Example sentences of "not [verb] [prep] [pron] [adj] " 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 | will continue to evolve in the future , and therefore can not exist in its current form forever |
| 5 | In other words , time does not exist in its own right but is a characteristic of the universe . |
| 6 | He assumed in addition that the W o did not exist in its own right . |
| 7 | Mistakes do not disappear of their own accord , and the text on the screen will be saved and printed exactly as it appears . |
| 8 | She would not think of her dry mouth or her empty stomach , or the clammy chill of the dungeon that had seeped into every bone in her body . |
| 9 | There is not a day goes by that Joan does not think of her youngest child . |
| 10 | 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 |
| 11 | But the same pursed smile and mischievous sideways glance , as if she really must not laugh at her own jokes . |
| 12 | The 18-hole course , while still immature , is improving at a rapid pace , though , after a summer of near-drought , it would benefit from a long soaking , which is not to detract from its considerable potential . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | It does not make for your typical comic fare . |
| 15 | Although it has changed its name to the Cirque Invisible with most of its material new , its format remains much the same as before , created by the husband and wife team of Jean Baptiste Thierree and Victoria Chaplin ( daughter of Oonagh ) but not joined by their lithe acrobat son , James Spencer Thierree . |
| 16 | From the very beginning , there was a reasonably healthy dissension between them , although it did not evolve into anything serious until about 18 months into the band 's career . |
| 17 | Firstly , homosexual conduct , although no longer subjected to criminal penalties , except when it occurred in clearly defined public circumstances , would continue to be viewed as morally reprehensible ; and secondly , the move did not imply a relaxation of control over homosexual behaviour or was not intended by its main supporters to imply such a relaxation of control . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | He had no real gift for the dramatic and could not to contend with his young competitor Joshua Reynolds in the Grand Manner . |
| 20 | While ethologists , like Zillmann , do not necessarily agree with the views of the innate aggressionists , their voices are not heard outside their own circle . |
| 21 | Certainly you did not quarrel with them all the time . |
| 22 | How they used to ask him not to go to their posh prep school , but to meet them in the town . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | The use of cool boxes was so rare that we can not comment on their potential effectiveness , and it is difficult to obtain small cool boxes of known effectiveness in Britain . |
| 26 | Coordinators had to acquire skills in leadership and in handling people and ideas which the majority of them had not developed in their previous jobs . |
| 27 | The cleansing however required for eternity does not relate to our physical dimension but related to the invisible , eternal soul of man which also bears the scars of sin . |
| 28 | In this respect there is a certain similarity — hinted as , incidentally , by Spinoza himself — between substance and attributes ; both substance and its attributes , according to him , are " infinite " — i.e. they are ( unlike discrete things ) not limited by anything external that is of the same nature as themselves . |
| 29 | Plasmids do not construct for themselves special protein coats to enable them to survive outside their host cells , but can be transmitted from one bacterial cell to another if those cells come into contact . |
| 30 | It would have been perfect if half a gallon of water had not leaked into my rolled-up sleeping-bag . |