Example sentences of "[vb base] [not/n't] [verb] [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those firms which get caught in the middle appear not to do so well . |
| 2 | Leapor agrees with Swift that coquettes and beaux tend not to live happily ever after , but she takes an altogether different view of the reasons . |
| 3 | On the whole , such services tend not to serve severely mentally disordered people but to concentrate instead on less seriously dependent people . |
| 4 | Even those that tend not to do very well attract some kind of an advance . |
| 5 | However , lack of cover leads to the birds feeling insecure so they tend not to stray too far from the hen house . |
| 6 | People tend not to work particularly well in teams in this country . |
| 7 | Such cross-shareholdings are commonplace in Japan and in continental Europe , but tend not to work so well in the US — Control Data had 20% of Silicon Graphics and sold it ; Compaq Computer Corp sold the stake it bought to cement the Advanced Computing Environment Initiative in less than a year . |
| 8 | Settlements emparked in the eighteenth or nineteenth centuries tend not to survive too well as earthworks , but abandoned sixteenth-or seventeenth-century garden schemes often incorporate remains of village earthworks . |
| 9 | Consents tend not to vary greatly even between apparently very different effluents . |
| 10 | Things seem not to change very much . |
| 11 | But remember not to call here again unless I ask Katie to bring you . |
| 12 | Remember not to rely too heavily on dairy products as they contain highly saturated fats which could be bad for health if consumed in large quantities . |
| 13 | They would start in the morning er I would say maybe eight o'clock , I du n no maybe sooner . |
| 14 | Try not to feel too badly , it is n't your fault . |
| 15 | Better to eat off an orange box and get pleasure from a plant than to spend the money on a cheap and nasty table which is going to be an unsatisfactory stopgap Save money and effort right at the start by sorting out priorities — which should include enjoying the room you live in — and try not to stray too far from your original objectives . |
| 16 | The attitude of Charles Barry and the classical delegation hardened Scott 's resolve not to throw away over three years ' work and play into their hands by resigning . |
| 17 | Proportional series are dealt with in more specific detail as they do not appear anywhere else in the book . |
| 18 | However , a simplistic model based exclusively on smoking habits fails to explain the higher incidence in women , since women do not smoke as heavily as men . |
| 19 | The different forms of the ulterior intent do not sit happily together in s.18 : causing GBH with intent to do GBH may be more serious than causing GBH with intent to resist arrest yet the crime and punishment are the same . |
| 20 | As the result they do not sit very effectively over a bolt-hole . |
| 21 | Cryptically he said , ‘ I shall be coming back to Rangoon and if conditions do not worsen so unexpectedly I hope to meet you again . ’ |
| 22 | Hard wheats are easily milled into white flour ; soft wheats do not separate so easily . |
| 23 | Do not stand slightly sideways in order to minimize your size . |
| 24 | They do not interact so very much . |
| 25 | Barlund added that " forests do not grow as fast in the south , so we can not afford to lose massive areas " . |
| 26 | Pillar or ‘ short climbing roses ' By and large , training and tying into a single pillar or post is only suitable for shorter growing climbers that do not grow long enough to clothe larger areas like walls and pergolas . |
| 27 | The top notes are highly volatile ; they do not last very long ( coriander , citrus oils ) . |
| 28 | If you do not advertise more widely your vacancy will not come to the attention of other potential employees who may not be actively looking for a job but who might be attracted by an advertisement which clearly specifies someone like them . |
| 29 | It comes from critics who imagine themselves penning formidable papers which , like those of Gregor Mendel , are hidden away or ignored for many years — and do not fare too well , therefore , in ISI 's listings . |
| 30 | In a ductile material such as mild steel , a good deal of irreversible distortion takes place before actual fracture occurs so that broken parts do not fit even approximately . |