Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] [prep] [adj -er] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had n't told her grandmother about Buzz 's accident ; she did not want to further distress Elinor . |
| 2 | Given diminishing marginal utility of income , more income in one period can not compensate for lower income in another period . |
| 3 | I shall not refer to wider policy matters , or to matters that are currently subject to argument in the courts or on appeal , but I condemn the Government for running away from their responsibilities on Sunday trading . |
| 4 | Hurley did not improve on further acquaintance . |
| 5 | The Scottish Office , for example , has not moved to higher building regulation standards . |
| 6 | It is curious that the House of Commons is not seen to better advantage during the passage of legislation on criminal justice . |
| 7 | None that would not result in greater violence , greater bloodshed than that which we are already witnessing . ’ |
| 8 | However , although the new units are capable of speeds up to 75 mph , Mr Sargent said their introduction would not result in shorter journey times . |
| 9 | When syntactic information is not needed for further processing , it may be cleared from the short-term store . |
| 10 | Elections , for example , are not decided by those electors whose support for particular parties is relatively fixed , but by those relatively uncommitted individuals whose attitudes and voting choices may not set until nearer polling day . |
| 11 | If there is one family type in contemporary Britain , it is one that is not isolated from wider family connections . |
| 12 | We could not wish for greater clarity . |
| 13 | Should disaster overtake him and the dreadful rumours become reality , she Joan , alias Anne Mowbray , would not wish for longer life … |
| 14 | The second government report on the same issue drew attention to the wastage of very able working-class school-leavers who did not proceed to higher education . |
| 15 | ‘ It would not lead to better care or value for money , it would add hurdles and handicaps to the system . ’ |
| 16 | Weber 's vision of increasing rationalization and bureaucratization , under both capitalist and industrial socialist régimes , also led him to think that the advance in civilization would not lead to greater happiness for everyone . |
| 17 | In conclusion , the present study indicates that there is an increasing enterochromaffin like cell density with increasing gastrin concentration up to a certain level , and increasing the gastrin concentration above this level does not lead to further hyperplasia . |
| 18 | Justifying his veto , Bush , who vetoed a similar bill in March 1992 [ see p. 38814 ] , said that placing " broad conditions to China 's MFN renewal would not lead to faster progress in advancing our goals " . |
| 19 | An increased use of diagnostic imaging for pyloric stenosis did not lead to earlier diagnosis or better management . |
| 20 | Managers have agreed to 860 posts being created to cover computerisation but they have not acceded to further staffing demands . |
| 21 | He did not go into further detail about the morality or legality of nuclear use or nuclear deterrence , partly no doubt because he favoured an effective world-wide prohibition on nuclear weapons production ( Spaight , 1947 , p. 218 ) and therefore hoped that such issues would not arise . |
| 22 | At this or any stage it may be that one or both of them finds that initial attraction is not supported by later experience . |
| 23 | Any empirical study ( a category to which lexical semantics , as outlined in this book , undoubtedly belongs ) must rest , at some point , on a body of primary data , whose factuality is not questioned , and which is not subjected to further analysis . |
| 24 | Especially when the applicant recently suggested , and I quote , we should not indulge in further procrastination in reaching an early decision on this application . |
| 25 | The lack of difference in either hormonal or symptomatic responses suggests that an earlier change in cerebral function with porcine insulin is not associated with earlier warning during hypoglycaemia and may be deleterious . |
| 26 | Surprisingly , slow talking on its own was not associated with later reading difficulties or low intelligence . |
| 27 | Between 3 and 11% of patients will develop sustained ventricular arrhythmias following MI and 50% of these occur within the first 48 hours , and if not associated with further ischaemia , pump failure or multivessel disease they carry a good prognosis . |
| 28 | This structural attempt , although not referring to earlier work in English by Leopold and Langbein ( 1962 ) or Chorley and Kennedy ( 1971 ) affords one indication of the way in which a general energy-based approach is being sought . |
| 29 | Although Brixton has £180m of borrowings , all but a small proportion of this is borrowed at fixed rates so it does not suffer from higher interest rates . |
| 30 | At one hour solubilisation was ≤90% and did not increase after further incubation for up to 24 hours . |