Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] [adj] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He felt that he could not stay another night in the house . |
| 2 | Suppose we were old friends who were meeting again after not seeing each other for many years . |
| 3 | He says these new recruits to higher education , entering universities in large numbers are not seeing long-term change towards the market , so much as a reduced staff:student ratio , meaning less one-to-one contact , and larger , less frequent tutorial groups . |
| 4 | If Lord Eldon used any language which could be so interpreted , we must conclude that he either did not guard himself so cautiously as he intended , or that he did not lend that degree of attention to the legal doctrine connected with the case before him , which he was accustomed to afford . |
| 5 | Airtours might not repeat last year 's extraordinary feats , but its cash pile and cautious management should ensure that it does not lend further credence to the current theory — that this year 's fastest grower is next year 's insolvency . |
| 6 | Secondly , Pache 's style does not lend any air of the dynamism needed to steer Bull out of its current mire . |
| 7 | And as long as you 're I do n't care what star you 're following you 're not bringing those camel through my garden ! |
| 8 | In the run-up to the country 's first multiparty elections for 43 years , scheduled for March 25 , the ruling Hungarian Socialist Party ( HSP ) was shaken by revelations during January that the Interior Ministry 's security police had not stopped covert surveillance of the activities of opposition politicians , despite the enactment during the past 12 months of laws and constitutional amendments creating a multiparty system [ see pp. 36399 ; 36960-61 ] . |
| 9 | ‘ I feel that it could be boxed in by bureacracy and not make much contribution to a company 's performance . ’ |
| 10 | Erm a light bulb is not using much electricity in a given time . |
| 11 | Some became pregnant through contraceptive failure , such as missing taking the Pill for a day , or a faulty condom , but most do it through not using any kind of contraception at all . |
| 12 | Nevertheless , four out of five of them were not using any form of birth control . |
| 13 | But , more importantly , I have learnt not to see any stage of my life as the final one . |
| 14 | Later , at least for many years , she was not to see this time as part of her life , and perhaps therefore it need not now be told at length . |
| 15 | If the birds or Australia had not received that degree of attention from the scientific ornithologist which their interest demanded ’ , he wrote in his preface to Mammals of Australia , ‘ I can assert , without fear of contradiction , that its highly curious and interesting Mammals have been still less investigated . |
| 16 | However the representatives of NEC and Fujitsu reserved comment , saying that they had not received official notice of their position and that they looked to the future to reveal this . |
| 17 | Teacher Teresa 's bitter family said in the seven months since the accident they had not received one expression of remorse or sorrow from Mrs Fenton . |
| 18 | First Edition ( AP ) — The World Health Organisation said Bulgaria 's ethnic Turks have not received equal access to or equal use of the public health system |
| 19 | They had not received antimalarial treatment within the preceding 7 days and were 4–14 years old . |
| 20 | The police had not received proper support from Labour Ministers , leading to poor pay and loss of experienced manpower . |
| 21 | I know that many sportsmen have not received this kind of support , so I am all the more grateful for it . |
| 22 | Finally , one area which has not received full justice in our coverage is the extensive empirical tradition of examining industries case by case to develop views on efficiency . |
| 23 | However , it found that funds donated by miners in East Germany , Hungary and the Soviet Union were highly likely to have contributed to a trust held on behalf of the NUM by the Miners ' Trade Union International , a forerunner of the Paris-based International Miners ' Organization ( IMO — of which Scargill was president ) , and that the NUM had not received any benefit from this trust , although the IMO had received " substantial advantages " at the NUM 's expense . |
| 24 | Crawford reminded the committee that he had not received any salary for a month , but offered to accept £245 for termination . |
| 25 | She and her husband Don , 37 , a pathology researcher at nearby Cambridge University , had not received any warning of repossession . |
| 26 | Paul Hunter , who runs a coach company which ferries schoolchildren to and from sports grounds , claims he has not received any money from the council for the service in recent months . |
| 27 | I certainly have not received any communication from any individual in my ward in favour of hunting . |
| 28 | Only aerial defence depicted in the film was the efforts of two Air Corps pilots , George Welch and Kenneth Taylor , in their P–40s which had been parked at the auxiliary field at Haleiwa and not received any attention from the Japanese . |
| 29 | Channel 7 had assumed that the codes for accountants and solicitors were ‘ very much the same ’ and , said Mr Hyde , they had not received any indication from the Institute that a problem existed . |
| 30 | has also not received any mail since our arrival . |