Example sentences of "not [adv] [verb] [pers pn] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It should not perhaps surprise us that trade unions appear to have made less bargaining headway on the issues of job design than on the question of equipment design . |
| 2 | It 's not much point me just sort of reciting the percentages . |
| 3 | In the case of the bookmarks shown in the photograph on the opposite page , I drew a border around the section that encloses the flowers , not only to give them additional definition but also because the parallel lines at the base help to decorate the bookmark . |
| 4 | The Casio STR 1000 , not only offers you superb styling and unrivalled precision to unc sec , but also includes functions invaluable to your sport . |
| 5 | In the second talk , Tom Helvin , director of the Diocesan Schools Department , told delegates : ‘ The main reason for our Catholic schools is religious growth and development of the children , not merely to make them practising Catholics , but to involve them fully in parish and church . ’ |
| 6 | The jungle in which they are isolated provides them with shelter but can not possibly offer them enough food . |
| 7 | She had not even phoned them that morning to explain her absence . |
| 8 | It will not even give him any power in Brittany , for if she comes here she loses whatever sway she has there . |
| 9 | Jack reckoned he was known amongst his male friends of that era as the Great Seducer — his own words — but friend-for-life Robert Towne did not quite remember it that way . |
| 10 | The notion of converting the Dak to turbo-power has come about not primarily to give it better performance , better uplift , greater range — although all of these assets , and more , are by-products of the transformation — but to allow the aircraft to survive in a world where Avgas — fuel for piston engines — is becoming increasingly rare and Avtur — aviation turbine fuel — is the dominant motion lotion . |
| 11 | Now I want you to do it the hard way , I mean you would n't normally do it this way but when you 've got letters in you 've got no choice . |
| 12 | You ca n't exactly call it social climbing , because Jackie is , financially and in terms of celebrity , already at the top . |
| 13 | Well of course I ca n't possibly give you any figure of how often , but bullying occasionally happens in the Army . |
| 14 | Oh I I do n't usually recommend it some people do and find it easier that way I I would rather they just stuck with the the formula for differentiating a product and |
| 15 | Do n't ever tell me that Love 's dimpled pander does n't earn his pesetas . |
| 16 | You did n't really give me much chance — ’ |
| 17 | ‘ And now I 'm to have a new mama , and I do n't really like her one bit . ’ |
| 18 | But either one of these and what we 've already put up you ca n't really call them positional isomers cos the basic carbon skeleton is different . |
| 19 | He does n't defend it as the best way of getting the correct decision , he does n't defend it , or he does n't solely defend it that way he does n't defend it either on the idea that people have right to be tried by their peers for example which is the most likely defence now , but he defends jury service on the grounds of the effect it has on the jurors which is quite a novel erm . |
| 20 | yeah , but that 's a hundred I mean you can tell , I 've tried it , it is , I , I ai n't even had it half way and it 's , you can tell it 's overdriving them |
| 21 | Pocket Book 's big summer read is from a promotable young actress , Lucinda Edmonds , with Lovers and Players ; Marsha Hunt does n't quite give us another Joy in her new one , Free ( Penguin ) , but her fans wo n't know that until they 've bought it . |
| 22 | Sorry , I could n't quite manage it that time |
| 23 | An officer on an accompanying ship did n't quite see it that way . |
| 24 | Ai n't never seen her this way afore ! ’ . |
| 25 | As he reached the door , with a variety of helpful obstructions he shouted his Parthian shot — ‘ You ca n't bloody have it both ways … ’ |
| 26 | She 's had that , she 's had her revenge , it has n't actually caused you any grief , you 'll just have to make up some story for your mother . ’ |
| 27 | they do n't actually give you one p any more . |