Example sentences of "not [vb infin] [adv] [adv] [to-vb] [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | This was approached from two angles : first , what was known as the ‘ battle for the fourth grade ’ , an acknowledgement that substantial numbers of children either did not go to school or did not stay long enough to consolidate literacy . |
| 2 | This is the particular issue for debate at this meeting , and I do not presume here either to pre-empt discussion or anticipate what I will say later when I consider it in greater detail . |
| 3 | The two deaths recorded during this study both occurred in patients who were moribund when first assessed and did not survive long enough to reach hospital . |
| 4 | When the life expectancies of the shrimps are short then most of those which start life as males may not survive long enough to become females . |
| 5 | While his conclusions may be correct — and we discuss this at greater length in the next chapter — his evidence , unfortunately , does not go far enough to give weight to them . |
| 6 | Steps were taken to reduce capacity : shifts were cut and shod time introduced but these measures did not go far enough to balance supply and demand . |
| 7 | It does not go so far to ensure proportionality as other variants , but would involve the least departure from the existing system , would retain single-member constituencies which many regard as being a valuable feature of the present system , and would be much the simplest to understand in operation . |
| 8 | The optical fibre cable recently laid to Number 10 Downing Street joined a network which the group can not spread fast enough to meet demand . |