Example sentences of "[not/n't] [vb pp] [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wickham 's initial feeling was that if it were true the only surprising thing was that Barron had not flown away sooner . |
| 2 | The problem was that OpenForum ‘ 92 was originally intended to be an exhibition as well , and the relatively late decision by the organisers to focus more on the conference side was not communicated clearly enough to some of the exhibiting vendors . |
| 3 | If women are not treated equally either in pay or promotion prospects , it is either because absolute equality has to be refined to incorporate differences in education or productivity , or because the constitution ignores the wish of Japanese women to give priority to their household duties . |
| 4 | However , the decline in resources directed to the public sector and the encouragement of moves towards owner-occupation under the Conservative government have prompted criticism that the three main forms of tenure ( owner-occupation , private-rented and public-rented ) are not treated even handedly . |
| 5 | Julie and Elizabeth 's relatives have been over to South Africa and were not treated very well at all by the police . |
| 6 | Although 500,000 people in Britain stammer , this disability is often not treated very sympathetically . |
| 7 | Infections can be fatal if not treated early enough . |
| 8 | When not pressed too hard , the former prefer to disbelieve rather than believe and the latter to believe rather than disbelieve ; but both feel extremely uncomfortable if their tested . |
| 9 | Things are not altered so quickly or coarsely by common people as they are by fashionable people … |
| 10 | One of the problems with the streamed situation was that those pupils who found themselves in the bottom streams , who found that they were perhaps not regarded so highly , or so positively by their teachers , tended to respond with misbehaviour in their classes with occasionally vandalism around the school and a generally a negative attitude towards the school and their teachers in general . |
| 11 | One of the problems with the stream situation was that those pupils who found themselves in the bottom streams , who found that they were perhaps not regarded so highly or so positively by their teachers , tended to respond with misbehaviour in their classes , with occasionally vandalism around the school and generally a negative attitude towards the school and their teachers in general , and the immediate effect of the mixed ability grouping was to eradicate behavioural problems of that kind almost entirely . |
| 12 | Glen will also feature in other material , including some songs not heard here before . |
| 13 | Dr Roy Brown estimates that 12,000 hectares of moorland in the North York Moors National Park is not grazed intensively enough because farmers are reducing sheep flocks . |
| 14 | Possibly they are priests or temple attendants wearing animal masks : the Minoan religion had certainly not developed so far that such things were incongruous . |
| 15 | Primitive , that is pre-literate , societies of the present period also exhibit restrictions on the instincts , but have less physical security because technology has not developed so far . |
| 16 | Since the opening of the Sterling Commercial Paper ( SCP ) market in 1986 , there have been regular issues but the market has not developed as quickly as national ( as opposed to euro ) commercial paper markets in many other European countries . |
| 17 | EASE is the biggest operation by a long way , although electronic selling has not developed as quickly as the ANM Group hoped when it introduced the idea from Canada . |
| 18 | The edges of adjacent planks were not fastened together mechanically but stood open so as to form a V-shaped groove . |
| 19 | She 's not tucked away here . ’ |
| 20 | We had a remarkable woman for a nurse or " Mother 's help " as she was called even in those days , because Mother liked bringing up her own children and was always around , with the nursery the centre of the house , and not tucked away upstairs . |
| 21 | Thus , although non-Muslim monotheists , like the Christians and the Jews , had not travelled as far along the road to truth as the Muslims , they were travelling in the same direction . |
| 22 | However , this condensation has been bought at a price : developments at Imperial College are often not placed very fully within the context of the British educational scene . |
| 23 | Now the illusion is well and truly shattered and the only reason the share price has not plunged much further than it has is the hope that some brave soul will put the group out of its misery with a takeover . |
| 24 | Branson and Draper were convinced that this was why acts like Oldfield and Tangerine Dream , who had been phenomenally successful in Europe , had not fared so well in America . |
| 25 | Environmental degradation in this region is not confined to pre-independence times ( before 1955 ) as post-independence practices and policies have not fared much better despite considerable financial assistance from the World Bank ( Wallach 1988 ) . |
| 26 | Community-policing arrangements have not fared much better in the United States . |
| 27 | He 's he 's not come yet so erm Perhaps while while we 're waiting for the others I 'll just say a few words about the building , because erm from out here you can see er quite clearly that the central portion of the building is the oldest erm from if you look at the state of the stonework . |
| 28 | I 'd rather him not travel it , I 'd rather him stop here on Sunday and not come home so that he 's got ample rest , cos he 's not getting it I , I , I du n no , I , I might be wrong , but he moans at me cos I knock me |
| 29 | Pebbles had not come this far to capitulate now , and at the wire she was a long-looking neck to the good . |
| 30 | Ah 've not come this far just to put my tail between my legs … |