Example sentences of "[verb] [not/n't] [adv] [vb infin] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 However , not all languages have a grammatical category of number , and those that do do not necessarily view countability in the same terms .
2 But it 's all we do we do n't even sell cake decorations or equipment .
3 the structural engineer 's design drawings did not clearly assign design responsibility to the steel fabricator
4 Probably the single most raised criticism of PageMaker in its earlier versions was that it did not automatically flow text from column to column or page to page .
5 Unfortunately he found like others that even eminence in science did not automatically bring emolument , and in 1863 he contemplated moving to Manchester ; but Samuelson then came up with the proposal of producing a new Quarterly Journal of Science , which duly appeared in January 1864 under the editorship of Crookes and Samuelson .
6 The Court did not however read section 14(3) as restricting what might be done by different courts on different occasions .
7 While there seems to be no reason to doubt the account to this point in Molla Yegan 's career , a question is raised about Taskopruzade 's statement that he did not again hold office by a note of Molla Yegan 's ( the only example I have found of his signature ) appearing on a page of the dated 839/1435–6 , of Isa Bey , the son of Bayezid Pasa , containing the signatures of a number of notable scholars of the fifteenth century : the page , which has been reproduced in facsimile by Unver , seems indeed almost to have become an autograph book for leading scholars of the period .
8 Since pretreatment with TPA did not completely destroy histamine stimulated adenylate cyclase activity , it seems possible that the effect of phosphorylation by protein kinase C is to reduce the efficiency of coupling between the receptor and Gs rather than to abolish it completely .
9 Even gentlemen who did not normally display interest in babies sent anxiously to inquire about its progress .
10 I did not normally develop bronchospasm .
11 Patients in psychiatric and mental handicap hospitals were frequently cared for by " nurses ' who had no training , some of whom did not even speak English .
12 ‘ We did not even offer protection to goalkeeper Stephen Pears , who was being watched by England number two Lawrie McMenemy .
13 The animal was a grey , sturdy and broad-chested , stable under almost any conditions , and it did not even check pace as it charged through the young trees which obstructed its path .
14 In our view , the advertising award of the decade should go to the brain who thought up the series of anti-smoking television adverts which did not even mention lung cancer , but drew attention to the fact that smoking gives you bad breath .
15 Some of the words did not even make sense to her but , through the confusion , she 'd been able to salvage enough to piece together roughly the contents .
16 Continuing his tour of crowned heads , Napoleon III went from Stuttgart to Weimar , where he met Franz-Joseph of Austria , but the encounter seems to have been no more than a routine courtesy call between sovereigns and the fact that it did not even take place in Vienna underlined the private nature of the meeting .
17 The son did not even get chance to finish his prepared speech .
18 ‘ He did not even know Millet was absent .
19 As it happened , just before reading Mr Aitcheson 's article , I had attended a Tribunal involving five unemployment benefit cases where not one of the five appellants attended and indeed one did not even acknowledge receipt of his set of Tribunal papers . ’
20 As he points out , 18th-century Britons did not even define violence in our terms .
21 The diabetic clinic of those days did not even have blood glucose results available when patients were seen : now most clinics enjoy this advance .
22 He was bigger than I and he grabbed me by my Sidcot collar and hauled me in the direction of the CFI 's office , I did not even have time to shake off my parachute before we burst into the " Holiest of Holies " .
23 Home Office reports on football-ground safety in 1924 did not even raise hooliganism as an item on the agenda .
24 The bastard did not even look evil .
25 By ‘ thought ’ Descartes did not just mean deliberation , or some strictly intellectual activity ; he took it to include other forms of consciousness , such as imagining and feeling .
26 It might make sense to argue that no bona fide university could exist which did not also conduct research .
27 In Marshall ( Thomas ) ( Exporters ) Ltd v Guinle [ 1979 ] 1 Ch 227 Megarry V-C held that an express contractual restriction on disclosure did not also prohibit use of the information ( the plaintiff was , in fact , granted an injunction against use on the grounds of the defendant 's duty of good faith but this duty will not exist in all cases ) .
28 Koshland also found that the depolarisation and ACh acted in similar but parallel ways ; habituation to , say , ACh stimulation did not also produce habituation to depolarisation .
29 Peter Lilley as a right winger has to combine his reputation as a zealous cutter of the state sector with a departmental budget that eats up to forty percent of the hole , one MP groans , rather inconsequentially , a weeks social security payments would buy a warship , even Kenneth Clark and Michael Portillo , sharpening their axes have to admit that Lilley did not exactly invent unemployment personally , but the burgeoning budget for invalidity benefit , together with much anecdotal evidence , suggest that somebody in Whitehall , well before his time , decided to cut the unemployment figures artificially by allowing , even encouraging people with little hope of jobs to remember that troublesome pain in their backs , and in the process get better benefits .
30 They need to remember that even Jesus did not primarily draw attention to himself , but taught men that they could find the Father through the way he showed , the truth he revealed , and the life he lived .
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