Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] in [art] [adj] way " in BNC.

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1 The objects in question , similarly , do not exist in the spatio-temporal way of ordinary things .
2 But this intuitive classification does not exist in an analogous way .
3 I sincerely hope that Mrs. X 's complaint was not treated in a dismissive way because , as she readily admitted , she was drunk at the time of the assault .
4 Despite introducing some dynamic elements into the discussion , these are not treated in a formal way .
5 If we look at management er procedures Could ask the question but I 'm , the mo more cynical of you will er not answer in the right way , what are management procedures ?
6 Some undertake this role at a working level by assisting and challenging the business units when they submit their plans ; for example , by questioning why the business units are not competing in a certain way or as much as they should .
7 The outrage eagerly orchestrated by the newspaper did not focus in a serious way on the needs and dangers facing rape survivors .
8 Returning to the argument in The Future of an Illusion an imaginary antagonist argues that civilization depends upon people continuing to believe in God , otherwise they will not act in a moral way .
9 He had thought that children were supposed to be sharp and un-sentimental and though Emmie had not written in a sentimental way exactly , she had written about her family as if they were perfect .
10 We are also very strongly influenced by our expectations ; if we have heard and understood half a sentence , it seems that our brain is already guessing at what the rest of it will be before it is heard , and is certainly not acting in a passive way like a simple machine .
11 What Gowie means probably is that he does n't expect anybody to like him and , because of that , he tends not to behave in a likable way .
12 Have your detective say it is very important to tell whether something is or is not done in a certain way ; then show that thing being done in either of the ways mentioned ; but immediately before that happens put in , quite boldly , what it is you want to slip past your reader .
13 However , their memories do not work in a logical way like ours , but in an emotional fashion and by association .
14 More and more money from public taxation has been put in to such services one way or another , yet the services still do not work in a foolproof way , for a number of practical reasons .
15 They are in a state of nervous excitement when awake though they lie thinking of nothing in particular because their minds will not work in an orderly way .
16 As with so many armorial terms the word ‘ quarterings ’ is not used in a conventional way and applied to a shield divided merely into four ; indeed there can be as many ‘ quarterings ’ as there are family affiliations — perhaps the record is held by the five-surnamed Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville family , whose full achievement of arms boasts 719 quarterings .
17 While the position was clouded by the forthcoming abolition of the area health authorities , regional officers seemed to be forming a view that some areas , left to themselves , would not react in an appropriate way to the circumstances of rundown .
18 This order , from which our modern days of the week derive ( e.g. iii French ) , appears at first sight to be devoid of sense , since it does not accord in an obvious way with the order in which ( according to pre-Copernican cosmology ) the ‘ planets ’ were thought to lie in relation to the earth : Saturn , Jupiter , Mars , the sun , Venus , Mercury , the moon .
19 The universe is not expanding in an inflationary way today .
20 Since he was not born in the ordinary way , Adam would not have needed one , but the general assumption was that as a man he had a navel .
21 Secondly , although larger specimens of O. rosea examined often have many smaller thinner supernumerary papillae such papillae are not distributed in a similar way to other species of Ophioprium .
22 If you yourself do not know what you want out of the meeting you can hardly be surprised if the person you are dealing with does not respond in a satisfactory way .
23 The electrical power workers , however , did not respond in the forthright way they had done in the general strike of May 1974 .
24 My heart , however , does not respond in the desired way to her letter and certificate .
25 Secondly there are restraints upon the business in which the person receiving the business secrets may engage ( ie not to compete in a certain way for a particular time because of the risk of use or disclosure of business secrets ) .
26 When you are made aware of this you can consciously choose not to react in a stressed way and you will therefore be able to maintain a calmness even when life becomes hectic .
27 She did not mention that no more money would be sent — let Ellen discover that when the monthly money orders did not arrive in the punctual way they always had done .
28 The latter may not realise in a coherent way what is afoot , but it knows that the duty of a government is to provide law and order and senses that it is not deploying its resources to do so .
29 A Cartesian reflex model holds that behaviour will be constant in a constant environment or , if not constant , it will not change in a predictable way .
30 Even if the use of social class as a speaker variable were feasible in this rather fundamental practical sense , it would be unlikely to yield much insight into the interplay between social and linguistic differentiation ( for the rather obvious reason that a social class index can not distinguish in an illuminating way between members of a group who are mostly unemployed or concentrated in low-status occupations ) .
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