Example sentences of "not [verb] [prep] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is because most male clerks do not stay as clerks for all their working lives . |
| 2 | He could not stay in London until the end of the session as he had intended to do . |
| 3 | The patient should not stay in bed without a special reason , such as feeling ill or exceptionally fatigued , or having a headache . |
| 4 | Because Miyagi did not stay in Japan for long periods , it was Yamaguchi who made a great headway with his own system of goju-kai . |
| 5 | Many of the animals swim so quickly that they do not stay in sight for long . |
| 6 | So the question of the soundness of Atkins L.J . 's dictum did not arise for decision in that case . |
| 7 | This has two purposes , firstly to illustrate the above assertion about the pervasiveness of layering and secondly to act as a reminder that there are important double diffusive flows that do not arise from instability of vertical gradients . |
| 8 | When any major change occurs , provided it does not arise from events beyond our control , you will have the choice of ( a ) accepting the changed arrangements , ( b ) purchasing another available holiday from us at is advertised price , or ( c ) cancelling your holiday . |
| 9 | A more realistic approach would recognize that new DNA does not arise in evolution as a random set of sequences , but as a duplicate of some pre-existing and functional sequence . |
| 10 | Defective tiled roofs can produce problems identical to those posed by ageing slate roofs , but because clay plain tiles are necessarily hung on battens ( not every tile is nailed except on very steeply pitched roofs ) and it is not possible simply to apply tiles direct to a boarded surface as in the case of a slate covering , the problem of rotting roofing battens and sarking does not arise in connection with tiling . |
| 11 | Such a consideration did not arise in connection with Sainte-Agathe , however , and when Jean-Claude felt he needed to refresh his memory of details , we rode cross-country to the village . |
| 12 | ‘ So the Campbell is not bang to rights at all . ’ |
| 13 | At the same time , spacetime itself will break up ; as matter and energy can not exist without spacetime as a ‘ basis ’ , the end product of this process can be nothing butnothing . |
| 14 | City life can not exist without security in its open spaces , some unarmed trust and reciprocity . |
| 15 | I did not exist for Jean-Claude as a separate human being with needs of my own . |
| 16 | That right will not exist for workers within a company . |
| 17 | They can not exist to society as a whole ’ . |
| 18 | They may exist in favour of individuals , and in some cases in favour of a limited class , but , with the exception of the public right of fishing in tidal water , they can not exist in favour of the public at large . |
| 19 | Radio and television programmes of the high inquiring calibre of ‘ Today ’ , ‘ The World at One ’ or ‘ Newsnight ’ do not exist in France to anything like the same degree . |
| 20 | Patriotism did not exist in spite of the inconveniences caused by the war , but because of them . |
| 21 | A ‘ universal ’ old age pension did not exist in principle until 1956 , and not until 1965 was it extended to the peasantry and made universal in practice . |
| 22 | A procedure does not exist in isolation from its surroundings , and Procedure Audit requires this to be acknowledged explicitly . |
| 23 | Even the best examples of habitat types can not exist in isolation like islands of richness in a sea of poverty . |
| 24 | The rain had not stopped for days on end . |
| 25 | For these students , this was manifested by a decision not to continue with physics at postgraduate level . |
| 26 | He did not think of Stef at all . |
| 27 | The three found so much to talk about that they did not think of tea till nearly five o'clock . |
| 28 | ‘ I did not think about Suzy at the time' |
| 29 | She said that she did not think in advance about the possibility of him losing his seat . |
| 30 | When he did not think in terms of Val . |