Example sentences of "not [verb] [v-ing] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clarissa kindly offered him first bath — if he promised not to go looking for pretty Mosleyites , but Charles smiled and shook his head . |
| 2 | But parents , children and young people do not regard coming into residential care as an admission of failure . |
| 3 | This will ensure that when the invoices are received they will be relatively easy to code and will not need splitting between different cost centres . |
| 4 | Strictly speaking , of course , this kind of sampling does not allow the deployment of statistical analysis in order to make inferences to population values from the sample , since the selection of cases within quota categories is not done according to random sampling procedures . |
| 5 | ‘ We would not mind paying for proper wash and water facilities . |
| 6 | Though the table does not differentiate according to social class , it is evident that a higher proportion of unemployed manual than non-manual workers are among those receiving unemployment benefit . |
| 7 | I am considering a helpline for those who simply can not stop going into outdoor shops and buying aluminium water bottles . |
| 8 | Babies are not born suffering from chronic guilt , anger of any other of the destructive emotions . |
| 9 | No one then supposed , however , that the atoms were not moving according to strict laws . |
| 10 | Sometimes it was jolly nice , sometimes it was a bit fraught , and sometimes I had to remind myself not to start thinking of other things in the middle . |
| 11 | Keen pond owners enjoy growing a good selection of aquatic plants especially waterlilies — given the facilities why not try experimenting with tropical waterlilies ? |
| 12 | How , for example , could an outsider know that normative consensus in the speech community does not permit backing in velar environments or fronting in most other environments , or that sonorants followed by voiceless obstruents predict a front vowel ? |
| 13 | Against this background many advisers would not recommend applying for advance clearance , as it may heighten the transaction 's profile in the Revenue 's eyes . |
| 14 | It does not mean going without certain pleasures in life like so many people do , for example , in Lent . |
| 15 | I could not escape concluding during subsequent weeks that there were certain strong prejudices and preferences within the organisation . |
| 16 | Legco , the largely toothless legislature , has vowed not to authorise spending for new camps . |
| 17 | It is evident from the above profile that baseball spectator disorder tends not to involve fighting between opposing groups of disorder . |