Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] [verb] not [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps I do not even care ; I do n't know that , either . |
| 2 | Perhaps I did not even know it . |
| 3 | ‘ Perhaps you do not fully realize the gravity of your actions . |
| 4 | ‘ Perhaps you do not really understand . ’ |
| 5 | Within our group of 19 authorities who spent over £5,000 , only one did not formally allocate a specific amount of money for training , and that one authority was still able to be very specific about the amount estimated for 1984/5 ( £6,000 ) , though not formally budgeted . |
| 6 | Perhaps we do not yet have the tools for a scientific resolution of this task and this is where Utopian thinking may aid us in identifying our political goals . |
| 7 | The qualities looked for in a higher civil servant are : intelligence ; fluency of mouth and pen , particularly in producing a persuasive argument and in composing a good ministerial speech ; the capacity to induce other people to carry out a policy that perhaps they do not much wish to carry out ; a political ‘ nose ’ ; the ability ( in a Department or a local or regional office ) to organise those beneath him or her ; and capacity for hard work ( many of those at the top work extremely hard ) . |
| 8 | Perhaps they did not really believe in them — or did they ? |
| 9 | Clearly Littlewoods , the pools group and retailer , does not believe in either solution — or perhaps it does not really want to sell . |
| 10 | Something in his demeanour indicated that perhaps he did not quite believe her story of having climbed most of the way up Massis , which peasants and holy men alike knew to be inaccessible . |
| 11 | Rufus was not squeamish , he had not been one of those medical students who become nauseous at their first sight of surgery , but , curiously enough he did not much like to think of all those odd little bones , so alien to him , so unidentifiable , being dug up and sorted out and sifted through in case there should be a human fibula among them or a vertebra . |
| 12 | Finally they do not generally consider that its use constitutes any threat to them . |
| 13 | Shostakovich himself declared that he wanted to write a ‘ happy ’ Symphony , but somehow he does not quite seem the natural choice for such a thing . |
| 14 | Hence they do not always strike last in hand-to-hand combat — the normal penalty for using two-handed weapons . |
| 15 | Also it does not usually penetrate through the enamel and into the dentine , so that the corners of the teeth are rounded and the salient angles flattened . |
| 16 | If the war was not the cause of that subsequent economic growth — either wholly or in part — then clearly it did not seriously inhibit it . |
| 17 | Now I do not actually recall er us going into detail about the harbouring er and I certainly do n't recall erm that we were talking about a hostage situation . |
| 18 | Now she did not even wish to try , for fear of rousing up something terrible . |
| 19 | Now they do not simply murmur against him , they quarrel noisily with him . |
| 20 | Inevitably they do not always get it right . |
| 21 | Now it did not even strike her as odd or ungracious that Jenny , after their long separation , should have no time for questions or interest about her sojourn in America or her journey home , and that she could not control her own unhappiness for the sake of welcoming back her sister . |
| 22 | Only the ECSC survived , but even it did not entirely escape the shockwaves . |
| 23 | Surely he does not seriously think that appeasement will stop the IRA attacks or the cries of discrimination . |
| 24 | Unfortunately I did not fully understand that the usefulness of the machine was limited by its memory capacity and the extent to which not having a hard disk would limit my son 's use of the machine . |
| 25 | ‘ Then you do not now rule out the possibility of murder ? ’ she said . |
| 26 | Discussing a book on Dostoevsky , he remarks that while the author has much of interest to say about The Idiot ‘ she does not quite persuade one that it comes off , indeed she does not really try , because like many scholars today she is more concerned with showing how the thing works than with judging if it works well . ’ |
| 27 | As it happened , just before reading Mr Aitcheson 's article , I had attended a Tribunal involving five unemployment benefit cases where not one of the five appellants attended and indeed one did not even acknowledge receipt of his set of Tribunal papers . ’ |
| 28 | Unfortunately we do not yet have good methods to control the quantity of protein produced , and overproduction could adversely affect normal tissue . |
| 29 | Unfortunately we do not yet know the accuracy of the three tests in combination . |
| 30 | Unfortunately we do not always have enough stories from the diocese to fill the space available and so have to use material from other sources . |