Example sentences of "not [vb infin] [adv] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was able to will her longing into an unexamined haze but she could not stay away from the post office on Monday . |
| 2 | She had been undaunted even when Henry said he 'd wager that she dare not stay alone in the Lodge while he and Lettice explored the woods outside . |
| 3 | " Still , I 'd better not stay long with the sepoys attacking … |
| 4 | When challenged on this point , employers always produced a unanimous chorus to the effect that this was what women wanted , because they would not stay long in the trade before they married . |
| 5 | Could not stay long in the room with it , but the ice had been broken . |
| 6 | I agree with Eric Hobsbawm 's assertion that nationhood need not arise exclusively from the past ( ‘ Whose fault-line is it anyway ? ’ , 24 April ) . |
| 7 | But I think that question does not arise here from the facts . |
| 8 | She asked the Government to ensure that similar situations did not arise again in the future . |
| 9 | It reflects some current concerns , and also questions which do not arise specifically at the moment , but which we ought to realise may arise in the future . |
| 10 | A crucial difference , of course , between the " real " model of reality and the " mock reality " of fiction is that the mock reality does not exist apart from the message by which it is conveyed : this is the case , at least , if we regard a fictional work in its entirety as constituting a single message . |
| 11 | This illustrates that the law does not exist simply for the protection of individuals , for if it did one would be able to refuse its help if one did not want it . |
| 12 | In the civil service it may not exist lower down the organisation . |
| 13 | However should the United States be able to demonstrate the necessary state practice and opinio juris to substantiate a claim of customary international law , there is no reason why such general principles of law should not exist independently of the Convention . |
| 14 | What I have tried to say — namely that writing is not governed by the subjective intentions of its author , that ideas do not exist independently of the language which ‘ expresses ’ them — has ( inevitably ) been partially contradicted by the manner in which it has been said . |
| 15 | Theory Y , however , depends on mature individuals ; maturity , given the influence of group psychology etc , does not exist sufficiently on the shop floor to be practicable in its extreme form . |
| 16 | One thing seems clear , that such patterns did not exist only in the present largely abandoned marginal uplands , but also over great areas of the country . |
| 17 | The map showed the kind of town which did not exist anywhere in the empire . |
| 18 | Let us be clear that we should not think merely of the Europe of the Twelve . |
| 19 | If the sociologist regards the interview schedule ( and , as we shall discuss later , the questionnaire ) in this way then he will not rush blithely into the field with a schedule which is the product of just a few hours ' odd jottings on rough paper . |
| 20 | None the less , Henry did not rush headlong down the road to schism . |
| 21 | Statistics like these do not compare well with the animal world where the male rattlesnake apparently lasts twenty-four hours before letting himself go . |
| 22 | They might not compare favourably with the discovery of penicillin or the invention of the wheel but , at least for me , they have made the year more palatable : |
| 23 | I could see by the light of his torch that the cave was deep and spacious ; I could not make out from the beam of light its total dimensions , but clearly a man would have had no problem stretching out to sleep there . |
| 24 | The Education Department would not comment directly on the court case but said it would be the responsibility of head teachers and school governors to see that tests went ahead as planned . |
| 25 | And I feel that many solicitors do not do their job they do not explain fully to the purchaser what they are taking on . |
| 26 | There are many types of reading test currently used in primary schools ; most of them , however , are norm-referenced rather than criterion-referenced , and so do not relate directly to the levels of attainment described above . |
| 27 | From the above it is evident that the quality of a reading experience does not relate entirely to the quality of the reading material , but that it partly relates to those things the reader brings to the text . |
| 28 | This had been proposed in an earlier draft which was condemned by journalists as seeking to introduce " curbs … such as journalists did not experience even in the days when the CPSU was all-powerful " . |
| 29 | Some respondents felt that it was important that the manager had high expectations for punctuality and discipline so that resentment does not build up within the team . |
| 30 | Secondly , in dry summers the L3 are retained within the crusted faecal pat and can not migrate on to the pasture until sufficient rainfall occurs to moisten the pat . |