Example sentences of "not [verb] [det] [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If Lord Eldon used any language which could be so interpreted , we must conclude that he either did not guard himself so cautiously as he intended , or that he did not lend that degree of attention to the legal doctrine connected with the case before him , which he was accustomed to afford . |
| 2 | Some became pregnant through contraceptive failure , such as missing taking the Pill for a day , or a faulty condom , but most do it through not using any kind of contraception at all . |
| 3 | Nevertheless , four out of five of them were not using any form of birth control . |
| 4 | Later , at least for many years , she was not to see this time as part of her life , and perhaps therefore it need not now be told at length . |
| 5 | If the birds or Australia had not received that degree of attention from the scientific ornithologist which their interest demanded ’ , he wrote in his preface to Mammals of Australia , ‘ I can assert , without fear of contradiction , that its highly curious and interesting Mammals have been still less investigated . |
| 6 | I know that many sportsmen have not received this kind of support , so I am all the more grateful for it . |
| 7 | She and her husband Don , 37 , a pathology researcher at nearby Cambridge University , had not received any warning of repossession . |
| 8 | Analyses of Chinese statues and coins show that they did not make much use of brass until about the sixteenth century AD . |
| 9 | Although she understood J. C. Ibbetson well , Rotha Mary Clay did not make any reference to Green in her book on Ibbetson . |
| 10 | If the Purchaser shall be in receipt of any claim , or any fact or circumstance comes to the notice of the Purchaser which might constitute or give rise to a liability pursuant to any of the warranties the Purchaser shall forthwith notify the Vendor giving full details so far as practicable and shall not make any admission of liability or settle or comprise any such claim without the prior written consent of the Vendor such consent not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed ( subject to being indemnified and secured to its reasonable satisfaction against all costs and expenses incurred or for which it may become liable ) ; |
| 11 | Similarly , it is generally agreed that the discourse-deictic words like moreover , besides , anyway , well , etc. , in utterance-initial position , do not make any difference to truth conditions ( Grice , 1961 , 1975 ; Wilson , 1975 ) . |
| 12 | The mark-up acts in this respect like an excise tax T x , and the fact that the monopoly profit accrues to entrepreneurs , rather than as revenue to the government , does not make any difference in view of the assumption about the demand side . |
| 13 | Without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing the Academic Parties undertake that they will not make any application for registration of IPR in respect of any technical information relating to results without the prior written consent of the Non-academic Parties . |
| 14 | Adopters , however , do not make this transition to parenthood : they do not know when the child is expected , find it too distressing to attend standard parentcraft classes with pregnant women and may lack basic childcare knowledge . |
| 15 | Harris peremptorily summoned him to the committee-room after this latter incident and told him : ‘ We do not want that sort of thing at Lord 's , Fender . ’ |
| 16 | It did not want any kind of disorder to be filmed , including unparliamentary behaviour by Members ( or even Members trying to attract attention by wearing fancy dress or clothes bearing slogans ) , and it therefore recommended that in all cases of disruption or disorder the director should cut to wide-angle shots , which would not show the offending incident , or to the occupant of the Chair . |
| 17 | Do you not want another cup of tea with the ? |
| 18 | There is something very impressive of state and royalty in the march of these sixty or more elephants ; and if I had not regarded this display of magnificence with a sort of philosophical indifference , I should have been apt to be carried away by such flights of imagination as inspire most Indian poets . |
| 19 | We can not answer that question with certainty , but the details of the story itself would seem to provide us with several clues . |
| 20 | I would to our officers they should not grant another contract to Borough Council until they start to use the correct machines for doing the work and I hope that that message now has got across to the cou county surveyor and he really ought to be talking to Borough Council to find out what they 're doing about it . |
| 21 | These nine Orkney children were not informed ; they were not told the Hearing was taking place ; , they were not given any sort of explanation . |
| 22 | On the other hand , soft furnishings , foam rubber and so on absorb sound and will not transmit any information through vibration even if the organ explodes . |
| 23 | 5.3 There are two further reasons for not accepting any sort of identification between adverbal adjectives and predicate qualifiers , apart from the indications given by ambiguity , and by the fact that they correspond to different types of question , and by the intuitively close relationship which is found in many cases between a verb + adverbal adjective pair and a single lexical verb . |
| 24 | There has been speculation that Sun will not build another generation of desktop workstations , but will instead design and license . |
| 25 | He was told not to promise any date for attainment of Dominion status : ‘ There is no advantage in fixing paper dates ’ , and he was even told not to use the term Dominion status and on no account to make any reference to independence . |
| 26 | He raised his arm to see its motion in the flesh of his thumb , and clamped his other hand around the base of the digit in the hope of stopping its further advance , gasping as though doused with ice-water. the pain was out of all proportion to the mite 's size , but he held both thumb and sobs hard , determined not to lose all dignity in front of his executioners . |
| 27 | Aah 've not forgotten yon mornin' in t'blizzard , ’ he added with a meaningful look and nod . |
| 28 | I think , well , clearly those people those people who have er those who have some notion of decency and particularly even taking into account the mixed economy that we need to work in will support er the notion that those people who can not burden this kind of tax should not have to er er should not have to partake . |
| 29 | Bankers , accountants , commercial and public services , and advisory services all provide a very important contribution to the farming sector but all this sound advice could come to little or nothing if the human factor , that is the farmer or his family , could not translate that advice into practice on the farm . |
| 30 | ‘ We do not need that kind of publicity and do not want to be involved in that sort of thing . |