Example sentences of "not [vb pp] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was , simply , not prepared to go on with the discomfort of feeling — or knowing other people might feel — that I was in any way neglecting my family . |
| 2 | It will be noted that no reference has been made to service by post ; the provisions in the Rules of the Supreme Court permitting the use of ‘ ordinary first-class post ’ or service by inserting the writ through the letter-box at the defendant 's address are not applied to service out of the jurisdiction . |
| 3 | Eels are not thought to go down to the abyssal depths of the Atlantic where they could get such indications from the sea floor . |
| 4 | The second is any child under the age of about five , who is unlikely to be able to concentrate for the necessary time — although it must be said that older children probably make the best subjects of all , as they are still at the stage where their imagination is in good working order and they have not become weighed down by the need to earn a living or the problems of bringing up a family . |
| 5 | He had flown in via Honolulu , but reportedly had not deigned to glance over at the still-visible wreckage of Pearl Harbor , just off the runway . |
| 6 | The ministries become bogged down in detail when their energies and resources should be concentrated more on overall policy , and the ad hoc commissions grow disillusioned and frustrated because they are not allowed to get on with the job . |
| 7 | But that was not allowed to leak out of the chapel . |
| 8 | A child who was not allowed to wander off to the park , would certainly not be allowed to fly off to the planets . |