Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] in a [adj] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | But this intuitive classification does not exist in an analogous way . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Despite introducing some dynamic elements into the discussion , these are not treated in a formal way . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The outrage eagerly orchestrated by the newspaper did not focus in a serious way on the needs and dangers facing rape survivors . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | However , their memories do not work in a logical way like ours , but in an emotional fashion and by association . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The universe is not expanding in an inflationary way today . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 ) . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 ) . |
| 25 | I am rather keen , and I 'm sure you are rather keen , that it should not end in a shabby way . ’ |
| 26 | They describe some typical conversations in which comments from one person did not link in an expected way to preceding comments — where there seemed to be a very loose connection between what one person said and the next . |
| 27 | Since speakers do not alternate in a patterned way between [ h ] and [ ? ] in stressed syllables , the phonological unit /h/ is simply irrelevant to any account of variation in these areas . |
| 28 | Presently all make a valuable contribution but generally events are not planned in a co-ordinated way taking into account the work of other agencies . |
| 29 | The topographical environment is of great significance for the story but it is not ordered in a straightforward way according to the canons of empirical geography and empirical zoology . |
| 30 | It did not expand in a big way until the late eighteenth century when population growth and parliamentary enclosure depressed the standard of living of the poorest sections of rural society . |