Example sentences of "[not/n't] [adv] [verb] [to-vb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That means you 've not only got to economise in manpower ; you 've got to bring new technology to bear on the problem . |
| 2 | MICHAEL Caine does not just want to star in front of the camera , he wants to star behind it . |
| 3 | It shows a sensitivity that we have perhaps not always come to expect from Government Departments . |
| 4 | I must admit that I do not always want to go to work but once I am there I nearly always have a really good time . |
| 5 | One of the reasons behind this seemingly illogical situation in such an over-populated area is that councils are not legally allowed to take into account small sites ( aptly termed ‘ wind-full ’ sites ) that may have become derelict or vacant which actually provide a large amount of free land . |
| 6 | She spent seven years working for Harper 's Bazaar as a fashion illustrator , also producing book illustrations , and did not really begin to concentrate on painting until during the war , whilst living near Regent 's Park which inspired the spiky pastoralism which often served as a poignant background to her paintings of children . |
| 7 | As creatures of habit , you will find that they soon do not even attempt to climb on furniture , but voluntarily retire to their bed . |
| 8 | It soon became evident that nothing of the kind was forthcoming : the racist strictures of the War Office prevented promotional possibilities , blacks were not even allowed to join in combat with the enemy . |
| 9 | In Orkney not only did the parents not see or have any access to their children , they were not even allowed to communicate by letter or telephone . |
| 10 | My plan was to take a Bachelor of Music degree — for which , at that time one did not even have to go into residence . |
| 11 | However , we would expect the effect of terminal education age to differ among people of different generations : 16 was the minimum school-leaving age for sample members aged 28 or less , whereas any respondents aged 80 or older did not even have to stay at school till they were 14 . |
| 12 | ( a ) Powers of a single justice A single justice may exercise the jurisdiction of the family proceedings court : ( 1 ) To make the following orders on an ex parte application : ( i ) a prohibited steps or specific issue order ( s10 ) ; ( ii ) an emergency protection order ( s44(1) ) ; ( iii ) a warrant for police assistance in the execution of an emergency protection order ( s48(9) ) ; ( iv ) a recovery order ( s50(1) ) ; ( v ) cancellation of registration or variation of requirement imposed on person providing day care ( s75(1) ) ; ( vi ) a warrant for police assistance to search for children or inspect premises in circumstances specified in s102(6). ( 2 ) To grant leave to commence proceedings : ( i ) to a child wishing to apply for the discharge of a parental responsibility order ( s4(3) ( b ) ) ; ( ii ) to a person not otherwise entitled to apply for contact with a child in care ( s34(1) ( b ) ) ; ( iii ) to anyone wishing to apply for a child assessment order , the substitution of supervision order for a care order or the discharge of a care order , supervision order , or education supervision order within six months of a previous application ( s91(15) ) ; ( iv ) to anyone wishing to make a further application for a contact order under s34 ( contact with a child in care ) within six months of refusal of a previous application ( s91(17) ) ; ( v ) to a child wishing to apply for discharge of an existing custody or access order under the transitional provisions ( Sched 4 , para 11(4) ) . |
| 13 | Erm , women do n't just want to write about knitting , erm |
| 14 | We do n't usually tend to bother with distance much , so when , when the police measure your speed , they 're actually measuring |
| 15 | You ate what you were given and tried to look as if you could n't really bear to think about food . |
| 16 | Well , you do n't really need to wait until Hallowe'en to tell monster jokes — any old dark and stormy night will do . |
| 17 | Competition is so great between the two giants of the industry ( and I have n't even begun to think about Unix and the Mac operating system , never mind the combined IBM/Apple OS ) that , behind the hype ( of which I predict there will be much ) there will be a rock solid operating system developed , and it will be just what the doctor ordered . |
| 18 | Er i this is why it 's important that you mix with people , that you get out and about , because if you find that everybody else is , is getting up the hill faster than you and everybody else is crossing the roads quicker than you and all the rest of it , it should tell you something , now I mean I do n't even want to go into competition but I think it is good occasionally to see if you can walk as fast as that eighteen year old in front of you . |
| 19 | Some girls do n't even want to ask in case their parents get angry and ban them from seeing their boyfriends . |
| 20 | For too long , inflights coasted along in a crappy state for several reasons : first , the implicit assumption that if you wanted your duty-free goods sold on board then you took an ad in the mag ( so , if you 're making money anyway , why bother to make it good ? ) ; second , the mags did n't even have to compete for ad budgets with proper media , since duty-free is usually handled by a separate division with a separate ad spend ; and last , nobody cares if nobody reads it . |