Example sentences of "[not/n't] [vb infin] [adv] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The stealing networks did not disappear entirely in the early years of the twentieth century , but their geographical range and the extent of their operations was sharply curtailed . |
| 2 | Otherwise women and children did not earn independently in the proto-industrial household in its cloth or hosiery branches . |
| 3 | Mr Christopher said yesterday the United States would not act alone in the Bosnian crisis but would keep pressing for lifting the arms embargo . |
| 4 | When you have noted the area where the bream cease to roll and do not appear again in the immediate vicinity , the terminal point will be a few yards further along in the direction they were travelling . |
| 5 | They do not appear anywhere in the Old Testament . |
| 6 | The word ‘ authority ’ and its cognates does not appear once in The Green Book ( which is also silent about police , courts , armies and heads of state ) . |
| 7 | A two-run defeat seemed set fair to demoralize England , but their batsmen did not do badly in the second game at Sydney . |
| 8 | He remembers his lonely school days , in assured manner that his son will not grow up in the same way . |
| 9 | At half-time a note was passed to the Scottish dressing-room telling the young striker that he would be shot if he did not ease off in the second half . |
| 10 | However , this result does not carry through in the same way to the cases we have just been discussing where managerial utility depends on effort as well as income . |
| 11 | Another 250 words may not sound much in the great scheme of things , but after a heavy day at Pipeline and an end-of-contest thrash at the Turtle Bay Hilton , it felt like being asked to dash off another chapter of War and Peace . |
| 12 | He is over 55 , married , without education or job training ; furthermore , he has had a spell of registered unemployment , did not work full-time in the 12 months prior to becoming unemployed and lives in a council house . |
| 13 | Nevertheless , the view that consumer tastes are in part the result of corporate influence and do not originate exclusively in the autonomous individual will is a persuasive one . |
| 14 | If the joint venture is between firms that do not compete directly in the relevant product market , the exemption applies for five years ( from when the product is first put on the EC market ) regardless of market share ; it also applies if the participants are rivals but their collective share does not exceed 20 per cent of the relevant market . |
| 15 | We did not go up in the same lift , but were taken to another one , apparently for the use of directors only . |
| 16 | Their cheer did not go far in the brittle morning air but it pleased her . |
| 17 | There are some aspects of our personalities which may not come over in the brief span of an interview , but which those close to us know only too well . |
| 18 | No doubt one could find some of that ilk in the Labour party , but I am sorry to tell Ministers , who greatly outnumber their indians seated behind them , that defence will not figure prominently in the next general election . |
| 19 | Dead plants can not rot properly in the waterlogged soil . |
| 20 | Although the Bank of England does not deal directly in the parallel markets and does not provide ‘ last resort ’ lending facilities , it nevertheless closely monitors the various money market rates of interest and if necessary seeks to influence them , either by its dealings in the discount market or by ‘ indicating ’ the direction it would like to see interest rates move . |
| 21 | His behaviour at the visit seems to suggest that he was a disturbing presence , since he did not turn up in the Great Hall as expected , but disappeared into a derelict and disused part of the house from whence he had to be fetched . |
| 22 | They can not er , although i it 's not that er , er that sort of erm instinct does n't exist anymore in the Indian-Asian woman . |
| 23 | Well , I daresay you 'd know I would n't nod off in the normal way . |
| 24 | He also said he did n't believe unduly in the one-day game , even though that is where he made his name . |
| 25 | There 's no space in it to prick out seedlings , but it certainly wo n't blow over in the robust Orkney winds , and the tomatoes seem to grow perfectly well . |
| 26 | Something with four solid walls the wo n't blow down in the first puff of wolf 's breath . |
| 27 | To make sure that he does n't fade again in the second part of the season , Zeelenberg 's pre-season training regime has been a lot tougher . |
| 28 | He added : ‘ We 'll take our case to Parliament and we 're examining the legality of imposing market conditions which do n't apply elsewhere in the European Community . |
| 29 | Quiss cleared his throat and leaned forward towards the small figure , which shrank away without actually stepping back , " Right , " Quiss said , " the answer to the question is : You ca n't have both in the same universe , Got it ? " |
| 30 | " Yes , " nodded the attendant , " yes , I think I 've got it : " You ca n't have both in the same universe . " |