Example sentences of "not [verb] [pron] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 31 | Iran-contra , however , had always had another star , a more retiring one ; and he had not given anything like a full performance yet . |
| 32 | Cunningham 's chummy dropping of the ‘ Mr ’ from his name did not fool him for a moment : the withdrawn and irascible figure he had encountered in mid-afternoon was nearer the soul of this man than mine accommodating and smiling host of the Skein of Geese 's oak-panelled restaurant . |
| 33 | For example , in 1983 it was said that ‘ even where the husband had been violent , it would be reasonable for the wife to continue to reside in the matrimonial home but to seek a court order restraining his violence or barring him from the home ’ and in these circumstances the authority 's duty would be ‘ to advise the applicant so to do , not to accommodate her as a homeless person ’ . |
| 34 | She thought of Giles Carnaby both continuously and not at all ; he was permanently in the head , but as some unavoidable elemental force — she could not consider him as a person , reflect upon character or deeds . |
| 35 | Wessex region would not recognise me as a senior registrar until the college 's approval had been received . |
| 36 | If this was n't enough , the state does not recognise you as a mother until you are sixteen , when you are eligible to claim supplementary benefit , maternity grant and milk and vitamin tokens . |
| 37 | The difference was that until 1688 loans had been made directly to the King : he ran the government as an extension of his private household and , although he was the richest individual in the country , he was in many ways just a private borrower like any other and a prudent lender would not trust him with a loan that would run for a long time . |
| 38 | ‘ That is , of course , if I 'm not keeping you from a million other engagements . ’ |
| 39 | The friends of David Cunningham , such as Colonel Blackadder , had to be put off with a clear refusal , and a request to persuade Cunningham to withdraw , while at the same time every effort had to be made to engage all those gentlemen who had not committed themselves to a candidate to rally to Kirkton . |
| 40 | Hamad Hasan did not describe himself as a free Zuwayi , but his ventures into gardening and trade , and his use of his agricultural knowledge and skills , were characteristic activities of free men . |
| 41 | Moreover , poorer clubs were anxious not to find themselves in a wages-auction with richer ones and the FA finally set a £4 a week maximum in 1900 , which was raised in 1909 to £5 for senior professionals with a club . |
| 42 | My idea now is to get a type rating on the 700 , not to explore it as a journalistic exercise . |
| 43 | Be careful not to create anyone with a phoney Chelsea ‘ Sloane ’ accent or anything outrageous . |
| 44 | ( I should point out that I could not bring myself to a Japanese option ! ) |
| 45 | However , the optical properties of a simple calcite lens in contact with water are such that it transmits light in a diffused way and can not bring it to a sharply focused point . |
| 46 | Clearly Parliament would last its full five years and the Government could not bring it to a premature end . |
| 47 | Indeed , the fact that he did not refer her to a different psychiatrist convinced me for a long time that I had misconstrued the situation . |
| 48 | ( iii ) It is important that pupils working towards level 7 and beyond have increasing opportunities to use spoken Standard English , and in particular that those who do not speak it as a native dialect should be helped to extend their language competence so that they can use Standard English with confidence . |
| 49 | ‘ Who indeed ? ’ she asked , not believing him for a minute , ‘ But rather arrogant of you to assume I would be willing to be caught . ’ |
| 50 | Your father , and Elizabeth and the others , are very worried about you , because you have not visited them for a long time . |
| 51 | But no one has yet been able to identify ‘ extra ’ income , and enterprises do not show it as a separate category . |
| 52 | Therefore , the unwillingness of policemen to define their role in these terms does not show itself in a failure to perform these duties but as a judgement that it is ‘ really ’ the work of others . |
| 53 | We can not do everything in a very limited time , so we must select what is essential on the fairest and most comprehensive basis possible : that is , what we think may help pupils to cope with , and make decisions about , things which happen to them — at any age and at any level ; and also what will encourage responsibility concerning the effects they themselves have on others . |
| 54 | If Sartre 's endeavour to ground the Marxist science of history suggests that the Hegelian totality and continuum can only work by a continual labour of excluding the partial and discontinuous , Althusser 's effort to constitute a differentiated history shows that you can not do it without a teleology . |
| 55 | Yet I recently visited a hi-tech company which was fully conversant with activity-based costing yet did not do it on a regular annual basis . |
| 56 | Do they not do it on a Thursday ? |
| 57 | Then there are some very talented conductors who can not do anything with a really top orchestra . |
| 58 | One of Isaac Bashevis Singer 's characters in a short story tells the narrator-author : ‘ You once wrote that human nature is such that one can not do anything in a straight line . |
| 59 | He had not seen her for a while and he was pretty sure she had committed suicide . |
| 60 | she kept in touch with them for some time but er , I 've not seen her for a year so , I would n't know . |