Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] the [adj] [noun sg] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Certainly he did not stay the full course which was seven years for the qualification of a Master 's degree , the necessary precondition for further study of law , theology and medicine . |
| 2 | The Galiaras were told that all the trouble was caused by the fact that she had no entry certificate , but that does not explain the inhuman treatment she received . |
| 3 | The Stolypin reforms , Soviet historians would maintain , had not solved the basic problem which made revolution inevitable . |
| 4 | This explanation does not include the wedge-tilt component which can also contribute , although to a lesser extent , to DNA curvature ( 1,6 , 7 , 12,21 ) . |
| 5 | The madness of enjoying the fruits before they were grown ; the madness of believing the dream to be the fact ; the madness of not seizing the best chance he had ever had which would also be his last chance in England . |
| 6 | Advance consideration will not prevent the inevitable pain you will experience on losing a loyal and loving companion , but being aware and in control of the situation can reduce your distress and can be comforting in retrospect . |
| 7 | It is not a measure of price for no matter how cheap a product is if it does not achieve the desired result it is expensive . |
| 8 | Often they do not achieve the institutional recognition which their practice or research merit . |
| 9 | Sadly Holroyd Smith did not reap the full reward his ideas should have brought . |
| 10 | I did not date the typed copy I made — for Dana could not or would not type , and after we had finished a poem to our common satisfaction , I had to type it out while he rested on the bed — but I am fairly certain it was written soon after I met Dana in that Spanish class for foreigners , which I have noted in my 1957 Letts Diary : ‘ Wednesday , October 16 . |
| 11 | The child was entirely Lassiter in appearance so that , while she was pleased on Stephen 's behalf , Tamar could not feel the deep love which she had for her daughter . |
| 12 | Thus , we can not give the reassuring answer one expects from theories . |
| 13 | In the context above , Mr Lorry did not perceive the actual change itself as it came over the doctor . |
| 14 | Marriner gives it fire and a certain breadth , but tends to underplay the music 's toughness and sheer explosive force — again , the crucial offbeat accents are often too tame ( as in the wind and brass at 2′27″ff ) , while the lack of real impact from the timpani means that the moment of recapitulation ( 6′54″ ) does not provide the overwhelming release it can do . |
| 15 | Chairman of ITV Sport Greg Dyke said that now the new league may not become the major force it could have been . |
| 16 | Do not overfill the Steamatic tank which holds a maximum 1.5 litres/2.5 pints . |
| 17 | Its representatives could not understand the peculiar reaction they got form the French whenever they produced their business cards . |
| 18 | To know this is useful , but to identify those media is to identify the means for transmitting the values and beliefs that coalesce to form the political culture , and not to identify the political culture itself . |
| 19 | Prime Minister Geoffrey Palmer named a new Cabinet on Jan. 31 after he had requested the resignation of those ministers who had announced their intention not to contest the general election which was due later in 1990 . |
| 20 | So he did not see the young photographer who was now taking pictures of the King … |
| 21 | Something which is particularly curious is that increased government expenditure has not produced the egalitarian society which was intended . |
| 22 | Dr. F. says that he can not remember the exact conversation which followed : |
| 23 | ‘ I can not remember the last time I had a proper meal without having a nice drop of wine to go with it . |
| 24 | But I really can not remember the last time I went out and bought something new from a retailer — other than test kits and silicon sealant . |
| 25 | Since , as Alexander Cruden put it , ‘ men can not dive into the hearts of others ’ , critics should be careful not to abuse the privileged vision they enjoy , compared to the false and occluded images that the characters in the play have to go on , and judge them disparagingly . |
| 26 | And let me now posit this : ‘ dignity ’ has to do crucially with a butler 's ability not to abandon the professional being he inhabits . |
| 27 | To be sure they were not removing the very effect they were looking for , the researchers divided the children into groups on the basis of their lead levels . |
| 28 | Fash 's packed schedule — he often holds business meetings well into the small hours and averages just five hours sleep a night — has not affected the common touch which makes him such a popular figure at Wimbledon . |
| 29 | Again , ‘ Insistence on belief in an external realization of the good is a form of self-assertion which , while it can not secure the external good which it desires , can seriously the impair the inward good which lies within our power , and destroy that reverence towards fact which constitutes both what is valuable in humility and what is fruitful in the scientific temper . ’ |
| 30 | By lunchtime the department was manic and the pace relentless but it still did not stop the old man who brought back a kettle complaining it did not work . |