Example sentences of "not [verb] [verb] [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Residents of the Morfa flats are saying they do not want to live here ever again . ’ |
| 2 | He did not want to live any longer . |
| 3 | Even if we do not want to take too seriously the feuds between Cato and Quinctius Flamininus ( Plut . |
| 4 | I do not want to take too long , but I should like to refer to some of the points made by the Member for Newham , North-East ( Mr. Leighton ) . |
| 5 | I do not want to go too far into the philosophical or even the physiological aspects of the matter . |
| 6 | Well , he did not want to give away too much ground at the start . |
| 7 | This has resulted in a great deal of mutual education , and most would not want to worship together any more regularly than that ! |
| 8 | He then said playing wise he does not want to play anywhere else but at Leeds for the rest of his career , said that Elland Rd was the best arena for a footballer bacuase the atmosphere is so special . |
| 9 | Some growing churches which have broadcast their ‘ success ’ do not want to look too closely at where their new growth has been coming from . |
| 10 | For once , here is a project that I do not want to know more about . |
| 11 | She did not want to appear either too eager or too casual . |
| 12 | He would like it made clear that the line is not a public right of way , but he does not object to access under suitably controlled circumstances . |
| 13 | If the child 's feelings and needs are taken into account , he or she will not need to explode so often . |
| 14 | Because of their body size they do not need to hunt very often . |
| 15 | The steady flow of emigrants from the British Isles meant that landowners in the West Indies did not need to look further afield to find workers for growing tobacco , for which they needed a relatively small labour force working all the year round . |
| 16 | This means the aquarium will not need cleaning as often as a less densely planted one . |
| 17 | Licensed deposit-takers had to meet the same requirements , but did not need to offer as wide a range of services . |
| 18 | Certainly one is not under an obligation to look after the child if one did not promise to do so just because it would have been a good thing to promise . |
| 19 | Fourth , spending on front-office systems , such as those supporting foreign exchange , funds and transfer payments , is not expected to grow as fast as that on back-office systems , covering such applications as transaction processing , clearing and settlement . |
| 20 | With opinion polls showing Labour ahead of the Conservatives , many health service managers are biding their time , not prepared to press forward rapidly with changes which could soon be reversed and which in any case they are reluctant to endorse . |
| 21 | Compagnie des Machines Bull SA , facing probably the biggest crisis in its history now that it is confronted with an administration not prepared to pour ever more good taxpayers ' money after bad ( CI No 2,166 ) , yesterday reported that turnover for the first quarter of the year crashed by 10.6% , to the equivalent of $943m ; sales slumped 16.5% to $422m and rentals and services fell 5.1% to $521m . |
| 22 | It therefore recommended that the WEA should continue as a teaching as well as an organising body , while suggesting that some increase in financial contributions from voluntary sources ‘ would materially help to preserve its independence and its status as a voluntary body ’ — a hint that the WEA could not expect to rely too heavily on government or local authority aid and that its members and friends must continue to dig deep into their pockets . |
| 23 | Other universities could not expect to fare so well in operating ‘ create income ’ programmes , and within certain institutions some departments are in favourable positions to offer lucrative services such as computing . |
| 24 | He clearly did not expect to escape so easily . |
| 25 | — I did not expect to survive that long . |
| 26 | The absence of all but a handful of examples in the biographical sources of this method of obtaining mevleviyets leads to the inference that someone obtaining a mevleviyet by this route could not expect to get much further in the hierarchy ; and indeed the provision itself , while not prohibiting the practice , does remove one of the principal prerogatives of the holders of mevleviyets . |
| 27 | Learners require opportunities for both form-focused and function-focused practice in the development of particular skill areas , and if one or the other is lacking they do not appear to benefit as much … |
| 28 | ‘ It 's not built to go that slow . |
| 29 | The relationship with Mimi had survived its stormy months , though it was not destined to last much longer . |
| 30 | Selden could not choose to live anywhere else , but why did the other man live in such conditions ? |