Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Prominent advocates of ratification included EC Commission President Jacques Delors ( who declared on Aug. 28 that he " would not stay on for another mandate if the " no " vote won " ) and also both the RPR leader Jacques Chirac and the UDF leader Valéry Giscard d'Estaing , although many RPR and UDF members were opposed to ratification . |
| 2 | He argued that thought does not arise out of abstract logical puzzles but from specific problems which we encounter in practice . |
| 3 | ‘ All Mr Fallon 's splutterings will not make up for those people who are on record waiting lists in Darlington . |
| 4 | The reports of international commissions such as that of Brandt do not make up for this gap . |
| 5 | It was obviously made to stand up with its foot on something which at first I could not make out for all the dust and dirt but eventually realised was a skull . |
| 6 | ‘ What 's wrong , Dane , did I hurt your macho pride by not sticking around for more ? |
| 7 | Trying to get them not to go on with all this looking and looking , seeing and seeing … |
| 8 | As I said in an earlier chapter , the principle of speaking is not to go on for more than a few minutes without getting your audience to do something — applaud or laugh or raise their hands . |
| 9 | You 're not to go round like that , you 'll ruin them . |
| 10 | ‘ You 're not to go back to that place any more ! |
| 11 | This mismatch led to our including clear , key-by-key sequences in the notes and a resolution not to go out on CDL trials before reaching the stage of adequate documentation , as time is too valuable . |
| 12 | I used not to go out at all if there were any around . |
| 13 | His thick hair was greying but he had not given up on red baseball shoes , sleeveless T-shirts or what he called his ‘ cosmopolitan Lancashire accent , half scouse , half Lancashire ’ . |
| 14 | The message of Opportunity 2000 — the business-led initiative to get more women into top management by the year 2000 is not filtering down to many line managers , according to the campaign 's first year report . |
| 15 | It was not cluttered up with redundant ‘ survivals ’ , to be understood retrospectively by reference to assumed evolutionary historical stages . |
| 16 | Surprisingly enough , Miki is not won over by this subtle approach straight from the Nigel Havers School of Charm . |
| 17 | My hic hyacinths have all come out except no , they 've all come out , one goron l looks like it 's gone and lot congealed little bad and another hyacinth has two have come up and other ones not come up at all . |
| 18 | But Li Ka-shing , head of Cheung Kong , confirmed he is ‘ interested in some of Olympia 's assets , but has not come up with any solid plans ’ . |
| 19 | Forensic scientists have scoured the scene but have not come up with any conclusive evidence . |
| 20 | There may also be more room for professional bodies to discipline those whose conduct has not come up to expected standards but where proving dishonesty in a court would be hard . |
| 21 | They will certainly have the fullest support of my Department and the Government in that and I hope that they will have the fullest support of Opposition Members , too , although that has not come through in this debate . |
| 22 | It was lucky that Fiver had not come out with this foolish notion in front of any of the others , especially as there was trouble enough already . |
| 23 | He had seen his earliest pupils , as had my father , either not come back at all , or come back broken men . |
| 24 | and I 've not come back till twelve ! |
| 25 | Since then blacks have got richer at almost the same rate as whites , but they have not caught up at all . |
| 26 | Strathclyde has made a direct appeal to the Scottish education minister , Lord James Douglas-Hamilton , to change the legislation so that closure programmes are not caught up in lengthy delays . |
| 27 | Her happiness because of this scene was so strong she closed her eyes so that it would not beam out in great mellow streams and betray her to the sternness of the others . |
| 28 | Yes well I think to answer bo both of yo your concerns , first of all we have to accept that the Planning Committee has , actually has power to make its decisions not to come back to this Council so I 'm afraid it is a decision of the Planning Committee . |
| 29 | The situation was desperate : Holmes was away on a case , and not expected back for some time . |
| 30 | She was about to risk departing for an early lunch , a move which she would not have dared to make if Miss Coldharbour had been in the office , but Julia gathered she was out for the morning and not expected in until two fifteen . |