Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] n't [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Dealers who have left Harvard to go to other firms will tell their ex-Harvard clients that Harvard did n't in fact have that much in the way of research facilities , but clients were reluctant to accept this .
2 Reproductive success , we now know , and Darwin did n't of course , means passing on your genes .
3 The diocese does n't at present pay married deacons , and Jane Lloyd ( who is married ) is paid by the National Health Service .
4 Suppose Rabbit does n't in fact believe there 's any honey left ( and believes he does n't believe that ) .
5 People realized it could n't when , in nineteen sixty four , a biologist by the name of Wyn Edwards at the University of Edinburgh actually bothered to publish a book arguing the theory , and when Wyn Edwards argued the case , almost immediately most people began to realize that it , that it did n't make sense and that most of the evidence that he thought supported the theory does n't in fact do so , and today Wyn Edwards has himself refused it , even he now er admits that group selection er can not work .
6 So most people have n't in fact failed exams .
7 The scenes to be shot were rescheduled and Charles did n't in fact do anything that day .
8 Probably its builders do n't comprehend it fully either : engine specialists do n't in detail understand wings , and wing specialists understand engines only vaguely .
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