Example sentences of "not [verb] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As most women — and indeed , most men — do not stay 40 years with one employer , they usually receive less than this . |
| 2 | He felt that he could not stay another night in the house . |
| 3 | Suppose we were old friends who were meeting again after not seeing each other for many years . |
| 4 | He says these new recruits to higher education , entering universities in large numbers are not seeing long-term change towards the market , so much as a reduced staff:student ratio , meaning less one-to-one contact , and larger , less frequent tutorial groups . |
| 5 | ‘ We understand the president-elect is not seeing any heads of government , ’ he said . |
| 6 | If Lord Eldon used any language which could be so interpreted , we must conclude that he either did not guard himself so cautiously as he intended , or that he did not lend that degree of attention to the legal doctrine connected with the case before him , which he was accustomed to afford . |
| 7 | Airtours might not repeat last year 's extraordinary feats , but its cash pile and cautious management should ensure that it does not lend further credence to the current theory — that this year 's fastest grower is next year 's insolvency . |
| 8 | Secondly , Pache 's style does not lend any air of the dynamism needed to steer Bull out of its current mire . |
| 9 | And as long as you 're I do n't care what star you 're following you 're not bringing those camel through my garden ! |
| 10 | Lord Gardiner himself thought that political views ought not to affect judicial appointments at all , and he pursued this policy during his period of office as Lord Chancellor ( 1964 ) . |
| 11 | In the run-up to the country 's first multiparty elections for 43 years , scheduled for March 25 , the ruling Hungarian Socialist Party ( HSP ) was shaken by revelations during January that the Interior Ministry 's security police had not stopped covert surveillance of the activities of opposition politicians , despite the enactment during the past 12 months of laws and constitutional amendments creating a multiparty system [ see pp. 36399 ; 36960-61 ] . |
| 12 | Observational surveys by Tombaugh , Kowal and the Infrared Astronomical Satellite ( IRAS ) would almost certainly have revealed another Pluto or larger planet , but their failure to do so has not stopped many predictions from being made , including two more in just the past year . |
| 13 | ‘ I feel that it could be boxed in by bureacracy and not make much contribution to a company 's performance . ’ |
| 14 | This positive part of conventionalism most plainly corresponds to the popular slogan that judges should follow the law and not make new laws in its place . |
| 15 | Erm a light bulb is not using much electricity in a given time . |
| 16 | There were some differences between the groups , mainly in the recognition of black speakers who were not using Creole features of syntax or segmental phonology . |
| 17 | He said that his company , which also provides needs-analysis for companies , taught ex-service personnel skills such as not using military terms in their curricula vitarum and interviews . |
| 18 | Some became pregnant through contraceptive failure , such as missing taking the Pill for a day , or a faulty condom , but most do it through not using any kind of contraception at all . |
| 19 | The builders are not using any nails in the construction , in an effort to build an authentic cultural centre . |
| 20 | Nevertheless , four out of five of them were not using any form of birth control . |
| 21 | But , more importantly , I have learnt not to see any stage of my life as the final one . |
| 22 | In the interests of unity , Constantine deliberately blurred distinctions between Christianity , Mithraism and Sol Invictus — deliberately chose not to see any points of contention between them . |
| 23 | Later , at least for many years , she was not to see this time as part of her life , and perhaps therefore it need not now be told at length . |
| 24 | Where the statute looks as if it does not cover certain forms of conduct the courts have sometimes read the statute widely to convict the " manifestly guilty " . |
| 25 | However , because the sampling frame consists of private households only , the survey does not cover elderly people in institutional care — for example , those living in old people 's homes and those who have been in hospital for more than six months . |
| 26 | The above discussion does not cover all aspects of thematic structure , but it is probably sufficient for our current purposes . |
| 27 | In this case the court gave a further reason why the false statement was not caught by section 14 , namely that it related to the price at which the goods were offered for supply and section 14 did not cover false statements about prices . |
| 28 | This insurance does not cover any consequences of war , invasion , act of foreign enemy , hostilities ( whether war be declared or not ) , civil war , rebellion , revolution , insurrection or military or usurped power ( other than under Sections 2 , 3 & 6 ) while the Insured Person is away from the British Isles provided always that the cover so provided is subject to cancellation by the Insurer by giving seven days notice by registered letter to HCI Club Holidays . |
| 29 | If the birds or Australia had not received that degree of attention from the scientific ornithologist which their interest demanded ’ , he wrote in his preface to Mammals of Australia , ‘ I can assert , without fear of contradiction , that its highly curious and interesting Mammals have been still less investigated . |
| 30 | However the representatives of NEC and Fujitsu reserved comment , saying that they had not received official notice of their position and that they looked to the future to reveal this . |