Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] [pron] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ And a holiday abroad each year to make up for not seeing you much over the past while ! ’ |
| 2 | Not seeing it right at the minute . |
| 3 | However , given the small size of our anticipated samples and the fact that they would not lend themselves easily to quantitative analysis it was decided to focus in this study upon qualitative data . |
| 4 | Following on from this , the superficial certainties of theoretical abstraction do not lend themselves easily to neat policy prescription , theoretical writing is necessarily partial , of limited value in helping people to see urban crisis from a different perspective . |
| 5 | Moreover , the proposed business units would span several establishments and would not lend themselves easily to rapid consolidation . |
| 6 | It is difficult to judge the material of the shroud from its marble representation , for sculpture does not lend itself easily to such subtleties . |
| 7 | The dairy-type conformation does not lend itself readily to beef production and though steers will fatten they grow rather slowly . |
| 8 | His family , friends and colleagues were not to see him again for 19 months . |
| 9 | Do not eat anything else between meals . |
| 10 | In July 1914 while preparing the volume for publication , he confided to his close friend Florence Henniker : ‘ Some of them I rather shrink from printing — those I wrote just after Emma died , when I looked back at her as she had originally been , & when I felt miserable lest I had not treated her considerately in her latter life . |
| 11 | Perhaps student life does not prepare anyone adequately for the daily slog of an ordinary job , and after two or three attempts to settle into a career in sales management and even in personnel , she had taken off for America . |
| 12 | That there is a certain amount of confusion and inconsistency in the arguments does not make them less to be feared . |
| 13 | She did not want him anywhere near it . |
| 14 | What are you thinking that you would not want anyone else in the town to hear ? |
| 15 | Roman does not want you here at all , Signorina Hastings . |
| 16 | Look for the good in your stepgrandchildren and try not to compare them unfavourably with your natural grandchildren . |
| 17 | He could not answer her quite at once . |
| 18 | We explained that we had not realized their boat was part of the Coast Guard and that we had not heard them aright in their orders to stop . |
| 19 | PRESIDENT Mikhail Gorbachev has appealed to the Russian Republic not to go it alone on reform and warned that the Soviet Union stood on the brink of an economic and political abyss . |
| 20 | How can I be sure you have not given it away to another ? " |
| 21 | He declared that he could see no alternative to perestroika , but he won loud and prolonged applause when he observed that " all manner of rash radicalism , improvisations and dithering have not given us much in five years " . |
| 22 | I 'm not eating it quickly at all , it 's just catching a filling every time I eat it . |
| 23 | He did not restrict himself merely to giving his assent to publication , but added his comments , as , for example , on Two Treatises … concerning Infant Baptism ( 1645 ) by John Tombes [ q.v. ] , where he acknowledged that the author was a godly man ‘ and of the Presbyterian judgement , though I am not of opinion with him ’ and he agreed to the publication of these treatises to encourage further contributions to the debate on infant baptism . |
| 24 | A road haulage business seeking to expand need not restrict itself entirely to the road transport industry . |
| 25 | ‘ The archbishop can not compensate me enough for slavery in Salzburg … |
| 26 | The important thing about that Bob is not to accept it just at face value . |
| 27 | Like other Ministers , Chancellors do not confine themselves solely to matters where they have a departmental interest . |
| 28 | However , we shall not discuss them further in this book . |
| 29 | She had not expected him home for at least another hour . |
| 30 | I must admit the ‘ truth ’ did not smack me right between the eyes or make me leap like Archimedes from his bath . |