Example sentences of "[vb -s] not [verb] [adv] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now the illusion is well and truly shattered and the only reason the share price has not plunged much further than it has is the hope that some brave soul will put the group out of its misery with a takeover . |
| 2 | Since the opening of the Sterling Commercial Paper ( SCP ) market in 1986 , there have been regular issues but the market has not developed as quickly as national ( as opposed to euro ) commercial paper markets in many other European countries . |
| 3 | EASE is the biggest operation by a long way , although electronic selling has not developed as quickly as the ANM Group hoped when it introduced the idea from Canada . |
| 4 | The rapidly rising birth rate is only part of the explanation , since the birth rate has not risen as fast as urban populations have increased . |
| 5 | However the government has not gone as far as it might have . |
| 6 | In some areas , mechanisation is replacing labour although in the countryside this has not gone as far as on North American farms . |
| 7 | This sector of the market has not expanded as rapidly as expected . |
| 8 | A remedy commonly needed in measles , especially if the rash has not come out fully or has disappeared again and they become more ill . |
| 9 | This has taken a number of forms and has not spread as widely as some of its supporters might have hoped . |
| 10 | Although Johnson does not go so far as to claim that the affectless society was responsible for the Moors Murders , she does feel able to argue that the general atmosphere in society at the time had ‘ infected ’ the social system , and that ‘ Brady possibly , Hindley almost certainly , have been victims of fallout ’ . |
| 11 | Fitzgerald herself does not go so far as to suggest that they should not be used at all . |
| 12 | Christine Brooke-Rose does not go so far as to disavow authorial creativity altogether , but she too sees technology as the possible key to a breakthrough in how we think about the human subject . |
| 13 | However he does not go so far as to paraphrase by " see that " , as does Palmer . |
| 14 | In the meantime the purchase grant of the Museum has been cut by nearly fifty per cent to Pta300 million ( £1.7 million ; £2.9 million ) which does not go very far when acquiring modern works . |
| 15 | In Canada the Human Rights Act 1978 does not go as far as removing mandatory retirement ages ( although there is pressure growing to do so ) but does make it unlawful to deprive people of employment opportunities on grounds of age , as a result of policies or practices relating to recruitment promotion , training , or other personnel matters . |
| 16 | It becomes a bonfire in autumn , but strangely does not burn so brightly as the green-leafed type distinguished as viridis . |
| 17 | We shall instead suggest ( 40 ) , where the fact that the arrowhead passes through the square bracket is intended to show that the minor property does not simply qualify the entity as a whole , but the fact that it does not reach as far as the round bracket shows that the adjective is not a sense-qualifier : ( 40 ) |
| 18 | Although our sense of smell does not compare as favourably as some of our other senses , it allows us to detect tiny traces of a very wide range of complex chemicals . |
| 19 | If I am in a studio and initially feel slightly lukewarm towards a particular piece I find it does not last very long because I soon get caught up with the work of a strong artist . |
| 20 | Natural gut absorbs moisture and does not last as long as synthetic string . |
| 21 | It does not grow as fast as N. indicum , but the slender stalks produce more aerial leaves than the larger species . |
| 22 | The criticisms have fallen into certain categories , one general line being that the service has failed to adopt modern methods of management , that it has been slow in understanding the use of statistical information and of specialized knowledge of the social services , and that it does not think ahead enough or organize its planning on a sufficiently systematic basis , in part because officials spend too much time on routine departmental work . |
| 23 | To the urban dweller , all woods look the same , but in landscape terms we must be careful to distinguish between the wildwood ( the remnant or successor of the natural or semi-natural woodland of Britain — which certainly does not exist anywhere today and probably has not since the Roman period ) and woods which have been to a greater or lesser degree managed for the production of timber and wood ( Fig. 63 ) . |
| 24 | Ultimately , it does not matter that much whether the future arrangements of the EC are called federal , confederal , political union or whatever , except that labels may affect expectations and may accord spurious legitimacy to Community institutions . |
| 25 | Whether this is the way they express themselves does not matter so long as we can establish that this is the substance of their view . |
| 26 | There the nectar does not evaporate as quickly as it would if it were in a more exposed position . |
| 27 | If he takes his clothes off , which he does not do very easily because it hurts so much , one sees open wounds from the top of his chest down to his toes . |
| 28 | With many similar safety features , this latest Astra offers sharper performance with good build quality and economy , though it does not ride as smoothly as its major rival . |
| 29 | Another reason why coaching does not occur as often as it might is due to the time pressures which every manager faces . |
| 30 | The letter O , for instance , does not occur very often as the final letter in a four letter word , but is common as the second letter . |