Example sentences of "not [verb] [adv prt] in [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bowe said : ‘ I thought he was crazy not to go down in the 10th when I was beating up on him . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The stability of the organochlorines , an advantage in their industrial applications , ensured that they were not broken down in the natural environment . |
| 4 | I would have smiled at the Kafkaesqueness of the situation , had I not broken out in a cold sweat and had I at that stage not been ignorant of Kafka 's existence . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | In addition , cardiac surgery was not carried out in the two districts studied . |
| 7 | The British constitution is not written down in a single legal document which enjoys a special political status above ordinary law . |
| 8 | He remembers his lonely school days , in assured manner that his son will not grow up in the same way . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The fire did not break out in a deserted building in the middle of nowhere in the wee small hours of the morning . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | It 's not trotted out in the old history books as one of the conferences , or one of the congresses rather . |
| 13 | I can not sum up in a few sentences what will be the substance itself of my book . |
| 14 | ‘ We inhabitants of the post-historical world ’ , he trumpets , ‘ will have to keep in mind that the truly fundamental transformation in world politics are not going on in a desolate Middle Eastern desert , but back in cette vielle Europe which was the cradle of the idea of human freedom ’ . |
| 15 | I very much regret that both the Syrians and the Lebanese stayed away from the multilaterals and that , although present , the Palestinians did not join in in a positive way . |
| 16 | The next generation which is taking over the reins of industry is a generation who were not brought up in the same milieu that I was brought up in . |
| 17 | We did not go up in the same lift , but were taken to another one , apparently for the use of directors only . |
| 18 | There are some aspects of our personalities which may not come over in the brief span of an interview , but which those close to us know only too well . |
| 19 | If Britain is not to end up in a technological cul-de-sac , with a technical solution to managing nuclear waste confronted by massive political opposition , it must tackle a number of problems . |
| 20 | They reach a length of 1m ( 39″ ) and are nocturnal , not settling down in a brightly-lit tank . |
| 21 | Even if it is not read out in the endless rounds of buying and selling shares , then the message , passive though it might be , should still find its way into the living rooms of a high proportion of homes in the Sheffield region . |
| 22 | His behaviour at the visit seems to suggest that he was a disturbing presence , since he did not turn up in the Great Hall as expected , but disappeared into a derelict and disused part of the house from whence he had to be fetched . |
| 23 | The evolutionary advantage of this is that the animal need not lie around in a torpid state , vulnerable to attack . |
| 24 | Well , I daresay you 'd know I would n't nod off in the normal way . |
| 25 | Back then , they did n't catch on in a big way . ’ |
| 26 | I think it 's particularly useful as a way of gaining entry to ideas about childhood — what children are for , why to have them — that are n't written about in the official records , that is , in the textbooks of child analysis and child psychology , and in sociological descriptions of childhood . |
| 27 | There 's no space in it to prick out seedlings , but it certainly wo n't blow over in the robust Orkney winds , and the tomatoes seem to grow perfectly well . |
| 28 | Something with four solid walls the wo n't blow down in the first puff of wolf 's breath . |
| 29 | Although I was n't brought up in the Jewish faith — my mother would n't hear of it — he still passed on to me all those standards that were part of his own upbringing and would never tolerate what he from time to time described as my ‘ unacceptable behaviour ’ . |
| 30 | Er children are n't brought up in the same maternal way as they are in in this country , and many other countries . |