Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] [adv] [adv] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | EASE is the biggest operation by a long way , although electronic selling has not developed as quickly as the ANM Group hoped when it introduced the idea from Canada . |
| 2 | something else that could be quite actually misleading might sleep , be very sleepy , difficult to wake , so if you 've got the baby and you think your baby 's due for a feed and it did n't take very much at the last feed , you ca n't wake it up you should n't think oh well I 'll have to wait for another four hours , beginning to get worried so if the baby 's difficult to wake if it 's difficult to feed not sucking very well if the baby 's cold to touch and then there 's something which is very , very misleading , these babies can have bright red cheeks and bright red hands and feet and if you look at them you think oh they must be warm because they 're red |
| 3 | The main point to realise is that if you can not feel a positive lock , you are either not pushing hard enough or the lock is completely out of adjustment and too light to be effective . |
| 4 | Ultimately , it does not matter that much whether the future arrangements of the EC are called federal , confederal , political union or whatever , except that labels may affect expectations and may accord spurious legitimacy to Community institutions . |
| 5 | Traditionally , the more active members have tended to belong to local groups , and the numbers of groups and group members have not grown as fast as the national membership . |
| 6 | To those who are new to this absorbing — and highly addictive — branch of the model hobby , I can not repeat too often that the two essential ingredients for success are dogged persistence and experienced help . |
| 7 | Despite all their expectations ( and ample campaign funds ) they did not do much better than the GCP in 1954 . |
| 8 | The letter O , for instance , does not occur very often as the final letter in a four letter word , but is common as the second letter . |
| 9 | With so many difficult decisions to be made , ‘ Jacki ’ is happier than most players to accept his manager 's warning not to look further ahead than the next game . |
| 10 | It becomes a bonfire in autumn , but strangely does not burn so brightly as the green-leafed type distinguished as viridis . |
| 11 | Such individuals will then continue to breed , and the numbers will not sink as rapidly as the population controllers would like . |
| 12 | ( 4 ) The general rule does not apply so far as a provision of the consolidating Acts gives effect to an amendment ( in pursuance of a recommendation of the Law Commission and , in some cases , the Scottish Law Commission ) . |
| 13 | However , it is becoming evident that the development of problem-solving strategies does not happen automatically even when the motivational effects of the computer are present . |
| 14 | ( The mundane truth was that the delivery boy had forgotten it , but the correction did not circulate as efficiently as the rumour . ) |
| 15 | The urban environment is not defined as readily as a region such as North America or Australia but it is a way of studying part of the world that has some unifying attribute . |
| 16 | The light of the lamp did not reach as far as the high ceiling , and the fire had burned low . |
| 17 | We shall instead suggest ( 40 ) , where the fact that the arrowhead passes through the square bracket is intended to show that the minor property does not simply qualify the entity as a whole , but the fact that it does not reach as far as the round bracket shows that the adjective is not a sense-qualifier : ( 40 ) |
| 18 | One piece of good news is that Clinton has stated that he will not go as far as a recent legislative proposal , which would have required certain foreign-owned firms and branches to report a minimum amount of US taxable income . |
| 19 | The indecent assaults did not go as far as the rapes but were ‘ equally repulsive ’ . |
| 20 | Certainly , it is important to study bureaucracies as institutions in their own right , even if we would not go as far as the poet Alexander Pope who wrote : |
| 21 | Predictably , she was not sympathetic to the boisterous ways of a young teenager , though she did not go so far as a Mrs Dudley who complained to Bloomsbury House that one of her fifteen-year-old lodgers , Willy , had ‘ broken the beading on a wardrobe and had also broken a chair ’ , offences which most parents of healthy teenagers would have accepted as part of growing up . |
| 22 | Indeed it seems that girls very quickly replaced boys at this task : " Evidently [ the boys " ] tongues do not go so glibly as the girls , " as the STC was already saying as early as 1875 , " for in most of the offices where girls are employed , reading boys are now unknown . " |
| 23 | The result is a discourse in which certain expressions , such as " the river had not gone away either or the mountains " ( p. 31 ) must be interpreted as " literally " representing the perceptions of the people , whereas for us they would normally have to be interpreted metaphorically . |
| 24 | ‘ I have not gone any further than the evidence allowed , ’ Boaz said . |
| 25 | They had not gone very far when a great brightness showed over the mountains beyond the forest , and suddenly in front of them they saw a beautiful young man , all dressed in gold , with a scarlet lining to his cloak . |
| 26 | He had not gone very far when the mysterious little girl suddenly appeared again , from the dry gully of a mountain stream . |
| 27 | The third method Engels accepted from Morgan concerned the idea that , although systems of kinship terms were first moulded by systems of marriage , the kin terms did not change as easily as the system of marriage . |
| 28 | He did not get as far as the main Cossack encampments at Peggetz and Oberdrauberg near Lienz , a considerable distance further west . |
| 29 | So I told my proposer to let my name stand , and said I would accept whatever the ballot box decided , but would not play there again if the vote went against me . |
| 30 | People who do not care so long as the passing hour is comfortable and cheerful are not likely to exhibit much of a front when they call themselves a union . |