Example sentences of "[not/n't] [vb infin] [adv] [adv] [subord] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Older people do not adapt as easily as young people . |
| 3 | It can not do any better than this since this is the iso-vote line which is tangential to the relevant Phillips curve . |
| 4 | A cap on interest charged on misdeclarations , so that assessments of interest will not date back more than three years . |
| 5 | Lubricated condoms do not break as easily as non-lubricated ones . |
| 6 | Users who have commented that , " It should look for phrases " or " Why does it do it word by word ? " can only be answered by saying that phrase searching often does not work very well because many books are not described in the catalogue by the phrases which searchers use . |
| 7 | Yet he should not weep too long because old stone face himself , Ivan Lendl , made five attempts to land a major title . |
| 8 | Asian ships did not go round the Cape of Good Hope to trade with Europe , and East Indiamen , as the Company 's ships were called , were so heavily armed and were so much safer from the risk of piracy that merchants found them useful carriers even though they did not sail as fast as local ships until the Company had its ships built of teak some decades later . |
| 9 | As algae does not multiply as quickly as some marine parasites the turnover in the pond need not be very fast . |
| 10 | I would not go as far as one group which makes ‘ coupleness and a sense of call in husband and wife ’ one of their ten non-negotiables for church planters . |
| 11 | The question of images in churches was further addressed by two sets of injunctions issued by Cromwell in 1536 and 1538 , but even here the reforms did not go as far as some iconophobes would have liked , as they drew back from condemning all images and denounced only those that encouraged ‘ superstition and hypocrisy ’ and ‘ that most detestable sin of idolatry ’ . |
| 12 | They do not go as far as some countries , who plan to make actual cuts in emissions rates . |
| 13 | Several attempts , he wrote , had been made by " former prospectors " to sink upon this lode " but it is heavily watered that they could not go down more than 3 or 4 fathoms deep " . |
| 14 | We can not go so far as that ; and I lay it down as fact that there never has been a real complete sceptic . |
| 15 | But we need not go so far as that ; it will suffice to suppose that firms rise and fall , but that the ‘ representative ’ firm remains always of about the same size , as does the representative tree of a virgin forest . [ … ] |
| 16 | Tall men can not drive as easily as smaller men . |
| 17 | The existence of economies of scale in family life ( bulk buying , spreading fixed costs , etc. ) means that , although two can not live as cheaply as one ( it seems to us at least ) , cohabitation means that a given per capita standard can be maintained for two at less than double the expenditure for one . |
| 18 | The National Security Council , they insist , hums with meetings on just this , but the meetings can not get very far until more is known about how the post-war world looks . |
| 19 | A proper discussion of a football match can not occur if one of the participants is quite ignorant of the rules of the game ; and the kind of assessment of a restaurant meal that would involve the possible insertion of the establishment into a good food guide ( or perhaps its deletion from it ) will not get very far if one of the diners does not care for the meal because his idea of a gastronomic treat is a cheeseburger and french fries ( though within the order of the burger discriminations are possible ) . |
| 20 | This does not mean that big companies can not fail as frequently as small companies . |
| 21 | Natural gut absorbs moisture and does not last as long as synthetic string . |
| 22 | I am satisfied that the promise was understood by all parties only to apply under the conditions prevailing at the time when it was made , namely , when the flats were only partially let , and that it did not extend any further than that . |
| 23 | The fact that some believed that their teaching programme would not differ greatly even if such examinations were abolished seems to suggest that the GCSE syllabuses may be moving in the right direction , and present fewer conflicts with the way arts teachers normally operate . |
| 24 | ‘ They ca n't think further ahead than four years , can they ? |
| 25 | Yeah , well I do n't know there more than seventy two are n't they ? |
| 26 | It does n't sound quite so good when you put it at that sort of level , cause it puts a school at risk , but of course there 's no reason why a county council should n't borrow considerably more than this council does , looked at on accounting principle , unless I 'm wrong , and Mr I 'm going to call in a minute , will correct me if I am . |
| 27 | You ca n't do any better than this ? |
| 28 | Evidently the carrier landings did n't work out well as those operations and their filming was quickly terminated . |
| 29 | ‘ We 're set for the end of the century , ’ he says , ‘ but you ca n't look much further than that , can you ? ’ |
| 30 | ‘ I do n't fare as badly as some showbiz celebrities I 've talked to . |