Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Within hours of the closure of the polls , news of Aristide 's victory led to scenes of national euphoria not witnessed since the overthrow in 1986 of the notorious Duvalier family dictatorship . |
| 2 | The earliest steam-pumps of Thomas Newcomen and others in the eighteenth century were not erected from the kind of detailed and accurate drawings customary by the nineteenth . |
| 3 | The next day was hot and sunny , but I needed food and water , so I could not stay on the moor . |
| 4 | Your talk will be the first item on the agenda you need not stay for the rest of the meeting unless you want to . |
| 5 | ‘ You 'll not stay for the wedding ? |
| 6 | ‘ And now , knowing the truth , or as much as I 'm prepared to divulge , will you not stay for the wedding ? |
| 7 | Just it was a beautiful day , so I said why not stay for an hour , so we got out , out , in , so we , as it is , , you know we just went round a little bit , and it 's very tidy and nice , biscuits . |
| 8 | ‘ You snored all night , ’ he said with relish , and Cermait got up and removed himself from this low vulgar company , because you could not stay in a room with people who told the High Queen that you snored . |
| 9 | Bosses of the Tory-controlled authority say she can not stay in the school because she lives outside the priority area . |
| 10 | They did not stay in the water long . |
| 11 | If the leverage was too high , the needle would not stay in the groove without the weight upon the point being increased . |
| 12 | As the Dragoons were still looking for him , he would not stay in the house but had a small cave dug nearby , with a gorse bush to hide the entrance . |
| 13 | Her brothers went through similar reactions with all the horrors of war to disturb their faith , and two did not stay in the Salvation Army . |
| 14 | He regretted that as teachers of the deaf they were inadequately trained , underpaid and overworked and therefore did not stay in the profession . |
| 15 | She did not stay in the room for long ; it was too full of Bella . |
| 16 | Like Flynn before him , Fonda can not stay in the town he has tamed and rides out at the fade-out into the desert . |
| 17 | Maybe I 'm just being traditional in my tastes ; it is probably important to watch the compilation in small doses and not sit through the whole three hours as I did . |
| 18 | ‘ The defence does not arise on a plea of autrefois convict , but on the well-established rule at common law , that where a person has been convicted and punished for an offence by a court of competent jurisdiction , transit in rem judicatam , that is , the conviction shall be a bar to all further proceedings for the same offence , and he shall not be punished again for the same matter ; otherwise there might be two different punishments for the same offence . |
| 19 | This problem would not arise with the assumption of average cost pricing but other , potentially more intractable problems would then have to be tackled , in particular how such behaviour could be reconciled with the idea that firms are profit maximizing organizations . |
| 20 | If the person who caused the nuisance can not be found and it is clear that the nuisance did not arise as the result of the act , default or sufferance of the owner or occupier , the local authority itself may take steps to abate it and prevent a recurrence . |
| 21 | This right does not arise under the SGA where the contract provides for delivery in more than one consignment , since there has been no breach in respect of goods not yet delivered , however reasonable it is for the buyer to fear that there will be in the future . |
| 22 | This fear does not arise from a view of themselves as unskilled in formal police requirements , for no policemen or women would express that they suspect this of themselves , although some admit to suspecting it of others . |
| 23 | Electricity does not arise from the wall socket , nor even from the power station . |
| 24 | My surprise does not arise from the possibility of a Government defeat over the social chapter but from the fact that it is only now that such a story has found its way onto the front pages . |
| 25 | Authority descended from above : it did not arise from the will of the majority of the people below . |
| 26 | He wants no reform , for the end of his abominable book is to show that the sufferings of the people do not arise from the want of reform ; but from the ’ indiscreet breeding of women ’ . ’ |
| 27 | The idea that information about identifiable individuals must be handled with care is not new ; it does not arise from the use of computers to process such information , though the rapid development of computer technology in the 1950s and 1960s brought the issue into sharp relief . |
| 28 | There was a conspiracy among Labour Members to put on the record points that do not arise from the report . |
| 29 | Assuming there is a transfer of value and consequently a reduction in the value of the estate of Mr X which does not arise from the disposal of excluded property , and further assuming that the transfer is not an exempt transfer , one is left with a chargeable transfer on which inheritance tax is payable starting at nil per cent ( the nil rate band ) and 40 per cent . |
| 30 | The error of rationalism , in Oakeshott 's argument , does not arise from the application of scientific methods to non-scientific material , but rather results from a mistaken understanding of the nature of reason . |