Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] [subord] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do not exist except to serve you and give you pleasure . |
| 2 | Charts of the area are largely unaltered since the mid 19th Century , and can mark dangers which do not exist while remaining silent about those that do . |
| 3 | Elephants , which lack colour vision but have a strong sense of smell and favour large , smelly , dull fruits , are the only animals able to swallow the pyrene of Panda oleosa ( Pandaceae ) and collected seeds do not germinate unless passed through an elephant , in whose dung they germinate . |
| 4 | The advantage of the method of analysis suggested here is that these international influences are not treated as isolated and exogenous instances , as if operated by deus ex machina , but are explicable and connected within the context of the workings of the world economic system . |
| 5 | In the final resort matters in disagreement were to be referred to the Shipping Controller , though his decision was not binding unless agreed by both sides . |
| 6 | The reason why this specific condition is not regarded as repeated is that it is incompatible with the condition to which the substitution is subject : the substitutes are to be admitted if no children are born to the testator or if any born die before puberty , whereas the manumission is subject to the condition that there are children who are still alive at puberty . |
| 7 | For , although there was an absolute past , it was normative and was not regarded as receding . |
| 8 | The significant point about this first view is that whichever label is used the expansion in procedural rights is not regarded as involving any fundamental change in the nature of natural justice . |
| 9 | If words such as scio and non dubito in the second half of the second century were not regarded as showing clear intention to set up trusts , might they have been after these cases ? |
| 10 | " My kingdom is not of this world " was not regarded as releasing the pope from an active role in government , though it did express the great moral fervour that fuelled the late eleventh- and early twelfth-century reforms — especially in the attack on clerical marriage and in the drive to rid the Church of unchaste priests and to control the proprietary church system ( secular theocracy ) . |
| 11 | The agricultural export economy was not regarded as needing a skilled workforce and little priority was given to schooling for the majority of the population . |
| 12 | Today 's vagrants , squatting under railway arches and in shop doorways , are not regarded as having strayed from anywhere . |
| 13 | When someone has been asked to make over on death whatever remains of an inheritance , and from the price of objects sold buys other objects , he is not regarded as having diminished [ the estate ] in respect of the objects sold … but the objects thus bought should be made over in place of the ownership which has changed … . |
| 14 | Similarly , a woman who submits to sexual intercourse having been threatened with or fearing serious injury or death is not regarded as having consented . |
| 15 | Although people in the Cape Town ballet world thought highly of his promise , John 's talent as a choreographer was not regarded as proved by the time he left South Africa ( at only eighteen , why should it have been ? ) , and other young choreographers were at least as highly thought of . |
| 16 | A large shareholding ( for example , the Solvay group 's 9.7 per cent stake in Allied Chemical ) is not regarded as giving control in the absence of regular participation in management . |
| 17 | — Birds not listed as forbidden . |
| 18 | I nodded to myself in heartfelt agreement ( in those days children did not comment unless asked , and their presence was usually forgotten ) . |
| 19 | Exactly how he achieved this I can not explain except to say that he had a kind of eloquence that made you think he was speaking to you personally and the gift of a born story-teller . |
| 20 | The effect of day length on behaviour is mediated hormonally ; the birds are prepared to migrate in the autumn by declining production of sex hormones at the end of the breeding season ; they do not migrate if injected with sex hormones . |
| 21 | Going by railroad I do not consider as travelling at all ; it ( s merely ‘ being sent ’ to a place , and Very little different from becoming a parcel . |
| 22 | Going by railroad I do not consider as travelling at all ; it is merely being ‘ sent ’ to a place , and very little different from becoming a parcel |
| 23 | Customs ' enquiry time is not included when calculating whether the repayment is delayed by more than 30 days . |
| 24 | The EMS , founded in 1979 , had not collapsed as had been predicted in many quarters , rather it had achieved some success in stabilising exchange rate fluctuations , and in helping to promote convergence of inflation rates . |
| 25 | But by definition , science itself was not considered as penetrated by social context ; if it was it would no longer be science , at least not ‘ pure science ’ : |
| 26 | Locally produced sales by American firms in Japan , however , do not count as exports , nor do their local purchases of inputs count as imports . |
| 27 | Not recommended when dancing . |
| 28 | He was eventually paid off — and apparently he got more money for not appearing than playing his set . |
| 29 | He was eventually paid off — and apparently he got more money for not appearing than playing his set . |
| 30 | But of course , five years difference meant that he and I were not relating as equals until I was about sixteen , and then the war separated us . |