Example sentences of "[not/n't] [vb infin] [adv] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.

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1 October plantings make small plants which do not crop well until the second year .
2 A two-run defeat seemed set fair to demoralize England , but their batsmen did not do badly in the second game at Sydney .
3 To her mistress it was understandable that she should never speak absolutely freely but it was intolerable that she could not do so to the last remaining member of her family , nor even to her husband .
4 Weak clients , i.e. those lacking confidence , may not perform well at the first meeting but normally go through a sharp learning curve .
5 Notably it did not respond coherently to the third world 's debt burden , and to ten years of stalled poor-country growth , probably because it did not overhaul its own ponderous bureaucracy .
6 If the second measurement did not tally exactly with the first , it meant that there was something wrong with the patient 's stomach .
7 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 .
8 POMEROY social security office in Tyrone will not open today for the first scheduled signing-on since the IRA attack on a fraud squad investigator a fortnight ago .
9 But again this does not help much with the second paradox .
10 I ca n't remember much about the second Arse goal , scored by Merson ; maybe Sunil on the north bank can say what happened .
11 ‘ Brian Gayle did n't defend well for the first goal and Gage did a Val Parnell act in the middle of the park to set up the lad for his second . ’
12 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 .
13 ‘ It would seem the £100m needed to build the jail would be a ripe contender for the cuts and it wo n't go ahead for the next financial year at least . ’
14 ‘ It would seem the £100m needed to build the jail would be a ripe contender for the cuts and it wo n't go ahead for the next financial year at least . ’
15 Well he , he did n't play well in the second half though did he ?
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