Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] [pron] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though Premier John Major has said he will not sack his chancellor before the Spring Budget its is very likely he will be forced to dismiss him soon after . |
| 2 | Recognizing that authoritarians did not phrase their bigotry in unqualified statements , Adorno et al . |
| 3 | Charlotte did not phrase her response as a rebuke , but it had much the same effect . |
| 4 | She came through the front door of the shop and was a little surprised at not seeing her husband behind the counter . |
| 5 | Nigel was paid for his work , but he hated not seeing his piece in print . |
| 6 | Instead of threatening Cumani , the punter with the violent rather than lucky streak should be kicking himself for not biding his time before backing Shellac . |
| 7 | He castigated the illustrator of Time Wasted Away for not bringing his work in line with that of Miss [ sic ] Vanessa Bell and , among other things , for depicting the sun as an eight-pointed starfish in the sky . |
| 8 | But even this has not stopped my love for canoeing as I have been out many times since and this summer , when I was at camp , I was going down a weir , when I got caught in a stopper at the bottom and nearly drowned myself again . |
| 9 | We have to live in the present , not make our present in the past . |
| 10 | For example , she was deeply opposed to opening in Manchester , as she did not think her type of customer lived there , but preferred to be associated with the older university towns or cathedral cities such as Bath or Edinburgh . |
| 11 | It is possible , too , that in striking the rock as he was told to do in Exodus 17 Moses this time has further infringed the divine command , though nothing was said explicitly about him not using his rod in that way . |
| 12 | But we are not shirking our duty as tipsters . |
| 13 | It does not cover your car for damage in an accident , therefore it is usually the sort of policy taken out by people with old cars . |
| 14 | Now what the Capitulary of Thionville actually says is : ‘ When famine or plague occurs , men should not wait for our edict but should straightway pray to God for his mercy ; as to scarcity of food in this present year , let each man help his own people as best he can , and not sell his corn at too high a price . ’ |
| 15 | In December 1977 the Headmistress of St Anselm 's School in Canterbury , one of Britain 's leading Roman Catholic Comprehensives , allowed a teacher who was a National Front candidate to continue in her post alter she had promised that her National Front views would not affect her treatment to black pupils . |
| 16 | Men blend their behaviour less than women , but their androgyny and blending do not affect their susceptibility to traditional gender schemas ( Heilbrun 1984 ) . |
| 17 | The background to its conclusion in 1933 did not affect its character as a concession agreement , and the United Kingdom remained a third party . |
| 18 | S -adenosylhomocysteine , a SAM analogue lacking the S -methyl group , and with a neutral rather than positively charged sulphur atom , binds to the repressor but does not affect its affinity for the operator ( T. McNally , personal communication ) . |
| 19 | The death of the Empress does not affect my opera in the least , for none of the theatres have been closed and plays are being performed as usual . |
| 20 | If the Royal Navy is patrolling Britain 's coastal waters , your consumption of national defence does not affect our quantity of national defence . |
| 21 | Ford later said that the Jaguar-GM talks had not affected its own plans ‘ Today 's announcement does not affect our view in any way , and we still plan to acquire up to a 15 per cent holding in Jaguar , ’ said a Ford spokesman in Detroit . |
| 22 | That does not affect our commitment to safety and it has nothing to do with privatisation . |
| 23 | Ending the agreement , whether by you or the Bank [ see Conditions 9 and 13 ] will not affect your responsibility for withdrawals made before the agreement is ended . |
| 24 | Money from a redundancy payment should not affect your right to this benefit . |
| 25 | Money from a redundancy payment should not affect your right to this benefit . |
| 26 | Money from a redundancy payment should not affect your right to this benefit . |
| 27 | I ask you not to cheapen her life in your film . |
| 28 | It might perhaps have done so had Franco not delayed his assault in order to make a detour eastwards to Toledo . |
| 29 | For a start , America has proposed that Serbia be suspended from the Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe if it has not halted its aggression against Bosnia-Hercegovina by April 29 , the date on which delegates reconvene in Helsinki after the Easter break . |
| 30 | Robyn generally favours loose dark clothes , made of natural fibres , that do not make her body into an object of sexual attention . |