Example sentences of "not [verb] [adv] in the [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The stealing networks did not disappear entirely in the early years of the twentieth century , but their geographical range and the extent of their operations was sharply curtailed . |
| 2 | She had not altered overmuch in the twelve months since she was covering cars with eggs and flour and ringing doorbells with her giggling friends . |
| 3 | Bowe said : ‘ I thought he was crazy not to go down in the 10th when I was beating up on him . |
| 4 | Another powerful reason why improved mud buildings are not catching on in the tropical Third World is that for poor families , housing is not the first priority . |
| 5 | The stability of the organochlorines , an advantage in their industrial applications , ensured that they were not broken down in the natural environment . |
| 6 | Otherwise women and children did not earn independently in the proto-industrial household in its cloth or hosiery branches . |
| 7 | This scheme will be used in future for it provides an opportunity for the genuine fan who attends games against less glamorous opposition not to lose out in the real crowd pullers . |
| 8 | This is easily done if the point cams are not placed exactly in the 24 stitch placings . |
| 9 | OVER THERE , but thankfully not expected here in the near future : US TV audiences are bracing themselves for Roseanne : the cartoon , and an animated series featuring New Kids On The Block … |
| 10 | In addition , cardiac surgery was not carried out in the two districts studied . |
| 11 | Mr Christopher said yesterday the United States would not act alone in the Bosnian crisis but would keep pressing for lifting the arms embargo . |
| 12 | It should be noted that this is not looking ahead in the move-by-move sense . |
| 13 | The rich clothiers of Suffolk were unique , not matched even in the contiguous parts of Essex . |
| 14 | When you have noted the area where the bream cease to roll and do not appear again in the immediate vicinity , the terminal point will be a few yards further along in the direction they were travelling . |
| 15 | They do not appear anywhere in the Old Testament . |
| 16 | The word ‘ authority ’ and its cognates does not appear once in The Green Book ( which is also silent about police , courts , armies and heads of state ) . |
| 17 | If a house is not built soundly in the first place , and if it is not kept in good repair , it will fail when put to the test . |
| 18 | A two-run defeat seemed set fair to demoralize England , but their batsmen did not do badly in the second game at Sydney . |
| 19 | He remembers his lonely school days , in assured manner that his son will not grow up in the same way . |
| 20 | At half-time a note was passed to the Scottish dressing-room telling the young striker that he would be shot if he did not ease off in the second half . |
| 21 | However , this result does not carry through in the same way to the cases we have just been discussing where managerial utility depends on effort as well as income . |
| 22 | Another 250 words may not sound much in the great scheme of things , but after a heavy day at Pipeline and an end-of-contest thrash at the Turtle Bay Hilton , it felt like being asked to dash off another chapter of War and Peace . |
| 23 | It 's not trotted out in the old history books as one of the conferences , or one of the congresses rather . |
| 24 | He is over 55 , married , without education or job training ; furthermore , he has had a spell of registered unemployment , did not work full-time in the 12 months prior to becoming unemployed and lives in a council house . |
| 25 | Nevertheless , the view that consumer tastes are in part the result of corporate influence and do not originate exclusively in the autonomous individual will is a persuasive one . |
| 26 | If the joint venture is between firms that do not compete directly in the relevant product market , the exemption applies for five years ( from when the product is first put on the EC market ) regardless of market share ; it also applies if the participants are rivals but their collective share does not exceed 20 per cent of the relevant market . |
| 27 | Formby-born tournament referee Alan Mills said : ‘ It was a difficult decision bearing in mind he has not played much in the last couple of months because of injury . |
| 28 | Since they are not in contact with the ground they are not worn away in the usual fashion . |
| 29 | We can not test independently the relevance of the high proportion of children not born locally in the isolated area that is west Thurso since no area within the rural high oil category is known to approach its high level . |
| 30 | An aspect of popular culture that is not found much in the industrialised world , comics are read by all levels of society and all age-groups . |