Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] in an [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But this intuitive classification does not exist in an analogous way . |
| 2 | Ideals are not formed in an aseptic vacuum , but in the chemical brew of interacting personal lives and events . |
| 3 | Educational accountability emerged in the United States earlier than the United Kingdom , where the term did not appear in an official document until the publication of the ‘ Green Paper ’ . |
| 4 | In the remaining 10 US companies , scanning was not done in an independent unit but was undertaken in a more informal manner within the corporate planning department . |
| 5 | This was not done in an initial analysis of LFS data on temporary working ( MSC , 1985 ) , which suggested that there had been an increase in the proportion of the labour force having temporary jobs from 5.9 per cent to 6.4 per cent between 1983 and 1984. 6 . |
| 6 | Each side will probably already be covered under appropriate employers ' , occupiers ' and public liability policies , and , since the liability to be covered in each side 's case is the same type , the shift from one side to the other will not result in an overall increase of premiums . |
| 7 | Induced trade deficits caused by such structural change may not result in an appropriate exchange rate adjustment . |
| 8 | Everyone involved has to realize that the tasks are not relearned in an automatic sequence : the fact that the patient may be able to put on his sweater one day does not necessarily mean that he is immediately able to progress to putting on his trousers — indeed , he may have forgotten how to cope with the sweater the following day . |
| 9 | And tests on naturally contaminated eggs show multiplication can not occur in an intact egg , not even in the yolk . |
| 10 | Fresh , spontaneous , natural and not sung in an American accent , it is a proposition implicit in Real Sounds of Africa 's very name . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The universe is not expanding in an inflationary way today . |
| 15 | It will not develop in an ordinary peat and sand or gravel medium . |
| 16 | Broadway risk does not apply in an untested field . |
| 17 | The whole history of science has been the gradual realization that events do not happen in an arbitrary manner , but that they reflect a certain underlying order , which may or may not be divinely inspired . |
| 18 | Given that the remedies under consideration in the present case are primarily of an in personam character , perhaps a closer analogy is to cases concerned with the circumstances in which English courts have granted or refused injunctions to restrain creditors , who have not proved in an English bankruptcy , from taking proceedings abroad or compelling them to refund property obtained abroad . |
| 19 | Some , especially cone beakers , will not stand in an upright position , suggesting a degree of ceremony involved in imbibing . |
| 20 | 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 ) . |
| 21 | They did not engage in an abstruse discussion of the technicalities of Trinitarianism but saw it as a paradigm of the religious experience of God . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | He did not live in an empty house , and some of those possessions are yours . |
| 24 | The path of equality through androcentric neutralization and the reaffirmation of female sacrality will not combine in an easy synthesis . |
| 25 | As it was American atomic attitudes in this period hardened British resolution not to be bullied out of the business and not to acquiesce in an American monopoly ; it encouraged her determination to be a nuclear power for the sake of the influence this was expected to give her in Washington ! |
| 26 | The new philosophy said that we should not make value judgements : you ca n't think in an Aristotelian way ; no value judgements , no good and bad . |
| 27 | Do n't sleep in an overheated room as this can cause fluid retention in your face and bags under the eyes . |
| 28 | The child was n't wilting in an alien environment . |
| 29 | But most people say ‘ Oh , I ca n't play in an open tuning . ’ |
| 30 | Check , though , that she is n't sleeping in an awkward position , which may sometimes cause the problem . |