Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [not/n't] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the company 's annual meeting , executives from CGI Informatique SA , developer of the Pacbase software engineering system , said fiscal 1993 has so far not lived up to expectations , and indicated that the company will be considering either an acquisition or joint venture in the facilities management market . |
| 2 | There was every possible opportunity and we discussed it ; he was keen but not importunate , which naturally made me love him more and be more inclined to give him what he was so sweetly not insisting on , but something held me back . |
| 3 | They all tried so hard not to look too closely at her . |
| 4 | So why not do so ? |
| 5 | Your partner is also welcome , so why not go along together to discuss the different methods of birth control ? |
| 6 | So why not go along and give Fiona McVey five minutes of your time while having lunch or join her for coffee in the coffee lounge on the first floor of A30 on 24 February between 12 noon and 1.30pm . |
| 7 | So why not step back a pace , and discuss values ? |
| 8 | England 's a fascinating and beautiful country — so why not take off and give yourself a break ? |
| 9 | My advice to the Government is that they can not sort out the problem this side of a general election , so why not get on with the job of laying the long-term foundations for a successful economy ? |
| 10 | Europe — we 've talked about it , we 've read about it , so why not get out and explore it ? |
| 11 | Dear Harsnet , he wrote , the distance between London and Brighton is not very great , and you have even been seen in the vicinity of Brighton , so why not call in on an old friend ? |
| 12 | ‘ You want dirt , Charles , so why not say so ? |
| 13 | Our aim is to foster interest in cricket on the continent of Europe — so why not come along and be a part of its growth and development . |
| 14 | Remember , it only costs £1 a class and all the money is going to a very worthy cause , so why not enter as many different events as you can . |
| 15 | The woman who had just walked into the sitting room had most decidedly not put on weight ; nor had she let herself go … anywhere . |
| 16 | Visibly frustrated , I make it worse by trying equally visibly not to appear so . |
| 17 | Open communication and they can say something like well why not kill off half the population , and you think well how stupid a thing . |
| 18 | And er I think i we thought from that well why not set up a women 's support group and er see what the reaction was really from from the women you know and an I and we said in that lodge meeting will you ask everybody all the women that you know that er are involved , the friends the girlfriends and wives , to come along the next Tuesday and we 'd have a meeting of our own . |
| 19 | If you belong to one of the few parishes who have not yet started a discussion group then why not start now . |
| 20 | Then why not come down and have a day 's shooting next Saturday , ’ Fraser suggested . |
| 21 | If it is a pastime with a difference that you are after , then why not take up groundhopping . |
| 22 | Ruth would almost certainly not come up to the flat . |
| 23 | Most of them have almost certainly not thought through what this would mean . |
| 24 | If you are not , you may be heading for potential losses which could have been avoided and you are almost certainly not trading as effectively or profitably as you should ! |
| 25 | it maybe my Lord that there 's a judge upstairs better not to sit tomorrow afternoon but to sit on Friday |
| 26 | With the cold winter evenings ahead why not try out some of these differing styles as alternative self-portraits instead of trying on the Euromask ? |
| 27 | We found this a comfortable enough grip , and the control is tight enough not to move out of position when planing . |
| 28 | He was staring at the lake , regretful perhaps that he 'd said too much not to say more . |
| 29 | And I know the scores of an iron crow on stone too well not to know how these frets were made . |
| 30 | She knew it was wrong to hate her parents like this , but she was finding it very hard not to do so . |