Example sentences of "[not/n't] [vb infin] a [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If we also consider thoughts about them qua spectacles , then we would say that I have not succeeded in thinking about them unless I am thinking about artefacts , thinking about items that can be worn on the nose , that aid vision , that are more-or-less breakable , that did not exist a thousand years ago , that this pair existed yesterday but did not exist in 1983 , and so on . |
| 2 | Consequently , the court can not make a prohibited steps order , or a specific issue order , to achieve a residence order . |
| 3 | It is essential , however — if we do not want a united states of Europe to retain the right , within a co-operative framework to try to forge a consensus on foreign policy — to make our own decisions . |
| 4 | Briefly the requirements for short story are for fictional narrative based er narrative based scripts of two thousand one hundred to two thousand three hundred words do not use a factual accounts or anything longer or shorter on this , nor can we consider 60 Writers Monthly |
| 5 | For all its frequent invocation as the ‘ concrete ’ , history must by definition entail a problematic represencing of an absence ; Derrida therefore argues that , even in its ‘ materialist ’ conceptualization , it can not avoid a certain metaphysics . |
| 6 | ( And yet I remember one morning — when confronted by a preliminary plate of very sour , very cold slices of orange I could not stop a few tears trickling miserably down my cheeks — a gruff voice coming from the other end of the table . |
| 7 | Paragraph ( ii ) above will apply only if your do not have a Legal Expenses section in your Holiday Insurance Policy . |
| 8 | Britain does not have a national police force under the control and direction of a central government department , any such notion having been rejected by the Royal Commission on the Police in 1962 . |
| 9 | When she tried to explain that she would now have to live on five shillings a week , she could not restrain a few tears . |
| 10 | he contends , America did not maintain a permanent arms economy due to the desire to reduce unemployment ; it was because of a real perception that the Soviet Union was a threat to the West . |
| 11 | Moreover , these dependent people do not reach a social services department in most cases unless the family can not care for them without help . |
| 12 | It is better to learn that the candidate can not put a few words together before he/she joins the company rather than after he/she is employed . |
| 13 | Although barbel are so stupid when they are feeding ravenously , they are not so stupid they can not learn a few tricks of their own to enable them to feed in the face of apparent danger . |
| 14 | ‘ I do n't think a few crocuses in Hyde Park are going to make much difference , ’ Estabrook said . |
| 15 | I still do n't know a few ideas though |
| 16 | Even if she 's afflicted with those dark curly sprouts which creep up from the bikini line , ultimately shrouding the bellybutton in a rich hirsute outcrop , she could n't give a fried calamari . |
| 17 | ‘ John goes for the foliage and I buy flowers ’ said Claudia , who likes bargains and does n't mind a few surprises . |
| 18 | Drying time : wearable within the hour after drying in a warm room — if you do n't mind a few minutes of clamminess at the obvious places where the material is thicker such as the pockets and waistband . |
| 19 | You see I could n't spend a hundred hours on a painting and only ask that amount of money . |
| 20 | Had to laugh yesterday towards the end of er our round , it was really tipping down , misty , fog , could n't see a hundred yards I had this almighty s I said well I 'll let the six iron , I did this almighty swing the ball went one way and the club went right up the top of a tree . |
| 21 | " What do we use in our lives now which people did n't have a hundred years ago ? " |
| 22 | So there 's no reason at all why you should n't have a few hours off . |
| 23 | But they would n't walk a few yards into the police station and tell anybody . |
| 24 | ‘ I did n't come a thousand miles , ’ he muttered into the microphone , ‘ to kill babies , or to support their killing . |
| 25 | ‘ He can count his good luck that he did n't come a few minutes earlier , ’ Rune said crisply . |
| 26 | Er , I 've been robbed and swindled , er I was burgled two months ago , my house was wrecked all my jewellery every thing taken simply because I had left my windows open slightly , now I 've got to sleep at night with all my windows closed and I do n't get a good nights sleep apart from feeling insecure any way and er the swindle er I trusted people and now I ca n't trust any body and that leaves you feeling very insecure . |
| 27 | it wo n't raise a bleeding cameras . |
| 28 | And do n't let a million postcards tell you otherwise . |
| 29 | ‘ And you certainly ca n't travel a hundred miles alone ! ’ |
| 30 | Of course , it might be said that a man in your position , if you 'll forgive the expression , is dieting either because his lover has threatened to leave him if he does n't shed a few pounds or because his lover has left him and he feels a need to , shall we say , freshen up . |