Example sentences of "not [verb] [pron] [noun] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nigel was paid for his work , but he hated not seeing his piece in print . |
| 2 | Nevertheless , if we are to define what it is that influences our decisions whether or not to indulge our motivations towards crime we inevitably make suppositions about human needs or requirements , which are in turn predicated on assumptions about what it is that gives us pleasure or pain . |
| 3 | He castigated the illustrator of Time Wasted Away for not bringing his work in line with that of Miss [ sic ] Vanessa Bell and , among other things , for depicting the sun as an eight-pointed starfish in the sky . |
| 4 | But even this has not stopped my love for canoeing as I have been out many times since and this summer , when I was at camp , I was going down a weir , when I got caught in a stopper at the bottom and nearly drowned myself again . |
| 5 | For example , she was deeply opposed to opening in Manchester , as she did not think her type of customer lived there , but preferred to be associated with the older university towns or cathedral cities such as Bath or Edinburgh . |
| 6 | But we are not shirking our duty as tipsters . |
| 7 | It does not cover your car for damage in an accident , therefore it is usually the sort of policy taken out by people with old cars . |
| 8 | That does not affect our commitment to safety and it has nothing to do with privatisation . |
| 9 | Ending the agreement , whether by you or the Bank [ see Conditions 9 and 13 ] will not affect your responsibility for withdrawals made before the agreement is ended . |
| 10 | It might perhaps have done so had Franco not delayed his assault in order to make a detour eastwards to Toledo . |
| 11 | Had she not treated her subordinates with vindictiveness and meanness , Elena 's desire to cut a figure as ‘ a world-ranking scientist ’ would have a comical charm . |
| 12 | For a start , America has proposed that Serbia be suspended from the Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe if it has not halted its aggression against Bosnia-Hercegovina by April 29 , the date on which delegates reconvene in Helsinki after the Easter break . |
| 13 | Why then did Anselm not make his support of Henry conditional on concessions for the liberty of the Church comparable to the charter of liberties which the baronage had obtained ? |
| 14 | When Val was gone , Roland realised , with a shock like a religious conversion , that he did not want their way of life to go on . |
| 15 | I do not want my use of pronouns to slip by unnoticed : I want readers to think about it , and to act on their conclusions . |
| 16 | I do not want your emblems of slavery . ’ |
| 17 | Her widowhood had thankfully not reduced her circumstances too drastically and had certainly not altered her sense of style . |
| 18 | He was interrupted by the arrival of three ladies , who had unfortunately not heard his comments on dress and hair . |
| 19 | He added that the sentence would not influence his negotiations with de Klerk on South Africa 's future . |
| 20 | Do not regard your record of baseline behaviour , your seven to ten-day preparation phase , with an overly pessimistic , critical eye . |
| 21 | The main reason for using a Statutory Demand is not to drive your debtor into insolvency , which helps no one , but rather to bring pressure to bear on having accounts paid and having them paid quickly . |
| 22 | The Court ruled that the French government had not examined his requests for compensation " within a reasonable space of time " . |
| 23 | So the simple weathering model will not explain our distribution of chlorine . |
| 24 | Barclays has run into a sequence of big borrowers who can not service their debts on time and can not sell their assets to repay the debts . |
| 25 | The existing centre at Northwick Park in north-west London , has not developed its research in collaboration with hospital work , as once hoped , and is to be phased out . |
| 26 | Similarly , having chosen to use a large Chorus , John Doyle has not developed their ritual of voice and movement far enough . |
| 27 | Arrangements such as joint market research , and the joint execution of research work up to the stage of industrial application , were stated to be compatible with Article 85(1) , provided that participating companies did not restrict their freedom of action . |
| 28 | So long as he was solvent in law , he could not proportion his payments to creditors according to their respective debts . |
| 29 | Zander have no problems sorting out live baits in coloured water in which I would not fancy my chances for pike using that method . |
| 30 | Hindus do not worship their images of stone or metal . |