Example sentences of "[verb] not [verb] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The world has not seen more than once or twice in all the course of history a literature which has exercised such prodigious influence over the minds of men , over every cast and shade of intellect , as that which emanated from Rousseau between 1749 and 1762 . |
| 2 | Craig Chalmers , who was a casualty in Melrose 's game against Boroughmuir on Saturday , has not decided yet whether his leg injury will permit him to play this weekend against Stirling County . |
| 3 | The mother has made a phone call to the hospital asking after her daughter 's safety but she has not called back as promised . |
| 4 | At its most general , this view implies that the present perilous state of the world has not come about because its leaders ( or shadowy figures supposedly manipulating them ) are particularly warlike . |
| 5 | This colony probably started as an offshoot of Glynleigh , being only about a mile away , and has not had more than eight nests . |
| 6 | Work has not started yet because our tree feller has been heavily involved in clearance work after the recent storms . |
| 7 | Having won the Lady Keystone Open in the United States , Davies , seemingly lacking inspiration , has not finished better than fourth in her seven European outings . |
| 8 | However , if the accused obtains property on credit but he can not pay when the instalments fall due , he has not acted deceitfully if he intended to pay at the time of obtaining the item . |
| 9 | You may prefer not to do so because of the risk of breach of confidence or discrimination . |
| 10 | That 's why a blood donor if they 've given a pint of blood they 're told not to smoke afterwards if they 're a smoker . |
| 11 | Remember not to lean forwards as you do the exercise . |
| 12 | As soon as I decided not to go farther than Cambridge , I wanted to stop dead in the middle of the road . |
| 13 | Right , now if we look on , erm we come to Regional Action Networks , another reason why Amnesty seems not to allocate more than one prisoner and all now is that they have expanded the ways in which we deal with prisoners and the world is more or less been divided up into areas , erm , of smaller regions and groups are asked to choose one or two regions to deal with particularly and we , we have for quite a long time now erm been concerned with Southern Africa and Central America and we get information through on prisoners and what 's happening in those two regions , so John do you have anything else on Africa at all ? |
| 14 | Try not to break down as I read the roll of honour : the golden vision Alex Young , the Huyton Hercules Peter Reid , the Blackpool buzzbomb Alan Ball , the Tyneside tornado Howard Kendall , the Birmingham blockbuster Bob Latchford and the Llandudno leopard Neville Southall . |
| 15 | He dared not do so for he knew one thing for certain — that he had never really fallen out of love with this stunningly beautiful girl . |
| 16 | Jenna looked up , but she dared not look further than the hard chest , the white shirt still showing signs of damp . |
| 17 | Hindley did not care what they did , as long as they kept out of his way , and they did not care even if he punished them . |
| 18 | And the stewards did not perform only when Carolan was speaking . |
| 19 | The malaise that had troubled him did not go away until , one day , when he was using the chamber-pot upstairs , he noticed an angry sore on his penis . |
| 20 | Four Hearts , on the other hand , was not a success although the play did not go quite as you might think . |
| 21 | The opening games did not go quite as I expected in that I was surprised to see Wales beat Ireland . |
| 22 | The insurance company did not pay out because he had failed to mention when renewing his policy that he had been seriously ill . |
| 23 | The Government was tempted to seek alternative partners in the Commonwealth and Europe , but did not do so because the Americans had so much more to offer if the MacMahon restrictions could be circumvented or ameliorated . |
| 24 | They did not talk much till they reached Drobeta-Turnu Severin , where the Danube had once passed spectacularly through the Iron Gates . |
| 25 | By hybridizing different varieties of peas , Mendel had shown that some characters are inherited as units on an ‘ all or nothing ’ basis — they did not blend together as Darwin and almost everyone else assumed . |
| 26 | Boswell had a fire in his ‘ most elegant ’ room overlooking the sea , but he did not sleep well because the sea made its wild noises , and the pillows were stuffed with the feathers of ‘ some sea-fowl , which had to me a disagreeable smell ’ . |
| 27 | I had to leave the Chamber to attend a Select Committee and did not return here until halfway through the speech of my hon. Friend the Member for Kilmarnock and Loudoun ( Mr. McKelvey ) . |
| 28 | Brian Lara , playing only his second Test after 24 one-dayers , did not last long after Wessels had reprieved him at slip first ball , gloving Bosch down the leg side for David Richardson to snatch a magnificent one-handed catch . |
| 29 | This did not last long as the scale did not allow sufficient detail to be recorded and only some parts of Aberdeenshire were mapped in this manner . |
| 30 | It did not last long because of its complexity in application . |