Example sentences of "[vb base] not [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is at times like this that I regret not doing a scientific 0-level and becoming a brain surgeon so that no one would ask me to wash up or scrub floors . |
| 2 | Why do addiction treatment centres tend not to emphasise the possible cross-addictive nature of nicotine , caffeine , sugar and white flour for people with addictive disease ? |
| 3 | Repetition is something many students avoid at all costs , and in their early music they tend not to repeat a single bar in an entire composition . |
| 4 | On the other hand , we tend not to see the intense depression in a motionless and unresponsive horse , or the annoyance in one that has turned its back on the horse or person offending it , or the anxiety in the tightened abdominal muscles of the showpony expecting the pain of the spur . |
| 5 | Unlike their warm-blooded cousins they are quiet and clean , they also tend not to scare the faint-hearted as much as the sight of a full QWERTY keyboard ! |
| 6 | Another factor is lower house prices — people in Northern Ireland tend not to have the massive mortgages which crippled so many householders in England . |
| 7 | Furthermore , they tend not to maintain a clear distinction between the speaker 's intended meaning on the one hand , and the message used to convey that meaning to a listener on the other . |
| 8 | Seeing just how comprehensive a work this is , with factory serial number , date of registration , date of next C of A expiry , owner's/operator 's name and probable base all listed , I can only surmise that the note-scribblers/pocket memo mumblers — many of whom seem not to have the slightest knowledge or interest in the type of aeroplane on which the letters are painted — are performing the latter-day equivalent of the sacred ritual which I and many others who have long since outgrown it once enacted in John W.R. Taylor 's ABC of Civil Aircraft Makings . |
| 9 | The conflict was an ‘ absolutely senseless ’ one , according to Brezhnev at this time , and the USSR initially took a broadly neutral position , hoping to retain the alliance with Iraq but at the same time not to alienate the new and anti-Western Khomeini government in Iran . |
| 10 | Important : Remember not to use the same essence throughout the programme . |
| 11 | Yeah but we 're that that would enable a double shift to be done decide not to run a double shift |
| 12 | If you are using a multi-tasker try not run a large number of programs at the same . |
| 13 | Try not to let the free block count of the LIFESPAN Process fall below 10000 . |
| 14 | I try not to make the same mistake twice . ’ |
| 15 | Still greater than these difficulties was Bonar Law 's stubborn ( and in many ways sensible ) resolve not to accept a massive continuing burden . |
| 16 | If we choose not to include the lasting works in the lonely mountains , only church registers survive to remind us of this remarkable facet of Keswick , and indeed Coniston 's , past history . |
| 17 | However , and it is a view of the C E C that although the current level of contributions , contributions is high , it is not the only barrier to mass membership , I do n't intend to go into a list of other reasons why some people choose not to join the Labour Party but I 'm quite sure that many delegates here can give some examples at a local level . |
| 18 | Baptismal , confirmation , membership and communicant figures do not tell the whole story . |
| 19 | In some countries , national and racial minorities meant that total population figures do not tell the whole story about military strength . |
| 20 | Your books do not tell the whole story . |
| 21 | Simple numbers , however , do not tell the whole story . |
| 22 | These brief wakenings do not prevent a similar total quantity of sleep to younger men and women , since we tend to stay in bed slightly longer as we get older . |
| 23 | During this spare time you can catch up on lost sleep ( as long as your naps do not prevent a full night 's sleep ) , relax after the stresses of the journey , adjust drinking and eating habits , and generally adapt to your new surroundings . |
| 24 | It is important to banks that accounting guidelines do not prevent the efficient financing of loans . |
| 25 | As between themselves , the purchaser and the vendor are bound under the terms of the sale agreement by the decisions of the expert , but the provisions in the sale agreement do not prevent the aggrieved party , whether it be the purchaser or the vendor , from attempting to bring a claim against the expert if it can be shown that such party has suffered loss under the normal principles of the law of negligence ( see Arenson v Casson Bechman Rutley & Co [ 1977 ] AC 405 ) . |
| 26 | In particular the expectations of research often do not match the actual practice of their supervisors . |
| 27 | These arbitrators are experts in the non-legal sense of the word , and they do not perform a judicial function . |
| 28 | However , even if it is accepted that treaties do not perform a single function and should not all be subject to the same rules , there remains the threshold question of how treaties are best conceptualised and categorised . |
| 29 | One should not therefore underestimate the importance of neighbourhood to such old people , even if neighbours do not perform the same functions as in ‘ the old days ’ . |
| 30 | The mass of working people , as they liberate themselves from the bourgeois yoke , will gravitate irresistibly towards us … provided yesterday 's oppressions do not infringe the long oppressed nation 's highly developed democratic feeling of self-respect and provided they are granted equality in everything . |