Example sentences of "[vb base] not [verb] [pers pn] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( iii ) It is important that pupils working towards level 7 and beyond have increasing opportunities to use spoken Standard English , and in particular that those who do not speak it as a native dialect should be helped to extend their language competence so that they can use Standard English with confidence . |
| 2 | So do strong aggressive animals which are well able to protect their babies even if they do not deposit them in a den deep underground . |
| 3 | I neither would nor could have murdered him , but I do not regard him as a loss . ’ |
| 4 | That is not the proposition , but the fact that one does not ban it does not mean that , with the knowledge that we now possess , we do not regard it as a debilitating and dangerous influence on society , and especially young people . |
| 5 | For example , it could be argued that ‘ photograph ’ may be divided into two independent words , ‘ photo ’ and ‘ graph ’ ; yet we usually do not regard it as a compound , but as an affix word . |
| 6 | But no one has yet been able to identify ‘ extra ’ income , and enterprises do not show it as a separate category . |
| 7 | I 'm grateful that you listen to him , and do not treat him like a fool just because he is old . ’ |
| 8 | We do not promote it as a deprived area where there are financial incentives ’ |
| 9 | ‘ It is a healthy environment — we do not promote it as a deprived area where there are lots of financial incentives . ’ |
| 10 | Furthermore the term register is sometimes used to refer to any device which holds a group of one or more bits of information , and which is capable of being accessed at electronic speeds : in this book we use it only for storage devices provided for some special purpose ( such as the SAR ) , and do not apply it to a general store location . |
| 11 | Though Abraham receives the promise of the land of Canaan in Genesis 12 and , by God 's terms , takes possession of it in the next chapter , his descendants do not enter it as a people until the book of Joshua , and the business of conquest is not finished till David is secure on the throne half-way through the second Book of Samuel . |
| 12 | This issue has also been addressed by other researchers , but the results do not provide us with a comprehensive national picture based on systematic analysis of the performance of non-traditional students . |
| 13 | ‘ I do not see him as a killer . |
| 14 | However desirable it is that they receive training , many do not see it as a practical proposition . |
| 15 | Do not use visual aids for the sake of using them and do not use them as a defence to hide behind if you are nervous . |
| 16 | This plant dislikes draughts so keep it well-protected or sheltered and do not position it near a window which is likely to be opened . |
| 17 | Nobody forces you to consume the equivalent of halfa dozen eggs at one meal , but it is very easy to do so , so if you have eaten a mousseline of scallops , red mullet , and écrevisses floating in a lake of sabayon sauce , then do not follow it with a honey ice cream or one of those ali baba affairs nor with a peach charlotte containing five egg yolks , but rather with a tarte fine chaude aux pommes acidulées , which is nothing more outlandish or richer than an old-fashioned apple tart made on a base of puff pastry . |
| 18 | However , formulae such as " adjectives precede their nouns " do not take us beyond a very shallow level of linguistic description ; nor is it an improvement to find phrases such as " an attributive adjective " unless the description proceeds in some way to give an account of how a term like attributive may mean something more than a simple statement about formal grouping . |
| 19 | ‘ If someone has done you wrong , do not repay him with a wrong . |
| 20 | Do not activate them on a package until it is intended to proceed with the work . |
| 21 | she kept in touch with them for some time but er , I 've not seen her for a year so , I would n't know . |
| 22 | But they have not replaced it with a presumption that the market can always be left to get on with it . |
| 23 | She wrote back to him careful little letters to which no one could object , fearing to display too much emotion in case it called attention to the boy 's over-regard for her but she managed all the same to make her affection felt , telling him : — Pilade looks for you everywhere and will not believe I have not hidden you in a box . |
| 24 | The Government have put large sums of money into the public services for many years , but have not proclaimed it as a great virtue . |
| 25 | Your father , and Elizabeth and the others , are very worried about you , because you have not visited them for a long time . |