Example sentences of "[not/n't] [adv] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many do not successfully complete this journey as anemones are often a limited resource on the reef and most of the fry are eaten by predators before they can reach protection . |
| 2 | When a Devonian stage in Canada may be 10 000 feet thick and a Jurassic stage in Sicily may be thinner than its characteristic ammonites , we can not altogether ignore sheer size . |
| 3 | A typical example is of the large , London-based public company with a warehouse in South Wales where obsolete stock was not properly stored one Friday evening and radioactive material drained from it into the local river . |
| 4 | Another factor was raised in a case in which the government did not properly consult local authorities ( as required by statute ) before making some regulations : by the time the application to revoke the regulations was heard , they had been in operation for some time and to revoke them would have caused considerable administrative inconvenience which could not be justified given that no real complaint was made about the substance of the regulations . |
| 5 | Debbie Jones , who co-ordinated the SSD 's response , describes the forms as a blunt instrument which do not properly measure disabled children 's progress . |
| 6 | Its view of corporate governance is rather limited and it does not properly address corporate governance as the network of accountability relationships that exists between stakeholders in a company . |
| 7 | The final year of the Occupation did not fundamentally alter this status . |
| 8 | Qualities that might generate and recoup excellent work in the classroom ( including , for instance , risk-taking , creativity , originality , the valuing of independence and initiative , a questioning and critical approach , etc. , none of which appear on the DES 's own list ) might not most endear new teachers to their colleagues ; and qualities like ‘ tidy appearance ’ that may be essential for staffroom acceptance may be relatively unimportant to children . |
| 9 | Their experiments were criticised because they had not rigorously excluded unconscious cues that might have been provided by the human trainers , as in the case of the famous German horse , Clever Hans . |
| 10 | This means , among other things , that the electoral system should be one that does not effectively disenfranchise large sections of the citizenry , while at the same time it must produce a government that will be both effective and accountable . |
| 11 | It argued that without them : it would not be possible , in practice , to operate a system of resale price maintenance because it would be impracticable for each publisher to specify his own conditions of sale ; booksellers would find it impossible to comply with all the varied terms imposed by different publishers ; booksellers would lose their assurance that they were not being undercut ; and the Association itself could not effectively monitor individual resale agreements . |
| 12 | But , although these concepts ( standardness , eliteness , carefulness ) are of different orders ( and we shall return to these distinctions ) , Dobson does not apparently see any reason to keep them separate . |
| 13 | The closed conformation in this latter structure does not apparently have torsion-angle train , as judged from the stereo diagram of the active centre . |
| 14 | Louis IX did not apparently take any steps to prevent Henry from using an obsolete and illegal instrument . |
| 15 | With mind all is opposite ; minds are not substantial , do not apparently obey physical laws , can not be directly observed or inspected , unless it is my own mind that is in question . |
| 16 | We can not literally weigh religious truth-claims or look at them through a micro- scope . |
| 17 | It was a wonder they had not all mauled each other to death long ago and left the damp , chilly coastline unpeopled except for howling birds . |
| 18 | Not entirely sober one evening in 1832 , Turner entered a Preston temperance meeting for a joke but came out converted . |
| 19 | Even the most experienced police interrogator can not entirely avoid leading questions , simply because he can not know what the witness actually knows or what really happened . |
| 20 | Anthropology for Eliot did not remake the myths , but showed how they had , while becoming the possessions of high culture , transmitted and not entirely transmuted primitive origins . |
| 21 | Yet the portrayal of sexual violence , combined with Emilia 's protest , leaves the impression that the conclusion does not entirely resolve thematic contradictions . |
| 22 | I do not entirely decry such tactics . |
| 23 | They have taken great pains to eliminate explanations based on freak signals from side walls , or from inanimate objects ( although we can not entirely discount such hypotheses until we have specifically investigated them ) . |
| 24 | The foregoing , while not entirely eliminating such cases , would probably reduce them . |
| 25 | The overall impression of similarity can not entirely mask significant differences between these districts . |
| 26 | The largest specimen here does not greatly exceed 2 cm in length . |
| 27 | No , I think that we had a fairly clear idea , certainly on the pension fund , we 've not obviously got accurate numbers , a clear idea of the broad er , shape of , of the problems and erm , that allowed us , without having to wait for very accurate figures , to draw the conclusions about the scale of the problem , the amount of investment we 'd like to , we need to make and thus erm , whether or not it was of interest to pursue . |
| 28 | The man who , up to then , had experienced 18 years as a player at the highest level revealed how the sack made him determined to prove he had not suddenly become second rate . |
| 29 | But by the time Parasites Of Heaven was written an intensely negative aspect is unveiled : ‘ The nightmares do not suddenly develop happy endings , I merely step out of them . ’ |
| 30 | That does not necessarily create any problem for doctors or hospitals . |