Example sentences of "not [verb] [verb] [adv] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This means the aquarium will not need cleaning as often as a less densely planted one . |
| 2 | Certainly one is not under an obligation to look after the child if one did not promise to do so just because it would have been a good thing to promise . |
| 3 | Fourth , spending on front-office systems , such as those supporting foreign exchange , funds and transfer payments , is not expected to grow as fast as that on back-office systems , covering such applications as transaction processing , clearing and settlement . |
| 4 | However , there are fears that the chancellor will not dare go as far as his critics wish and instead stick to a one per cent cut . |
| 5 | This was something which the inhabitants were not going to overlook as lightly as Charles had done . |
| 6 | As a vanguard , in spite of one or two sensational assassinations , it was not going to get very far unless and until it managed to co-ordinate widespread resistance to the French . |
| 7 | So you 've not got to live that long before you 're into profit . |
| 8 | Although , long before Johnson , Daniel Defoe found Elgin ‘ a very agreeable place to live in ’ — those gentry not wishing to venture as far as Edinburgh or London came in from the Highlands for the winter — Elgin 's time came later : a half-century after our heroes ' visit , it became a little classical Victorian market town whose streets and suburbs echoed Edinburgh 's New Town in elegance and spaciousness . |
| 9 | But one does not have to go so far as to support child benefit for the qualitative demographic effect it may or may not have . |
| 10 | She would not have gone so far as to define it as softness . |
| 11 | But he did not know him , and would not have cared too greatly if he had . |
| 12 | The Elector Counts could not have done otherwise even if they had wanted ; the people demanded it , and were not to be denied . |
| 13 | If I had left it on the night flying path I would have had a serious rocket which I would not have forgotten as easily as I had forgotten the first one — from the wing commander flying . |
| 14 | The Colonel was used to acting in loco parentis and would certainly not have responded as warmly as he had done to Miss Danziger 's maturity had he not discerned in it a vulnerability : something he could defend . |
| 15 | That his resignation and pilgrimage can not have occurred much later than 844 is indicated by information given by Taskopruzade concerning Molla Fenari 's son , Yusuf Bali , namely that he became kadi of Bursa — no date is given for his appointment — and died as kadi in 846/1442–3 . |
| 16 | Attitudes may not have changed as quickly as some of the tools with which we do the job but there are plenty of examples of progress which deserve credit . |
| 17 | If the buyer believes such an obligation does not exist , then clearly the bill can be ignored and the matter does not proceed further as far as is concerned here . |
| 18 | We can not help signing so long as there is another human being who needs to read the signs . |
| 19 | and I reckon he broke them but he says he 's no broken but I I I felt the tooth in two side of my mouth so I just stopped the treatment there and I 'm going to another dentist some time but my wife , I do n't want to go there now cos money 's tight , I was on the D H S S , I was due to pay the first forty nine pound . |
| 20 | Strictly on P P G two terms er because of the effect er on the greenbelt , but I would n't want to go any further than that , that 's my impression , Mr Curtis will undoubtably correct me if I 'm wrong . |
| 21 | But if , if we , if w we accepted the moral economy , which was that the peasant has a , a view of what is right and fair and once that fairness is established for him , that 's it , he does n't want to go any further than this . |
| 22 | I 'm Quechua , but I do n't want to work as hard as they must do . |
| 23 | Erm it would be wrong to say Wales is a weak region on the basis of this , it 's just not , does n't appear , or does n't expect to grow as strongly as it was growing . |
| 24 | ‘ I would n't like to go so far as to predict anything for Sunday but you can be certain I am far more confident about the race now than I was . |
| 25 | I need n't have worried too much because Seve was in complete control on the first round . |
| 26 | ‘ You did n't have to sit here just because of me , ’ he said , giving the barman the customary wave . |
| 27 | We do n't have to worry as much as we used to about its being misused by the party state apparatus for corrupt erm , then of course there 's , them , the , the , the problem of longer term aid , how we help the Soviet Union integrate itself into the world economy . |
| 28 | ‘ They would n't have come as far as this on their own , he must be driving them . ’ |
| 29 | In the late 19th century , they studied bumps on heads ( phrenology ) and if you were unfortunate enough to have a large protuberance on your forehead — well , you would n't have got as far as nice chats in the grocer 's with a friendly-going-on-gullible type like myself . |
| 30 | I did n't mean to stay that long cos I had a lot to do . |