Example sentences of "not [vb infin] [adv] from [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was able to will her longing into an unexamined haze but she could not stay away from the post office on Monday . |
| 2 | I agree with Eric Hobsbawm 's assertion that nationhood need not arise exclusively from the past ( ‘ Whose fault-line is it anyway ? ’ , 24 April ) . |
| 3 | But I think that question does not arise here from the facts . |
| 4 | A crucial difference , of course , between the " real " model of reality and the " mock reality " of fiction is that the mock reality does not exist apart from the message by which it is conveyed : this is the case , at least , if we regard a fictional work in its entirety as constituting a single message . |
| 5 | I could see by the light of his torch that the cave was deep and spacious ; I could not make out from the beam of light its total dimensions , but clearly a man would have had no problem stretching out to sleep there . |
| 6 | Not only did they lack skills but they did not adapt readily from the rhythm of agricultural life with its long periods of inactivity and frequent holidays , to the demands of modern industry . |
| 7 | ( 3 ) A licensing board may consider any application made to it under paragraph ( b ) of subsection ( 2 ) above at any meeting of the board held not earlier than 14 days after the making of the application and shall affirm the provisional grant if the board is satisfied that the premises , if completed in accordance with the plan mentioned in that paragraph , will be and convenient for their purpose and that the said plan does not deviate materially from the site plan and description of the premises lodged under the said subsection ( 2 ) . |
| 8 | He used almost völkisch language , claiming that the Romanians ( unlike the Hungarian , German and other minorities ) were ‘ autochthonous ’ : ‘ They did not come from elsewhere , they did not fall down from the sky ; they were born and lived here , in this land , and they defended it with their blood . ’ |
| 9 | Communications did not improve away from the grass roots . |
| 10 | Wycliffe did not look up from the statements and for some time Sara gave no sign that she had heard ; then she said : ‘ I 've been very stupid . |
| 11 | Her sister did not look up from the list of figures . |
| 12 | But I will not look up from the tray until I have it safely landed on the white plastic table . |
| 13 | The children could not keep away from the railway , and they soon got to know the trains that passed by . |
| 14 | Carers who do not withdraw altogether from the labour market nevertheless often have to reduce or restrict the hours they can work . |
| 15 | The system is using it for itself , but you can not run away from the fact that it has helped a lot of women to pursue careers rather than to sit down and nurse babies . |
| 16 | I could not move away from the child 's bed . |
| 17 | Fairlie emphasizes that the House has no corporate feeling , it can not stand apart from the government , and the parliamentary reformers ' idea that the House can recover some of its former powers is both impracticable and , in his judgement , undesirable . |
| 18 | It occurred to her that most people , her former self included , would not walk away from an attack by a homicidal transvestite and sit down to a healthy breakfast . |
| 19 | The values of f' and f were refined in the program and did not change significantly from the starting values . |
| 20 | The history teacher should not shy away from the contribution which the study of history can make to the vocational and technical education of young people . |
| 21 | An effective platform for history should not shy away from the argument about increased employability , but it should place this argument within the twin contexts of specific skills and general skills and abilities . |
| 22 | Words of praise for Turkey 's president do not come easily from the guerrilla warriors of the Kurdish Workers ' Party ( PKK ) . |
| 23 | But so many would not come back from the war . |
| 24 | The heart 's own oxygen does not come directly from the blood within its chambers , but from a separate system of small blood vessels that encase the heart muscle like a net — the coronary arteries . |
| 25 | But we can not get away from the realities that each of these individual areas of enquiry has brought to light . |
| 26 | It is important that we do not get away from the fact that , when any charge is laid , there must be evidence that will hold up for convicting somebody of that charge . |
| 27 | because of our fears over water supplies , we have reduced abstraction to less than two thirds of our licence during the last 2 years , but we can not get away from the fact that this is a severe drought which affects every underground source . |
| 28 | She can not get away from the House of Lords because of important parliamentary business . |
| 29 | Twelve patients took NSAIDs regularly : the proportion with healed ulcers at two weeks ( four of 12 ) , four weeks ( seven of 12 ) , and eight weeks ( 10 of 12 ) did not differ significantly from the proportion of intermittent NSAID takers with healed ulcers at two ( 42 of 102 ; p=0.76 v regular intake ) , four ( 67 of 102 ; p=0.75 ) , and eight ( 93 of 102 ; p=0.33 ) weeks . |
| 30 | The thresholds for sensation in the upper , mid , and lower anal canal after operation did not differ significantly from the thresholds for sensation at these sites before operation as determined by mucosal electrosensitivity . |