Example sentences of "not [vb pp] [adv] [adv] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A chef in Saratoga Springs exasperated by a difficult customer complaining that his french fries were not sliced thinly enough cut the potatoes paper thin ; the irony was that the customer enjoyed the delicacy so much he asked for more and thus crisps were born . |
| 2 | They were interpreted as explaining why radiation had not spread out uniformly to create the newborn universe but had produced impurities , or primeval seeds , whose gravitational forces had attracted increasing amounts of matter to clump together to form galaxies , clusters of galaxies and stars . |
| 3 | I have not said clear away , it is not the end of the lesson and some of you have not worked hard enough to make the end of the lesson now if you do n't want to make the whole poem rhyme , what you might want to do is to put two lines together at a time and have those rhyming , paired rhymes , rhyming couplets , you can do that . |
| 4 | Even where prices could be raised to offset the wage increases , aggregate profits would still fall eventually if credit was not extended fast enough to allow the sale of the same volume of commodities at the higher price level . |
| 5 | It could n't be the same Rover , because they 'd have recognised the car , although he hoped they had n't stopped long enough to get the number . |