Example sentences of "not [adv] [verb] [adv] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Eyadéma can not long hold on to power . |
| 2 | Do not be worried if your angles do not exactly add up to 180° As you become more accurate with your work , so you will get closer to 180° . |
| 3 | He will want you at home , not always running about to meetings . ’ |
| 4 | Unfortunately , ad hoc bibliographies date quickly and are not always brought up to date after initial publication . |
| 5 | He must be ready to speculate , for the sources ( in this case the chronicles and records of government which provide him with much of his material ) do not always come up to expectation . |
| 6 | I beat down my excitement and wonder , knowing that a place can not possibly live up to expectations such as mine . |
| 7 | By the time of the abolition measures of 1806 and 1807 abolitionists had failed to convince their opponents that they were not also looking forward to emancipation . |
| 8 | Although she told me she was experiencing a certain amount of discomfort due to the condition of her appendix , and although she was not really looking forward to surgery and to the anaesthetic , none the less Kirsty seemed to have no more than the expected apprehension which would have been felt by anyone . |
| 9 | But no amount of tinkering with parental choice or national testing alters one main problem : many young black children do not even turn up to classes . |
| 10 | Ecalpemos , after all , was not Greek and did not even sound so to Rufus who , unlike Adam , had not received a classical education . |
| 11 | Both these publications are useful when the statute first appears , but both suffer from the defect that they are not regularly kept up to date by reprints or supplements . |
| 12 | It turned out that he had locked himself out of his room which was likely to be embarrassing as I , for one , was not about to go down to reception for a key for him . |
| 13 | On this night he did not then go straight to bed . |
| 14 | Which were still dark ; the people had not yet gone upstairs to bed . |
| 15 | As she could hear Jack coming down the stairs she returned to the kitchen and picked up the metal spoon and plunged it into the saucepan which she had not yet put on to heat . |