Example sentences of "not [verb] [prep] [pron] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Evidently such individuals can be said to exist , despite the fact that they lack the independence of ordinary things — they can not exist on their own . |
| 2 | A form or morpheme which can not exist on its own as a complete utterance . |
| 3 | a sentence is not autonomous , it does not exist for its own sake but as part of a situation and part of a text . |
| 4 | In other words , time does not exist in its own right but is a characteristic of the universe . |
| 5 | He assumed in addition that the W o did not exist in its own right . |
| 6 | Mistakes do not disappear of their own accord , and the text on the screen will be saved and printed exactly as it appears . |
| 7 | I can not think of my own knowledge of the physical world in terms of my dispositions to behave , but only as my dispositions , construed as operating in the world of which |
| 8 | But the same pursed smile and mischievous sideways glance , as if she really must not laugh at her own jokes . |
| 9 | These letters themselves , with their references to women and his dependence upon them , should be taken with the facts of his first impulsive marriage and his second happy one : all the available evidence suggests that when he allowed his sexuality free access , when he was not struggling with his own demons , it was of a heterosexual kind . |
| 10 | Our concern is rather to break away from the stale confrontation of reason and spontaneity which has persisted since the Romantic Movement , to invite the man of reason to admit that he never has had any ends which did not spring from his own spontaneity , and the intuitive and impulsive that no insight that flashes from theirs can be acknowledged as objective truth until it survives the ruthless justice of reason . |
| 11 | While ethologists , like Zillmann , do not necessarily agree with the views of the innate aggressionists , their voices are not heard outside their own circle . |
| 12 | Certainly you did not quarrel with them all the time . |
| 13 | I told my mother where I had been without explanation as to why I had chosen not to go to our own church , and she said nothing . |
| 14 | The most voiced reason for having a baby is that the parents can give what was not given in their own lives , to compensate for their own emptiness . |
| 15 | Grainne , sick and dizzy from the pain in her shoulder , said , in a voice she did not recognise as her own , ‘ Who is she ? ’ |
| 16 | He felt guilty at not returning to his own church but hoped that his few parishioners would understand . |
| 17 | No I 've not looked at it that way . |
| 18 | Since the first printers often did not use a front title-page , or did not include on it all the important information we are accustomed to see there today , they employed instead the device known as the colophon ( from a Greek word variously translated as ‘ summit ’ , ‘ top ’ and ‘ finishing stroke ’ ) right at the end of the main text and , normally , before the index . |
| 19 | This conduct only becomes a nuisance when the consequence of his acts are not confined to his own land but extend on to his neighbour 's land . |
| 20 | That so many disputes were reported in the range of newspapers consulted by Dobson is indicative of a much larger population , either not yet discovered by historians or not reported in their own time . |
| 21 | The Iraqi armies were not pursued into their own country , er the attacks made were largely erm the fairly cheap and as we now know fairly ineffective er air strikes and that the main contest was in fact over Kuwait which was indeed the declared objective er of the whole operation . |
| 22 | It is difficult to deduce the physiological effect of H pylori on basal secretion from this and other studies in which patients do not act as their own controls , because other differences between the groups might affect acid secretion . |
| 23 | Positivists believe in the doctrine of determinism : human beings , including criminals , do not act from their own free will but are impelled to act by forces beyond their control . |
| 24 | Most of the increase in illegitimate births has been to women who are in some kind of informal union , not living on their own holding the baby . |
| 25 | These advantages appear to me to outweigh the disadvantages identified by Mr of there being more outsiders in the family household , possibly homesick and unhappy carers who are not living in their own homes , but at the establishment and the trouble and worry to the of what would be not infrequent , recruitment of new carers for Mrs , I hope perhaps a trifle pessimistically thought that on average carers would not spend more than about a year of course , some longer , some shorter , because such carers necessarily had to be fairly young , fit , strong people and the stresses and strains of the er the whole business she thought would lead to reasonably rapid turnover , not the emergence of long-term carers who might stay for a number of years , er , as I say I 'd rather hoped that she may be unduly pessimistic about that , but , that , I accept what she says about it . |
| 26 | The company reserves the right to veto or restrict the provision of additional facilities such as juke-boxes , fruit machines , pool tables , etc. , but does not specify from whom these must be hired or demand a proportion of the takings ( this attitude is in contrast to most of the national brewery companies and does something to explain why Palatine are regarded as good employers/landlords by their licensees ) . |
| 27 | He was not looking at me any more , but was staring out to sea where a small tanker , her navigation lights glowing bright in the falling darkness , nudged gingerly towards the bunkering buoys . |
| 28 | not listening to me own voice |
| 29 | Just as Jesus did not draw attention to himself but set out to glorify his Father by passing on the Father s message to men ( 8:28 , 1 2:28,1 7:4 ) , so the Paraclete will not speak on his own authority … but will take what is mine and declare it to you' ( 16 : 14 ) . |
| 30 | But they had stopped his mouth , and he could not speak in his own defence . |