Example sentences of "[not/n't] [adv] [verb] [pron] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Peter not only hears it on this occasion but several times in the future , as the book of Acts shows . |
| 2 | I hope that Marjorie is not just amusing herself with these children . |
| 3 | To me delicatessen means herring , 1,001 varieties of herring , but I did not always regard them as such if only because I virtually lived on them . |
| 4 | Should the defendant 's motive be so crucial in cases where the act is not obviously indecent , in the sense that ‘ right-minded persons ’ would not unhesitatingly classify it as such ? |
| 5 | The fact that deaf children do not spontaneously use anything like this speech code and also read poorly reinforces this link . |
| 6 | the Crown itself can not now deprive them of that power : see In re S. ( A Barrister ) [ 1970 ] 1 Q.B . |
| 7 | Floy was suspicious and Caspar did not really blame him for that . |
| 8 | Does the idea of joining the Stamp Bug Club , interest you a lot , interest you a little or not really interest you at all ? |
| 9 | The self-contained social circle of most farmers , commented upon in Chapter 3 , does not particularly lend itself to such empathy , but farmers will ignore the aspirations of the other 97 per cent of the population at their peril — and so , for that matter , will conservationists . |
| 10 | Nor was it that reforms already undertaken by Russia 's post-communist government , if only supported with a pile of hard currency , will deliver a lasting rise in living standards — because Russia has not yet done anything like enough . |
| 11 | At this stage regional officers had not yet committed themselves to any specific role in the implementation of the new policy . |
| 12 | However , factors that might theoretically if not actually subject it to some strain need to be understood , as do those conducive to its most efficient operation . |
| 13 | Some people see very clearly and are able to describe actual images ; others do not actually see anything at all but know what is going on and are able to relate to it . |
| 14 | Joanne began to focus on what she could see as the positive aspects of the new approach , and while she did not specifically identify them as such , they were related to the process objectives within the scheme of work . |
| 15 | Local Dyslexia Associations are also full of information , and there are by now quite a lot of books which have been published which are — both for parents and teachers — which are veyr easy to follow and do n't necessarily involve one in many evenings and weekends of cudgelling the brain . |
| 16 | You could n't just invent something like that . |
| 17 | You ca n't just leave her like that and wait . |
| 18 | ‘ Do n't worry about me , ’ he 'd said , but then he could n't just leave it at that and so he 'd added , ‘ Will you be all right ? ’ |
| 19 | He could n't just leave it like that . |
| 20 | And what and surely you did n't just say nothing to that ? |
| 21 | You ca n't just desert her like this . ’ |
| 22 | or for any You ca n't just take it from any time ? |
| 23 | But we do n't normally make it like that . |
| 24 | I would n't normally say anything like this but having drawn 4 out of our last 5 games then I ca n't even see us qualifying for europe anymore . |
| 25 | I would n't normally say anything like this but having drawn 4 out of our last 5 games then I ca n't even see us qualifying for europe anymore . |
| 26 | And working at the Shakespeare School of English does n't exactly hinder me in that direction . |
| 27 | I try and see where I can get out , but it 's pretty dark where I am — I ca n't hardly see anything except these trolley things . |
| 28 | ‘ Robina , ’ he shouted , ‘ we ca n't possibly discuss anything at all if you persist in — ’ |
| 29 | ‘ I always think of doctors as plumbers , but they do n't usually see themselves like that . |
| 30 | But Ken had friends a-plenty , even if he did n't always recognize them as such . |