Example sentences of "not [adv] [v-ing] [noun] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he wants the military to test the anti- nerve gas pills to make sure that they 're not addictive , so that they 're not inadvertantly giving soldiers under stress a potent drug which could be open to abuse . |
| 2 | I feel too tired to sleep so I play some Despot when I get home but my heart 's not in it and the Empire is still in a tattered-looking state after all the earlier disasters and I 'm almost wondering if I should start again but that would mean going back to the fucking dawn of civilisation and the temptation in Despot is always to swap PoV , which people who do n't know the game always think sounds sort of innocent , like some detail , but it is n't : you 're not just swapping point of View , you 're swapping your current Despotic power Level for something less , even if it 's a regional lord or other king or a general or royal relation close to the throne , and it is not to be done lightly because as soon as you renounce the current Despot 's PoV the computer takes over and it 's a smart fucking piece of software . |
| 3 | ‘ It is not easy playing game after game even for fit players it becomes a chore and you tend to pick up knocks . |
| 4 | In opposing human spirit to human force I am not simply setting cognition against physique . |
| 5 | Researchers in the 50's showed that children from middle-class families were far more likely to gain a place at grammar school than the children of the working-class and the system was not therefore providing equality of opportunity . |