Example sentences of "not [verb] [pron] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( 1981 ) , who are able to alter the appearance of their homes , tend not to use modernist styles , which , in any case , do not lend themselves to such appropriation . |
| 2 | Some phenomena may simply not lend themselves to this kind of analysis . |
| 3 | The British Cabinet system simply does not lend itself to that sort of Novices ' Handicap . |
| 4 | One difference is this : Sartre 's aim is the philosophical one of redescribing the location of bodily sensations in a way which does not lend itself to such misunderstandings as that two people could feel the same pain as they can see the same table . |
| 5 | I have also tried to divide the particular provisions of the precedents into chapters , where appropriate , but I feel that the agreement does not lend itself to such a division , and I have therefore dealt with that in a chapter by itself . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'm not bringing anyone at all and , as to the seat , I 'll pay for mine as soon as I see you . ’ |
| 7 | Whilst LIFESPAN will not modify anything in this directory except its own files , the upgrade instructions may assume that only LIFESPAN files are to be found here . |
| 8 | Carl had no time for these , or possibly our parents failed him by not encouraging him in that direction . |
| 9 | not using it for some |
| 10 | Now , it may or not me noticeable if it 's a minor alteration in the surface geometry then it may be so slight as to make no difference in the way it performs so if , for example , it 's an enzyme it may not affect it at all . |
| 11 | But when I later tried to find my way back to the dining-room to finish my meal , which should have been a simple thing to do , I just could not locate it at all . |
| 12 | The message is that drivers who do n't break their journey , are in serious danger of not completing it at all . |
| 13 | For one has to recognize that if one had their desires one would not accept principles which rode roughshod over their satisfaction , and this implies that one should not accept them at all , since one can not universalise them to that hypothetical situation in which one would be forced to reject them . |
| 14 | Such behaviour did not recommended itself to another , more discreet , influence on Leonard during those undergraduate years : Professor F.R. Scott , later Dean of the Faculty of Law , presently , while Leonard swithered and swayed as to whether he should commit himself to the arts or commerce , his lecturer in law . |
| 15 | If you can not make it on that night , come to one of our First Friday meetings . |
| 16 | He did n't want to exacerbate what he saw as an existing weakness of his own in that respect , and although he was not censorious of other people , I think he was genuinely quite frightened of it , and at one point in the Arts Lab , when there was quite a lot of speed pills , amphetamines , going around amongst the young people there , he did speak out very strongly one evening against it , saying that he personally did not want anything like that around anything he was closely involved with because he felt that it was not a good thing for people to be speeding and it created the sort of vibes that might end up causing problems . |
| 17 | I could n't stay here and not throw you on that bed and take you , again and again and again , until you could n't hide from me any longer ! ’ |
| 18 | He applied for a post in the service of the archduke : but Ferdinand was advised by his mother not to burden himself with such ‘ useless creatures who travel around all over the place , like beggars ’ . |
| 19 | ‘ Come back , come back ! ’ she shouted , but he pretended that he had not heard her at all . |
| 20 | Now from my observations of these debates I 've not heard anybody on this council saying council debates that there is no role for this local authority or any other local authority there is no role for them in the provision of residential care or any extension of residential care because some of our residential care is getting very , very close to providing a degree of nursing care . |
| 21 | ‘ I 've not heard anything about this . ’ |
| 22 | I had not heard anything about these guys . |
| 23 | If so , why is that we have not heard anything from all those other civilizations out there ? |
| 24 | A mere description , that organisms stay the same for millions of years and then rapidly change , does not explain anything in this time of our rapidly growing understanding of genetic mechanisms . |
| 25 | He might have been spooning it into his pocket , not eating it at all . |
| 26 | Officials and administrators can not divest themselves of all ideological clothing in the advice which they tender to their political masters , or in the independent decisions which they are in a position to take . |
| 27 | I could not tell her — I could not hurt her in this way . |
| 28 | Pragmatism as a conception of law does not stipulate which of these various visions of good community are sound or attractive . |
| 29 | Despite the contempt with which Bogdanovic views Milosevic , he does not consider him as most responsible for the situation in which Serbia finds itself . |
| 30 | According to Oakeshott , something less pretentious will do ; viz. , ‘ that we are not children in statu pupillari but adults who do not consider themselves under any obligation to justify their preference for making their own choices ’ . |