Example sentences of "n't [vb infin] [prep] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | I did n't particularly , but I did wonder whether perhaps the left 's priorities could n't do with a little sharpening . |
| 32 | Mummy was there it did n't feel like a long day did it ? |
| 33 | Why you would n't feel like a human being at all , you 'd feel like a thing . ’ |
| 34 | She was vaguely aware that she ought to offer congratulations , but for some reason she did n't feel in a congratulatory frame of mind . |
| 35 | ‘ If these efforts do n't result in a firm order , then I 've made absolutely nothing . ’ |
| 36 | For example , it may not want the same sweets as , as the little kid , you know little kids like little kids ' sweets , and grown up kids like more grown up sweets , they may like bubble-gum and things you would n't give to a little baby . |
| 37 | Do n't stick to a single time each day but try to vary it to see if the time of day makes a difference for you . |
| 38 | It does n't work as a political play . |
| 39 | Of course the situation is not the same and the techniques you use with a five-minute sequence in the classroom obviously would n't work with a sixty-minute film . |
| 40 | This wo n't work for a single motif , but how about a single motif in black , knitted against a striped background of bright jewel colours , or white on pastel stripes ? ( for this , the card does n't need to be reversed of course . ) |
| 41 | ‘ on which a part of ( the means of operation of ) the braking system , fitted thereto ’ This point can be proved by showing the brakes do n't work by a simple test such as pushing the vehicle along the road with the brake(s) set . |
| 42 | We ca n't defend on a broad front George not just two of us . |
| 43 | Sir Richard Body Tory MP for Holland-with-Boston in Lincolnshire does n't look like a radical Maverick ; indeed you could be forgiven for thinking he is the original grey man of politics . |
| 44 | that so it does n't look like a new fence we planted quick . |
| 45 | Does n't look like a perfect pitch ? |
| 46 | Not worthy of a photograph I should n't think There 's the Queen Mother again , does n't say how old she is There is the picture of the doctor , mind you he does n't look like a junior doctor , he 's Pakistani and he looks about fifty ! |
| 47 | She did n't look like a great warrior , but Hawk sensed her strength immediately . |
| 48 | Yet it did n't look like a photocopying machine . |
| 49 | ‘ You do n't look like a common whore to me . ’ |
| 50 | erm you can hybridize these two , you can second generations , backcrosses and so on , the analysis has been made , and we know that there is n't a single large gene producing that effect — we know that there are quite a number of genes of reasonably small effect , we do n't know exactly how many but certainly it does n't look like a hopeful monster . |
| 51 | Not always noticed because if it 's called Cements it does n't look like a foreign company , but if it 's called Mitsubishi or something well , it will stand out . |
| 52 | It does n't look like a rubber tree |
| 53 | Yeah but it did n't look like a rubber tree . |
| 54 | They do n't occur at a uniform rate , but there 's nothing in Darwinism which implies that they should , but I was looking at some data on radiolarians recently in which about every sixty thousand years there 's a population sample — I mean you can estimate and see the rate at which this stuff is building up — and in no occasion in a period of sixty thousand years did the population change by more than about half a standard deviation . |
| 55 | Touch in rust spots with a gel-like rust inhibitor ( for instance , Jenolite ) which wo n't run on a vertical surface . |
| 56 | Now some people , even though the Green Party has er been an established party for some time now , might feel that er it , this is the Green Party perhaps coming of age because it does n't sound like a Green issue , you 're , you 're discussing things across the board at the moment are n't you |
| 57 | Do n't wash under a running tap . |
| 58 | Neat terraced houses , densely populated , it does n't vote like a northern city unfortunately . |
| 59 | The secret is holding it in check , rationing it , saving the best of yourself for the night , and as I scanned the running order in the lull before the storm , I still could n't decide on a personal favourite . |
| 60 | The reason is simple , the program is now bigger than 800K and wo n't fit on a single disk ! |