Example sentences of "[prep] [not/n't] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do you do you not think it would be better for us both to speak to ? speak to her and say obviously you were upset about not getting the job but this non- communication thing is not really erm going to you know be good for the sales office in the long term . |
| 2 | Gav sorry about not sending the TSB and Prog do you want me to bring it tomorrow ? ? ? |
| 3 | Not frightened about not knowing the answers but frightened about not hearing the questions in the first place . ’ |
| 4 | A deaf person , as Lucy Downes told us , is not so much worried about not knowing the answer to any question put to him ; he 's worried , embarrassingly so , about not hearing the question . |
| 5 | Erm , another er , the translator makes the comment on this particular , that in no other is as casual about not distinguishing the three highest hypotheses . |
| 6 | Not frightened about not knowing the answers but frightened about not hearing the questions in the first place . ’ |
| 7 | A deaf person , as Lucy Downes told us , is not so much worried about not knowing the answer to any question put to him ; he 's worried , embarrassingly so , about not hearing the question . |
| 8 | The mother , notwithstanding what she had previously said about not taking the child out of the jurisdiction without an order of the court , nevertheless left Ontario for England on the very next day , 3 July 1991 . |
| 9 | He has done an immoral thing because he felt guilty about not taking the children to Disneyland all those years ago . |
| 10 | Better to lose face and be open about not understanding the cryptic message , than to lose sleep at night over it . |
| 11 | As well as the chatty bit about not forgetting the urine sample , both sides carry advertising . |
| 12 | He muttered to Christine who said , ‘ He 's very sorry about not having the figure . |
| 13 | Dealing with the feelings you have , about not having the child you wanted , is not easy but your distress will be less if you approach the situation as a loving couple . |
| 14 | I mean it 's interesting what you say about not having the text to work with . |
| 15 | Think about not arching the back ( for arched back ) . |
| 16 | Let represents permission as non-intervention , i.e. as not obstructing the accomplishment of the event expressed by the infinitive , and so the letting can not be conceived as coming before the event permitted ( indeed one can not say that one has let someone do something until they have actually done it ) . |
| 17 | Some such as financial resources are easily specifiable , others such as not contravening the mores of the organisation are more elusive but a key aspect of these skills is sensitivity to limitations and obstacles as well as positive assets ( Singleton , 1981 ) . |
| 18 | It is not always easy to distinguish cases in which a Convention rule is to be treated as precluding the solution to a question that might otherwise be available under the applicable national law from cases in which the Convention rule is to be interpreted as not covering the question at all . |
| 19 | For example , elders with brain failure may ‘ make mistakes ’ ( such as not lighting the gas or wandering naked ) . |
| 20 | A company seeking to recruit in this specialty area would , if they used a search consultant , immediately reveal themselves as not having the right contacts in the market . |
| 21 | Fitzgerald ( 1977 , p. 38 ) criticised the traditional left for not seizing the opportunity of incorporating the prison population as part of the working-class struggle : ‘ The left , particularly in Britain , has been reluctant to move beyond its traditional insistent focus on the building of the working-class movement and embrace the struggles of minority groups such as prisoners , mental patients , gay liberation . ’ |
| 22 | He also criticizes the people for not helping the tramp . |
| 23 | There had been an aura of menace about the boy even at that age , and Tom had often pondered his real reason for not reporting the incident to the police . |
| 24 | Philip was mad at himself for not taking the cutters off the boy . |
| 25 | Yet this , too , is often seen not as a value but as an additional reason for not taking the genre seriously . |
| 26 | He felt a sharp twinge of guilt now for not taking the trouble to visit , but William 's family had moved to a better neighbourhood when William 's mum had made her first million , and Preston had gradually lost touch . |
| 27 | In particular , it takes the HSE to task for not taking the problem of sick building syndrome seriously . |
| 28 | But he was angry , having just been hauled over the coals by Kragan and Frick for not getting the Englishman to talk . |
| 29 | Support in court costs in respect of Sunday training , trading you can actually blame the government for that as well , for not sorting the mess out . |
| 30 | Foot was attacked by MPs for not uniting the party . |