Example sentences of "not [vb infin] [adv prt] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 61 | It is at best a standstill and does not measure up to the problems of dereliction and rising unemployment . |
| 62 | I 'm afraid we did not measure up to the standards set by the well-hung Spanish men who drifted around with flies bulging to the point of bursting their buttons . |
| 63 | He will not face up to the problem . |
| 64 | It does not face up to the punishment question because it implicitly suggests that they are not culpable if their criminal aetiology can be ‘ understood ’ . |
| 65 | ‘ Why not join in with the others , if you want to learn ? ’ |
| 66 | The plane that would not take off without the khat |
| 67 | Finally , the scanner should not mess about with the image through fixed dither patterns or their various equivalents , we need to let the software do this . |
| 68 | Did you not hear out in the street ? |
| 69 | All homeworkers supplied their own heat , light and materials — glue or paste or thread — and sometimes also paid an initial premium for the supply of work : this was particularly common in dressmaking and did not die out until the growth of the ready-made trade in the 1920s . |
| 70 | It is useful to quote the size of the repeat when ordering fabric for curtains or blinds so that you do not cut off in the middle of a formalized pattern . |
| 71 | The dog leaped at the closest man who , encumbered with carbine and sword , could not cut down at the beast , then Sharpe 's mare slammed into the Frenchman 's horse and the big sword slashed down at the Dragoon . |
| 72 | What has been an ideal jacket for the Lakeland fells could be too heavy to take to Africa ; what seems like a good buy for walking in the Alps might not stand up to the rigours of a Himalayan winter . |
| 73 | ‘ Ordinary Catholics on the Falls Road can not stand up to the IRA . |
| 74 | The reasons for the brutality and racism which are displayed every day at the ports of entry in Britain and at the British High Commissions in the Indian subcontinent are the laws themselves — laws which are seen as essential to wider government policy and which though blatantly racist ( in fact they would not stand up before the Race Relations Act ) were each introduced as a contribution to good community relations . |
| 75 | The computer model at Britain 's Meteorological Office predicts that the fires ' effect on this year 's monsoon will probably not stand out against the monsoon 's annual variations . |
| 76 | However , even the best of these efforts , and they are perhaps in their fully fledged forms used more in psychology than in social research , do not reach up to the standards of measurement used in science or , less ambitiously , the higher levels of measurement represented by interval and ratio scales . |
| 77 | Another , who did not pass by on the hour , might think , not of Death , but of the astrolabe showing the positions of the planets . |
| 78 | They were tired and ill and they could not walk up to the plateau . |
| 79 | You were just saying , you know , that we should just walk in the streets and things like , but I would just not walk out in the streets at night , I 've got to be in the car with the doors locked and , and I just would n't walk out in the streets at night , not because any thing has happened to me , but its just through what I 've heard , I 'm just terrified . |
| 80 | I will not go on about the statistics . |
| 81 | On it were the words : ‘ Do not go on to the moor . |
| 82 | Ron said that I should not go on to the track and kill myself because I might pull a hamstring . |
| 83 | He promised himself he would not go up to the tower to observe the stars . |
| 84 | While most , for example narcissi and scillas , should be planted as soon as they are bought , tulips should not go in to the garden until November . |
| 85 | I could not go in through the house because of the servants . |
| 86 | Pro-Europeans were no happier as he stated that sterling would not go back into the ERM until changes were made . |
| 87 | So the budget fixed for the current year was £20 million and the £7 million underspent in the first two years of the scheme did not go back to the Treasury — it was not lost to computerisation — but was committed to the further development of GP computerisation . |
| 88 | But she did not go back to the kitchen . |
| 89 | The question of taking pension holidays in between out of surplus is a sort of mid midway position , but er very definitely we feel strongly that money should not go back to the company . |
| 90 | For many weeks Kee did not go back to the graveyard . |