Example sentences of "[coord] [noun prp] [verb] not [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While the prospect of cycling through York is attractive the idea of doing the same thing in Newcastle or Middlesbrough does not have quite the same allure . |
| 2 | Coopers & Lybrand does not believe that the ED 's proposals ‘ should be issued either in the short term or in their present form ’ . |
| 3 | And , if the SFA or SIB does not have a regime that meets the exchange 's needs , the exchange can move offshore and deal in the UK electronically or by telephone.9 |
| 4 | At this stage , as Ernst & Young does not have access to the shareholders ' list , it is unaware of the numbers involved , but it estimates that compensation payments may total £1.4m . |
| 5 | Worse , he and Jessica did not like each other much . |
| 6 | Karen made a non-committal noise , and Jessica did not push her . |
| 7 | But it was not taken seriously in the West and Moscow did not persist in linking these American bases to the INF negotiations underway . |
| 8 | The VBK and GEDOK do not see themselves as being in competition . |
| 9 | Fortunately , John 's present lender , Bradford and Bingley does not charge a redemption penalty , although this charge can be an expensive shock to some remortgagors . |
| 10 | The sees of Ramsbury and Hereford did not fall vacant in his reign , while it is not known which king appointed Bishop Godwin II of Rochester . |
| 11 | She said that a few cross words with Riley and Linley did not count for much . |
| 12 | Presumably Hurd and Baker do not mean by this that Hamas , the Gaza-based fundamentalist movement dedicated to destroying Israel ( unlike the PLO ) , should take up the official torch of Palestinian independence ! |
| 13 | Thus , while Sharpe , White , and Bernard do not believe that the Arminians should be blamed for causing the civil war of the 1640s , Tyacke , John Morrill , and other historians have conversely argued that Laud and his fellow prelates should bear a major part of the responsibility for provoking what they regard as ‘ England 's wars of religion ’ . |
| 14 | There was a library but Rain and Patrick did not meet there because her recollection was wrong and they blundered into each other in a passage . |
| 15 | And Zack did not call . |
| 16 | Thus the findings of Newcombe and Ratcliffe do not confirm those of Hécaen and Sauguet . |
| 17 | Some such explanation seems called for , given the fact that in many ways the two theories of Reich and Freud did not disagree fundamentally on the one area of the need for sexual reform . |
| 18 | But Philip and Richard did not withdraw to the frontier . |
| 19 | It is an activity of the brave and strong and not of the cowardly , for ‘ Cowardice and Ahimsā do not go together any more than water and fire . ’ |
| 20 | Apparently Angell and Pownall did not approve of Brodrick 's novel lighting arrangements and recommended that the scheme be rejected . |
| 21 | Bush and Gorbachev did not hold their first summit until December 1989 in Malta . |
| 22 | As for the Nehru , England 's first match is on 15 October , while India and Pakistan do not get under way until the 22nd . |
| 23 | The campaign never took place , however , and Edward did not try to revive this method of payment for those who served in the army which was defeated at Bannockburn . |
| 24 | Lane and Roberts do not claim that the strike was typical of other strikes . |
| 25 | It was peaceful with the plop-of the gas fire and the dark sky outside through the window , for like many old people Doris did not draw her curtains till late and Linda did not feel like going back to the bustle of tea-time , but she could n't keep them waiting for their tea . |
| 26 | Indeed , Landry is mistaken even when she claims that the poems are silent on the question of lower class marriage : in ‘ The Month of August ’ , for example , Phillis , a country girl , believes that she will be happy in marriage to a man of her own class , and Leapor does not undermine that suggestion . |
| 27 | However , he had been into the interior once before , in the service of two Dutch explorers who , in the manner of all Dutch explorers , had died strange deaths : though not before they had communicated to civilization a mysterious message , ‘ Wallace and Darwin did not know it , but there are alternatives . ’ |
| 28 | At this unhappy moment , I recalled that mysterious sentence , ‘ Wallace and Darwin did not know it , but there are alternatives . ’ |
| 29 | Mitch came back and Maggie did not see how Ana greeted him , but it was plain that he was restored to his old self , cheerful and easygoing . |
| 30 | Jorge suddenly appeared at the door and Maggie did not wait to hear any answer ; she walked out of the room , scooping up her bag and swinging it over her shoulder , quite satisfied that this time Felipe de Santis had come off worst . |