Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] [adv] [prep] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.

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1 October plantings make small plants which do not crop well until the second year .
2 If a house is not built soundly in the first place , and if it is not kept in good repair , it will fail when put to the test .
3 A two-run defeat seemed set fair to demoralize England , but their batsmen did not do badly in the second game at Sydney .
4 To her mistress it was understandable that she should never speak absolutely freely but it was intolerable that she could not do so to the last remaining member of her family , nor even to her husband .
5 Courier , who had not played well during the first two sets , said he received a pep talk from Agassi that really picked up his spirits .
6 Formby-born tournament referee Alan Mills said : ‘ It was a difficult decision bearing in mind he has not played much in the last couple of months because of injury .
7 It was something she had been determined not to do right from the first , and yet here she was , waiting for Alain Lemarchand , butterflies in her stomach threatening to make her feel sick .
8 Weak clients , i.e. those lacking confidence , may not perform well at the first meeting but normally go through a sharp learning curve .
9 Bangor 's forward power was evident but Banbridge defended well and their defence was not breached again until the 37th minute when McKinty again made the initial surge for Dawson to cross for his second try of the game .
10 Notably it did not respond coherently to the third world 's debt burden , and to ten years of stalled poor-country growth , probably because it did not overhaul its own ponderous bureaucracy .
11 If the second measurement did not tally exactly with the first , it meant that there was something wrong with the patient 's stomach .
12 But he said they went back up after a picture request from the Bootle Times , and were not removed again till the next day .
13 No doubt one could find some of that ilk in the Labour party , but I am sorry to tell Ministers , who greatly outnumber their indians seated behind them , that defence will not figure prominently in the next general election .
14 POMEROY social security office in Tyrone will not open today for the first scheduled signing-on since the IRA attack on a fraud squad investigator a fortnight ago .
15 Four other consultants did not reply even after a second letter and phone calls to their secretaries .
16 Farming was carried on in open fields that had not changed basically since the thirteenth century , and beyond the arable fields and their meadows lay great tracts of common pasture , much of it covered with gorse and furze , rising in places to moorland and mountains .
17 In this sense things have not changed much since the seventeenth century .
18 He hopes , for instance , that instrument panels have not changed much in the last fifty years .
19 But again this does not help much with the second paradox .
20 After Richard reminded me of the problems I was about to face following that first flight , I was n't looking forward to the next flying lesson .
21 I ca n't remember much about the second Arse goal , scored by Merson ; maybe Sunil on the north bank can say what happened .
22 ‘ Brian Gayle did n't defend well for the first goal and Gage did a Val Parnell act in the middle of the park to set up the lad for his second . ’
23 To make sure that he does n't fade again in the second part of the season , Zeelenberg 's pre-season training regime has been a lot tougher .
24 ‘ It would seem the £100m needed to build the jail would be a ripe contender for the cuts and it wo n't go ahead for the next financial year at least . ’
25 ‘ It would seem the £100m needed to build the jail would be a ripe contender for the cuts and it wo n't go ahead for the next financial year at least . ’
26 Well he , he did n't play well in the second half though did he ?
27 He had n't aged much in the last twenty years .
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