Example sentences of "[indef pn] [vb -s] not [vb infin] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But what happens if within my design , horizontal line one does not contain all the colours used , or even has only one of the colours , as in the case of a pattern that has either horizontal stripes , or large areas of colour ? |
| 2 | Many people these days have a rather negative concept of health in that they tend to look on it as a state in which one does not feel ill or has no pain — in other words , a state of absence of illness . |
| 3 | ‘ One does not hasten such matters , ’ Jotan responded frostily . |
| 4 | One does not marry three women if one is an adult human being . ' ) . |
| 5 | Equally obviously this constitutes no reason at all if one does not hold this particular feature in high regard . |
| 6 | One does not meet so-called conceptual clusterers which generate definitions of the form a |
| 7 | The observed price of the object can then be decomposed and thought of as a weighted sum of the prices of each characteristic ; since one does not observe all the attributes , a part of the price of each drawing will remain unexplained , and contain the influence of time ( the trend , if any ) , as well as random elements ; this is the ‘ characteristic free ’ ( i.e. corrected for quality ) price of a drawing ; these prices can now be added and by taking annual averages , one obtains the ‘ average price of the year ’ . |
| 8 | One does not perceive external objects ; one infers their existence from one 's ideas of them . |
| 9 | Certainly , one does not overhear such debates every day in the senior common room or students ' union , and any analysis of the curriculum as knowledge is likely to appear remote from the priorities and concerns of the average lecturer or student . |
| 10 | One can be attributed incomer status in any local community because one does not have close kin in the area , because one was not born there or , simply , because one has not become known in them one can not claim membership in terms of any of these attributes . |
| 11 | The tubes may not be straight , but one does not have enough information to assign any other shape to them . |
| 12 | I was startled for a moment , as one does not have ex-Prime Ministers calling on one every day , but this was very like S.B. , who began , ‘ You will never come to see me , so I thought I would come to see you . ’ |
| 13 | One does not require all that many younger people , if equity is the watchword . |
| 14 | As one read passages such as these one must acknowledge the force of Merleau-Ponty 's statement that ‘ one does not become revolutionary through science but through indignation ’ . |
| 15 | In such societies one does not find internal differentiation based on differential wealth , and if such differentiation appears to develop , it is resisted . |
| 16 | If one does not like these features , one can use features that are designed to have a more clearly-defined phonetic meaning ( Ladefoged ( 1982 ) , chapter 11 ) , or alternatively , abandon phonetically meaningful feature labels altogether ( Fudge , 1967 ) . |
| 17 | In other words , unless one is a special scholar or a night watchman , one does not see these collections . |
| 18 | It seems the more peculiar because if one only has one slit , one does not get any fringes , just a uniform distribution of electrons across the screen . |
| 19 | If one does not raise more money from the top bands , one does not actually help the people in the lower bands . |
| 20 | There , too , one can assign a co-ordination of properties , as in ( 44 ) , or a single complex property , ( 45 ) , but it is simply taken for granted that one does not produce grammatical monstrosities such as ( 46 ) and ( 47 ) with , respectively , simultaneous and successive ( but in neither case co-ordinated ) assignment of different properties . |
| 21 | It is a privilege ; and one does n't forget that . |
| 22 | It was love I felt ; yes , when I have read your books I feel more loving , and it is no use being alive if one does n't feel that . ’ |
| 23 | One does n't feel any different . |
| 24 | Given that object recognition is a categorical process , in that one does n't recognize each individual chair one sees but identifies it as belonging to the same category as other chairs one has seen , this suggests that the inferotemporal cortex has a major role to play in object recognition . |
| 25 | Erm , now you could n't do that with that and that sounds intuitively like the kind of expression that we might have , just because I ca n't think of one does n't mean that |
| 26 | BZW 's Davis says : ‘ One does n't want four pints of White Label , so it ca n't really be a substitute for draught beer in a pub , whereas a canned product stands a much greater chance . ’ |
| 27 | but , erm , you see the point is that you 're not , what suits one does n't suit another |
| 28 | ‘ George Bush and Dan Quayle , They golf and they sail , One does n't look well , The other ca n't spell , These fellas wo n't do , It has to be you . ’ |
| 29 | I mean , this one does n't look bad does it ? |
| 30 | Cos living up here privately in retirement one does n't realize these things . |