Example sentences of "[not/n't] [adv] [vb infin] [pron] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It should not perhaps surprise us that trade unions appear to have made less bargaining headway on the issues of job design than on the question of equipment design . |
| 2 | For all these reasons , the Bosnian government does not much want its own capital to become a safe haven . |
| 3 | Nevertheless , these apparently simple arrangements belie more complex interrelationships ( Fig. 85 ) : not all places had access to sufficient wood stocks , and owners of well-wooded land would not only supply their own estates but also sell wood to less-wooded estates . |
| 4 | We both know that if you were ever to find yourself in such an influential position , my sister 's inheritance would not long remain her own . ’ |
| 5 | The compensatory factor was that old-school professionals did not usually have their own transport and many a signature was cajoled out of them on their way to nearest railway station or tram or bus stop . |
| 6 | Today we are supposedly living in the first great secular age of history ( though do we not still worship our own pagan idols — of money and success ? ) . |
| 7 | The military did not always get its own way but it was in a strong position . |
| 8 | But some children , either through their experience of using tantrums to get their own way or through general strong will and temperament , will take a lot of teaching and repeated experiences to realize finally that they can not always get their own way . |
| 9 | For example , if the patient says ‘ I can not possibly measure my own blood glucose because I am at work all day ’ , the patient might be lost if the doctor were to insist . |
| 10 | The jungle in which they are isolated provides them with shelter but can not possibly offer them enough food . |
| 11 | The educationalist Sir Robert Gould once said that a child being educated in Great Britain could not possibly understand his own environment without understanding something about Christianity ; and he was right . |
| 12 | Language can not symbolically signal its own meaning but has to be contextually connected to yield indexical meaning , so it follows that some mutually agreed ground rules for co-operation have to be assumed . |
| 13 | Some managements set great store by cuttings but a tally of the column inches or volume of press cuttings does not really tell you all that much . |
| 14 | As we do not have intuitive knowledge in detail about states of language that are divergent from us in time , space or social space , we can not reliably project our own linguistic intuitions on to them . |
| 15 | WHEN a court is determining whether a natural mother is unreasonable in withholding consent to her child 's adoption , for the purposes of section 16 of the Adoption Act 1976 , the court must judge the mother 's reasonableness objectively , but must not simply substitute its own views for that of the mother . |
| 16 | The court did not simply substitute its own view because Congress had assigned the task primarily to the agency which , because of its greater experience , placed it in a better position to resolve the matter than the Court . |
| 17 | We do not even hold our own Ministers to account . |
| 18 | It will not even give him any power in Brittany , for if she comes here she loses whatever sway she has there . |
| 19 | It can not even decide its own procedures ( and has been prevented from so doing by the Conseil Constitutionel ) . |
| 20 | Frederica , who did not even make her own bed , acquired one or two odd skills . |
| 21 | McCartney and Harrison claim that the quality of the recording is so poor they can not even decipher their own parts , and allege two tracks are not Beatles recordings . |
| 22 | He made no announcement until 19 October , and perhaps did not even close his own mind until no more than a week earlier , but on 3 October , the same day that the Italian attack was eventually launched , he went to Bournemouth and for the first time in seven years addressed the Conservative Party Conference . |
| 23 | Lucy — listen ! — I can not even use my own words to call to you . |
| 24 | The carpeting of the floors served to enhance the illusion ; they could not even hear their own footsteps as they moved around . |
| 25 | The aim is to give an initial impression of efficiency ; if you can not even get your own act together what likelihood is there of your being of any use to anyone else ? |
| 26 | The implication of all this is not only that weak businesses do worse in absolute terms , but that they do not even realize their own potential . |
| 27 | This strangeness will very quickly pass in the same way as a capped tooth or new filling feels peculiar after a visit to the dentist yet , after a couple of days , we do not even notice it any more . |
| 28 | Now I could not even write my own poems to my satisfaction : I felt crippled . |
| 29 | A feature of suburbia is that many people do not even know their own neighbours ; certainly not those across the way . |
| 30 | We did not even have our own lavatories ; our employees had to go outside our part of the building to use communal facilities . |