Example sentences of "not [verb] [prep] [indef pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Elizabeth was also asked if she would like to make a list of what she does not like about community living but could not think of anything for the moment . |
| 2 | While unemployment figures in Northern Ireland have been on the increase , they have not accelerated at anything like the rate in the usually prosperous south-east of England . |
| 3 | The hon. Gentleman should ask Neath borough council why , when money has been available , it has not applied for anything in the past two years . |
| 4 | Speaking from London at the announcement of record profits for the Birkenhead-based firm , he said : ‘ We are not rushing at anything but the question must be asked what do we do with our cash balances . |
| 5 | Generally speaking , we know all too little about the teacher 's perspective on pedagogy ; we make generalizations which are not based on anything in the way of reliable information . |
| 6 | The fact that the coal trade did not develop on anything like the scale expected by the promoters of the Leicester and Grand Union Canals , and by the middle of the century what trade there was steadily fell off . |
| 7 | If a detainee tells a FME that he wishes to give him confidential information , he is warned by the doctor that confidentiality does not apply to anything against the public interest , for it would be improper for the doctor to collude in deception . |
| 8 | To be consistent with holism the constructivist has to say that individual ‘ beliefs ’ — mental states that are only in the running for truth — do not correspond to anything in the mind . |
| 9 | And most companies that deal in both military and civilian products admitted to Maddock that transfers between the two ‘ did not happen to anything like the extent that was desirable ’ . |
| 10 | In the highly oxygenated water below a weir swim the little fish not known for nothing as the ‘ miller 's thumb ’ : the flattened head of the fish was often compared with the thumb of the miller , worn it was said from testing the flour . |
| 11 | So we 've not spoken to anybody on the sort of like the traffic erm counting side of things there ? |
| 12 | It is not allowed for anyone in the chain to let go of hands in order to catch someone . |
| 13 | This sense is not contradicted by anything in The Form . |
| 14 | In other words , the potentialities of the medium were not explored to anything like the same extent' ( 1968 , p. 4 ) . |
| 15 | His competitor , Barry O'Donovan of Carbrook Chemicals , does not export on anything like the same scale as himself , he says . |
| 16 | You are in Rivendell , and you need not worry about anything for the present . ' ’ |
| 17 | I know I have been but I ca n't think of one at the moment |
| 18 | No I ca n't think of anybody at the moment . |
| 19 | I ca n't go without reminding you of Prosser 's First Rule Of Investments : do n't invest in anything with the initials ‘ b ’ and ‘ c ’ in its title . |
| 20 | ‘ Jackie ca n't speak to anyone at the moment . |
| 21 | Actually that was n't sung by anyone at the game on Saturday . |
| 22 | I did have a gaoler , though — a horrible valet called Hicks , whose job it was to make sure I did n't mix with anyone outside the family . |
| 23 | But I ca n't take in anything between the name of the subject at the top and the name of the sender at the bottom . |
| 24 | They do n't match with anything on the files . |
| 25 | I 'm leaving this evening and you 're coming with me , even if I have to help you pack , but do n't bother with anything except the basics . |
| 26 | I ca n't confide in anyone at the plant . |
| 27 | I ca n't put it off , I do n't care for anything but the work ; that is to say , the pleasure in something else ceases at once , and I become melancholic when I ca n't go on with my work . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ Stay with her as much as they 'll let you — do n't worry about anything at the office — I 'm sure Rourke will take care of whatever crops up . ’ |
| 29 | And nobody Even the church I mean I know the church ca n't agree on anything at the moment , we 're sitting here just down the road of course , the general synod of the church of whatsit and the archbishop of thingummybob is sitting there over their muesli and cornflakes I should imagine at the moment , or a late brunch , erm n not saying anything . |