Example sentences of "[not/n't] [vb infin] [adv] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Try to go to bed only when you 're tired but do not stay up past a certain critical time , say one hour after you would normally go to bed . |
| 2 | It is worth stressing that this study did not arise out of a leisured academic interest but out of an urgent need for material to use therapeutically with highly-disturbed young people . |
| 3 | The first submission by Mr. Ashworth was that a public nuisance can not arise out of a lawful act , whatever its consequences , and as what is complained of here , namely heavy goods vehicles being driven along Medway and Bridge Roads , is a lawful act , no public nuisance can arise . |
| 4 | However , the arrival of fresh management does not translate automatically into an immediate upturn in Saatchi 's performance . |
| 5 | How could clothes not dry out on a warm sunny day ? |
| 6 | Such policy appears to place political beliefs above the concept of needs when some individuals demonstrate that they can not flourish educationally in an integrated environment . |
| 7 | The first- and second-person pronouns are typical examples in that they do not refer back to a nominal expression in the text but to the speaker and hearer ( or writer and reader ) respectively . |
| 8 | For the fox , use sand or a very light shade of tan ( not too dark or it will not show up on a dark background ) . |
| 9 | Remember that these are colour effects , and they will therefore not show up on a black and white viewfinder . |
| 10 | All of this does not mitigate well for a prospective owner to take on the airframe in an easily-delivered and/or operational manner . |
| 11 | A limitation of standard costing is that , since all the overheads must be absorbed by the products to which the associated activities ultimately contribute , the redesign of a product , so that its production no longer needs a certain activity , may not result immediately in a reduced cost . |
| 12 | A limitation of standard costing is that , since all the overheads must be absorbed by the products to which the associated activities ultimately contribute , the redesign of a product , so that its production no longer needs a certain activity , may not result immediately in a reduced cost . |
| 13 | The fire did not break out in a deserted building in the middle of nowhere in the wee small hours of the morning . |
| 14 | The purpose of having a timetable is so that all relevant information can be digested and acted upon , and so that bids do not carry on for an unreasonable length of time . |
| 15 | Not that she intended accepting any favours from him , but she knew he was booked in for two nights , which gave her time to return his hospitality if she could not manipulate tonight into a Dutch treat . |
| 16 | Of such undertakings all that can be predicated is that some breaches will and others will not , give rise to an event which will deprive the party not in default of substantially the whole benefit which it was intended that he should obtain from the contract ; and the legal consequences of a breach of such an undertaking , unless provided for expressly in the contract , depend upon the nature of the event to which the breach gives rise and do not follow automatically from a prior classification of the undertaking as a " condition " or a " warranty " . |
| 17 | He did not stick out like a sore thumb — the drawback of most Englishmen , and he spoke French fluently . |
| 18 | If MPs do not look forward to an annual visit to Babel by the Sea , the Party 's rank and file spend twelve months ticking off the days in happy anticipation . |
| 19 | Mineral workings and industrial processes have created interesting habitats such as inland salt marshes , extensive deposits rich in lime and other substrates that do not occur naturally in a particular region . |
| 20 | This always included milk and green bananas , though the latter do not feature prominently on a wild orang 's menu . |
| 21 | The maximum fees that companies can charge for inspection or copies are now prescribed by regulations ( the former practice of stating them in the primary legislation did not work well in an inflationary climate ) and these regulations clarify the obligations of companies regarding inspection and copies . |
| 22 | Of course , very often garments require a number of stitches that do not work out at a neat number of pattern repeats , so you do n't HAVE to much patterns at side seams . |
| 23 | He envisaged an idealized model of perfect gases and frictionless cylinders , in contrast to the engineers who had actually been making the improvements to real engines ; but his method allowed him to demonstrate that heat will not flow spontaneously from a cool body to a warm one , and that the efficiency of a heat engine depends on the difference of temperature between the ‘ source ’ and the ‘ sink ’ of heat . |
| 24 | Obviously the factory system with its complicated industrial mechanism can not function profitably without a large and growing demand ready and willing to absorb its products as fast as they are produced . |
| 25 | do not sleep overnight in an easy chair |
| 26 | However , these grumbles , and the piecemeal reforms and constitutional pseudo-changes which they inspired , did not spill over into a generalised sense of unease about the essence of the liberal-democratic constitution itself . |
| 27 | These differ from those of the Nuer in that they do not fuse together into a single , all-pervasive deity . |
| 28 | Almost certainly the child will think of " heaven " as a funny idea which people believe in for some nonsensical reason which does not fit in with a scientific way of looking at life . |
| 29 | Frequently , therefore , their explanations will not fit together into a single picture . |
| 30 | The SDI gearbox will not fit directly into a SIII but may be fitted with the transfer box conversion as supplied by Ian Ashcroft 0582 761081 or by converting your transfer box and mounting it remotely behind the main gearbox . |