Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] [adv prt] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | That the government , local authorities and private companies are not queueing up to offer the resources to enable CABx to extend their work can only be due to the movement 's failure to make its point effectively . |
| 2 | I ONCE mentioned to a local farmer that my grandfather had been born in the little fishing village of Staxigoe , to the north of Wick in Caithness , and he quickly warned me not to go about repeating the story , because of the supposedly dubious reputation the natives of Staxigoe have earned themselves down the ages . |
| 3 | The Jordanian foreign minister , Kamel Abu Jaber , speaking after talks with Syrian leaders in Damascus , called for the return of all the deported Palestinians , but in Cairo , the Lebanese prime minister , Rafik al-Hariri , did not rule out resuming the peace negotiations before the issue of the deportees was resolved . |
| 4 | However , he informed a parliament committee meeting on Jan. 9 that the central government was " working on a comprehensive action plan for revamping the administration in Punjab " , and did not rule out amending the Constitution to provide for more autonomy as long as all other political parties co-operated in the matter . |
| 5 | The additional dwellings are not added on to eliminate the problem . |
| 6 | Bernard told Apricot that to believe in ghosts was to insult God : the souls of the dead went to heaven , purgatory or hell , depending , but did not hang around afflicting the living . |
| 7 | Accordingly the court decided that VAT was payable on these charges and could not be reclaimed from Customs and Excise if the customer did not show up to claim the room . |
| 8 | His wife 's hair was straggling over her eyes , and she had not made up to hide the ravages of the night 's events . |
| 9 | Feminists in the party claim there is a glass ceiling which most women can not break through to win the most influential posts . |
| 10 | For people did not keep on wearing the same garments , not for eleven , twelve years . |
| 11 | Though in our recent study of Adoption Allowances which involved many older children we did not set out to test the issues under discussion , nevertheless some of the 52 children we interviewed maintained a link with a member of the original family whilst in the case of a few others a ‘ clean break ’ approach was followed by agencies . |
| 12 | ESPEW did not set out to make the printing trade a priority recruitment area . |
| 13 | In the Discourse of the Common Weal Smith ( to whom it is now attributed ) did not set out to delineate the structure of society , but rather to present and analyse the responses of the four main economic interests in the community to the crisis of the late 1540s . |
| 14 | He and his wife decided not to put off having the second child they had planned , despite the financial uncertainty . |
| 15 | Because working-class boys suffer disadvantages in the educational system and are not brought up to accept the values of this system , they are likely to reject the school values and form a delinquent subculture ( Cohen 's definition of this subculture is reproduced as Reading 2 in Chapter 5 ) . |
| 16 | I know the car 's essential but for instance if you 're going to an estate agent you 're not running round using the car in company time . |
| 17 | A spokesman for Land Travel said the company had not set out to mislead the public but when the non-smoking trip did not attract a full complement of passengers it ‘ consolidated ’ it with a smoking holiday . |
| 18 | De Gaulle had not set out to destroy the EEC , but to remould it in a more appropriate form , where the ‘ ambiguities ’ and ‘ mistakes ’ which he believed to be contained within the Treaty of Rome would be eliminated . |
| 19 | It would seem that there is a demand for such assistance as 1 in 5 of all applicants said that they did not go on to take the course because of financial difficulties . |
| 20 | I also feel that this country can not go on permitting the unrestricted sale of looted antiquities from abroad . |
| 21 | She did not go on to express the next thought in her mind : thank goodness Annabel was going away to school , and very soon the association would be closed , for its continuance would create an impossible situation . |
| 22 | Yet in practice this view was not extended to take in the case of gender : the advances made as a result of the critique of behaviourism and pluralism did not go on to question the assumptions and mechanisms that continue to define politics as the affair of men . |
| 23 | This is because the revolution in East Germany after 1945 changed the structures of power and ownership — but did not go on to change the structure of social relationships . |
| 24 | Furthermore [ thumma anna ] they are dead and can not come back to join the revenge squads in the Middle East and the four corners of the world . |
| 25 | Some older people who live alone or who can not get out appreciate the security of knowing that they can contact someone in an emergency . |
| 26 | Even pensioners turned out , even though like under the 14s they were not allowed in to see the shows . |
| 27 | Those committed to self-report and victimization surveys do not start off asking the most important question of all : ‘ what is serious crime ? ’ |
| 28 | The way Batty was handled strikes me as a sign that the management are not thinking along winning the championship this year but are prepared to bide their time . |
| 29 | I knew that a dead man could not harm me , but did n't hang around to test the theory . |
| 30 | I did n't hang around to take the blame , just worked that day out and sloped off home . |