Example sentences of "not [adv] [verb] [adv] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Eyadéma can not long hold on to power . |
| 2 | Unfortunately , ad hoc bibliographies date quickly and are not always brought up to date after initial publication . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | On this night he did not then go straight to bed . |
| 8 | Which were still dark ; the people had not yet gone upstairs to bed . |
| 9 | 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 . |