Example sentences of "not [vb infin] [adv prt] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Prominent advocates of ratification included EC Commission President Jacques Delors ( who declared on Aug. 28 that he " would not stay on for another mandate if the " no " vote won " ) and also both the RPR leader Jacques Chirac and the UDF leader Valéry Giscard d'Estaing , although many RPR and UDF members were opposed to ratification . |
| 2 | He argued that thought does not arise out of abstract logical puzzles but from specific problems which we encounter in practice . |
| 3 | ‘ All Mr Fallon 's splutterings will not make up for those people who are on record waiting lists in Darlington . |
| 4 | The reports of international commissions such as that of Brandt do not make up for this gap . |
| 5 | It was obviously made to stand up with its foot on something which at first I could not make out for all the dust and dirt but eventually realised was a skull . |
| 6 | Her happiness because of this scene was so strong she closed her eyes so that it would not beam out in great mellow streams and betray her to the sternness of the others . |
| 7 | The principle of interchangeable parts did not catch on in British industry as fast as it did in the American gun industry ; Colt 's revolvers were the great examples of what became known as the American system of manufacture . |
| 8 | It was important that this strategy did not succeed and it was also important that the tactics of intimidation seen in 1979 did not win through in 1982 . |
| 9 | Field men know that pollution does not crop up at random and one of the arts of enforcement is to be in the right place at the right time — or at least to know where to look , for a particular problem in this form of enforcement is to forge a link between act or event and offender . |
| 10 | Okay with education of children , does that not crop up on this ? |
| 11 | I was so disappointed to find out that , because I work for the company , I could not send off for three free tea towels and a £1 gift voucher being offered as part of a Hovis and JS combined promotion . |
| 12 | Growth and other manoeuvrings motivated by no logic other than a defensive one are economically damaging by-products of an active market for control , causing a ‘ huge diversion of managerial effort into devising ways to reduce a vulnerability that did not grow out of managerial inefficiency ’ . |
| 13 | It is extremely important that you do not give up at this point and this is where training really begins . |
| 14 | His hopes of adding Wimbledon glory to his collection of eight Grand Slam titles now look more forlorn than ever , even though he insists : ‘ You can not give up after one day . ’ |
| 15 | The farsighted and Strong minded PRO will not give in to such pressures and will try to explain the pitfalls of such a course to the powers that be . |
| 16 | However , a Kuwaiti official told reporters that the talks had collapsed " because Kuwait did not give in to Iraqi demands to write off debts and to relinquish some of its territory " . |
| 17 | She would not give in to these men . |
| 18 | No , she would enjoy this evening , she would let André entertain and amuse her , and she would not give in to useless introspection . |
| 19 | Why should the House take seriously any patients charter that does not give back to those patients the right to choose their hospital — a right that they had until the Government took it away ? |
| 20 | Some basic features of the Von Neumann computer do not carry over to all the other designs we will study , for it can be characterized as a word-oriented , single-address binary computer . |
| 21 | Trained civil staff is much below the normal level and can not carry on without military help . |
| 22 | Do not carry on with large water changes , however , as these only perpetuate the problem . |
| 23 | By day of course , why not team up with another couple and get out and about sightseeing or discovering those hide away places that will linger for ever in your memories ? |
| 24 | Unfortunately many clinicians use this approach in an incorrect manner and do not follow up at regular intervals . |
| 25 | But I 'd better not keep on like this or I 'll be accused of queering Mr Karlinsky 's pitch . |
| 26 | For example , the US firm , RCA , one of the pioneers of TV technology and the first to produce a commercial monochrome TV set in 1946 , could not keep up with later developments , was bought by GE during the 1980s and is now owned by the French firm , Thomson . |
| 27 | It did not work out like that , and the world still awaits that scientific proof ( this issue , p 166 ) . |
| 28 | It did not work out like that . |
| 29 | Five-year-old Boris Primorac suffers from a rare blood disorder which means he can not run around like other children , without severe bruising . |
| 30 | But the money will not flow in on this scale for ever . |