Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Will you not stay a little while , Miss Abbott ? |
| 2 | In the economically more advanced countries , however , there does not exist a close relationship between age at first marriage and birth of first child , owing mainly to postponement of first birth through contraceptive use . |
| 3 | Caspar managed not to breathe a huge sigh of relief , because this sounding very promising indeed . |
| 4 | I shall merely be requesting information about a taste which puzzles me , not demanding a further reason without which the whole string of answers will prove to be baseless . |
| 5 | I can hear them telling the architect not to spare a single sou . |
| 6 | ‘ I want directors to use black actors and just portray them as ordinary people , not make a big deal about it . |
| 7 | Although it was initially believed that lowering mucosal prostaglandin values in ulcerative colitis would be therapeutic , and that the beneficial effect of therapeutic agents sulfasalazine and 5-ASA analogues is through their ability to inhibit cyclo-oxygenase , it isnow believed that a simple decrease in prostaglandins does not elicit a beneficial effect in ulcerative colitis and may even be harmful . |
| 8 | You would not think a broken shoe . |
| 9 | With this lot , we 've got A add B , that 's one number , take away A minus B. That 's going to come to A add B , A take away A or A minus A and then take away A minus B , taking away A minus B is the same as adding a B. So the A take away A go out and this comes to two B. Now this is not using a long way , a long way round to do it . |
| 10 | They are nevertheless pleased not to see a greater erosion of their support after the collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe and the virtual disappearance of Communist parties in the West . |
| 11 | ‘ Not to see a mad woman . ’ |
| 12 | v. Henn and Darby , where the Court of Appeal held that the term ‘ quantitative restrictions ’ in Article 30 of the EEC Treaty did not cover a total prohibition on imports on the grounds that such a restriction was not related to a quantitative measure , whereas the case law of the European Court had clearly established that the term in question covered both outright bans and quotas on imports . |
| 13 | In such situations , Peter Shilton 's frame can not cover a whole multitude of sins . |
| 14 | While this might seem to be stating the obvious , the fact is that this issue has not received a great deal of systematic ( as opposed to post hoc ) discussion in the literature . |
| 15 | The UFD , claiming that the government had not received a popular mandate , warned President Taya that its supporters would not accept the result . |
| 16 | Ecalpemos , after all , was not Greek and did not even sound so to Rufus who , unlike Adam , had not received a classical education . |
| 17 | A Downing Street spokeswoman said later they had not received a formal request from Mr Rushdie for a meeting . |
| 18 | As for making up and imposition , the tasks most often cited as barred to women , they could certainly not be carried out by anyone who had not received a proper training , and were rightly regarded as skilled work . |
| 19 | He described himself as a victim of a US plot to turn his country into a colony , and alleged that he had not received a fair trial . |
| 20 | Councillor Malachi Curran , the chairman of the Down Economic Development Agency , claimed the area had not received a fair share in the past and there was an onus on the government to ensure Down was not neglected . |
| 21 | Diplomats asked Buckingham Palace to warn her against any trip to the island , which has not received a royal visitor for many years . |
| 22 | Moreover , there is no reason to believe that , with improvements , particularly in relation to housing , labour mobility programmes could not affect a larger number of workers . |
| 23 | However , we were able to obtain the results for 1989 through 1991 , and they do not paint a pretty picture . |
| 24 | Troops will now be offered to the UN to aid mercy missions — but not to combat a bloody guerrilla war . |
| 25 | My understanding is that a small group need not prepare a consolidated cash flow statement , even if the holding company of that group prepared group accounts . |
| 26 | Much as he desired to make cuts , Eisenhower in the end decided not to risk a general crisis in the Atlantic alliance by precipitate unilateral action . |
| 27 | In the meantime it is essential not to risk a further pregnancy and other contraceptive measures must be taken see above . |
| 28 | It was a sad but inevitable outcome of not maintaining a proper balance between productivity and personality . |
| 29 | On March 19 the federal Cabinet decided not to implement a planned amnesty for former East German agents of the Ministry for State Security ( " Stasi " ) [ see p. 37828 ] . |
| 30 | This issue was followed up in qualitative interviews with a panel of young people , for while we can not make a simple equation between aloneness and the experience of social and psychological difficulty , young people do seem to need to interact with friends in resolving some of their conflicts . |