Example sentences of "not [verb] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He thought that Craig might have lost some votes because people had not forgiven his voluntary coalition heresy but recognized that , had Craig emulated Paisley and created a reputation as an active constituency MP , he would have retained the seat . |
| 2 | He 's not bringing me any supper . |
| 3 | " He does n't like me very much , " I explained , and it was the first time I 'd ever realized that " It was a very sad thing not to be liked by your own father , and obviously it must be just as sad not to like your only daughter . |
| 4 | Normal life , I 'll read out to you , normal life is possible if diet during childhood is adhered to , in the female , if the female suffers , when she becomes pregnant the protein intake has to be monitored so as not to affect her developing baby . |
| 5 | So you see you need not make your own designs although I think that you will certainly want to do so when you get going . |
| 6 | ‘ We do not think his mental state will deteriorate immediately without medication , but we would obviously be anxious to have him back . ’ |
| 7 | He prayed to build on his aversion and include Ariel herself in his disgust ; it was not as difficult as before to force himself to keep his distance , because he was angry at the child 's existence , the visible emblem and consequence of their unlawful coupling , and he wanted to punish Ariel for not using her clever arts to prevent the baby coming . |
| 8 | out of that rear window all the time not using your rear view mirrors look once as well . |
| 9 | Your excessively early arrival means that you can check the aforesaid dogs are not using your beautiful flower arrangements as their loo , and also run through a technical check and the autocue before anyone else gets there . |
| 10 | ‘ The conventional way would be to see this movie as the rise and fall of a rock star ; I have chosen not to see it that way . |
| 11 | These are increasingly hard to get — a Coventry welfare rights centre had so many claimants complaining that they 'd not received their statutory entitlement to maternity grants that the centre has printed a special complaints form . |
| 12 | In a statement on Aug. 19 Yanayev informed heads of state that the emergency measures in the Soviet Union were temporary and would not affect her international obligations under existing treaties . |
| 13 | ( 2 ) They could agree not to make any political alliance with the East , although this would not affect their natural sympathies . |
| 14 | The duty of external non-intervention prohibits States from interfering with the valid performance of treaties that do not affect their own rights and obligations . |
| 15 | The FMLN stated that the handover demonstrated its " willingness to negotiate and its support for a political solution and peace " but did not affect its anti-aircraft capability . |
| 16 | IBM 's announcement that it expects to slash its workforce this year by more than the 25,000 first planned will not affect its European operations , said a spokesman at the company 's Greenock plant . |
| 17 | The judge gave short shrift to an argument based on the right to free speech , and held that it did not affect his primary conclusion as stated above . |
| 18 | This did not affect our long-lasting friendship and mutual respect . |
| 19 | This does not affect your statutory rights imposed by law , which will allow you to cancel your policy within 14 days . |
| 20 | ‘ This guarantee does not affect your statutory rights ’ : we 've all seen it written and , believe it or not , this statement must by law be on all guarantees , in order to explain and remind us that we also have rights against the supplier , as well as the issuer of the guarantee . |
| 21 | But if you do read the guarantee you will nearly always find a sentence that says this guarantee does not affect your statutory rights . |
| 22 | The most obvious sign of the Act 's influence is the presence of statements along the lines of " this guarantee does not affect your statutory rights " which are now added in close proximity to all consumer guarantees . |
| 23 | Mr De Haan , who is also chairman of Saga , said the group could not enjoy one of the most important advantages of being publicly quoted — using its shares to fund acquisitions — because the family was determined not to dilute its controlling interest . |
| 24 | In addition , it is feared that methods of collecting the community charge by establishing a register of all residents over the age of 18 may result in those who can not afford the tax not completing their electoral registration forms , as this may alert the authorities to their liability for the community charge ( or Poll Tax as it has become known ) . |
| 25 | Fragmentation and excessive pace were also found to be important variables bearing on job satisfaction , with many workers , who did not find their work monotonous , stating that it did not absorb their full attention or that they found the pace of it too fast . |
| 26 | The decision was reportedly taken after it became clear that the French Disneyland would not make its expected profit this year . |
| 27 | Here was a TV station which did not make its own programmes but , instead , contracted with independent producers — who did not operate from studios in the traditional sense . |
| 28 | Julia said drily that she thought that free Capitalism with an adequate system of social welfare for all those who could not make their own success in it was probably the fairest workable system , and then laughed as she saw David 's expression . |
| 29 | But such theorising , however ‘ moral ’ , does not make us moral theorists . |
| 30 | I 'm a car owner who 's actually thinking of selling my car because I do n't use it much in Glasgow I do n't need to , I can actually walk to work and to come to somewhere like Edinburgh tonight I would much prefer to use the train , but I think we could have much more adequal plans to do with pedestrianizing city centres so that cars were banned from them altogether , they could bring back trams which are much less in terms of pollution , they might not make us big profits for the company 's but they are a very good way , we , a lot of European cities still use trams . |