Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the overall shape of wage profiles are widely recognized why do workers not stay longer with one firm ? |
| 2 | She was able to will her longing into an unexamined haze but she could not stay away from the post office on Monday . |
| 3 | For weeks he tried not to go near it , but he could not stay away from it for long . |
| 4 | If I promise to keep perfectly silent , why not stay here with me ? ’ |
| 5 | Then this mood would lift , and she could write appreciatively again : ‘ We get snatches of divine loneliness here … why not stay here for ever and ever , enjoying this immortal rhythm in which both soul and eye are at rest ? |
| 6 | ‘ It is simply that for tax reasons we can not stay overnight at Manton , ’ Mrs Sangster explained . |
| 7 | She had been undaunted even when Henry said he 'd wager that she dare not stay alone in the Lodge while he and Lettice explored the woods outside . |
| 8 | " Still , I 'd better not stay long with the sepoys attacking … |
| 9 | Could not stay long in the room with it , but the ice had been broken . |
| 10 | As already mentioned , after puberty a girl does not stay long in her natal home . |
| 11 | It may well have been fun while it lasted , but we might guess by now that the Titfords would not stay long in Spa Fields , any more than they had anywhere else . |
| 12 | When challenged on this point , employers always produced a unanimous chorus to the effect that this was what women wanted , because they would not stay long in the trade before they married . |
| 13 | Now it is twelve o'clock and school is out and all those who do not stay behind for dinner are bounding down Trafalgar Street , the little ones paddling up to the Wellington-tops in the drifts left on either side by the snow plough . |
| 14 | This is a pity and I 'm afraid it 's a case of your researchers not seeing much beyond the end of their dicks . |
| 15 | I agree with Eric Hobsbawm 's assertion that nationhood need not arise exclusively from the past ( ‘ Whose fault-line is it anyway ? ’ , 24 April ) . |
| 16 | The latter are considered in the section on Freshwater Habitats , since their ornithological interest does not arise primarily from their geographical proximity to the coast . |
| 17 | But I think that question does not arise here from the facts . |
| 18 | She asked the Government to ensure that similar situations did not arise again in the future . |
| 19 | The problem of time in primary classrooms does not arise solely from external pressures . |
| 20 | The problem does not arise merely through lack of moral fibre . |
| 21 | But Weitzman claims that scale economies can not arise purely through fixed costs ; that these costs must be sunk . |
| 22 | It reflects some current concerns , and also questions which do not arise specifically at the moment , but which we ought to realise may arise in the future . |
| 23 | Industrial policy seeks to offset market failures in production which do not arise directly from scale economies in the domestic market and the imperfect competition to which these give rise ; offsetting the latter is the object of competition policy . |
| 24 | A crucial difference , of course , between the " real " model of reality and the " mock reality " of fiction is that the mock reality does not exist apart from the message by which it is conveyed : this is the case , at least , if we regard a fictional work in its entirety as constituting a single message . |
| 25 | In short , we can see that we do not exist separately in space and time but in spacetime — and the same is true of everything else in the Universe . |
| 26 | This illustrates that the law does not exist simply for the protection of individuals , for if it did one would be able to refuse its help if one did not want it . |
| 27 | Therefore it can not exist simply from itself : it must depend upon the necessary being of God . |
| 28 | In the civil service it may not exist lower down the organisation . |
| 29 | Due to the hole not being declared as a solid , the assumption is made that it is a void so that the geometric domain is established for the inserted condition ( as voids can not exist freely outside of solids ) to give the geometric domain as also seen in Figure 2.3 . |
| 30 | But cognition can not exist independently of its data base and for data to be evaluated it must first be perceived . |