Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] [adv prt] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bowe said : ‘ I thought he was crazy not to go down in the 10th when I was beating up on him . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The stability of the organochlorines , an advantage in their industrial applications , ensured that they were not broken down in the natural environment . |
| 4 | This scheme will be used in future for it provides an opportunity for the genuine fan who attends games against less glamorous opposition not to lose out in the real crowd pullers . |
| 5 | In addition , cardiac surgery was not carried out in the two districts studied . |
| 6 | He remembers his lonely school days , in assured manner that his son will not grow up in the same way . |
| 7 | At half-time a note was passed to the Scottish dressing-room telling the young striker that he would be shot if he did not ease off in the second half . |
| 8 | However , this result does not carry through in the same way to the cases we have just been discussing where managerial utility depends on effort as well as income . |
| 9 | It 's not trotted out in the old history books as one of the conferences , or one of the congresses rather . |
| 10 | The next generation which is taking over the reins of industry is a generation who were not brought up in the same milieu that I was brought up in . |
| 11 | We did not go up in the same lift , but were taken to another one , apparently for the use of directors only . |
| 12 | There are some aspects of our personalities which may not come over in the brief span of an interview , but which those close to us know only too well . |
| 13 | Even if it is not read out in the endless rounds of buying and selling shares , then the message , passive though it might be , should still find its way into the living rooms of a high proportion of homes in the Sheffield region . |
| 14 | His behaviour at the visit seems to suggest that he was a disturbing presence , since he did not turn up in the Great Hall as expected , but disappeared into a derelict and disused part of the house from whence he had to be fetched . |
| 15 | Well , I daresay you 'd know I would n't nod off in the normal way . |
| 16 | I think it 's particularly useful as a way of gaining entry to ideas about childhood — what children are for , why to have them — that are n't written about in the official records , that is , in the textbooks of child analysis and child psychology , and in sociological descriptions of childhood . |
| 17 | There 's no space in it to prick out seedlings , but it certainly wo n't blow over in the robust Orkney winds , and the tomatoes seem to grow perfectly well . |
| 18 | Something with four solid walls the wo n't blow down in the first puff of wolf 's breath . |
| 19 | Although I was n't brought up in the Jewish faith — my mother would n't hear of it — he still passed on to me all those standards that were part of his own upbringing and would never tolerate what he from time to time described as my ‘ unacceptable behaviour ’ . |
| 20 | Er children are n't brought up in the same maternal way as they are in in this country , and many other countries . |
| 21 | The South does n't stand out in the resulting map ( figure 5.2 ) , although none of the States of the former Confederacy falls in the top 40 per cent on their ranking , except Florida whose population character and structure has changed very substantially in recent decades as a result of immigration , especially of the elderly . |
| 22 | For light relief we had Valerie , and why she did n't end up in the same boat I 'll never know . |
| 23 | ‘ I shall see to it that she does n't end up in the wrong hands . |
| 24 | ‘ If Sir Henry does n't come out in the next quarter of an hour , the path will be covered by the fog . |
| 25 | Piper knows Benn is prone to run out of gas if he ca n't get through in the early rounds . |