Example sentences of "not [vb infin] [indef pn] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ravel 's Chansons madecasses , though the music sweats with sultry southern heat , does not bathe one with the swirling sounds of his orchestral timbres . |
| 2 | Buying a ticket for last night 's game does NOT guarantee one for the all-Ireland clash in November — unless a formal application was made at the time of purchase to the IFA office . |
| 3 | You can not do everything at the same time . |
| 4 | One of Isaac Bashevis Singer 's characters in a short story tells the narrator-author : ‘ You once wrote that human nature is such that one can not do anything in a straight line . |
| 5 | Two-thirds of a total of 324 companies interviewed said that the environment was not a trading issue last year , and 59 per cent agreed that it would not become one in the forthcoming year . |
| 6 | If viewing was considered by the week , however , TV was virtually universal : barely one person in twenty did not see something in an average week in 1986 ( BBC , 1986 ) . |
| 7 | Stung , the League said yesterday that they expect ITV to come up with a new date within the next fortnight and they will not tolerate one beyond the scheduled season 's end of May 5 . |
| 8 | However , it does not take somebody with a great imagination to think of using someone 's invention to base two of the hatter 's obsessions upon . |
| 9 | I was very discouraged and did not approach anyone in the other region , fearing the same response . |
| 10 | This will not surprise anyone in the old tradition which opposes Reason to Experience and contends that the absolute knowledge which science seeks comes only when Reason certifies the findings of Experience . |
| 11 | I did not try one with the full sixty degrees , which is almost a full airbrake setting and would doubtless produce a still slower stall speed , but the Bölkow is obviously capable of getting into a very short field if required . |
| 12 | There is no small irony in this , as applications to purchase foreign technology in the first place will only be approved if the relevant Soviet machine building ministry can not produce something of the appropriate standard and quantity in the time required . |
| 13 | I , who can not reach anything on the top shelf at the supermarket ? |
| 14 | Customer for the four-processor 128M-word machine , which has a 2.08ns — 480MHz — clock , ‘ fastest in the industry ’ — is the National Center for Atmospheric Research , which will not pay anything during a six-month trial . |
| 15 | The Customer for the four-processor 128M-word machine , which has a 2.08ns — 480MHz — clock , ‘ fastest in the industry ’ — is the National Center for Atmospheric Research , which will not pay anything during a six-month trial . |
| 16 | However , these institutional norms do not tell anything like the whole story , and this is particularly true if we focus on spoken language in casual conversation and on phonetic and phonological variation : as we noticed in chapter 3 , the norms of a superordinate variety can not be projected on to the norms of a speech community without distorting our description . |
| 17 | But Ford could not get one in the new cap ! ! |
| 18 | ‘ He 's got plenty of pace — but I 'll bet you £1,000 he would not get anything like the same results as Waqar and Wasim . |
| 19 | An impressive university department might be staffed with the established academics who have lately confessed , in print , to basic doubts about the validity and purpose of English literary studies ; and it is hard today to think of any branch of formal literary study that does not reflect something of the same malaise . |
| 20 | In their conclusions the researchers did warn , however , that the samples they studied were small and that they could not say anything about the long-term effects of increased exposure to ultraviolet radiation . |
| 21 | He did not say anything for a few moments and then he shrugged and gave a sharp laugh . |
| 22 | Blanche looked at Lancaster with a quizzical smile and did not say anything for a full ten seconds . |
| 23 | Might we not learn something from a closer look at our rivals ' activities ? |
| 24 | He he did n't make one at the same time as , you know , to actually show the folds and that |
| 25 | ‘ I shall get into something comfortable , ’ she said , ‘ and then I sha n't want anything for the whole afternoon . ’ |
| 26 | She did n't think anything of a personal nature had entered the conversation . |
| 27 | Great advantage now is you would n't need anything like a high chair |
| 28 | ‘ I do n't know anything about a stolen book , ’ Connelly bleated . |
| 29 | If they answer the phone and say they do n't know anything about the bed-and-breakfast bookings , a customer could be lost immediately . |
| 30 | ‘ When I arrived I could n't speak a word of Spanish , did n't know anything about the photographic scene in Madrid and had never worked as a professional photographer before , so it was n't the easiest of situations to begin with . ’ |