Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The voice , so accustomed to obedience , continued in courtesy , but its ring of conviction was sharpening , and Miranda sensed that Anthony Everard had reached the point when , if he could not phrase a command as a request , he would assert his authority undisguised . |
| 2 | Perhaps it was also relief at not seeing a flood of overpriced Japanese owned art back on the market , or the sense that the cloud of economic recession might be lifting . |
| 3 | Not seeing the significance at the time of the two articles , or of the prong ( pitchfork ) and shovel that followed them , the two boys finished their frugal breakfast and set out upon their chores . |
| 4 | ‘ Not really ; it was a case of not seeing the wood for the trees . |
| 5 | THE Hitch-hiker 's Guide To Not Seeing The Galaxy Before Your Time : Do n't accept a lift in President Kennedy 's Cadillac , James Dean 's Porsche , Mark Thatcher 's Land-Rover . |
| 6 | ‘ People are just not seeing the value of breast milk , ’ says Alison Spiro , NCT milk-bank coordinator and Parents Family Health Adviser . |
| 7 | Hughes admitted that one reason for the slow growth of the movement in Wales was that the Church of Wales was in a minority ‘ and there did not exist the sense of peril which , he feared , must be admitted , had done so much in driving them together in England ’ . |
| 8 | I faithfully promised not to breathe a word to ‘ my friend ’ , went back to the room and sought Brian 's opinion . |
| 9 | They are divisive because they have a tendency to divide women into two camps ; those who have and those who have not shaken the dust of patriarchal conditioning from their feet . |
| 10 | Deng Xiaoping is 85 , and while apparently in reasonably good health , will not outlive the instigators of the ‘ counter-revolutionary rebellion ’ . |
| 11 | Though Charles the Bald could not evade the type of political problems just outlined , he was predestined neither to success nor to failure . |
| 12 | However , a party can not evade the Act by a choice of law clause providing for the contract to be governed by the law of some state other than the UK . |
| 13 | In addition maternal and paternal asthma were included in the regression analyses and did not modify the association between independent and dependent variables . |
| 14 | Return to the bad old ways , elect separately a Chamber and a Senate , then bring them together at Versailles in a National Assembly which would or would not modify the Constitution of 1875 . |
| 15 | Children can appear not to like the taste of food and be not motivated to eat . |
| 16 | But many species appear not to like the sound of a motor or a throbbing propeller . |
| 17 | Additionally , carried away by enthusiasm that ought not to affect the judgement of experienced lawyers , they advised him , or agreed on his urging ( I do not know which ) , that he should issue writs for libel , which he did , with the disastrous effect that he actually accepted some damages from one publication before he was compelled to reveal the falsity of his assertions . |
| 18 | In moderate amounts , it is not troublesome , but for dyeing work it may be desirable to keep the concentration reasonably constant so as not to affect the rate of dyeing . |
| 19 | In the age of the life-support machine , we may sometimes look back wistfully to those days , when doctors and relatives of the moribund person were not faced with the agonising decision whether or not to preserve the existence of a human vegetable . |
| 20 | ‘ That 's not stopped a lot of men . ’ |
| 21 | He must get this right , not make a fool of himself by stumbling over the words , not using the correct terminology or not knowing which fish he wanted . |
| 22 | Now , though , the group is seeking to , if not make a return to its fame of the 70s , then at least heighten public awareness of its work . |
| 23 | I was instructed not to be too early — to wait quietly outside the entrance and not make a nuisance of myself . |
| 24 | No , I 'm sorry three times I 've said it , it is not make a face at the end of the chorus , it 's there it , and there is just one way , the chorus says if you want to be happy and have a happy face and spread a little joy around then there is just one way , then you make the face |
| 25 | Would the end of the first-past-the-post system , with its unpredictable results , not make the business of politics boring ? |
| 26 | You wa , if you think of those soaps , I bet , I 'm convinced you could miss six weeks of the soaps and still not lose a minute of the plot . |
| 27 | ‘ You did not expound the words of scripture . |
| 28 | When Pat Arrowsmith gave out similar anti-war material to British troops , this time related to Northern Ireland , the justices before whom she appeared acquitted her because they did not think the publication to be ‘ insulting ’ . |
| 29 | But do you not think the life of the Thirties , the daily life , was much more terrible ? |
| 30 | Television is a very evangelical medium and I do not think the Church of England can afford to or wants to compete with the evangelical churches . |