Example sentences of "not [verb] [pers pn] [det] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But we 're not handling them any better . |
| 2 | I though oh bugger it I 'm not bringing it any more it 's getting too big . |
| 3 | ‘ They 're not using it any more so they 've said I can use it for canteen stuff . |
| 4 | Getting Nails into the team did not make him any nicer . |
| 5 | It has survived so long because abolishing it would have been more trouble than it was worth , but that does not make it any better in itself . |
| 6 | The news of the morning broadcast had brought them all to this place , anticipating something like what they were now hearing , which did not make it any better . |
| 7 | Offensive lack of cooperation may make the task of the constable more unpleasant , but it does not make it any more difficult than would a civilised refusal to help . |
| 8 | But that did not make it any easier to break the news . |
| 9 | This realization does not make it any easier to accept that our own mercurial organ is the right size and shape for our body . |
| 10 | It does not make it any easier to do what we have to do , but it makes seeing what we have to do much clearer , because it then becomes obvious that Serbia has been the blatant aggressor in the war and that its aggression simply can not be tolerated by the international community . |
| 11 | To know that a particular animal dance , or brightly coloured display , operates as a territorial device or as a sexual arousal mechanism does not make it any less beautiful . |
| 12 | To understand the function of bird-song does not make it any less enchanting . |
| 13 | Anticipating the problem does not make it any less likely to occur , but planning and preparing for it helps one to cope with it , and will emphasize that professional and consistent judgment has been exercised . |
| 14 | But this does not make it any less true . |
| 15 | The fact that this is happening so widely does not make it any less unwelcome , and I would like to express my own thanks to staff for their steadfastness and continuing hard work in these conditions . |
| 16 | It does not guarantee you some privileged place on earth . |
| 17 | SHE had feared that she would not know him any more … that his 1,943 days of hell as a hostage would have left them strangers . |
| 18 | Since then the garage has been obliged to leave some of its cars on the lines because it can not display them any other way . |
| 19 | He is alone , but not lonely , Ari thought , and I do not pity him any more . |
| 20 | Two organisations which we visited further emphasised the " non-regularity " of their temporary workers ' employment by not guaranteeing them any fixed number of hours per week — they were contracted to work " as and when required " — and this , of course , provided them with an important , additional source of flexibility . |
| 21 | She had never been a Bonapartist , yet that distaste had not made it any easier for her to leave France and follow an army that must fight against her countrymen . |
| 22 | Their popularity , however , has not made it any easier to reconcile conservation and development . |
| 23 | He would not do her any real harm . |
| 24 | The man continued to look at her strangely , and then at last he said , ‘ It 'll not do you any good , love . ’ |
| 25 | ’ The good news is that he may not do you any positive harm . |
| 26 | Of course , the Government can not do it all alone . |
| 27 | If you can not do it by constructing the notion of pains which are not yours , you can not do it any other way . |
| 28 | So she sent a letter home and my dad said , ‘ Yes , well , you 'd better not do it any more ’ . |
| 29 | Now we have lost one and want to replace it but the nursery do not grow it any more , and we can not find one that does . ’ |
| 30 | The fact that the applicants in the main proceedings had for some time circumvented the objectives of the Common Fisheries Policy did not give them any legitimate expectation that they would be allowed to continue to do so in the future . |