Example sentences of "[vb base] [not/n't] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Likewise , other conditions , such as renal artery stenosis secondary to atherosclerosis , which might be expected to occur more frequently in the diabetic , appear not to do so ( Munichoodappa et al , 1979 ) . |
| 2 | Those firms which get caught in the middle appear not to do so well . |
| 3 | Perhaps they did n't want to scare me and thought it better not to say too much , but I wish they had said something . |
| 4 | Man carrying shoulder load not looking where he is going . |
| 5 | Horses tend not to use badly sited shelter sheds , no matter how hot or cold it is . |
| 6 | Let us examine the implications of this ; property crime became by far the most common form of crime during the period in which the prison emerged ; therefore forced labour would have become the most common punishment ; forced labour requires incarceration ( people tend not to turn up for it of their own free will ) . |
| 7 | Leapor agrees with Swift that coquettes and beaux tend not to live happily ever after , but she takes an altogether different view of the reasons . |
| 8 | On the whole , such services tend not to serve severely mentally disordered people but to concentrate instead on less seriously dependent people . |
| 9 | Even those that tend not to do very well attract some kind of an advance . |
| 10 | Which you tend not to do so much for the shorter ones . |
| 11 | However , lack of cover leads to the birds feeling insecure so they tend not to stray too far from the hen house . |
| 12 | Unsurprisingly , in these circumstances the knocker boys tend not to come back . |
| 13 | People tend not to work particularly well in teams in this country . |
| 14 | Such cross-shareholdings are commonplace in Japan and in continental Europe , but tend not to work so well in the US — Control Data had 20% of Silicon Graphics and sold it ; Compaq Computer Corp sold the stake it bought to cement the Advanced Computing Environment Initiative in less than a year . |
| 15 | Settlements emparked in the eighteenth or nineteenth centuries tend not to survive too well as earthworks , but abandoned sixteenth-or seventeenth-century garden schemes often incorporate remains of village earthworks . |
| 16 | Consents tend not to vary greatly even between apparently very different effluents . |
| 17 | I 'm responsible for the sort of overall management , but I tend not to get out as much as say , Area Housing Officers , they 're more sort of at grass roots . |
| 18 | And as for those millions and millions of us who chose Jesse Jackson as our candidate , we would have to be deaf , dumb and blind not to notice how much we scared the currently powerful . |
| 19 | It considers that early implementation-would not add greatly to the costs of preparation of financial statements and that it is probable that such costs would be exceeded by the benefits to users . |
| 20 | I am not advocating such a theory of parsing English into formal representations — I happen not to believe strongly in such ‘ top — down ’ theories , though there are several relatively successful ones in the literature . |
| 21 | If the absorption spectra of reagents and products happen not to cross there can be no isosbestic point , but the same effect can be seen in the first-derivative spectra . |
| 22 | Travel for pleasure was almost unheard of until the nineteenth century when Robert Louis Stevenson wrote , ‘ For my part , I travel not to go anywhere , but to go . |
| 23 | However , constructions like 28 , where the subject of the main clause is a ‘ heavy ’ NP , seem not to turn up in Scottish English , although they are usual in Somerset English : |
| 24 | Under these new European trade regulations , they seem not to tell where the things originate . |
| 25 | As outsiders , Carter and his staff seem not to have fully appreciated that , Of the other presidents who had served in his lifetime , Carter admired Harry Truman the most — an unlikely choice in a number of respects . |
| 26 | Things seem not to change very much . |
| 27 | However , there is also your prose side , which urges time not to slow down but hurry up . |
| 28 | It used to be for really petty things like not standing up , or shouting out the window , running up the dinner queue and pushing it . |
| 29 | The great thing about drilling is that it can be fun , but remember not to spend too much time on one particular drill , since boredom can easily set in and have a disruptive influence . |
| 30 | But remember not to call here again unless I ask Katie to bring you . |