Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] [noun] [unc] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | William 's navy had failed dismally in not intercepting James 's convoy on its way from Brest in March and now the Comte de Châteaurenault [ or Château Renault ] had made the same voyage unchallenged , only being brought to battle on Wednesday 1 May 1689 , as he prepared to leave his anchorage . |
| 2 | But he had no precise idea where Adam was and he did not think Adam 's travel agent ( a personal friend of the young Verne-Smiths ) would tell him . |
| 3 | He did not think Ramsey 's scholarship a weighty part of his quality as a bishop ; occasionally he hinted that he thought the books were a distraction from pastoral care . |
| 4 | The immediate reason for not using Labov 's concept is that the vernacular must be an idealization — on a par with other idealizations such as dialect or speech community — and so as an idealization it must be inaccessible in practice ( recall that you do not observe the language : you observe people talking ) . |
| 5 | He was not using Fairbrother 's soap , Richard was sure of that , even though his mother had made sure that he had been supplied with the exact brand most popular at the school . |
| 6 | Marshall 's defeat will not affect Barrington 's judgment of him . |
| 7 | The agreement does not affect P&P 's specialist distribution activities such as Principal Distribution and P&P Power Systems , the firm noted . |
| 8 | He knew how banal the question was as soon as he had asked it , but it did not affect Surere 's mood . |
| 9 | Worries that the relocated employees faced were finding employment for relocated spouses and ensuring that the relocation did not affect children 's schooling . |
| 10 | These claims did not affect CSM 's duty to recommend the granting of a licence anyway , as long as it considered the drug safe and effective . |
| 11 | This will not affect money supply since it involves no sterling transactions and hence will not affect banks ' sterling deposits . |
| 12 | When she was not drawing Frank 's attention to Vicky 's faults , she was correcting him for his , her high-pitched voice shrill with reprimand . |
| 13 | When Harold Wilson succeeded Hugh Gaitskell as party leader in 1963 , he swore he would not make Gaitskell 's mistake of surrounding himself with elite coteries of policy advisers . |
| 14 | All the same , Lorraine McAslan on Collins Classics takes us deeper inside the music , while Nigel Clayton does not make Lonquich 's mistake of crossing the border between passion and brutality . |
| 15 | This announced , quietly but determinedly , that Balfour did not want Asquith 's backing for the Admiralty : |
| 16 | And Mr Gorbachev does not want Vietnam 's role in Kampuchea to mar his summit meeting next month in Begging with Mr Deng Xiaoping . |
| 17 | ‘ I did not want you here and I certainly do not want Ana 's life complicated further . ’ |
| 18 | Had she not heard Sarah 's cry of outrage the moment before she opened the carriage door and caught John in that position ? |
| 19 | ‘ Not eating Becky 's food I can understand , Goldie , but really — I should think my kitchen at least is kosher enough for you ! ’ |
| 20 | At this point in his work , Freud would be much more acceptable to modern thinkers , for he shows that he is not deriving man 's destructiveness from a similar instinct in animals . |
| 21 | Although mostly not accepting Lombroso 's explanation of it , they were virtually unanimous in their opinion that genius is indeed often accompanied by madness , even allowing for cases that could be ascribed to gross disease of the nervous system . |
| 22 | Even so , he would not disregard Dublin 's input — ‘ everyone listens , I listen , but the Government should not delay progress in any area where it is possible . |
| 23 | DAVID GOWER last night begged India not to cancel England 's winter tour because of ‘ a throwaway line ’ in his new autobiography . |
| 24 | If the Empire State Building of English football , the FA Premier League , can not recognise Mike 's ability in management , then what hope has my talent , three blocks away on the taxi rank , where the Multivite/Singletons Division Three languishes . |
| 25 | Portugal , which does not recognise Indonesia 's annexation of its former colony , said Mr Gusmao 's trial was a travesty . |
| 26 | The monoclonal antibody that did not cross react with these non-toxic cereals , did not recognise Frazer 's fraction III , a peptic-tryptic digest of wheat gluten which is known to be toxic . |
| 27 | However , he had not forgotten Selkirk 's death and , when we were alone , constantly speculated on how the Scotsman had been murdered and what his enigmatic rhyme could mean . |
| 28 | The managers might behave in a way that benefits themselves and does not maximize shareholders ' wealth . |
| 29 | Then we have a vote as to whether to accept or not to accept Mr 's addendum . |
| 30 | The following day , the Great Hural voted by 186 votes to 129 not to accept Byambasuren 's resignation . |