Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Will you not stay a little while , Miss Abbott ? |
| 2 | Certainly he did not stay the full course which was seven years for the qualification of a Master 's degree , the necessary precondition for further study of law , theology and medicine . |
| 3 | The reliance of elderly people on walking as a mode of transport increases their exposure to risk whilst their failing faculties raise the likelihood of them not seeing the striking vehicle . |
| 4 | not seeing the only point of being there |
| 5 | She had n't been reading at all but had been glancing out of the window not seeing the gracious gardens that surrounded Summer Lodge , but planning ways to help Craig when he came to her . |
| 6 | This produces the stress of tiring ambulance journeys , the long wait in the clinic and not seeing the same staff at each visit . |
| 7 | In the economically more advanced countries , however , there does not exist a close relationship between age at first marriage and birth of first child , owing mainly to postponement of first birth through contraceptive use . |
| 8 | If we also consider thoughts about them qua spectacles , then we would say that I have not succeeded in thinking about them unless I am thinking about artefacts , thinking about items that can be worn on the nose , that aid vision , that are more-or-less breakable , that did not exist a thousand years ago , that this pair existed yesterday but did not exist in 1983 , and so on . |
| 9 | Caspar managed not to breathe a huge sigh of relief , because this sounding very promising indeed . |
| 10 | ‘ Yes , ’ said Tessa , trying not to breathe the sweet-sour air into her lungs . |
| 11 | Just because some of them do n't know their arse from their elbow does n't mean that we 're not bringing the whole thing under control . ’ |
| 12 | I shall merely be requesting information about a taste which puzzles me , not demanding a further reason without which the whole string of answers will prove to be baseless . |
| 13 | I can hear them telling the architect not to spare a single sou . |
| 14 | Therefore , if we can not detect a particular coded message in an animal , there is no reason to say that they are not transmitting the particular message by some other means . |
| 15 | Its concern with adolescent love , and the way in which its idealism and purity can not evade the sullying effects of adult realities , paralleled Minton 's own fear of lost youth , his obsession with adolescence and desire for a love that could only exist in a state untrammelled by adult responsibilities . |
| 16 | Although these drugs are effective , they do not reduce the reflux of other gastric contents ( pepsin , bile ) and they do not modify the underlying causes of the disease by restoring lower oesophageal sphincter pressure or improving oesophageal clearance and gastric emptying . |
| 17 | In a comparison of the administration of AZT to infected people before and after the appearance of AIDS , early treatment was found not to affect the eventual outcome , but merely to postpone the rapid decline of CD4 cells in the blood . |
| 18 | There may have been little or no discussion of these issues , even among the higher clerics and ecclesiastical advisers , but Innocent was too polished a performer not to realize the public relations advantages of pronouncement in a general council . |
| 19 | However , CITES ' attempts to regulate the trade have not stopped the illegal trade . |
| 20 | But this has not stopped the two companies , conscious of their high public profile , from starting to sell the deal to the viewers as well as the money men . |
| 21 | ‘ I want directors to use black actors and just portray them as ordinary people , not make a big deal about it . |
| 22 | Section C is taking the basic feel from A and making it a little busier ( this is a good technique to use over a middle 8 section in order to build it dynamically , but not lose the original direction for the song ) ; it then repeats to A and goes to the coda . |
| 23 | Although it was initially believed that lowering mucosal prostaglandin values in ulcerative colitis would be therapeutic , and that the beneficial effect of therapeutic agents sulfasalazine and 5-ASA analogues is through their ability to inhibit cyclo-oxygenase , it isnow believed that a simple decrease in prostaglandins does not elicit a beneficial effect in ulcerative colitis and may even be harmful . |
| 24 | You would not think a broken shoe . |
| 25 | I do not think the Prime Minister imagines that this country 's future would be secure if we remained outside . |
| 26 | Nor did it impress the Arab states , which pointed out that if Israel was able to absorb hundreds of thousands of Jews it could certainly absorb more than 100,000 Palestinian returnees ; or the United States , which did not think the Israeli offer ‘ provide[d] a suitable basis for contributing to solution of Arab refugee question . ’ |
| 27 | If he were to reflect on that , I do not think the hon. Gentleman would want it to happen . |
| 28 | With this lot , we 've got A add B , that 's one number , take away A minus B. That 's going to come to A add B , A take away A or A minus A and then take away A minus B , taking away A minus B is the same as adding a B. So the A take away A go out and this comes to two B. Now this is not using a long way , a long way round to do it . |
| 29 | Patients with severe cardiorespiratory , renal , hepatic , neurological , or malignant disease were also excluded , together with women of childbearing age not using a reliable means of contraception . |
| 30 | Hobbes is not using an inductive argument here ; the ‘ possibility apparent ’ is not an inductive argument from observations about past children but is meant to refer to some discernible feature of present ones . |