Example sentences of "not [verb] [noun] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then Labour 's education spokeswoman , Hilary Armstrong said Mr Fallon 's assurances were worthless because he can not make commitments for the next Government . |
| 2 | Germany 's captain Nikki Pilic , who had barely put the debacle surrounding Germany 's Olympic nominations behind him , came in for criticism for not resting Becker from the second day 's doubles , especially after he had been forced to play himself into the ground to beat Luis Mattar over five sets in exhausting heat on the first day . |
| 3 | The television set demands your attention ; you can not enjoy television from the next room . |
| 4 | The need would be to show , against reasonable expectation , that the second did not divert attention from the first . |
| 5 | Which Councils — more often than not called synods during the first thousand years — were ecumenical was determined not by the pope , but by their reception in the Church at large . |
| 6 | Terrestrial animals move around too much for the naturalist to think easily in terms of a stable community , and the main development of animal ecology did not take place until the twentieth century . |
| 7 | If the maritime portion does not take place in the first leg of the journey , the transport document can not attest to a loading on board the vessel when , in fact , the goods are only on board a truck or railroad car . |
| 8 | For example , the TNCs that control the world grain trade are criticized if they do not sell grain to the Third World , and they are criticized if they do . |
| 9 | Many other vegetables do not produce seed until the second year , and it is n't worth allowing them to take up valuable space for that extra time . |
| 10 | I said I was not commencing duties until the next day as my girlfriend worked in Richmond and I had arranged to see her , which I had , by phone . |
| 11 | Increasingly , she wondered if in some unconscious way she had not simulated naivety since the first weeks of her marriage , if she had not — through her uncontrollable selflessness — permitted a skin to grow instead of probing beneath it . |
| 12 | As part of the programme teams of workers planted more than 30,000 trees and shrubs , many of which will not reach maturity until the next century . |
| 13 | The special delivery fee will be refunded to the sender in respect of any item posted in advance of latest recommended posting times which does not receive delivery on the next working day after posting . |
| 14 | The Bishop of Oxford has appealed to the Government not to cut aid to the Third World . |
| 15 | They were relaxed , joking amongst themselves ; it was a relief to be on a march where they did n't expect trouble after the last few weeks of demonstrations and violence . |
| 16 | The extra name was written by hand on the scorecard , which cost 10 centimes but did n't disclaim responsibility for the last wicket to fall ! |
| 17 | We have n't had overtime for the last couple of weeks . |
| 18 | He could n't see curvature in the third dimension . |
| 19 | Leon did n't have time over the next hour to wonder what the energetic , highly competent and reliable Wellington had been doing to make him sweat . |
| 20 | So so do n't do n't leave revision till the last minute . |
| 21 | But it 's even more of a comfort for baby if he does n't get wind in the first place . |
| 22 | Ashley met me in the Jac that night , listened to my woes , bought me drink when I ran out of money ( I 'm sure I was short-changed at the bar ) even though she probably had less dosh than I did , and listened to my woes all over again when we went back to her mum 's and sat up till God knows when , talking low so we would n't wake Dean in the next room . |