Example sentences of "not [adv] [vb infin] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In many service businesses there is a growing number of people who do not necessarily want to progress in traditional career terms . |
| 2 | Rufus was not squeamish , he had not been one of those medical students who become nauseous at their first sight of surgery , but , curiously enough he did not much like to think of all those odd little bones , so alien to him , so unidentifiable , being dug up and sorted out and sifted through in case there should be a human fibula among them or a vertebra . |
| 3 | A High Street clothes shop , for example , may not only have to compete with another clothes retailer in that street , but also with the large department store in the town centre , plus mail order companies . |
| 4 | The containers , palettes or packings must originate , or be , in free circulation within the EC and must not already have benefited from any VAT exemption . |
| 5 | Furthermore , it is said , as native speakers of a language seem able to recognize correct and incorrect sentences , the idea of there being language rules exemplified in such sentences does seem to correspond to some kind of reality , even if people do not always speak according to these abstracted rules . |
| 6 | The implication is that it is somehow self-evident that anything so wonderful as this could not possibly have evolved by natural selection . |
| 7 | Though the news of her ‘ engagement ’ could not possibly have come from any other source than he of the ‘ My office — now ’ order . |
| 8 | For we have already seen that there is no reason why , along with the mature elements of the superego which serve the interests of adjustment to reality , immature , primitive elements should not also become externalized in those aspects of the state which represent it as nurturing , protecting and providing some measure of wish fulfilment for the most regressive desires . |
| 9 | She was used to answering occasional questions about the child , who perhaps Jonquil did not really think existed after all . |
| 10 | ( v ) gave money or goods or services to the addict in your life when you could not really afford to part with these things . |
| 11 | It is always possible that when you do the job specification of a long-standing job you will decide the job does not really need to exist at all ! |
| 12 | Well I 'll show I 'll show you this is just a small list of categories of advertisers and you would not even start to think about some of those . |
| 13 | The thrust of the private language argument is that the solipsist can not even get started in this way . |
| 14 | Even the most generous interpretation of the figures reveals a very modest increase in funding and it most certainly does not even begin to compensate for ten years of cuts . |
| 15 | Johnson thereby validated the journey in his reports , and , true enquirer that he was , did not accordingly neglect to report on such a major place as Aberdeen . |
| 16 | In fact , you do not actually need to price at that level ; the rival just has to believe that you will if it enters the market . |
| 17 | While the exclusion does not specifically refer to damage to underground pipes or cables , the above exclusions would be deemed to refer to such circumstances and therefore cover would only operate for damage to underground pipes and services when these exclusions are deleted . |
| 18 | They do not therefore have to deal with great daily variations in these conditions . |
| 19 | I could n't possibly feel isolated in one of them — especially if someone came to see me , ’ she 'd added archly . |
| 20 | The first was that I did n't ever want to sound like that . |
| 21 | and are , are employing and paying people to work them but they do n't ever seem to come to any let's say reportable conclusion about the cost of operations . |
| 22 | Also , my brother was such a good trumpet player that I knew I would never be as good as he was , so there was that in there too : like , ‘ God , I do n't really want follow in this guy 's footsteps . ' ’ |
| 23 | Yes I I do n't really want to respond to that other than to say that Bond End is d it 's still an extremely important consideration , it 's in the conservation area , it 's an important part of Knaresborough and it was obviously something that members had in mind when they they made their decision on on the relative merits . |
| 24 | But John Drake does n't really want to talk about rare plants . |
| 25 | I mean , I mean I know I do n't really want to work with old age pensioners , but I start in a |
| 26 | So if you did n't really want to embark on that treatment we again , use the waxing treatment as for the eyebrows , we use ca ho , hot wax on the area that you need , on the chin , on the upper lip . |
| 27 | But I do n't really want to compete in that world ; I want to do it a bit differently , something a bit more personal . |
| 28 | erm enjoy living on my own , and I would n't really want to enter into another what I felt was a very oppressive relationship really erm because erm I do n't think there are very many men who do think in terms of equality within erm within erm partnerships and within relationships within marriages . |
| 29 | ‘ Raindrops had to fall on my head for real like everybody else — I do n't really wish to talk about those things , now we are over it . |
| 30 | We laugh about the whole experience now , but we do n't really like to dwell on particular moments too long . |