Example sentences of "not [verb] [adv prt] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whatever flickerings of potential this young tyro possesses , they can not cover up the fact that he is a painter with the imagination of a retarded adolescent ; no technical mastery ; no intuitive feeling for pictorial space ; no sensitivity towards , or grasp of , tradition ; and a colour sense rather less than that of Congo , the chimpanzee who was taught ( among other things ) a crude responsiveness to colour harmonies by Desmond Morris in the late 1950s . |
| 2 | It can be seen that this was a way of ‘ blaming the victim ’ : it seems as though the young person had failed to find a job because they had not filled in the application form properly or were too untidy , rather than because there were not enough jobs . |
| 3 | He must sit upright at a table to eat his meals : he can not eat off a tray sitting in bed or an easy chair . |
| 4 | Also , the results of many surveys in both the United States and the United Kingdom suggest that only a few firms explicitly take the rate of interest into account in deciding whether or not to carry out an investment project . |
| 5 | But he said the brothers had asked McEvoy not to carry out the burglary . |
| 6 | These are usually temporary measures which can be obtained quite swiftly and will involve the court directing the developer not to carry out the development until the court has had an opportunity to consider the dispute in detail . |
| 7 | Then the punishing firm ‘ s best response to this is not to carry out the punishment but to produce its corresponding profit maximizing output . |
| 8 | But these are isolated groups which do not make up a force . ’ |
| 9 | Why not make up a party ? |
| 10 | The hon. Gentleman says that that is what he is advocating , and says that we should reintroduce it now for those who face a shortfall in fees , but it would not make up the shortfall , because it would be part of the reasonable rate of fees . |
| 11 | It also brought up the art quote of the year , from one Ziff Fistrunk ( no , I do not make up the name ) , director of the Southside Chicago Sports Council , who organised the protest : ‘ I have trained players in Little League and semi-pro baseball , and at no time did I train them naked . ’ |
| 12 | France and the USSR have already indicated that they will not make up the deficit . |
| 13 | She could conceivably be denied by Kitrina Douglas , the winner of this season 's St Moritz Classic and European Masters , although even if she were to win each of the last four tournaments , she still might not make up the £30,000 deficit on De Lorenzi . |
| 14 | Top-up arrangements are not permitted as part of a tender offer ( SAR 4.1(c) ) so the buyer could not make up the difference to shareholders who have already sold if a full bid on improved terms is made subsequently . |
| 15 | When current and capital expenditure in these areas is substantially reduced , private enterprise inevitably suffers , for it can not make up the loss by diverting its activities to other private sectors . |
| 16 | These single-unit certificates do not make up an SVQ , nor is there any intention , at present , to have SVQs in assessment . |
| 17 | At Procedure Roll a defender may , very occasionally , succeed in persuading a Court that the pursuer 's case is so hopeless that it is not worth allowing evidence to be heard because even if that evidence was heard , it would not make out a case which would entitle the pursuer to succeed . |
| 18 | Maura could see Terry 's lips moving but could not make out a word . |
| 19 | I narrow my eyes to stare into his ; the light of the pub is dim as dust and I can not make out the pinpoints . |
| 20 | The position had been reached where she could not make out the labels on the cans of food she was heating up . |
| 21 | She could not make out the words , but knew instinctively they 'd been uttered by the uncle of her child . |
| 22 | She could not make out the patch of canary-coloured light on the opposite wall , could not make out why the sun was shining and why her brown-stained hand , on the sheet , would not move for cold . |
| 23 | ‘ I did not throw down the gauntlet ! |
| 24 | " It 's gone It 's not hanging on the peg . |
| 25 | I 'll try not to fall down the step when I go . |
| 26 | It is important not to miss out a part of the invitation . |
| 27 | If I also say to him that the lesson we learn from the United States is not to go down the route that he and his party have signed up to in signing up to a socialist manifesto for the European elections . |
| 28 | THE National Blood Transfusion Service said last night that it could not rule out a patient contracting the HIV virus as Arthur Ashe did . |
| 29 | She noted that , if the shareholders decide against the increase , ‘ we have other offers , ’ and did not rule out a return to EDS . |
| 30 | Although it did not rule out a return to multiparty politics per se , the PNDC argued that in the past this had only bred " hatred , division and bloodshed " . |