Example sentences of "not [vb infin] [adv prt] in [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He remembers his lonely school days , in assured manner that his son will not grow up in the same way . |
| 2 | At half-time a note was passed to the Scottish dressing-room telling the young striker that he would be shot if he did not ease off in the second half . |
| 3 | The fire did not break out in a deserted building in the middle of nowhere in the wee small hours of the morning . |
| 4 | However , this result does not carry through in the same way to the cases we have just been discussing where managerial utility depends on effort as well as income . |
| 5 | I can not sum up in a few sentences what will be the substance itself of my book . |
| 6 | I very much regret that both the Syrians and the Lebanese stayed away from the multilaterals and that , although present , the Palestinians did not join in in a positive way . |
| 7 | We did not go up in the same lift , but were taken to another one , apparently for the use of directors only . |
| 8 | There are some aspects of our personalities which may not come over in the brief span of an interview , but which those close to us know only too well . |
| 9 | His behaviour at the visit seems to suggest that he was a disturbing presence , since he did not turn up in the Great Hall as expected , but disappeared into a derelict and disused part of the house from whence he had to be fetched . |
| 10 | The evolutionary advantage of this is that the animal need not lie around in a torpid state , vulnerable to attack . |