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

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1 Ilsa accepted coffee , pleased that it was afternoon when the English do n't generally drink coffee .
2 Guitars that have been MIDI'ed do n't really branch away from a guitar player 's technique .
3 However , the arrival of the French did not quite coincide with the national uprising of ‘ 98 .
4 We and the British do n't always agree .
5 A : We want a law that states young people under 16 years old do n't ever take dogs out .
6 ‘ People who feel suicidal do not necessarily want to die .
7 The same applies in the labour market where workers made unemployed do not immediately reduce their asking wage and take up a new job — instead , they spend some ( possibly quite considerable ) time searching for a new job at the old wage .
8 is multi-locational does n't just have one branch
9 Since his involvement in struggling does not necessarily imply that he will actually get free , it simply places him before the getting free which he aims to realize .
10 The seventeen year old does not always want to listen to the views of his father and mother , particularly if he has his heart set upon a motorbike !
11 To add to the senseless tragedy , the Japanese did n't really know what to do with all the dolphin carcasses once they had killed them .
12 It 's obvious that in their heart of hearts the Japanese do n't really trust calculators .
13 Even if they can afford to buy one , most Japanese do n't really have the space for it .
14 All at the end you do is losing your voice and , and if you do n't get your way , then you it up louder and louder and louder and if you do n't get your way you may have to back down then and the aggressive person backing down to sort of a submissive does n't always hold very much credibility .
15 The fact that costs are uncontrollable does not necessarily mean that the budget-holder would not be asked to find savings to cover uncontrollable increases .
16 In a straight line , admittedly , the Limited does n't quite set your pulse on fire like an Integrale 16v ; subjectively , the Lancia 's 200bhp two-litre unit seems to provide much more firepower .
17 There are general sort of comments that they do n't really know what the parish council does and they 're not very sure , erm , sort of it , it was mainly through the children 's card thing , perhaps a little bit of money that their child , you know did n't me meet any recognition but would n't it have been nice to know exactly what the picture had been for , and sort of the nitty- gritty does n't necessarily get filtered through .
18 Charles the Bald did not simply exploit the church within his kingdom : he had to work with not against the ecclesiastical grain .
19 To say that the stance is one of knowing does not necessarily imply a belief in ‘ objectivity ’ ; the process may be thought of as a hermeneutic , interpretative one in which objective knowledge is not possible .
20 What is clear is that the word oppressive does not necessarily mean that the defendant has been induced to enter the restriction by fraud , misrepresentation , deceit or forced to enter it by duress .
21 The elderly do not always want to be on the receiving end , and any gift of food they offer us , whether it is a meal or just a pot of home-made jam , should be accepted with appreciation , for all such gifts are a part of the pattern of love in which they still wish to be involved .
22 The question of a couple being happy or unhappy did not really seem to arise .
23 The reactions after Hiroshima , er when the bombed had dropped were erm , somewhat strange , people with documentation say that people even though they were injured did n't actually want to move away from their home early , erm , and so that possibly the same sort of thing happened in Chernobyl .
24 Sympathy with the conditions of the poor did not necessarily lead to a desire for reform by the state but for further voluntary action .
25 Equally , we should remark that the interpretation of an adjective as associative does not necessarily depend on the existence of a noun from which the adjective can be seen as derived .
26 So I put it to him , ‘ Being famous does n't necessarily endow a guitarist with insight into the design and workings of the guitar , so why are artists so often asked for their input and reviewers almost never , when our job is to understand , examine and pass judgement on guitars on a daily basis ? ’
27 ‘ A one-off international does n't always show a true picture ’ , Danaher says .
28 Foreign & Colonial does not yet offer its PEP trust , though this may be included in future .
29 According to director of corporate communications Keith Luckton , GRE felt that issuing an interim report clearly labelled unaudited did not fully inform shareholders of the work done by the auditors during the year .
30 With so many ifs and buts , it is easy to say if it ai n't broke do n't even think of fixing it .
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