Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] [prep] the [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The tax was not to fall upon the very poor : only those with incomes of £2 per annum or goods of £3. 6s. 8d. were to be approached . |
| 2 | Whereas Wertheim has Seurat charcoals and an oil ‘ Study for La Grande Jatte ’ , Paley has important oils by Derain , as well as Cubist pictures by Picasso , Gris , and Braque that were sufficiently abstract not to appeal to the more traditional Wertheim . |
| 3 | And she believed the whales would remain at Laspi Bay at least for the summer , and had not heard of the widely criticised plans to take them on a travelling display . |
| 4 | The imbalances and strains occasioned by the change of economic policy were not limited to the strictly economic areas , but also spilled over into the social and political spheres . |
| 5 | As the Joyce example shows , this foregrounding is not limited to the more obvious poetic devices , such as metaphor and alliteration . |
| 6 | An egoist who tries to ground his ethic in ‘ Be aware ’ would have to break down the analogy between personal and other viewpoints ; and to do so he could not appeal to the most obvious difference , that while ‘ here ’ and ‘ there ’ are exchanged by the agent 's movements , and ‘ now ’ is continuously changing into ‘ then ’ , he remains to himself unalterably ‘ I ’ . |
| 7 | For the real Earth , it ignores factors crucial to climate not included in the somewhat simplistic climate sensitivity appropriate to CO 2 increases . |
| 8 | Whatever the origins of the present crisis , does he agree that the brunt should not fall on the most vulnerable in the community — the elderly , the handicapped and school children ? |
| 9 | The loss should not fall on the totally innocent taxpayer whose only fault is that it paid what the legislature improperly said was due . |
| 10 | Such memory differences appear instead to be limited to the single arousing item and not appear for the immediately following ones although general physiological arousal would be expected to still be present . |
| 11 | We may also include in discourse deixis a number of other ways in which an utterance signals its relation to surrounding text , e.g. utterance-initial anyway seems to indicate that the utterance that contains it is not addressed to the immediately preceding discourse , but to one or more steps back . |
| 12 | Manuel Salgado , the interim president of the Ecuadorian Congress , currently visiting Cuba , stated that it showed that " US governing circles have not modified in the least their imperial policies , which dream of a unipolar world rooted in subjugation and slavery " . |
| 13 | The scheme did not focus on the mentally frail ; although a quarter of the cases involved some confusion or disorientation , only three per cent involved severe confusion . |
| 14 | Only if it is taken for granted that the preference behaviour is that of a conscious subject , does it , of itself , provide a reason for promoting the preferred end , — it would not matter in the least if there was no conscious individual there to mind about anything . |
| 15 | 16:14 , Judg. 9:23 , I Kgs. 22:21 ) ; later they are personalised in Satan , whose name does not appear before the rather late books of I Chronicles ( 21 : 1ff ) , Job ( 1 : 6ff ) and Zechariah ( 3:1ff ) . |
| 16 | It is an option to fall back on if you have to ; it is certainly appropriate for relatives , especially parents , to assist in this way , but it is not sought as the most desirable arrangement in the circumstances and therefore it should not last for too long . |
| 17 | Again , the imploded drums found at early US sea disposal dump sites were not made to the much tighter standards pioneered in the UK and embodied in current national and international codes of practice . |
| 18 | She did not feel in the least sensible but rather resentful on her own account . |
| 19 | Besides , I 'm not well myself … indeed , I 'm most definitely sick , " added the Collector succumbing to a sudden wave of self-pity for it was true , he did not feel in the least well . |
| 20 | Does he accept that the general public will not mind in the least paying to see these magnificent treasures ? |
| 21 | Does the Under-Secretary understand that if the Government had not embarked on the wholly cynical and two-faced policy of enticing schools with surplus places to opt out , the children at Stratford school would not now face chaos ? |
| 22 | That may not sound like the most exciting plot you have ever heard but every MP in the Commons seemed to think it was better than Indiana Jones , The Terminator and Alien rolled into one . |
| 23 | The best books of today do not look in the least like Kelmscotts , but without Morris they might never have been created at all . |
| 24 | We make these plans on an natural level , and yet , we do not plan for the most important event of all time , when we will stand before God and he will ask that question , what have you done with Jesus that is called the Christ ? |
| 25 | Melanie had not been down to the work-room since her very first morning ; she tried not to look at the partially assembled puppets , hanged and dismembered , on the walls . |
| 26 | But that list is very far from being exhaustive and does not touch on the much wider range of topics possible if aquarium facilities are available . |
| 27 | They read Drude 's plant geography and decided to do a similar study , but soon found that the European techniques did not work on the almost featureless prairie . |
| 28 | We are taught not to focus on the more difficult aspects of what we know about other people . |
| 29 | It is not used in the more restricted sense given to the term " trade secrets " in Faccenda Chicken v Fowler [ 1985 ] 1 All ER 724 but which has now been effectively viewed as being too narrow by two members of the Court of Appeal in Lansing Linde Ltd v Kerr [ 1991 ] 1 All ER 418 : see p82 below , we think the approach in Lansing Linde is to be preferred . |
| 30 | Thus , we may be helped to avoid the trap of ruling out as irrelevant , even before we start , whatever forms of knowledge may not fit into the currently accepted general scientific approach to reality as a whole . |