Example sentences of "[not/n't] [adv] [vb infin] [prep] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since these particular constraints do not apparently operate upon variation in subject-verb agreement in standard English , which in turn is affected by a different set of constraints ( see Huddleston 1984 : 241 ) , we must assume that the surface variants of the verb which occur in the two dialects are embedded in structurally different grammars . |
| 2 | The general intention in each case was not to screen the train completely , but to ensure that trains did not suddenly come into view without warning , for that would have given no time for a rider or driver to control the horse , which might otherwise bold or unseat its rider . |
| 3 | Transfer of training from a simulator to a real situation is never complete and does not necessarily increase with degree of fidelity . |
| 4 | It 's not it 's not as straightforward , the conclusions in respect of one may not necessarily apply in respect of the other . |
| 5 | Richard Wright 's study suggests that whilst police do not necessarily look for evidence of extreme violence , they do seek evidence of some violence or threat . |
| 6 | The haulier will not necessarily know from week to week what products are to be transported — if any — but must have a range of vehicles available to cover all eventualities . |
| 7 | This would be a step in the right direction , however the 2 teams would still be separate within the organisation and would not necessarily operate in practice as one team . |
| 8 | In other words , Bukharin completely forgot that the extended reproduction … must not only lead to growth of c and v but also to that of α , i.e. to the growth of the individual consumption of the capitalists . |
| 9 | But Miss Dallam would not only feel at ease with it but would look well in it too . |
| 10 | Furthermore , the electoral mechanism ensures that the government does not persistently decide in favour of one group above others since the overt bias in favour of one group will alienate the government from the rest and will lead to the government losing office come the next time it faces its electorate . |
| 11 | The origin of ITV can be explained in many ways : as a classic case ( perhaps the first , post-war ) of high pressure political lobbying ; as Churchill 's revenge on the BBC for its disdainful treatment of him during the 1926 General Strike and in his wilderness years in the 1930s , when he was largely kept off the air ; or as part of the Conservative move to ‘ set the people free ’ from the bureaucracy and greyness allegedly intrinsic to Labour planning and the construction of the welfare state ( sweets , be it remembered , did not finally come off ration until 1953 ) . |
| 12 | Although the feet do not stretch and point in the way we still care about in the West , the dancers do not just move from position to position ; they dance in a long poem of fluently musical movement that is classical ballet 's chief claim to fame . |
| 13 | So , while product development has been impressive , and confirms a certain level of re-investment , it does not usually lead to development of medium-sized businesses with tangible assets . |
| 14 | Although alarm is not expressed to relate to any particular source of concern , we do not usually speak of alarm in a vacuum . |
| 15 | However , exposure to HIV does not always result in transmission of the virus . |
| 16 | She wept softly , while he held her and believed in the augury that this happiness could not possibly end in death on a battlefield , for such an end would be against all that was good and sweet and lovely in the world . |
| 17 | All who have given thought to the matter agree that an apparatus as complex as the human eye could not possibly come into existence through single-step selection . |
| 18 | As heavy water does not spontaneously give off heat from its deuterium fusing , so is it even less likely that it would when inside palladium . |
| 19 | I do not now intend by beauty of shapes what most people would expect , such as that of living creatures or pictures , but … straight lines and curves and the surfaces of solid forms produced out of these by lathes and rulers and squares … |
| 20 | There is no stabilized figure corresponding to the later producer or director , who does not really appear in theatre until the late nineteenth century . |
| 21 | You can not really communicate in art without a common language . |
| 22 | So , well before we get on to any issues to do with the structural poverty of the Third World , maintained by the wealth extracting efforts and arrangements of our Western world , we can surely see why quite a few people do not really believe in recovery through economic growth and consumption and we need to ask whether we ought to want it anyway , but people in the Tory Party and in the Labour Party in the City with a capital C and the trade unions with a Capital T and a U go on talking as if our goal must be jobs and recovery in the same old way , technologized , computerized and skillerlized of course with strong dashes of management insights and so on |
| 23 | If Labour could not win at a time of economic gloom , bolstered by the most effective campaign it has ever fought , and facing a Government whose campaign did not really come to life until the last 10 days — then when could it ? |
| 24 | France 's increased commitment to space , which dates from the late 1950s , did not really come to fruition until the late 1970s . |
| 25 | Outcrossing promotes diversity suited to high biotic uncertainty and does not invariably lead to specialization of species but , on the contrary , may lead to greater generalization of a species and therefore similarity between species of a tree ‘ guild ’ . |
| 26 | ‘ The man will be a fool if he does not immediately fall in love with you . ’ |
| 27 | Yet this piece has much that is freshly inventive and original , even if these were epithets that , alas , did not readily spring to mind with regard to the performance it received . |
| 28 | Two flowers which do not readily spring to mind as candidates for cutting , but which make excellent displays , are Sisyrinchium striatum and paeonies . |
| 29 | Murphy , Mackenzie and Roberts took a tighter hold on midfield and wingers McMahon and Reeve , the younger , came more into the game , but the ball would not quite run for Sharman at centre-forward . |
| 30 | This is particularly significant for Marx since it means that the communal principle does not fully come into conflict with the interests of individual constitutive families as it did in the ancient city , a contradiction which ultimately led to further developments . |