Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] not [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He obviously has not read the report — |
| 2 | Unfortunately the detailed work on which that revision is itself based has only been published in Soviet journals in Russian , so has not stood the test of scrutiny by Western astronomers . |
| 3 | It was sensibly decided not to publish the draft White Paper they prepared . |
| 4 | Make colour 1 any shade you like , but remember that this will be the colour of the design screen you will be working on , so try not to make the colour too violent a shade , as this can be tiring to the eyes . |
| 5 | At the end of the twentieth century group exhibitions perhaps do not have the importance that they have had earlier in the century . |
| 6 | The scoreline perhaps did not reflect the effort which Down put in but Bangor were more clinical in finishing off their moves . |
| 7 | Some have become prepared to forgo promotion if it means too much disruption of home and family and if they personally do not want the commuting life . |
| 8 | From the theoretical point of view , however , I personally do not find the question of ‘ intrusive ’ and ‘ linking ’ in RP very interesting ( one might perhaps class it as a matter similar to the grammatical and stylistic question of whether or not to use ‘ whom ’ ) but anyone who wishes to go into the subject could read Windsor Lewis ( 1975a ) , Pring ( 1976 ) , Windsor Lewis ( 1977a ) and Fox ( 1978 ) . |
| 9 | To our surprise , we did not observe any influence of age , sex , and body mass index upon the success rate and the recurrence rate ; even the initial number of stones apparently did not influence the recurrence rate , which is in contradiction with the postdissolution experience where the recurrence was higher in patients with multiple stones than with solitary stones . |
| 10 | Laboulbeniales found on adult beetles apparently do not infect the larvae , so adult-to-adult contact is the sole method of spread . |
| 11 | Unexpectedly , vertebrates apparently do not produce the enzyme cellulose and the process of cellulolytic degradation can occur only with the aid of populations of anaerobic bacteria in specialised fermentation chambers in the alimentary tract . |
| 12 | Administration of L-arginine alone did not alter the resting blood pressure in untreated animals . |
| 13 | Lord Justice Butler-Sloss in her concluding remarks on Dr Higgs 's role stated that ‘ She alone did not create the crisis . |
| 14 | John MacCunn , Professor of Philosophy at Liverpool University and author of several standard texts on citizenship and character , was keen to impress upon his readers that rights alone did not make the citizen ; what mattered was the way in which they were used : democracy itself was only a beginning , not an end . |
| 15 | These cover a period from 1442 to 1560 and obviously do not represent the whole of the villagers at this time , but are of those whose names appear in the index of wills of the Rochester Consistory Court . |
| 16 | Push into place so adhesive clings to glass — smooth down The adhesive is very strong so do not remove the thermometer once in place |
| 17 | These false eyes stare implacably , challenging the predator to bite , while the small , real eye of the prey is sufficiently concealed not to give the game away . |
| 18 | The talk was a little on the short side , but even so did not hold the attention as well as it might have . |
| 19 | Cuban officials had made clear that these spoiled or blank ballots would not be considered valid and so did not affect the election . |
| 20 | The presence of these South American lines naturally does not prove the existence of British leys , but it did mean that Watkins 's theory was no longer an isolated , irrational concept . |
| 21 | It might be that the individual does not see the value of climbing a mountain ; or perhaps does not have the confidence to set about the task . |
| 22 | Because the particle and antiparticle in effect cancel each other out , their appearance together does not violate the laws of physics . |
| 23 | Yet deprivation alone does not explain the militancy and relatively strong political consciousness of the factory proletariat . |
| 24 | The fear alone does not cause the behaviour , however . |
| 25 | However , the adoption of this policy alone does not solve the problem of making optimal use of the volume , because filling up the highest part of the nave with habitable accommodation arranged on one or several storeys deprives the lower-level spinal space of the church of natural light . |
| 26 | The council just has not got the money . ’ |
| 27 | It was thus decided not to bring the proposal back to the Committee . |
| 28 | As Duncan had already decided not to leave the policeman to his own devices , he had no alternative but to join him on the next available flight to Tobolsk . |
| 29 | Darwin 's image of an irregularly branching tree thus did not fit the evidence . |
| 30 | While the criticisms outlined above do not obviate the necessity of some nativistic assumptions , they do suggest a different way of addressing the problem . |