Example sentences of "not [verb] [art] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | not seeing the only point of being there |
| 2 | This produces the stress of tiring ambulance journeys , the long wait in the clinic and not seeing the same staff at each visit . |
| 3 | In the economically more advanced countries , however , there does not exist a close relationship between age at first marriage and birth of first child , owing mainly to postponement of first birth through contraceptive use . |
| 4 | Caspar managed not to breathe a huge sigh of relief , because this sounding very promising indeed . |
| 5 | ‘ Yes , ’ said Tessa , trying not to breathe the sweet-sour air into her lungs . |
| 6 | Just because some of them do n't know their arse from their elbow does n't mean that we 're not bringing the whole thing under control . ’ |
| 7 | I shall merely be requesting information about a taste which puzzles me , not demanding a further reason without which the whole string of answers will prove to be baseless . |
| 8 | Therefore , if we can not detect a particular coded message in an animal , there is no reason to say that they are not transmitting the particular message by some other means . |
| 9 | Its concern with adolescent love , and the way in which its idealism and purity can not evade the sullying effects of adult realities , paralleled Minton 's own fear of lost youth , his obsession with adolescence and desire for a love that could only exist in a state untrammelled by adult responsibilities . |
| 10 | Although these drugs are effective , they do not reduce the reflux of other gastric contents ( pepsin , bile ) and they do not modify the underlying causes of the disease by restoring lower oesophageal sphincter pressure or improving oesophageal clearance and gastric emptying . |
| 11 | ‘ I want directors to use black actors and just portray them as ordinary people , not make a big deal about it . |
| 12 | Section C is taking the basic feel from A and making it a little busier ( this is a good technique to use over a middle 8 section in order to build it dynamically , but not lose the original direction for the song ) ; it then repeats to A and goes to the coda . |
| 13 | Although it was initially believed that lowering mucosal prostaglandin values in ulcerative colitis would be therapeutic , and that the beneficial effect of therapeutic agents sulfasalazine and 5-ASA analogues is through their ability to inhibit cyclo-oxygenase , it isnow believed that a simple decrease in prostaglandins does not elicit a beneficial effect in ulcerative colitis and may even be harmful . |
| 14 | Patients with severe cardiorespiratory , renal , hepatic , neurological , or malignant disease were also excluded , together with women of childbearing age not using a reliable means of contraception . |
| 15 | They are nevertheless pleased not to see a greater erosion of their support after the collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe and the virtual disappearance of Communist parties in the West . |
| 16 | He clenched shut his eyes so as not to see the pale oval of her face through the shadows . |
| 17 | Jules had told her she was attractive , Félix found her so , and she would have had to be blind not to see the admiring glances of strangers when she went to a café or on a promenade with Jules . |
| 18 | On the other hand , we tend not to see the intense depression in a motionless and unresponsive horse , or the annoyance in one that has turned its back on the horse or person offending it , or the anxiety in the tightened abdominal muscles of the showpony expecting the pain of the spur . |
| 19 | The Foreign Office request puzzled him , for it was not to see the Foreign Secretary with whom he normally dealt , but the Home Secretary , Sir Harry Marriott . |
| 20 | It is important , however , not to underplay the political dimension of patronage ; it offers a means of securing the co-operation of key pressure groups and ensuring party discipline-hence ministerial ‘ resistance ’ to drastic pruning . |
| 21 | v. Henn and Darby , where the Court of Appeal held that the term ‘ quantitative restrictions ’ in Article 30 of the EEC Treaty did not cover a total prohibition on imports on the grounds that such a restriction was not related to a quantitative measure , whereas the case law of the European Court had clearly established that the term in question covered both outright bans and quotas on imports . |
| 22 | In such situations , Peter Shilton 's frame can not cover a whole multitude of sins . |
| 23 | In the general theory of relativity the natural frame anywhere is chosen to be a frame in free fall , but we can not cover the whole Universe with one frame . |
| 24 | Referring to Moser 's three sources of sampling bias mentioned earlier , it is clear that the sampling frame used ( two general practice records ) does not cover the whole population of housewives ; yet there is no evidence that these records represent a particularly unrepresentative sub-sample of the population . |
| 25 | The sample was picked from telephone directories which did not cover the poorer segments of the electorate . |
| 26 | You also find Marian that we were talking about that this morning as well we can not cover the national curriculum without more homework |
| 27 | Although CBT may not cover the full range of expert decision support facilities such systems incorporate additional , purely training features such as teaching , practice and checking . |
| 28 | Even so , this did not cover the full cost of the project , confirming that some form of subsidy was essential . |
| 29 | The doubts as to whether costs will be available to a party and the possibility that what costs are payable by the other party will not cover the full costs of seeking legal assistance are powerful factors in decisions as to whether and when to settle . |
| 30 | While this might seem to be stating the obvious , the fact is that this issue has not received a great deal of systematic ( as opposed to post hoc ) discussion in the literature . |