Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is up to politicians in a democracy to nurture faith in it , not devalue that faith . |
| 2 | The Parliament could not sack individual Commissioners , or force amendments on legislation , nor did it develop much influence over budgetary matters until the 1970s . |
| 3 | Roger : Ministers have declared new rules or constraints in advance but one rule will definitely be that employers must not sack other employees so that they can take on Workstart participants . |
| 4 | As most women — and indeed , most men — do not stay 40 years with one employer , they usually receive less than this . |
| 5 | His reception by the sisters was heart-warming , and there was regret all round that he could not stay any time , that haste was vital . |
| 6 | He felt that he could not stay another night in the house . |
| 7 | Can you not stay another day to sail round the island ? ’ |
| 8 | Suppose we were old friends who were meeting again after not seeing each other for many years . |
| 9 | He says these new recruits to higher education , entering universities in large numbers are not seeing long-term change towards the market , so much as a reduced staff:student ratio , meaning less one-to-one contact , and larger , less frequent tutorial groups . |
| 10 | The owners are not seeing guilty behaviour when Rover slinks across the floor , they are seeing the submissive behaviour Rover displays in anticipation of the aggression , however mild , the owners are about to use in attempt to reprimand him . |
| 11 | and , you 're losing money , , if you 're not , if you 're not seeing any return you 're |
| 12 | It is a bit like a rich person living in a wealthy neighborhood not seeing any poverty . |
| 13 | ‘ We understand the president-elect is not seeing any heads of government , ’ he said . |
| 14 | Since her social life in Northam did not exist outside school , she had no evening clothes , and had had nothing resembling a party dress since the age of six , when she had possessed a fetching little garment of pink satin . |
| 15 | Where that popular base does not exist such laws are only imposed on the population with great difficulty , if at all . |
| 16 | If Lord Eldon used any language which could be so interpreted , we must conclude that he either did not guard himself so cautiously as he intended , or that he did not lend that degree of attention to the legal doctrine connected with the case before him , which he was accustomed to afford . |
| 17 | Airtours might not repeat last year 's extraordinary feats , but its cash pile and cautious management should ensure that it does not lend further credence to the current theory — that this year 's fastest grower is next year 's insolvency . |
| 18 | The banks will not lend more money and indeed call in their loans . |
| 19 | Equally , if an institution has excess funds at the moment , and expects interest rates to rise , it will be acting rationally if it does not lend those funds out , except very short term . |
| 20 | Secondly , Pache 's style does not lend any air of the dynamism needed to steer Bull out of its current mire . |
| 21 | ‘ The IMF will not lend any money unless India shows it is doing something about putting its house in order , ’ he explained . |
| 22 | It is impossible not to connect this finding both with the introduction of machines and with the increasing alarm among the men . |
| 23 | But , if only by default , through simply reading the text in terms of the text and not bringing outside considerations to bear , she , as does Barth , shores up its authority . |
| 24 | And as long as you 're I do n't care what star you 're following you 're not bringing those camel through my garden ! |
| 25 | This preparation has been shown not to affect epithelial cell proliferation . |
| 26 | The disruption from 9.15 am to 9.45 am was designed not to affect other commuters , only gangs of chainsaw-wielding BR workers . |
| 27 | Lord Gardiner himself thought that political views ought not to affect judicial appointments at all , and he pursued this policy during his period of office as Lord Chancellor ( 1964 ) . |
| 28 | We should be aiming for higher standards , not encouraging lower ones ’ , said Dr Caldwell . |
| 29 | In the run-up to the country 's first multiparty elections for 43 years , scheduled for March 25 , the ruling Hungarian Socialist Party ( HSP ) was shaken by revelations during January that the Interior Ministry 's security police had not stopped covert surveillance of the activities of opposition politicians , despite the enactment during the past 12 months of laws and constitutional amendments creating a multiparty system [ see pp. 36399 ; 36960-61 ] . |
| 30 | Observational surveys by Tombaugh , Kowal and the Infrared Astronomical Satellite ( IRAS ) would almost certainly have revealed another Pluto or larger planet , but their failure to do so has not stopped many predictions from being made , including two more in just the past year . |