Example sentences of "not [adv] come [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The general intention in each case was not to screen the train completely , but to ensure that trains did not suddenly come into view without warning , for that would have given no time for a rider or driver to control the horse , which might otherwise bold or unseat its rider . |
| 2 | In Island Export and Finance Ltd v Umunna [ 1986 ] BCLC 460 it was held that a director 's fiduciary duty did not necessarily come to an end when he ceased to be a director . |
| 3 | As such , they may be more appropriate for urban areas , where most of the housing in any area tends to be of a similar age and type and the blanket effect of the area-based policy will at least have some logical basis ( although even in inner cities problems do not necessarily come in a spatially concentrated form — see Smith 1979a ) . |
| 4 | Poor listeners often make irrelevant comments ; the most influential contributions do not necessarily come from those vessels making the most noise . |
| 5 | Their view is that the co-ordinator will not necessarily come from the R & D department , which will reduce its influence . |
| 6 | Insights into child development do not only come from books . |
| 7 | Visual information does not only come in the form of specific letter identification . |
| 8 | The origin of ITV can be explained in many ways : as a classic case ( perhaps the first , post-war ) of high pressure political lobbying ; as Churchill 's revenge on the BBC for its disdainful treatment of him during the 1926 General Strike and in his wilderness years in the 1930s , when he was largely kept off the air ; or as part of the Conservative move to ‘ set the people free ’ from the bureaucracy and greyness allegedly intrinsic to Labour planning and the construction of the welfare state ( sweets , be it remembered , did not finally come off ration until 1953 ) . |
| 9 | Picking up tips did not just come in the form of money , for Dave learned enough to become a single-figure handicap golfer by 1967 . |
| 10 | The emphasis in the French version does not just come from the repetition of je l'aimais bien , which also occurs in the original , but rather from the fact that the repetition is labelled as repetition : elle répéta . |
| 11 | Er , it is important too , to stress that the Agency is acting as a bridge between the purchasing er , authority , the Social Services Department , and the er , independent sector , and that er , it 's also important that er , too , that er , in many cases , er , the provider 's income er , will , will not just come from Social Services , but it may be that people are purchasing their own care , if , if they 're not eligible for public , public 's er , help through , through funding , and therefore the scheme is much wider than just looking at the purchasing intentions of the , the Social Services Department . |
| 12 | Their wings do not normally come into contact , but even so there are problems when the dragonfly executes sharp turns . |
| 13 | Non-pelagic species , which do not normally come into direct contact with ice , appear to avoid freezing simply by supercooling ; their fluids remain ice-free even 1–2°C below freezing point . |
| 14 | In the villages of Pakistan , a woman working outside her home does not usually come across men unrelated to her and because of this , group or family identity is not endangered . |
| 15 | Innovations in teaching methods do not usually come in the form of simple additions to a teacher 's repertoire , generalizable to all subject matters , but are usually designed to achieve more effectively an understanding of some particular X. Usually , for a variety of reasons , the descriptions of ‘ how to proceed ’ are not at a level of precision which makes the teacher a programmed automaton ; it follows that any teacher persuaded to adopt the innovation must be willing and able to explore modifications to his repertoire in order to try and achieve the hoped-for improvement in his pupils ' understanding of X at which the innovation is aimed . |
| 16 | When I have to answer them I have some difficulty defending Members of the House , for whom I have a high regard and affection , if they behave badly , but such bad behaviour does not always come from the same side of the House . |
| 17 | Easy — someone for whom the composer 's name does not always come after the words ‘ Gilbert and ’ . |
| 18 | All who have given thought to the matter agree that an apparatus as complex as the human eye could not possibly come into existence through single-step selection . |
| 19 | A cold , distant voice that could not possibly come from her spoke at my side . |
| 20 | The scheme of the 1954 Act is that if the lease is more than six months ( which is presumably the situation in your case ) and the premises are occupied for the purposes of your business , then the lease does not automatically come to an end . |
| 21 | The district which was due to take over the funding is now claiming that some of the people who are now living in the special units attached to old people 's homes are not their responsibility They did not originally come from their districts and so they are refusing to pay some of the finance over . |
| 22 | Many knitters will not often come across patterns that take up the whole working memory . |
| 23 | So of his falling in love with Mrs Moore we are merely informed that ‘ even if I were free to tell the story , I doubt if it has much to do with the subject of this book , ’ and of his father 's death in the late summer of 1929 that this ‘ does not really come into the story I am telling ’ . |
| 24 | No wonder , then , that when he came to write up the experience in Surprised by Joy he should have been so insistent that his father 's last illness and death ‘ does not really come into the story I am telling ’ . |
| 25 | One of the reasons why Constanze did not really come into her own until after Mozart 's death may well have been that she spent much of her married life in various debilitating stages of pregnancy , bearing six children ( of whom only two survived ) . |
| 26 | If Labour could not win at a time of economic gloom , bolstered by the most effective campaign it has ever fought , and facing a Government whose campaign did not really come to life until the last 10 days — then when could it ? |
| 27 | AS has been pointed out in your magazine , the ITV coverage of the World Cup was very good , although promises that the BBC would be totally outshone did not really come to much . |
| 28 | France 's increased commitment to space , which dates from the late 1950s , did not really come to fruition until the late 1970s . |
| 29 | Vidor was to confess that he had started ‘ with the definite idea ’ that he wanted ‘ to make a film that did not simply come to town to play three days or a week and then was forgotten ’ and it was always his conviction that the proper subjects for such a film would be the beauty of rural America and the fundamental decency of ordinary Americans . |
| 30 | Nevertheless , rubber studs did not immediately come into general use because the process of changing them ruined the soles of the boots . |