Example sentences of "[verb] not [adv] [vb infin] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was completely dark and she dared not even put the light on to look at her watch . |
| 2 | Would-be practitioners of planning did not clearly understand the constraints imposed on their activities by external economic relations and pressures . |
| 3 | As usual on such occasions , Molyneaux looked a little embarrassed and out of place , as if he did not particularly relish the ‘ glad-handing ’ of strangers . |
| 4 | did not particularly interest the Semitic mind , what was meant did . |
| 5 | The Teutonic mind , he said quickly , was no favourite of his : Mussolini , he implied , did not particularly dislike the Jews . |
| 6 | In the morning Miss Honey said to them , ‘ One or two of you did not particularly enjoy the last occasion when the Headmistress took the class , so let us all try to be especially careful and clever today . |
| 7 | But even this low figure , which was officially quoted as being the number of entrants , did not properly represent the situation . |
| 8 | It did not properly highlight the nature of the church or the church 's mission to the world . |
| 9 | But yesterday three appeal judges headed by Lord Taylor , the Lord Chief Justice , ruled that the trial judge did not properly direct the jurors on how , when deciding between murder and manslaughter , they should view the lies initially told by Richens to the police . |
| 10 | The problem arises where a debtor is required by a creditor to provide security for his indebtedness ; the debtor and creditor agree that the security will be provided by some third party ; the relationship between the debtor and the third party , typically husband and wife , makes it likely that the third party 's assistance will be forthcoming ; the debtor procures the third party 's consent by some material misrepresentation or by exerting undue pressure or influence of some kind ; the third party signs the necessary security documents without any independent advice and without any explanation from the creditor of the true effect of the documents ; the third party subsequently , as a defence to the creditor 's attempt to enforce the security documents , contends that he or she was induced to sign by the debtor 's material misrepresentation , or did not properly understand the import of the documents , or that his or her consent was not a true consent having regard to influence or pressure exerted by the debtor . |
| 11 | The reason in both cases why the security given was unenforceable was that ( a ) the security was given by the wife of the debtor , ( b ) the creditor knew of the relationship , ( c ) the creditor had done nothing to ensure that the wife understand the transaction , ( d ) the wife did not properly understand the transaction , and ( e ) she had had no independent advice . |
| 12 | She always wanted to write and only regrets that she did not sooner have the courage to devote herself to it . |
| 13 | She did not altogether like the sound of this . |
| 14 | The creation of a futures market will attract investors to trade the future who did not already trade the spot ( Cox , 1976 ) . |
| 15 | However , there is a further piece of evidence , which can be used to show how historical circumstances can produce a dramatic demystification of the monarchy , which would not be possible if people did not already possess the ideological tools for critical demystification . |
| 16 | As she did so she realised she did not yet know the name of their unexpected guest . |
| 17 | Mrs Priestley said they did not yet know the identity of the donor but she and her husband would like to express their gratitude to the donor 's family . |
| 18 | They did not yet have the economic means to raise enough hard currencies to pay for their oil and gas imports from the Soviet Union , and most of them were burdened with heavy levels of external debt , also denominated in hard currencies . |
| 19 | This advance could , in fact , have placed the BEF in a dangerous salient , for strategists did not yet comprehend the crippling defensive effectiveness of machine-guns and artillery . |
| 20 | He did not however assemble the parts — perhaps because it would have involved , to be consistent , a complete revision of all his earlier work . |
| 21 | Americans still had an important role to play in war-ravaged Europe in ensuring that Germany did not again threaten the security of Europe , and in being on hand to help counterbalance if necessary the enigmatic and possibly dangerous USSR . |
| 22 | With the restrictions firms accepted , industrial sales grew very slowly and , after falling in the later years of the War , did not again reach the 1943 level until 1949 . |
| 23 | That of France , the greatest European State , did not again reach the level achieved in the War of the Spanish Succession , when in 1710 Louis XIV had some 360,000 soldiers at his disposal ; but most others grew . |
| 24 | One of the teachers there was her aunt Nuala O'Connor who did not immediately realise the quiet , intense girl was a relative . |
| 25 | However it is also fair to say that the professional leaders sometimes expected too much from the change ; it is no slur on an honourable movement within the American profession that its initial success did not immediately bring the golden age . |
| 26 | Dick did not immediately hand the small cap back to Martin but , taking a clean handkerchief out of the top pocket of his short , thick coat , he wiped the rim of it , then handed it back , saying again , ‘ Thank you , sir . ’ |
| 27 | But if this large population of unwilling immigrants did not immediately worry the Lebanese , the emergence of Gamal Abdul Nasser 's Arab nationalism could not be ignored . |
| 28 | Lothar 's biographer in the Gesta makes the point that following Celestine 's death he did not immediately join the cardinals assembled in the Septizonium , but attended first the exequies , or funeral rites , for the dead pope , which were taking place in the Lateran basilica . |
| 29 | They were both so angry that they did not immediately see the movement that came from the old female 's shelter in the cage between them . |
| 30 | It is curious , therefore , that he did not immediately exploit the worthwhile gains that had been made on the right . |