Example sentences of "not [verb] [indef pn] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Franco 's immobility in 1942 – 43 , his smiles first to one side , then to the other , were not the sign of an astute politician , but of the conservative strategist , determined not to risk anything by an impulsive action . |
| 2 | I 'm sure some of you last year or least last week or even last month , read about the black sack that had all the wonderful jewels in it that came into a charity shop and I think it 's a lesson for us all is n't it , not not to miss anything in a black sack , Jacqui . |
| 3 | Iran-contra , however , had always had another star , a more retiring one ; and he had not given anything like a full performance yet . |
| 4 | Ravel 's Chansons madecasses , though the music sweats with sultry southern heat , does not bathe one with the swirling sounds of his orchestral timbres . |
| 5 | Buying a ticket for last night 's game does NOT guarantee one for the all-Ireland clash in November — unless a formal application was made at the time of purchase to the IFA office . |
| 6 | Be careful not to create anyone with a phoney Chelsea ‘ Sloane ’ accent or anything outrageous . |
| 7 | You can not do everything at the same time . |
| 8 | One of Isaac Bashevis Singer 's characters in a short story tells the narrator-author : ‘ You once wrote that human nature is such that one can not do anything in a straight line . |
| 9 | As I say I 've not had anything like the bad experience of it that a lot of people have had . |
| 10 | Two-thirds of a total of 324 companies interviewed said that the environment was not a trading issue last year , and 59 per cent agreed that it would not become one in the forthcoming year . |
| 11 | The films used in this study were , however , relatively short and it was clear that subjects were not describing anything like the total amount of information that was available . |
| 12 | If viewing was considered by the week , however , TV was virtually universal : barely one person in twenty did not see something in an average week in 1986 ( BBC , 1986 ) . |
| 13 | Stung , the League said yesterday that they expect ITV to come up with a new date within the next fortnight and they will not tolerate one beyond the scheduled season 's end of May 5 . |
| 14 | I am not saying anything about the short or long-ball game , only what is right at the proper time . |
| 15 | But I have not found anything in the careful judgment of Mustill L.J . |
| 16 | However , it does not take somebody with a great imagination to think of using someone 's invention to base two of the hatter 's obsessions upon . |
| 17 | I was very discouraged and did not approach anyone in the other region , fearing the same response . |
| 18 | This will not surprise anyone in the old tradition which opposes Reason to Experience and contends that the absolute knowledge which science seeks comes only when Reason certifies the findings of Experience . |
| 19 | I did not try one with the full sixty degrees , which is almost a full airbrake setting and would doubtless produce a still slower stall speed , but the Bölkow is obviously capable of getting into a very short field if required . |
| 20 | There is no small irony in this , as applications to purchase foreign technology in the first place will only be approved if the relevant Soviet machine building ministry can not produce something of the appropriate standard and quantity in the time required . |
| 21 | WE have decided not to allow anyone into the one metre gap except the jumpers . |
| 22 | Rachel had already decided not to mention anything about the new MO at OBEX . |
| 23 | I , who can not reach anything on the top shelf at the supermarket ? |
| 24 | Customer for the four-processor 128M-word machine , which has a 2.08ns — 480MHz — clock , ‘ fastest in the industry ’ — is the National Center for Atmospheric Research , which will not pay anything during a six-month trial . |
| 25 | The Customer for the four-processor 128M-word machine , which has a 2.08ns — 480MHz — clock , ‘ fastest in the industry ’ — is the National Center for Atmospheric Research , which will not pay anything during a six-month trial . |
| 26 | However , these institutional norms do not tell anything like the whole story , and this is particularly true if we focus on spoken language in casual conversation and on phonetic and phonological variation : as we noticed in chapter 3 , the norms of a superordinate variety can not be projected on to the norms of a speech community without distorting our description . |
| 27 | It is my contention that a similar process is occurring for at least a significant part of the people of Tyneside today , although it is not affecting everyone in the same way and involves a complex process of what may be more apparent than real social differentiation . |
| 28 | Not finding anything among the existing styles to which she was exposed , she created her own , dedicating it to the Buddhist nun who had taught her , but naming it after herself . |
| 29 | But Ford could not get one in the new cap ! ! |
| 30 | ‘ He 's got plenty of pace — but I 'll bet you £1,000 he would not get anything like the same results as Waqar and Wasim . |