Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] [adv] a [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mrs Gordon ( 61 ) who lives in Kingshurst , West Midlands , and now works at a nursing home , admitted in an official statement released by solicitor Steven Jonas that she had not carried out a smear test before joining Dr Kumar 's practice , but claimed she followed a technique he taught her . |
| 2 | This would enable a tough general manager to ensure that medical audit did not become simply a talk shop or token activity . |
| 3 | ‘ They might not set up a road block , ’ said Jean , biting her lip . |
| 4 | Now he says he has no immediate plans for exit and has not ruled out a trade sale . |
| 5 | For those who do not know what I am on about , why not pick up a Birthday Scheme Leaflet and make it your resolution to support the Medical Work of the BMS in the New Year . |
| 6 | A VHS machine can not play back a Betamax cassette . |
| 7 | The liberals of Cadiz , therefore , did not represent merely a minority group within the political nation in spite of their imperfect election credentials ; as far as there was a political nation , it was reformist . |
| 8 | Can a company that is the holding company of a small group avail itself of the exemption under ss 248 and 249 of the CA 1985 , and apply s 8(a) of the standard and not prepare either a cash flow statement or a consolidated cash flow statement , whether it prepares group accounts or not ? |
| 9 | In answer to my office colleagues who saw me manhandling a hopper-shaped device into my car boot the other week : no , I was not setting up a home distillery , merely preparing to field-test a pond filter . |
| 10 | FRS 2 argues that not setting up a debit balance ‘ would obscure the comparison between the assets and liabilities attributable to the minority interest and those attributable to group interests both during the period when the accumulated losses accrue and afterwards , if the losses are then made good by later profits ’ ( para 81 ) . |
| 11 | You can turn down a fire hose to water a garden , but you can not turn up a garden hose sufficiently to tackle a fire . |
| 12 | If the aeroplane broke up in the air or the engine fell apart then the designers could be at fault ; if navigation aids were not working properly a radio engineer could be responsible , or even the Director of Civil Aviation who failed to provide enough money for the maintenance of the aids . |
| 13 | ‘ Give my thanks to Bartholomew the Englishman , ’ Cranston replied drily , ‘ but it does n't explain why a London merchant came down here in the dark , fastened a rope round a beam and hanged himself . ’ |
| 14 | It 's got leather and , and iron and steel , now you come onto the Road and you would n't think there a leather factory about would you ? |
| 15 | I do n't know why a 5ml stock bottle does n't create too strong a medicine , perhaps my patients are too ‘ healthy ’ ( ! ) , |
| 16 | Or that you 're a duffer if you ca n't polish off a wall gecko in under two minutes ? ’ |
| 17 | ‘ Rexroth 's review said that as the band had n't shown up a pick-up band was assembled from members of the audience , who just banged pots and pans and made odd noises . |
| 18 | The moratorium on the British coal industry takes into account the fact that Father Christmas ca n't fit down a gas fire 's flue outlet . |
| 19 | Do n't take along a shade fringe with dozens of colours — pull out a few ‘ whiskers ’ in basic shades and make up a fringe of your own . |
| 20 | Hugh Johnson , The Story of Wine When Jesus Christ turned water into wine , he did n't hand out a warning label . |
| 21 | At one stage in her career , it had seemed you could n't open up a rock paper or one of the tabloids without seeing her tumbling golden mane and her lazy catlike smile captured by one of the many photographers who seemed to dog her every step . |