Example sentences of "not [verb] [pron] [noun pl] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pricing is a key factor ; you will want to recoup your expenses and make a profit , yet not overprice your paintings for the sort of audience you will attract . |
| 2 | E. P. Thompson , in criticising Lawrence Stone 's reconstruction of The Family , Sex and Marriage , warned that : ‘ the point of history is not to see their occasions through the mist of our feelings , nor to measure them against the Modern Us . |
| 3 | The curse of Ham could be used as an excuse to justify the enslavement of African negroes but that did not make them members of an entirely different species ; and anyway the American Indians were not even black ! |
| 4 | At the same time , UK paperbackers are contractually bound not to issue their paperbacks into the UK before the hardback editions of the same titles have had a chance to prove themselves in the bookshops . |
| 5 | Watkins LJ gave the principal judgment in the Divisional Court and upheld the application on the ground that the Minister had not given his reasons for the decision not to make a reference and that this was ‘ irrational ’ . |
| 6 | Customers in search of lounge furniture need not restrict their purchases to the conventional combination of settee and two armchairs . |
| 7 | Josiah Wedgwood may have boasted his intent of " making such machines of men as can not err " but he could not nail his potters to the floor and was left to fume when they absented themselves for the local " wakes " . |
| 8 | The argument is , then , that a greater surplus can be extracted from this sector by not employing its members on a regular wage-earning basis . |
| 9 | ‘ We can not bury our heads in the sand and become competitive just by thinking that we are . |
| 10 | Although God specifically warned Job 's comforters not to postulate his sins as the cause of his sufferings , the Middle Ages preferred , like most ages , to ignore what God said . |
| 11 | In 1793 the first Republican French ambassador received a rapturous welcome when he arrived off Seraglio Point , his ship flying the Ottoman , Republican French and American colours , ‘ and those of a few other powers that had not sullied their arms in the impious league of tyrants ’ . |
| 12 | Although Goldmann accepts the significance of the social determination of knowledge thesis for epistemology he does not pursue its implications for the Marxist concept of ideology . |
| 13 | The Comintern had not confined its attacks to the Right Social Democrats alone . |
| 14 | Why , then , could Tolkien not finish his legends of the First Age off ? |
| 15 | Furthermore , if speakers did not avert their eyes during the planning ( hesitant ) phases in their speech , there was a marked increase in speech disturbances . |
| 16 | As a youngster in the 1950s my greatest delight was to run on to the pitch at Murrayfield after the full-time whistle , pat my heroes on the back and not wash my hands for a week , much to the disgust of my mother . |
| 17 | As soon as it becomes clear that the new attacks would not achieve their objectives within a reasonable period , then we must abandon them and ‘ seek a decision elsewhere ’ said Falkenhayn half-heartedly , adding : |
| 18 | Taking care not to scratch his hands on the holding spikes , he rummaged through the weed feeling for that spasm of movement which would indicate a dying fish . |
| 19 | President Carlos Salinas de Gortari has said on many occasions , in his campaign for a free-trade agreement , that if Mexico can not send its products to the United States , it will send its people instead . |
| 20 | We do not send you copies of every letter we write , minutes of every meeting we attend , etc because we assumed you would realise we were getting on with the job . |
| 21 | He was at great pains to ensure that the public did not associate his performers with the bad name that dancers usually had . |
| 22 | Media Vision Technology Inc , making multimedia products in Fremont , California got its initial public offering of 1.75m shares , 1m of them new , away at $26.25 a share ; it did not give its plans for the $25m or so net proceeds . |
| 23 | Many step-parents feel guilty for not loving their step-children in the way they do their own . |
| 24 | And though he could not lift his eyes to the streetlights |
| 25 | Do not present your students with a poorly produced , almost unreadable photocopy . |
| 26 | There was silence for a moment after the front door too slammed , and then George said carefully , ‘ I would prefer you not to discuss our disagreements with the children . |
| 27 | I could not believe my eyes as every film , one after the other , that I lifted dripping from the hypo , was totally and absolutely blank . |
| 28 | Wolff will not sever his links with the MRC until spring 1984 . |
| 29 | We will need to provide an evolutionary approach to migrating from one technology to another so we 're not forcing our customers down the fantasy land alternative . |
| 30 | Why do you not understand my needs as a woman ? |