Example sentences of "not [vb infin] [adv] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " Still , I 'd better not stay long with the sepoys attacking … |
| 2 | But I think that question does not arise here from the facts . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 " . |
| 5 | Hormones modify the cells which may become cancerous , rendering them less , or more , likely to do so , but the hormones do not act primarily on the processes which turn any quiescent cell into one that divides without control . |
| 6 | Why did they not act boldly like the Russians ? |
| 7 | So time did not hang heavily during the weeks which followed the victory at Annan and Balliol 's flight . |
| 8 | ‘ I should be sorry for him if he did not land more in the thorns than in the flowers — that 's all . ’ |
| 9 | It did not refer specifically to the grounds upon which the nullity of a public limited company might be ordered . |
| 10 | Further distortions arise from Beazer Homes , Hanson 's last big UK acquisition , which did not contribute fully in the results for the three months to end-December 1991 . |
| 11 | Is it that you may actually have lost fat but the loss may not show much on the scales because you are retaining water . |
| 12 | Finally , if he was prepared to visit Sanders to make the appointment , why not do so for the lessons as well ? ’ |
| 13 | We know that nutrients added to the water by humans make the algae grow , this combined with the sunlight causes blooms , but beyond that we do not understand much about the toxins . ’ |
| 14 | By definition they do not look backwards at the kinds of demographic transformations with which various societies have already coped . |
| 15 | We shall take it , as anticipated earlier ( p. 16 ) , and in some agreement with these views , that all causes and effects are physical events , but we need not look further into the views . |
| 16 | If he was able to achieve this it did not augur well for the struggles against the three Indian spinners , who had variously been described as inexperienced and nebulous . |
| 17 | Most of them were noticeably short even on usual offices , and it did not occur even to the agents to describe them as imposing or delightful . |
| 18 | ‘ Angling does not feature prominently within the sports and social activities within the brewery , ’ said Steve . |
| 19 | ‘ Why , here 's my mother home at last , ’ he said , and came smiling to meet her , putting forth the child by the hand to her , a little clumsily because he could not see well for the tears in his eyes . |
| 20 | The juniper flavour is good and there is a fresh , lemony bite , but the overall impression is of an unexciting gin , which does not marry well with the botanicals . |
| 21 | In addition to the two avant-garde poles represented for him by Schoenberg and Stravinsky , he has a minor category consisting of music that makes use of materials ‘ which fell by the wayside … waste products and blind spots … all that which did not fit properly into the laws of historical movement ’ ; the ‘ anachronistic quality ’ of this material ‘ is not wholly obsolete since it has outwitted the historical dynamic ’ . |
| 22 | Certainly Mr Lamont did not perform well at the hustings ; arguably his Budget last month did not in retrospect maximise the opportunities , limited though they were . |
| 23 | The desired torque on this motor does not depend much on the settings of the elbow and the shoulder . |
| 24 | It does not take long for the difficulties encountered in finding a buyer at the contingent price during earlier disposals to be forgotten . |
| 25 | It did not take long for the police to trace Mrs Dyer to Caversham where she was arrested . |
| 26 | Compared with what was happening in contemporary marine invertebrates , the visible changes in mammalian skeletons during the early part of the Tertiary were fast and dramatic ; it did not take long before the roles of larger herbivores and carnivores were filled by mammalian animals . |
| 27 | Javal [ 1879 ] showed that the eyes do not scan smoothly across the lines of print , but instead make a series of discrete fixations with rapid movements ( known as saccades ) in between . |
| 28 | Is there any reason why that should not apply equally to the words ‘ has carried on business ? ’ |
| 29 | The need to plan for the staffing as well as the financing of the social services does not apply only to the professionals : we can not decide to double our output of houses in order to deal with housing shortages and obsolescence without regard to the manpower resources of the building industry as well as to the availability of suitable architects . |
| 30 | It does not apply therefore to the solutions of Khan and Penrose ( 1971 ) , Ferrari and Ibañez ( 1987 b ) , and the exceptional solution of Chandrasekhar and Xanthopoulos ( 1986 b ) . |