Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] [adj] [noun sg] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Can you not stay another day to sail round the island ? ’ |
| 2 | I do not think that research has gone as fast as it should ! |
| 3 | It was a fair result , because I did not think either side did enough to win . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I do not think any publisher has given any journalist that chance before in the United Kingdom . ’ |
| 5 | But I do not think any traveller has ever been in a worse situation than I was then . |
| 6 | Penny Junor does not think this decision has been taken yet but believes that the second option is possible . |
| 7 | I do not think this presentation advances the arguments . |
| 8 | I do not think this reversal did much to uphold the seriousness or credibility of the sporting authorities ; it did , however , solve certain in-house problems and — until Monza — lower the temperature in the great debate about Ferrari ‘ influence ’ . |
| 9 | There is a need to recognise and further consider the position of male carers , while not using this issue to deflect us from the more general issues which arise for women through entrenched assumptions that this is their ‘ natural ’ role . |
| 10 | But you , you 're right that if we stick to somewhere between six hundred and seven hundred as , as a erm even a basic kind of subsistence I E you 've just got enough in just , you , you 're just not using enough food to get yourself up to two hundred , two thousand calories a day at that rate you were still being taxed on , a at a rate of almost twenty percent of your , of your income . |
| 11 | The last three elections were all foregone conclusions , and the last-minute swings against the party that was clearly going to win in two of them — against the Tories in 1979 and 1983 — probably only reflected some floating voters ' desire not to see any party have too large a majority . |
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| 13 | * Evidence is growing that BSE may be transmitted through the generations , after a third cow which has not received contaminated feed has been placed under a restriction order on the grounds of suspected infection . |
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| 15 | ‘ And did it not make good sense to tell Rober' what is going on ? ’ |
| 16 | The report 's recommendations are in line with the Industry 's argument that it does not make economic sense to close Britain 's nuclear power plants early and that it is far cheaper to run the stations than to close them . |
| 17 | When overseas selling operations are only small scale and it would not make economic sense to carry out such operations oneself . |
| 18 | Of course , they may not accept the beliefs , attitudes , or intentions that are expressed ; one can always object to what somebody else says , but it does not make much sense to do this unless one understands its meaning . |
| 19 | Would it not make more sense to have a moratorium on pit closures in the interests of jobs , the balance of payments and European energy conservation ? |
| 20 | ‘ It does not make any sense to hold it here any more . |
| 21 | He did not make any effort to adapt any aspect of the liturgy and did not even mention the occasion . |
| 22 | He did not make any attempt to eliminate from his voice his complete disbelief in what he was saying . |
| 23 | The Greeks at least did not make any attempt to conceal their ignorance of Latin . |
| 24 | Do not make any attempt to try and ‘ knit ’ with this yarn , will you ? |
| 25 | According to Land Bank 's head , former Greenpeace chairman Bryn Jones : " it does not make commercial sense to use more energy collecting the stuff [ through kerbside schemes ] than can be gained from recycling it " . |
| 26 | Thus it is possible that a clause that did not make sufficient disclosure to preclude an action for breach of duty on the grounds of informed consent , might provide a defence as an effective exclusion clause . |
| 27 | A person who decides not to be tested need not make this decision known to their doctor , but if the question arises of having a blood test for any purpose , they should ask specifically what the purpose of the blood test is . |
| 28 | I do not make this point to suggest that all these theories are wrong in every detail , but to underline the importance of looking behind the apparently innocent measures on which so much of the global-system literature is based . |
| 29 | I do not want central Government to say how many teachers should be at a school in Barnet or how much should be spent on books in Barnet . |
| 30 | An automatic machine does not want mere automata to look after it . |