Example sentences of "n't [vb infin] [prep] an [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I bet it does n't relate to an actual operation in a general hospital because you 've got so many people wanting their rake off in a private one surely ? |
| 2 | He says : ‘ Small budgets , apologetic councils strapped for cash , and a complex social and sometimes ethnic mix of young customers and their parents do n't make for an easy life . ’ |
| 3 | It certainly does n't make for an ideal working relationship , does it ? ’ |
| 4 | We 've had a running argument about this , but as I did n't know the address of your cottage either , I could n't think of an alternative course of action . |
| 5 | The new philosophy said that we should not make value judgements : you ca n't think in an Aristotelian way ; no value judgements , no good and bad . |
| 6 | Liberalism and Democracy do n't flourish on an empty stomach . |
| 7 | He would n't object to an innocent lunch . ’ |
| 8 | Tony explains for the wide-eyed accomplice that the green colour shows the presence of copper in the flame , and because the colour does n't appear with an undipped spill , the substance must be in the liquid . |
| 9 | He knew he ought not to mark the books really , but it was only a tiny mark in pencil and no-one could accuse him of defacing library property , not really , it would n't do for an ex-library committee member to be caught defacing library property now would it . |
| 10 | Our month in Borneo certainly did n't feel like an organised holiday . |
| 11 | ‘ Aah served a year at mi last place , ’ went on Lamb , ‘ but t'food was poor and a man ca n't work on an empty belly . ’ |
| 12 | On the face of it , The Shamen ( bespectacled ex-indie rocker Colin , gabby geeky white rapper Mister C and part-time disco diva Jhelisa Anderson ) do n't look like an obvious pop proposition . |
| 13 | And the first thing I have to say a about the way the the place runs , is that it does n't run like an ordinary museum , nor does it run like and ordinary house . |
| 14 | Do n't plan on an early start next morning once you 've found Sango 's ! |
| 15 | Do n't sleep in an overheated room as this can cause fluid retention in your face and bags under the eyes . |
| 16 | Under attack on all sides , not least from the infant population which was itself unwittingly helping to spread disease through the narrow streets and alleys of the town , some Frome people found a temporary escape in one or other of the forty or more pubs which vied with each other for custom ; drunkenness was commonplace , and many of those who did n't go to an early grave with some infection or other departed this life with a putrid liver . |
| 17 | Unlike many of its rivals , it does n't come with an exotic software bundle — no Lotus Smart-Suite , no Microsoft Office , not even a copy of somebody 's Works package . |
| 18 | I do n't come from an evangelical background , I came from a raw environment straight into the contentions of the Big Man and you could n't have been too extreme . |
| 19 | But most people say ‘ Oh , I ca n't play in an open tuning . ’ |
| 20 | I do n't live in an old people 's home . |
| 21 | Most of you wo n't even know who the MCofS are ; you 're certainly not all members ( did you know you could be ? ) and you probably do n't belong to an affiliated club . |
| 22 | Consequently , nationalisation expressed their political wish , but just as that did n't extend to an alternative philosophy at the economic or political level , neither did it extend to a radical philosophy of personal life . |
| 23 | Stand up : do n't sit on an upturned seat . |
| 24 | ‘ Do n't talk like an old woman in a village . |