Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] [adv] [adv] [subord] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Smiling at her father , who probably did not think so either if he would permit himself to be honest about it , she placidly allowed him to give her hand to Tristan who looked down at her very intently , his face noble and moved and marvellously beautiful in the jewelled light from the stained glass window . |
| 2 | He had overheard his uncle warning the two maid-servants not to go up there because it was too dangerous . |
| 3 | He looked around him as he went ; but he did not slow down much until he reached the culvert . |
| 4 | Now the illusion is well and truly shattered and the only reason the share price has not plunged much further than it has is the hope that some brave soul will put the group out of its misery with a takeover . |
| 5 | Remember a couple of weeks ago when you were taking the piss out of him for being scruffy , you told him not to come in again unless he was wearing a tie . |
| 6 | Yet the Nazis knew that they could not behave too outrageously because there was always the threat that the League of Nations might call in the Poles to annex the city and suppress the NSDAP in the name of European peace . |
| 7 | Dana did not shave as often as I did . |
| 8 | Maybe seven minutes had passed but she dared not wait any longer because who knew when the miners might give up and come back ? |
| 9 | ‘ When the recovery does come , we will not benefit as quickly as we should . |
| 10 | When the recovery comes we will not benefit as quickly as we should . |
| 11 | Whether this is the way they express themselves does not matter so long as we can establish that this is the substance of their view . |
| 12 | This vagueness will not matter so long as one is clear about the level at which the formula of ‘ ought implies can ’ is being applied : thus the latter , and weaker , kind of ‘ can not ’ would be enough to provide a strong argument against the behaviour being made into a norm for a human society , but it would not be enough if the question concerned the adoption of a personal ideal in an individual case . |
| 13 | The governor of the Bank of England , Robin Leigh Pemberton , had also come under intense criticism for not acting more quickly when he became aware of fraud within BCCI . |
| 14 | ‘ His hip 's not mending as quickly as it ought , which makes him very impatient . |
| 15 | If he takes his clothes off , which he does not do very easily because it hurts so much , one sees open wounds from the top of his chest down to his toes . |
| 16 | Can we not do more even than we 're doing at the moment to restore to the centre of the life of the church the glorious concept of a team of pastoral care and a high command of power strategy in which dominance by ministers will be reduced to the minimum in order that together we may be ready to let the lifeblood of Christ flow through us in such a way that we will be better able to welcome the twenty first century in his name . |
| 17 | Often he is afraid that these jobs will not be done , or not done as well as he would do them . |
| 18 | But undulating side-wings are not such powerful propellants as a thrashing tail , so the manta can not swim as fast as its shark cousins or rival them as hunters . |
| 19 | Certainly , state pensions — now over £25 billion a year — will not grow as fast as they might have done , or seem likely to do in many other rich countries . |
| 20 | It is easy to blame the pressure of daily life and the stress it causes for the fact that we do not feel as well as we should like — and , indeed , in many cases an excess of stress and tension may be the cause . |
| 21 | " Then , " said Dandelion , " Frith felt himself in friendship with El-ahrairah , because of his resourcefulness , and because he would not give up even when he thought the fox and the weasel were coming . |
| 22 | If my readers still doubt this let them consider the situation as we find it among societies which have not advanced as far as we have , for instance , among the aborigines of Central Australia . |
| 23 | Another reason why coaching does not occur as often as it might is due to the time pressures which every manager faces . |
| 24 | No he 's not saying that , he 's not going that far because he 's not talking about all religions . |
| 25 | erm it might well look like that for that very small piece of graph , but the overall picture you 've lost completely by not going far enough so you , you want minus infinity to plus infinity . |
| 26 | One way and another , it appears that the search for a new chief executive for IBM Corp is not going too well as one after another , the most fancied candidates declare that they are non-runners — so long after their names were first widely canvassed in the press that they leave the strong impression that they have considered or been considered for the job , but after having looked into it , decided that they would n't touch it with a bargepole : latest to declare his belated non-candidacy is former Hewlett-Packard Co chief executive John Young , who says he is ‘ definitely not a candidate ’ — ‘ He 's enjoying retirement , ’ said a Hewlett spokeswoman ; all attention is now focussed on the thought-to-be front runners that have n't ruled themselves out — Paul Stern , recently retired chairman and tough manager of Northern Telecom Ltd , who could be planning to repeat his double act at that company with another former IBMer , Edward Lucente , who has also just resigned from Northern Telecom ; the other two whose odds have shortened are George Fisher , chairman and chief executive of Motorola Inc , Morton Myerson , chairman of Perot Systems Corp , and Louis Gerstner , head of RJR Nabisco Co ; industry sources told Reuter that the name of Michael Armstrong keeps coming up within IBM — but he quit only a year ago , and has just taken the top job at Hughes Aircraft Co . |
| 27 | Women are faced with making a choice between the needs of their children and their own needs , and that is one of the things which , because they 've put the needs of their children , the needs of their dependents , ahead of their own needs , they themselves and the needs of women have not got as far as they could . |
| 28 | Intelligent input/output board supplier , Byfleet , Surrey-based Specialix Ltd , says its flagship product , the transputer-based RIO controller , is n't going down the storm that it had hoped it would : even OEM deals with the likes of Groupe Bull SA have not boosted sales , says marketing director , Ian Cummins , ‘ RIO is not selling as well as we thought it would … and our estimations on its performance in the market are nine months ahead of what has actually happened ’ . |
| 29 | Tribunals are an essential check on the powers of officialdom but at the moment they do not work as well as they should to ensure justice in welfare provision . |
| 30 | The Tender is the defenders ' finest weapon , and is not used as often as it should be . |