Example sentences of "not [vb infin] [adv] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | October plantings make small plants which do not crop well until the second year . |
| 2 | A two-run defeat seemed set fair to demoralize England , but their batsmen did not do badly in the second game at Sydney . |
| 3 | To her mistress it was understandable that she should never speak absolutely freely but it was intolerable that she could not do so to the last remaining member of her family , nor even to her husband . |
| 4 | Weak clients , i.e. those lacking confidence , may not perform well at the first meeting but normally go through a sharp learning curve . |
| 5 | Notably it did not respond coherently to the third world 's debt burden , and to ten years of stalled poor-country growth , probably because it did not overhaul its own ponderous bureaucracy . |
| 6 | If the second measurement did not tally exactly with the first , it meant that there was something wrong with the patient 's stomach . |
| 7 | No doubt one could find some of that ilk in the Labour party , but I am sorry to tell Ministers , who greatly outnumber their indians seated behind them , that defence will not figure prominently in the next general election . |
| 8 | POMEROY social security office in Tyrone will not open today for the first scheduled signing-on since the IRA attack on a fraud squad investigator a fortnight ago . |
| 9 | But again this does not help much with the second paradox . |