Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [vb base] not [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is , I have found , some gentle entertainment to be had in discussion with publishers ' representatives , observing the wide-eyed eagerness with which they greet potentially saleable ideas , and their clenched , wary , glazed-eyes response to proposals they feel negative about , or perhaps do not understand . |
| 2 | If someone does n't say anything you do n't know if they do n't know what 's happened , if they do n't know what to say or just do n't care . |
| 3 | The fact that certain strategies which can be shown to be useful in translation have not been made use of so far suggests that translators are simply not aware of them , rather than that they are familiar with them but consciously or subconsciously choose not to use them . |
| 4 | One group of investigators have argued that the inclusion of asymptomatic recurrences in the analysis of ulcer relapse trials should be discouraged , because these silent ulcers are clinically irrelevant ; however , such optimism ( based on findings made in a small group of patients with asymptomatic ulceration followed up for between 1 and 13 months ) is probably misguided , because one third of DU patients presenting with perforation and up to 60% admitted with haematemesis/or melaena , or both do not give a history of previous ulcer pain . |
| 5 | There are whole areas here , Donald , where basic facilities such as water , for example , are in very poor supply or simply do n't exist at all . |
| 6 | You better not get it on the furniture as well , keep it away from the furniture , now put it on the paper or else do n't use it |
| 7 | Next time we get to KICK ASS , you 'd better show some COLLATERAL DAMAGE , or else DO N'T HOG PRIME TIME ! ! ! ’ |
| 8 | Pillar roses are in the main simply less vigorous ramblers — climbers and climbing sports are sometimes included — that normally do not reach more than about 9–10ft ( 2.7–3m ) in height or cane length . |
| 9 | ‘ I am talking of people of our calibre ; two or three men , a couple of hundred staff , good solid firms that normally do n't go bankrupt … |
| 10 | So they can enter the secondary schools and they 're selling it to these young kids that just do n't know any better . |
| 11 | ‘ Anything you say except just do n't say it this early in the day . ’ |
| 12 | It has been defined as : ‘ The minimal requirements needed to fill a picture surface meaningfully , whilst combining various materials into forms that usually do not depict anything ’ ( O.E.D. ) . |
| 13 | But what of practices that still do not have the infrastructure or confidence to offer diabetic surveillance ? |
| 14 | What about the bit at the top of page two , which says that still do n't use them in York |
| 15 | Some of these chemicals do n't mix with water and this is why I did mention COSHH because they are working in er conditions and with chemicals that probably do n't mix with water , but you should know what the buffer is , yeah ? |
| 16 | This is not to say that there do not exist important statistical problems which need to be overcome and a major part of this project is directed towards these more econometric issues . |
| 17 | Additionally , many countries levy taxes that happily do not apply to Britain . |
| 18 | Aye , but in that lounge , when I when I went that lounge it was , they were the sort of people that bloody do n't open the curtains ! |
| 19 | Shadows are the absence of light and so do n't exist in themselves , but they are still visible and palpable just as if they did . |
| 20 | Obviously this is n't always the case with ex-offenders — even those who are like this tend to get branded by society , and so do n't get given a chance to start anew . |
| 21 | This type of inefficiency arises because workers and management are often ill-equipped or lacking in motivation and so do not perform to the best of their abilities . |
| 22 | The remedies have been grouped for easier comparison and so do not appear alphabetically . |
| 23 | After all , elections only occur once every 5 years , and the parties can only attend to the broad lines of policy and so do not represent particular interests in any meaningful way . |
| 24 | Also they do not pay rates and so do not contribute to the upkeep of the area in which they live . |
| 25 | There are many types of reading test currently used in primary schools ; most of them , however , are norm-referenced rather than criterion-referenced , and so do not relate directly to the levels of attainment described above . |
| 26 | But these distinctions and considerations were not expressly addressed in the Convention 's negotiating process and so do not feature explicitly in its text . |
| 27 | ( It should be emphasized that these terms are just labels : quarks are much smaller than the wavelength of visible light and so do not have any color in the normal sense . |
| 28 | Many of the dichotomies traditionally employed in this area — for example between constraints operating through reasons and constraints due to other factors — are formulated with individual subjects in mind , and so do not apply , while others , which were originally intended to apply to only some properties of individuals and collectives , must bear extra weight . |
| 29 | Some children who are able to read and have learned to read effortlessly are unaware of the rewards of reading and so do not read voluntarily . |
| 30 | Under the overseas person exemption , many types of investment business which are actually carried on in the UK ( albeit from a non-UK office ) , are in effect treated as carried on outside the UK for the purposes of the FSA ( and so do not require authorisation under the FSA ) if the firm does not have a UK office from which it carries on investment business and : ( 1 ) The firm deals with or through , or arranges transactions with , an FSA-authorised person , such as a UK stockbroker , or an exempted person , such as a listed money market institution , acting within the terms of its exemption ( para 26 of Sched 1 ) ; this applies even if that person is an affiliate ; ( 2 ) the firm did not solicit the business in contravention of the FSA 's restrictions on the issue of investment advertisements and cold calling ( para 27 of Sched 1 ) . |