Example sentences of "not [vb infin] [adv prt] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Try to go to bed only when you 're tired but do not stay up past a certain critical time , say one hour after you would normally go to bed . |
| 2 | It is worth stressing that this study did not arise out of a leisured academic interest but out of an urgent need for material to use therapeutically with highly-disturbed young people . |
| 3 | The first submission by Mr. Ashworth was that a public nuisance can not arise out of a lawful act , whatever its consequences , and as what is complained of here , namely heavy goods vehicles being driven along Medway and Bridge Roads , is a lawful act , no public nuisance can arise . |
| 4 | If it is correct , in general , that a public nuisance can not arise out of the lawful use of a highway , as Mr. Ashworth submitted , it is not , in my judgment , because there is no unlawful act . |
| 5 | As well as lines , Sumitomo had to install filters at each end of the lines to check that traffic that ought to be kept on the LAN does not disappear on to the WAN . |
| 6 | It will not make up for the insufficient level of public services that Cleveland has been given by BR . ’ |
| 7 | Comment : Indirect questions are used all the time by people who need their status boosting through being given buckets of approval , or who are looking for a reason for punishing other people should they not fall in with the anticipated scenario . |
| 8 | How could clothes not dry out on a warm sunny day ? |
| 9 | The first- and second-person pronouns are typical examples in that they do not refer back to a nominal expression in the text but to the speaker and hearer ( or writer and reader ) respectively . |
| 10 | For the fox , use sand or a very light shade of tan ( not too dark or it will not show up on a dark background ) . |
| 11 | Remember that these are colour effects , and they will therefore not show up on a black and white viewfinder . |
| 12 | In any case , he added , people did not show up for the political meetings , only arriving in time for the drinking afterwards . |
| 13 | The fire did not break out in a deserted building in the middle of nowhere in the wee small hours of the morning . |
| 14 | The purpose of having a timetable is so that all relevant information can be digested and acted upon , and so that bids do not carry on for an unreasonable length of time . |
| 15 | The difficulty of winning a championship , the strain and gamble it involves , are so great that if a driver does not carry through to the following year sufficient momentum and he does not have the same advantage — of car , team , etc. — that he had the previous year , the results are often disappointing . |
| 16 | He did not stick out like a sore thumb — the drawback of most Englishmen , and he spoke French fluently . |
| 17 | I was just beginning to get to grips with the Campaign for Ink Print Information , but Women 's Tapeover could not keep up with the steady stream of new feminist writing that was emerging week by week . |
| 18 | You will probably find that the sander will not work up to the very edge of the floor , so you will have to hire a smaller unit to finish off the job . |
| 19 | Of course , very often garments require a number of stitches that do not work out at a neat number of pattern repeats , so you do n't HAVE to much patterns at side seams . |
| 20 | There are two disadvantages to this approach ; first , it is enormously time consuming and second , the polygon topology of the input coverage is not preserved , so one can not work back to the initial coverage attributes . |
| 21 | However , these grumbles , and the piecemeal reforms and constitutional pseudo-changes which they inspired , did not spill over into a generalised sense of unease about the essence of the liberal-democratic constitution itself . |
| 22 | Almost certainly the child will think of " heaven " as a funny idea which people believe in for some nonsensical reason which does not fit in with a scientific way of looking at life . |
| 23 | A Scottish Office spokesman said changes have taken place in the health service since 1989 and the previous plan did not fit in with the present set-up of purchasers and providers . |
| 24 | Where such arguments did not fit in with the overarching themes of race , violence and disorder , and social deprivation they were either sidelined or pushed into the sub-clauses of official reports . |
| 25 | CIBS ’ , its just the little matter of hairy legs that just might not fit in with the ra-ra skirts … ) |
| 26 | This constant sweeping under the carpet of all information which does not fit in with the Tory vision of a new North does no-one in this region any favours . |
| 27 | I very much regret that both the Syrians and the Lebanese stayed away from the multilaterals and that , although present , the Palestinians did not join in in a positive way . |
| 28 | Dear Harsnet , he wrote , the distance between London and Brighton is not very great , and you have even been seen in the vicinity of Brighton , so why not call in on an old friend ? |
| 29 | Even the pointed vocal melodies of its strongest tracks , ‘ Stopping The World ’ and ‘ Upside Down ’ , do not cut out of the level bed of instrumentation . |
| 30 | A " slip " , a temporary recourse to the mood-altering substance or behaviour , may or may not lead on to a full-scale relapse . |