sink upon this lode " but it is heavily watered that they could not go down more than 3 or 4 fathoms deep " . |
| 21 | We can not go so far as that ; and I lay it down as fact that there never has been a real complete sceptic . |
| 22 | But we need not go so far as that ; it will suffice to suppose that firms rise and fall , but that the ‘ representative ’ firm remains always of about the same size , as does the representative tree of a virgin forest . [ … ] |
| 23 | At present the authorities have not gone so far as this . |
| 24 | But matters had not gone as smoothly as all that . |
| 25 | Nutley ( 1982 ) , analysing these data , suggests that decline may have proceeded mainly by frequency reductions which have not gone as far as complete closures . |
| 26 | MODERN methods of assessing the value of scientific research might just as well not exist as far as British policy makers are concerned . |
| 27 | From the available evidence , it seems fair to conclude that the typical legal sanction against corporate crime does not act as a general deterrent — others are not put off merely because some corporations and their executives have been fined , particularly when the fines are comparatively small and tax-deductable — and the evidence , such as it is , suggests that a specific deterrent function may operate , but only to deter corporations from recommitting the same offence . |
| 28 | Tall men can not drive as easily as smaller men . |
| 29 | He did not feel so hostile to them as he did to the ravens , and merely ignored them , overflying them if they came too close but not behaving more aggressively than that . |
| 30 | This has taken a number of forms and has not spread as widely as some of its supporters might have hoped . |