Example sentences of "[not/n't] [vb infin] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This section does not cover the first £25 each claim each person except loss of deposit claims . |
| 2 | She would definitely not make the first move . |
| 3 | It is unlikely , though , that we can handle all these if we can not make the first distinction systematically ( and the alert reader can no doubt find mistakes of this sort within this book ) . |
| 4 | He started his career at Everton , but did not make the first team and has since played at Bolton , Chester , Lincoln , West Brom and Preston . |
| 5 | He did not want the next one to start soon . |
| 6 | In particular , the European Court did not answer the second question posed for its consideration by this House , which was concerned with the criteria to be applied by the national court in deciding whether or not to grant interim protection of the rights claimed . |
| 7 | You can not treat the second that way ; it simply affirms for some people a principle it denies to others . |
| 8 | If the OED were left as no more than a monument to the English of the twentieth century it would not remain the twenty-first century 's dictionary for long . |
| 9 | Most Scout and Guide troops did not survive the Second World War . |
| 10 | ‘ They know they have no option but to stay in the job and try and do better , but the harsh truth is that those who have high production costs and low productivity will not survive the next three or four years of rapid transition . ’ |
| 11 | I am afraid that I could not catch the last part of my hon. Friend 's question , but I agree with him about the importance that he attaches to the single market . |
| 12 | Labour would not win the next general election on its own and should accept electoral reform , David Owen , SDP leader , told a Plymouth meeting . |
| 13 | With current policies the Conservatives will not win the next election ; even with better policies they might not win it . |
| 14 | At times , house air waybills use neutral formats that do not identify the first airline . |
| 15 | Memorex reported a $120m net loss for the nine months to December and the New York rating agency says that it does not expect the fourth quarter net outturn to be much better . |
| 16 | to the third year and I might not do the fourth year . |
| 17 | since I am one of those people who do something the wrong way round , if there is the slightest opportunity , I also inserted the needle incorrectly the first time only spotting my mistake when I read on and found that I could not follow the next instruction if my needle was at the back of the work . |
| 18 | Talk of the 17th prompted the comment in the 1913 suggestion book as to whether the 2nd hole might not become the 17th and the 3rd hole the 2nd , a not uncommon suggestion today . |
| 19 | However good you become at assessing a candidate from your own point of view , you will have failed as an interviewer if you do not keep the second interview objective clearly in mind . |
| 20 | On Saturday , the device did not work the second time . |
| 21 | By the way , do not use the second person in your answer — make the answer impersonal , thus you should say ‘ X is liable , ’ not ‘ You are liable . ’ |
| 22 | The attacks did not constitute the first manifestations of organised racist aggression but the events were used as supporting evidence for the claims of the anti-immigration lobby . |
| 23 | However , only one explicit signal is provided in the form of " finally " ( sentence ( h ) ) and yet the sentence which it governs does not constitute the last of the story . |
| 24 | ‘ I can not remember the last time I had a proper meal without having a nice drop of wine to go with it . |
| 25 | But I really can not remember the last time I went out and bought something new from a retailer — other than test kits and silicon sealant . |
| 26 | This shows Stukeley 's keen topographical eye and fanciful imagination , but whilst the St. Peter 's area is one of the oldest places of settlement and has a regularised street pattern , like the rest of the town it does not predate the ninth century . |
| 27 | But back Northampton went and though they held the first Nottingham surge they could not stop the second and scrum-half Hughes dived over on the left to score a try which earned a standing ovation . |
| 28 | Their Lordships accept the ‘ Salisbury doctrine ’ , produced by Lord Salisbury during the era of the post-war Attlee administration , which asserts that the Upper House should not stop the second reading of a bill that embodies proposals which appeared in the election manifesto of the governing party . |
| 29 | Some argue that the law in England vis-à-vis terminal patients does not meet the first of these criteria , and thus can not satisfy , ex hypothesi , the other two . |
| 30 | That means he can not meet the next payment on his van and could lose his whole business . |