Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] [conj] not " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wan na stick that in or not ? |
| 2 | ( d ) Party not to take advantage of his own wrong A lease will be construed so far as possible so as not to permit a party to it to take advantage of his own wrong . |
| 3 | We 've not , we 've been out since about eleven o'clock and not had a drink . |
| 4 | You must be careful altogether and not accept rides from old men with big cars . ’ |
| 5 | She tried to concentrate on this so as not to have to think about what Finn was saying . |
| 6 | Paula was not very clever with her needle but she soon learned to be careful so as not to incur the wrath of the seamstress . |
| 7 | ‘ It had to be light so as not to pull the fabric around but something like polystyrene would have fallen apart . ’ |
| 8 | Because Southern Californians drive nearly 100 million miles every day in their cars — carefree perhaps but not cost-free . |
| 9 | I sneaked up the stairs to Flat 3 , tiptoeing by the door of No. 2 so as not to disturb Lisabeth and Fenella , the two dragons who inhabited that particular dungeon . |
| 10 | Sally-Anne could not tell whether he said this critically or not . |
| 11 | As small headphones are dreadfully inefficient at the bottom end , there is a built-in bass boost which helps the guitar sound in this situation — switch eight lets you turn this off when not working with headphones . |
| 12 | ‘ I 'm not sure if we 're meant to be making this up or not , ’ muses Gordon . |
| 13 | ‘ I 'm not sure if we 're meant to be making this up or not , ’ muses Gordon . |
| 14 | He does what he has to do in situations of moral dilemma , though he knows it to be wrong , because to act differently would have been wrong also though not in the same way . |
| 15 | They had been close like this before but not at Felipe 's instigation . |
| 16 | The great Latin literatures are implicitly social even when not explicitly that , and they seldom give credence to the view that a sane being in emotional health might reasonably prefer to be left to himself . |
| 17 | The drought of the previous three years has dissolved into into a huge downpour and now there 's more of a worry about being too much rather than not enough water . |
| 18 | The wind screeched in his ears , making consecutive thought almost impossible so that not only did he have to struggle in desperate conflict with the conditions but had also to fight to hold to his concentration . |
| 19 | When I think of me days of pain and sufferin' here , and how I 've kept cheerful and 'elpful so as not to be a burden , as well as givin' you the benefit of me company so that you could 'ave someone to talk to , well , it 's a shock to me to find you lazin' about with a gypsy woman on your lap . |
| 20 | And whoever is not clever enough and not at any price can get the object of his desires , I shall , for my fee , make sure he succeeds , for I am very skillful . " ) |
| 21 | We would ari have arrived at the block of flats prior to six o'clock but not many minutes prior to and then from there er we made our way up to that floor by the stairs as opposed to the lift . |
| 22 | Moreover , while the minus is always identifiable and indisputable , the plus is often not identifiable separately or not identifiable as a consequence of the minus . |
| 23 | It must also state whether the debt is payable immediately or not , and the amount of the consideration for the debt . |
| 24 | ‘ Something about being at school and bursting into this office and saying , look , are you Principal here or not , Heisenberg ? |
| 25 | But I am worried that the Alsace revival may not reach beyond the basic , honest certainly but not very exciting , supermarket wines . |
| 26 | In moderate amounts , it is not troublesome , but for dyeing work it may be desirable to keep the concentration reasonably constant so as not to affect the rate of dyeing . |
| 27 | The civil year was divided into three conventional ‘ seasons ’ — called time of inundation , sowing time , and harvest time — and each of them was divided into four months , these being of course conventional too and not connected with the moon . |
| 28 | It is lively , flexible and responsive — a little noisy perhaps but not annoyingly so . |
| 29 | If a man starts droning on about whether I 'm sisterly enough or not , I start talking about my hopes of marrying a rich , masterful husband and learning to cook Baked Alaska . |
| 30 | He knew that he would never have survived as a teacher in the state sector : he was both not good enough and not bad enough . |