Example sentences of "[vb base] not [verb] [adv] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pillar or ‘ short climbing roses ' By and large , training and tying into a single pillar or post is only suitable for shorter growing climbers that do not grow long enough to clothe larger areas like walls and pergolas . |
| 2 | The fact that the group 's thorough investigation failed to reveal the existence of this mini ‘ statement of purpose ’ either in print or [ more likely ] in preparation could speak volumes for their assertion , repeated at regular intervals , that British Gas do not do enough internally to publicise environmental efforts . |
| 3 | This is the particular issue for debate at this meeting , and I do not presume here either to pre-empt discussion or anticipate what I will say later when I consider it in greater detail . |
| 4 | The long residence time generally means that any harmful bacteria that enter an aquifer do not live long enough to pose a threat to anyone using groundwater . |
| 5 | Conservatives tend to stress the ‘ will not ’ : jobs exist , but people do not take them ; jobs do not pay enough , or people do not try hard enough to find them . |
| 6 | ‘ And people do not understand how physically to vote . |
| 7 | This subject added : " Occasionally I hear the first movement of his Third Concerto , which I do not know well enough to construct in my mind when I am fully conscious . " |
| 8 | ‘ But I want to make it quite clear that we do n't go out there to harm anyone . |
| 9 | The two chalk-drawn images , on either side of a Black(Bird)board , do n't rotate fast enough to achieve the required effect . |
| 10 | ‘ Well , supposing they do n't choose any longer to marry one another ? |
| 11 | In the NI 's first editorial by a woman , Maggie Black described the beauty of a 15-year-old Ethiopian girl she met on the road to Selekleka and mourned the transience of that beauty ‘ if policies do n't change fast enough to avoid her back being bent , her hands calloused , her body broken , by the time she is 30 ’ . |
| 12 | I simply do n't get out much to enjoy my success . |
| 13 | If we do n't get together collectively to get rid this government , you and your families and Mick and his grandchildren , there wo n't be a health service there . |
| 14 | ‘ I 'm afraid I do n't know how else to explain it . |
| 15 | It would be like returning to resit an examination in which we have not done well enough to proceed to another level of our education . |
| 16 | I have not said clear away , it is not the end of the lesson and some of you have not worked hard enough to make the end of the lesson now if you do n't want to make the whole poem rhyme , what you might want to do is to put two lines together at a time and have those rhyming , paired rhymes , rhyming couplets , you can do that . |
| 17 | During the last ten years Britain has changed , very often for the worse , the nature of work has changed and we the trade union Movement have not changed fast enough to keep up with the pace . |