Example sentences of "[not/n't] [vb infin] [indef pn] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ravel 's Chansons madecasses , though the music sweats with sultry southern heat , does not bathe one with the swirling sounds of his orchestral timbres . |
| 2 | Buying a ticket for last night 's game does NOT guarantee one for the all-Ireland clash in November — unless a formal application was made at the time of purchase to the IFA office . |
| 3 | You can not do everything at the same time . |
| 4 | Two-thirds of a total of 324 companies interviewed said that the environment was not a trading issue last year , and 59 per cent agreed that it would not become one in the forthcoming year . |
| 5 | Stung , the League said yesterday that they expect ITV to come up with a new date within the next fortnight and they will not tolerate one beyond the scheduled season 's end of May 5 . |
| 6 | I was very discouraged and did not approach anyone in the other region , fearing the same response . |
| 7 | This will not surprise anyone in the old tradition which opposes Reason to Experience and contends that the absolute knowledge which science seeks comes only when Reason certifies the findings of Experience . |
| 8 | I did not try one with the full sixty degrees , which is almost a full airbrake setting and would doubtless produce a still slower stall speed , but the Bölkow is obviously capable of getting into a very short field if required . |
| 9 | There is no small irony in this , as applications to purchase foreign technology in the first place will only be approved if the relevant Soviet machine building ministry can not produce something of the appropriate standard and quantity in the time required . |
| 10 | I , who can not reach anything on the top shelf at the supermarket ? |
| 11 | However , these institutional norms do not tell anything like the whole story , and this is particularly true if we focus on spoken language in casual conversation and on phonetic and phonological variation : as we noticed in chapter 3 , the norms of a superordinate variety can not be projected on to the norms of a speech community without distorting our description . |
| 12 | But Ford could not get one in the new cap ! ! |
| 13 | ‘ He 's got plenty of pace — but I 'll bet you £1,000 he would not get anything like the same results as Waqar and Wasim . |
| 14 | An impressive university department might be staffed with the established academics who have lately confessed , in print , to basic doubts about the validity and purpose of English literary studies ; and it is hard today to think of any branch of formal literary study that does not reflect something of the same malaise . |
| 15 | In their conclusions the researchers did warn , however , that the samples they studied were small and that they could not say anything about the long-term effects of increased exposure to ultraviolet radiation . |
| 16 | He he did n't make one at the same time as , you know , to actually show the folds and that |
| 17 | ‘ I shall get into something comfortable , ’ she said , ‘ and then I sha n't want anything for the whole afternoon . ’ |
| 18 | If they answer the phone and say they do n't know anything about the bed-and-breakfast bookings , a customer could be lost immediately . |
| 19 | ‘ When I arrived I could n't speak a word of Spanish , did n't know anything about the photographic scene in Madrid and had never worked as a professional photographer before , so it was n't the easiest of situations to begin with . ’ |
| 20 | But , even if you do n't know anything about the deeper workings , you can apply some common sense guidelines to the same effect . |
| 21 | When I first decided to go into acting , my mother went mad — it was quite understandable , we did n't know anything about the acting profession . |
| 22 | And do n't buy one with the front headlamp glass missing : they 're almost impossible to replace . |
| 23 | If you 're gay you 're reviled , but Cube has always revealed the sick shit from the grubby corners of his mind , and you ca n't expect someone from the wasted landscape of black urban America to think like a white liberal . |
| 24 | He so concentrated on his dialogue — I never had to reshoot a scene because Kenny fluffed a line — that he could n't do anything at the same time as he was talking . ’ |
| 25 | The GenTech labs could n't do anything about the common cold and no government had been able to develop a workable public transport system , but when it came to deathware , why , there were wonderful new toys on the market every fall , just in time for Christmas . |
| 26 | If it did n't , it would n't achieve anything like the stupendous accuracy that I have described . |
| 27 | God does n't give anything to the idle ! |
| 28 | I ca n't remember anything about the whole evening . |
| 29 | I ca n't remember anything in the last fifteen years or so that has excited me in America . |
| 30 | He 's a very good short story writer , but I do n't see anybody with the same mixture of writerly craft and stamina which Greene had . |