Example sentences of "the [noun] [verb] not [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The bassoonist does n't practice . |
| 2 | ‘ In the second test the steel reinforcement buckled , but the building did not pancake , ’ Bertero said . |
| 3 | A more serious problem arises where the applicant does not rate highly in terms of either expertise or ability , that is where the content of the degree is irrelevant , and the quality of it uninspiring . |
| 4 | The voices did not acclaim his deeds with a loud rapture but became whispering voices , conspiratorially accusing , viciously sniggery . |
| 5 | Others again have taken as the play 's essence the need to reconcile not truth and falsehood but competing truths . |
| 6 | She pushed the dress back into the running water of the stream above the basin , where the soap did not film the water , and mourned the disappearance of his sweet milk ; his pleasure had frightened her , it was true , at first when he did not speak and did not ask or explain . |
| 7 | Even in the Petitioners case , where less emphasis is placed upon status , the Court does not resort to treaty arguments and indeed could not do so , for there was no treaty right of petition . |
| 8 | Counsel for the plaintiff pointed out that under the private Act the corporation had a power of absolute and immediate distress in the event of non-payment of dues , though the court did not advert to this . |
| 9 | A rat , for instance , carried passively to each of two ‘ goal boxes ’ at opposite ends of a runway and shown that one contains food and the other does not will , when released , run unerringly to the box with food . |
| 10 | The upland agriculture/conservation conflict in the UK does not centre entirely on the application of the LFA Directive . |
| 11 | ‘ It usually means a court-martial or a decoration the governor has n't time for anything else . |
| 12 | The squares circumscribing the triangle do not mesh conveniently in the plane , but are critical to the formation of the three dimensional octahedron . |
| 13 | She says here in Oxford it 's our duty to make sure that the government does n't gey away with criminalising refugees . |
| 14 | ‘ Nurses everywhere are working under intense and growing pressure and today 's announcement will be a heavy blow since it says clearly that the Government does not value their efforts and is not prepared to treat them with fairness or justice . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ Where a mercantile agent is , with the consent of the owner , in possession of goods or of the documents of title to goods , any sale , pledge or other disposition of the goods , made by him when acting in the ordinary course of business of a mercantile agent , shall , subject to the provisions of this Act be as valid as if he were expressly authorised by the owner of the goods to make the same ; provided that the person taking under the disposition takes in good faith , and has not at the time of the disposition notice that the person making the disposition has not authority to make the same . ’ |
| 16 | ( The medical/technical descriptions are what I understood the doctors to say not text-book definitions ) . |
| 17 | For in practice there was little validity in the distinction : the nationalist pursued not culture but power , and above all the power of the State , which , once won , it was thought , would then protect a national culture . |
| 18 | I hope the yungstirs do not hav much dribble with the difficult wurds . |
| 19 | If the students do not value their learning experience , they can go elsewhere . |
| 20 | Times change but the victims do n't Television . |
| 21 | Pomponius is quite clear that this amounts to a condition , and the consequence of that is that the legacy does not vest and transmission is not possible until the relevant age has been reached . |
| 22 | The essential difference between this offence and larceny is that in larceny the victim does not part with the ownership but in obtaining by false pretences he does . |