Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] in a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Eli himself for the most part does not appear in a bad light , but as the one responsible for the proper functioning of the sanctuary , he is implicated in his sons ' guilt , is at one point accused of sharing their greed , and is doomed to share in great disgrace about to befall his family . |
| 32 | Bukharin argued that armaments production ‘ has an altogether different significance : a gun is not transformed into an element of a new production cycle : gunpowder shot into the air does not appear in a different guise in the next cycle at all . |
| 33 | Military production has an altogether different significance : a gun is not transformed into an element of a new productive cycle : gun powder is shot into the air and does not appear in a different guise in the next cycle at all … |
| 34 | ( 1 ) This chapter is not written in a standard academic register ( such as you might use in an essay ) . |
| 35 | He had thought that children were supposed to be sharp and un-sentimental and though Emmie had not written in a sentimental way exactly , she had written about her family as if they were perfect . |
| 36 | The Bible is not written in a secret spiritual code which must be cracked if its message is to be understood . |
| 37 | The story is not written in a didactic style . |
| 38 | We are also very strongly influenced by our expectations ; if we have heard and understood half a sentence , it seems that our brain is already guessing at what the rest of it will be before it is heard , and is certainly not acting in a passive way like a simple machine . |
| 39 | While members were asked not to behave in a representative manner , the source of their nomination ( councils , fellow doctors , nurses and trade unionists ) made it very difficult for them not to consider ramifications on their constituencies . |
| 40 | What Gowie means probably is that he does n't expect anybody to like him and , because of that , he tends not to behave in a likable way . |
| 41 | People do not negotiate in a direct and immediate way with material conditions ; the negotiation is structured through consciousness . |
| 42 | I.C.A.C. sought to appeal , and the occupiers contested the jurisdiction of the Court of Appeal , on the ground that the order of the judge was not made in a civil cause or matter . |
| 43 | If a trader has just started in business he will not succeed in a passing-off action but a newly registered trade mark has immediate protection . |
| 44 | And even though ‘ Trout ’ has a message , it 's not done in a tedious , obvious way — it does n't hammer you over the head . ’ |
| 45 | Have your detective say it is very important to tell whether something is or is not done in a certain way ; then show that thing being done in either of the ways mentioned ; but immediately before that happens put in , quite boldly , what it is you want to slip past your reader . |
| 46 | If they knew for certain that a vote of censure could not result in a general election , but would simply bring about a reshuffle in the Government , their conduct would become more robust . |
| 47 | The effect of the introduction of the 1987 expanded AIDS case definition was much less in England and Wales than elsewhere and did not result in a sharp rise in incidence among homosexual/bisexual men ( figure ) . |
| 48 | Doubling the amount of protein present did not result in a higher level of crosslinking in the presence of NCp7 . |
| 49 | Lack of appropriate data systems , lack of involvement of clinicians and a basically top-down , finance-led approach , did not result in a great deal of success for this initiative . |
| 50 | How many community language teachers have a sensitivity to variation within their own language which does not result in a damaging negation of the forms of language which their pupils are bringing into the classroom ? |
| 51 | The 1857 Divorce Act , which removed divorce from church jurisdiction , did not result in a rapid increase in the divorce rate . |
| 52 | If it does not result in a changed life , a holy life , there is no reality about it — there is , in short , no justification . |
| 53 | In this instance , alteration to LS-PCR conditions does not result in a significant alteration in the amplification pattern obtained with the female DNA . |
| 54 | Preoperative radiation treatment did not result in a significant prolongation of survival ( surgery group 8.5 months ; radiation plus surgery group 10.5 months ) . |
| 55 | The preoperative radiotherapy did not result in a significant prolongation of survival time . |
| 56 | Indeed , in most cases there is no effect at all on the premium as these sort of policies give cover of a type that will not result in a reduced premium just because a few people more or less are covered at any one time in a particular situation . |
| 57 | Mr French was also convinced that set aside will not result in a 15 per cent cut in cereal production this year . |
| 58 | My rules are to cut down drinking , control my temper if I am drinking , not to drink in a such a large group and not to waste much money . |
| 59 | So why is a Catholic newspaper publicising someone who does not believe in a divine Christ ? |
| 60 | I do not believe in a nuclear civil war in the Soviet Union — I think that Nazarbaev and Krawczuk want to hang on to their nuclear weapons as a defence against a Russian attack . |