Example sentences of "[vb base] not [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even though the ball is further back in your stance , try not to chop down into the ball . |
| 2 | One of the few times you will find big bream in waters which do not match up to the points I have mentioned is when they are the result of a recent stocking operation . |
| 3 | In those circumstances , vitamin and mineral deficiencies do not crop up in a couple of weeks . |
| 4 | You can not expect to be asked the questions exactly as they appear here and you will be badly thrown if you have programmed yourself with exact responses to very particular questions which do not crop up in the way you had anticipated . |
| 5 | Do not stand up for a few moments . |
| 6 | Just as they are taught other subjects , they should increasingly be taught about such topics as mental handicap so that they do not grow up with the prejudices that their parents may possess . |
| 7 | I was certainly happy to make this find as the larger hammered silver coins of this period are not common and certainly do not pour out of the ground no matter where you live . |
| 8 | In many cases this has resulted in the introduction of faked features and the associated destruction of existing features which , though often of architectural and historic interest in their own right , do not fit in with the designer 's concept of the pub 's ideal form . |
| 9 | As I 've tried to suggest , many books do not face up to the very evident problems confronting psychology , but it does seem that the discipline is alive and kicking . |
| 10 | On it were the words : ‘ Do not go on to the moor . |
| 11 | Do not go back to the old gods . ’ |
| 12 | Do not go out on the streets , he begged his compatriots — instead , put a lighted candle in the window for reform . |
| 13 | ‘ Give me your number and do not go out for the next half-hour . ’ |
| 14 | You do not go out after a dragon with hounds and huntsmen ; nor with gangs of labourers to dig pits and set fires and lay traps . |
| 15 | Yes , in that they do not go out like a candle on death ; so far natural justice is satisfied . |
| 16 | If you are walking in an area where adders are found — dry heath and common land — then as long as you do not go along like a herd of elephants there is a fair chance of coming across one . |
| 17 | You do not call out , you do not lay around on the floor . |
| 18 | Whatever may have been threatened or done , do not give in to the bully and do not keep whatever has happened to yourself . |
| 19 | Do not hold on to the interviewer 's hand for too long as this signals overfamiliarity . |
| 20 | ‘ We do not leap on to the table for our food . |
| 21 | Try to go to bed only when you 're tired but do not stay up past a certain critical time , say one hour after you would normally go to bed . |
| 22 | However , even the best of these efforts , and they are perhaps in their fully fledged forms used more in psychology than in social research , do not reach up to the standards of measurement used in science or , less ambitiously , the higher levels of measurement represented by interval and ratio scales . |
| 23 | The purpose of having a timetable is so that all relevant information can be digested and acted upon , and so that bids do not carry on for an unreasonable length of time . |
| 24 | The first- and second-person pronouns are typical examples in that they do not refer back to a nominal expression in the text but to the speaker and hearer ( or writer and reader ) respectively . |
| 25 | It is a common critical stance to praise Tolkien 's conception , often somewhat vaguely , or with even more vagueness his ‘ mythological ’ or ‘ mythopoeic ’ powers ; but then to declare that the words do not live up to the things , the style ‘ is quite inadequate to the theme ’ . |
| 26 | Do not turn up with an extra child to be fitted in to the same appointment . |
| 27 | To provide an illustration , a child who gets into trouble is much more likely to come before a court if he or she is from a poor home and has parents who do not get on with the welfare authorities or the police , than if his or her family is prosperous , respectable and willing to co-operate with the police and social services . |
| 28 | In the absence of more detailed evidence we can only speculate whether the more vocationally , or instrumentally , motivated applicants are , the less willing they will be to consider other , alternative courses and institutions if they do not get on to the course they wanted . |
| 29 | • If you wake during the night ( sometimes because you need to empty your bladder ) then return to bed and relax as soon as possible , Do not get up for a cup of tea or snack as this will give misleading information to your body clock . |
| 30 | Sheer orders of magnitude matter , and the orders of magnitude do not come down on the side of the real-balance effect . |