Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was cooking this food , not bringing it in pre-frozen packs . |
| 2 | The majority of people accept this because the state , by excluding these killings from the murder category , has signified its intention that we should not treat them as capital offenders . |
| 3 | AA Hospital Plus will cover you for private health care of up to £10,000 , £20,000 , or even £40,000 , if the National Health Service can not treat you within six weeks . |
| 4 | These difficult questions should so far as possible be confined to those fields of law to which they are immediately relevant and I do not regard them as relevant questions under the Theft Act 1968 " . |
| 5 | ( When you 're not eating it with other meats , try melon , fresh figs or avocado . ) |
| 6 | We should give children books which stimulate them , which open their eyes , not confine them with safe lists . ’ |
| 7 | He threatened that if the Moldavian authorities did not notify him within 10 days of their implementation of measures to extricate Moldavia from its crisis of " inter-ethnic confrontation " he would take " necessary measures " in accordance with his newly enhanced presidential powers [ see p. 37903 ] . |
| 8 | For example , a social worker felt that clients could speak more openly to him because they knew he could not recognise them in other contexts , and a counsellor reported that her clients would sometimes say that they could speak more openly knowing that she could not see them . |
| 9 | But I 'll not bore you with second-hand accounts of the way he lives . |
| 10 | RIGHT Although dogs will often live peacefully with cats , you should not trust them with smaller pets such as rabbits , which are the natural quarry of many hounds . |
| 11 | Alured 's son John became a colonel in Ireland but did not survive him by many years . |
| 12 | Although the process has not turned them into ordinary men they have , in some degree , become betwixt and between . |
| 13 | Sir Patrick said the brochure had a dual aim : to show potential recruits that government legal work was responsible and worthwhile ; and to dispel the notion that the service was for lawyers who had not made it in other parts of the profession . |
| 14 | I 'd not seen him for six months . |
| 15 | I 've not seen him for twenty years . |
| 16 | Police broke in after neighbours had not seen him for several days . |
| 17 | ‘ Although he had not seen us for six weeks , he soon recognised us and started shouting Tuffin George all over the shop . ’ |
| 18 | As Gorbachev had himself told the Central Committee in February 1988 , in the ideological sphere above all they must be guided by their Marxist-Leninist principles and not forgo them under any circumstances . |
| 19 | ‘ It 's too cold in here , ’ she said , ‘ Maggie , darling , do you think you can get up , because even your mother can not carry you down those stairs , you 're too big . |
| 20 | YES , but with the right professional help to smooth your path it need not present you with any problems . |
| 21 | Political theories could not provide him with any answers . |
| 22 | Three of the 64 Berkshire commoners are refusing to accept a deal under which they would be paid about £750 each to forfeit rights over the built-up part of the US Air Force base and agree not to exercise them in other areas . |
| 23 | If you are an ‘ end-user ’ with a potential interest in an open systems approach to distributed processing , particularly if you are using OSI products , why not contact us for further details and a copy of the ‘ marriage broking ’ form ? |
| 24 | ‘ It is offensive of the company to give an assurance to hourly-paid staff , but not extend it to white-collar workers . ’ |
| 25 | In the wartime agreement on pooling brains and resources for the original work on the atomic bomb , which was signed at Quebec in 1943 between the United States and Britain in association with Canada , there were five clauses : the signatories would not use atomic weapons against each other ; they would not use them against third parties without the others ' consent ; no information would be given to third parties without mutual consent ; Britain disclaimed any interest in commercial and industrial exploitation , because the heavy burden of production would fall on the United States ; and a Combined Policy Committee would be set up to ensure full and effective collaboration . |
| 26 | The courts have not helped him by sensible pronouncements . |
| 27 | Thus , speakers who have productive control of Dyirbal morphology tend not to use it in peer-group situations . |
| 28 | — to respect the non-aligned status chosen by the Persian Gulf countries ; not to draw them into military groupings to which nuclear powers are party ; |
| 29 | She had not played it since two months before Catherine was born . |
| 30 | Holding that the defence was not available the court in effect classified the defendant 's belief that the arrest was unlawful as a mistake of law , which could not avail him for these purposes . |