Example sentences of "[verb] not [adj] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Sometimes a clean break just wo n't work , where , for instance , there is n't any capital sum available for you to pay your wife and she has n't any job prospects ; then you may be saddled with having to fork out ‘ periodic payments ’ — the English term for alimony . |
2 | In operation it reminded me strongly of Supercalc , having no immediate on-screen command line , while in concept is seems not unlike Report Manager with its ability to slice data through a model . |
3 | His contribution asserts not that sex education is important or daring , but that it is problematic , because education is a poor context for open discussion of sex . |
4 | It was the hottest day of the year , the sun baked the glass , the glass baked me , and the result looked not unlike Dirk Bogarde at the end of Death in Venice . |
5 | Maternal influence did not much interest contemporaries usually , unless some obvious connection could be established , or possibly where the connections on the distaff side were more impressive and influential . |
6 | As they were descending , Reynolds said , ‘ I get the impression that you did n't much rate Jenner . ’ |
7 | Did n't great art lead to God ? he asked himself . |
8 | Did n't that character Fole virtually say so ? |
9 | But did n't all railway stations look the same , turned by the war into dismal places ? |
10 | Playing with a friend as a team-made is even more fun — why do n't more sports sims have a ‘ teammakes ’ option ? |
11 | ‘ Do n't public relations girls love parties ? ’ |
12 | Companies responsible for its prospects have gone out of business seven times , discovering that while they could make money on the big promotions , the building and park were too expensive to run on a tickover basis ( nowadays the park alone costs £650,000 a year to maintain ) , and in an earlier era of six-day working weeks , the public had not much leisure time to spend there anyway . |
13 | They might have won had not professional Ken McLeod been run out on 37 when he was in full flow . |
14 | Does not that leave others open to molestation as well ? |
15 | Switch on the mains and if the unit does not self-trigger press switch S1 . |
16 | Thus Sweezy 's and Rosdolsky 's criticism on the main point — does or does not unproductive consumption increase through time — can definitely be rejected . |
17 | Er well nationalization during the war , the er nationalization and war news were interspersed you know , I mean the When you had n't any war news to talk about , you spoke about nationalization . |
18 | ‘ Does n't that General Midwinter have style ? ’ she said . |
19 | Does n't that song start with a line about fairy tales ? ? |
20 | Does n't that affect teams ? |
21 | Yet , writing half a century later , Sir John Fortescue recognised that Henry V had been right : ‘ though we have not alwey werre uppon the see , yet it shalbe nescessarie that the kynge [ Edward IV ] have alway some ffloute apon the see , ffor the repressynge off rovers , savynge off owre marchauntes , owre ffishers , and the dwellers uppon owre costes ; and that the kynge kepe alway some grete and myghty vessels , ffor the brekynge off an armye when any shall be made ayen hym apon the see ; ffor thanne it shall be to late to do make such vessailles ’ . |
22 | Oh I have n't drunk ginger tea before . |
23 | I have n't any Coke darling . |