Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] [adv] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Baffled by the elderly woman 's total animosity and unreasonable behaviour , she had at first responded by being anxiously deferential — abjectly agreeing to every outrageous demand on her husband 's precious time , despite not seeing very much of him herself . |
| 2 | The reasons for the Special Forces not proving more effective in this desperate year of 1940 , lay as much in the political problems and strategy as in shortages of equipment . |
| 3 | But you must not think too much about her . ’ |
| 4 | If you know that a dessert is likely to be particularly rich but it is something you relish , then do not eat so much of the main course ; you will then be hungry enough to enjoy the dessert without feeling sick or bloated . |
| 5 | ‘ Which came first ? ’ he asked , exerting himself not to sound too eager for the answer . |
| 6 | A Roman coin came from under the tower at the restoration of 1855 , but one can not make too much of that . |
| 7 | ‘ You — you must not refine too much upon — upon what transpired between us . |
| 8 | ‘ Yer mammy said see an' not eat too much at the Exhibition . ’ |
| 9 | I have not heard so much of this recently . |
| 10 | We discussed how to identify the full costs of courses , and the mechanisms by which funding could flow , which could include funds through students , but we did not rule out all of this being government money . |
| 11 | After all , she had not given up any of her friends for him . |
| 12 | But that would not explain why some of the sermons that have had the greatest impact on us have not necessarily been high on the performance scale . |
| 13 | I 'm really , really , really changed dramatically from not eating very much to scoffing my face at every single available opportunity . |
| 14 | State bureaucracies can not remain completely subordinate to political control , as the democratic elitist model requires , without some sacrifice of expertise and specialized division of labour , which is a major rationale for instituting bureaucratic organization . |
| 15 | on radio , television , sponsorship , sessions and producer work I take 20 per cent because those things are often rather fiddly , involving quite a lot of work and not producing very much of a financial return . |
| 16 | Could he not deliver just one of them , he had asked , looking at Goibniu slyly from the corners of his eyes . |
| 17 | It is important not to concentrate too much on ideology . |
| 18 | Do not tack too much in the early stages of the beat and do not let yourself be forced the wrong way . |
| 19 | They 're over the river by this time , and so should I have been if you had not come so prompt to your hour . |
| 20 | It has been said that it is best not to know too much about salami and other sausages , in the same way that ignorance about haggis aids its enjoyment and easy digestion . |
| 21 | In this state it can seem as if there is a drive not to know too much about the other person . |
| 22 | Very quietly and not pressing too much on details at first , getting him talking . |
| 23 | Supporters of the change were fortified by the knowledge , revealed by the Home Secretary in his speech , that of the thirty five judges in the Queen 's Bench Division ( including the Lord Chief Justice who conducted the poll ) , twenty-five were in favour of majority verdicts , provided that the majority did not fall below ten to two . |
| 24 | Because of a longstanding health condition , her father was not considered physically suitable for the armed forces and so he worked in a munitions factory not too far from their home . |
| 25 | The Crown Prosecution Service is to prepare a report on the case of a man cleared of raping a 16-year-old girl because his alleged victim was not considered mentally capable of giving evidence . |
| 26 | Ah yes but it 's not tipped correctly most of the time . |
| 27 | Perhaps the Russians would have felt the pressure then and not looked so silky on the ball . |
| 28 | The danger with this was that the longer it went on the more likely it became that both players and fans would get their priorities wrong , so that the feeling of ‘ we may as well concentrate on what we 're good at and not bother too much about Tests ’ would become steadily more predominant . |
| 29 | ( a ) Why might society wish to ban drugs that neither help nor harm the diseases they are claimed to cure ? ( b ) It is sometimes argued that regulatory bodies will be blamed for bad things that happen in spite of the regulations ( e.g. a plane crash ) but not blamed so much for good things that are prevented ( e.g. the quick availability of a safe and useful drug ) by stringent tests and regulations . |
| 30 | He had not expected that much for such a simple task . |