Example sentences of "[vb base] not [verb] [adv] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Settlements emparked in the eighteenth or nineteenth centuries tend not to survive too well as earthworks , but abandoned sixteenth-or seventeenth-century garden schemes often incorporate remains of village earthworks . |
| 2 | But remember not to call here again unless I ask Katie to bring you . |
| 3 | However , a simplistic model based exclusively on smoking habits fails to explain the higher incidence in women , since women do not smoke as heavily as men . |
| 4 | They do not go as far as some countries , who plan to make actual cuts in emissions rates . |
| 5 | Most recent historians would agree that the Hammonds were much too reluctant to accept that there was even serious talk of revolution , although the majority do not go so far as Thompson in their assessment of the seriousness of the threat . |
| 6 | Indeed it seems that girls very quickly replaced boys at this task : " Evidently [ the boys " ] tongues do not go so glibly as the girls , " as the STC was already saying as early as 1875 , " for in most of the offices where girls are employed , reading boys are now unknown . " |
| 7 | My Lords for reasons that have already been explained to Your Lordships and which I will not pursue yet for , er it seems that everybody 's agreed that it is important that the erm local authority representatives should be in the majority and I have to admit that my amendments do not go that far because I was concentrating on getting the magistrates back where they ought to be , er but er that is one thing , the other is that it er was an interesting point that er the Noble Lord , Lord of Greenwich raised , that my Noble Friend Lord Whitelaw er at columns four eighty and four eight one er questioned whether it was indeed appropriate that er the Home Secretary should make these appointments . |
| 8 | We have a situation where the landowner is going to have to sell land relatively cheaply , in order that the land then , the land prices do not reflect too horrendously when it comes through to the price that has to be paid by the person who 's going to occupy the property ; either in terms of a letting figure or of something which is going to be an , effectively a mortgage figure . |
| 9 | Older people do not adapt as easily as young people . |
| 10 | It is easy to blame the pressure of daily life and the stress it causes for the fact that we do not feel as well as we should like — and , indeed , in many cases an excess of stress and tension may be the cause . |
| 11 | Many of us do not sleep as well as we might , because we are unable to relax when we go to bed . |
| 12 | People who do not care so long as the passing hour is comfortable and cheerful are not likely to exhibit much of a front when they call themselves a union . |
| 13 | Lubricated condoms do not break as easily as non-lubricated ones . |
| 14 | We do not know even today whether or not this is the case , but Pons certainly felt very strongly that it should be lithium deuteroxide , LiOD . |
| 15 | A penalty is that the translated binaries do not run as fast as programs compiled from source for Alpha — DEC says performance degradation is around 50% — but translation can save customers from rewriting old applications . |
| 16 | Tribunals are an essential check on the powers of officialdom but at the moment they do not work as well as they should to ensure justice in welfare provision . |
| 17 | Now this next part is very important — READ THE NEXT SENTENCE AND THEN DO NOT READ ANY FURTHER UNTIL YOU HAVE DONE AS I ASK . |
| 18 | Unfortunately , household expenses do n't go away just because you 're in hospital or ca n't work for any length of time . |
| 19 | Cos you do n't go as slow as this , even round here something like that Ann . |
| 20 | You do n't go as far as Church Hill ! |
| 21 | Well you do n't go as far as Church Hill then . |
| 22 | But I confess I do n't go as often as I might , ’ Omi said . |
| 23 | They do n't go any faster than that . |
| 24 | you 're five eight you 're five eight , you stand , you st I do n't think same size as my mum I do n't think so somehow cos my mums five eight and my mums erm quite tall |
| 25 | ‘ You must n't mind if the children do n't stay very long when they come , Jack . |
| 26 | ‘ My hope with some people is that they do n't stay any longer than they need to . |
| 27 | erm but I would say , on the whole , my guess is that there are many girls that perhaps could go into science and could make contributions to science but do n't do so simply because their families do n't understand it and the schools do n't support them . |
| 28 | One reason why students do n't do as well as they should at A level is that they ca n't express themselves . |
| 29 | ‘ You do n't do as well as she 's done in the majors without being a very good player , ’ said Jim Webb , the LPGA 's deputy commissioner . |
| 30 | You do n't sleep so much as you get older . |