Example sentences of "not come [adv prt] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But er before I came out I switched it on cos I 'm not coming back to a cold house . |
| 2 | The difficult search for a replacement for Bean after his retirement did not come up with a suitable candidate ( see The Art Newspaper No.17 , April 1992 , p.5 ) . |
| 3 | What , if anything , should disconcert us if we can not come up with a trouble-free definition ? |
| 4 | There were , however , some cases in which the model did not come up with a valid parse , that is , a pattern that represents complete coverage of the input by a set of nonoverlapping words . |
| 5 | At the present pace of progress in Brussels , similar changes throughout the EC may not come in for a dozen years or more , and British farmers fear that they will lose business while waiting for European competitors to catch up . |
| 6 | So it is that when Mr Major explains that he has , by devaluing the pound , given British industry an exceptional chance to improve its exports , he insists that ‘ this did not come about as a deliberate act of policy ’ . |
| 7 | The plant — hospitals , equipment , surgeries — being state-owned and state-administered , those changes do not come about by a gradual process made up of an infinite number of individual decisions : they happen in lurches , of which the most visible form is not the provision of new plant but the discontinuance of old plant . |
| 8 | I have n't come up with a snappy title yet , so suggest away on that and other points . |
| 9 | ‘ You 've made a lot of accusations but you have n't come up with a single shred of evidence to back them up . ’ |
| 10 | It has n't come out of a first aid . |
| 11 | Even Nails , Hoomey thought proudly , could n't come up with a better name than that . |
| 12 | Steven decided that if he could n't come up with a definitive artistic statement to impress the grown-ups , then at least he could impress them with the definitive bank statement . |
| 13 | ‘ I promise you , ’ she says , ‘ there is n't a woman who does n't come out of a bad divorce thinking the same thing . ’ |
| 14 | so I thought you were going to cos you did n't come back for a long time . |
| 15 | ‘ If Steve does n't come back for a few days I 'll probably have to go into Palma and see the airlines and the tourist board myself . ’ |