Example sentences of "not [verb] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 She was able to will her longing into an unexamined haze but she could not stay away from the post office on Monday .
2 She had been undaunted even when Henry said he 'd wager that she dare not stay alone in the Lodge while he and Lettice explored the woods outside .
3 " Still , I 'd better not stay long with the sepoys attacking …
4 Could not stay long in the room with it , but the ice had been broken .
5 When challenged on this point , employers always produced a unanimous chorus to the effect that this was what women wanted , because they would not stay long in the trade before they married .
6 It does n't work for her the mistress of the moment of sudden isolation at not seeing back to the black magician who fantastically juggles luminous hoops in the recto-rectangular hey put my mirror back .
7 This is a pity and I 'm afraid it 's a case of your researchers not seeing much beyond the end of their dicks .
8 I agree with Eric Hobsbawm 's assertion that nationhood need not arise exclusively from the past ( ‘ Whose fault-line is it anyway ? ’ , 24 April ) .
9 But I think that question does not arise here from the facts .
10 She asked the Government to ensure that similar situations did not arise again in the future .
11 If it is correct , in general , that a public nuisance can not arise out of the lawful use of a highway , as Mr. Ashworth submitted , it is not , in my judgment , because there is no unlawful act .
12 It reflects some current concerns , and also questions which do not arise specifically at the moment , but which we ought to realise may arise in the future .
13 A crucial difference , of course , between the " real " model of reality and the " mock reality " of fiction is that the mock reality does not exist apart from the message by which it is conveyed : this is the case , at least , if we regard a fictional work in its entirety as constituting a single message .
14 This illustrates that the law does not exist simply for the protection of individuals , for if it did one would be able to refuse its help if one did not want it .
15 In the civil service it may not exist lower down the organisation .
16 In any situation where there is felt to be problems , these will not exist independently of the human beings involved .
17 However should the United States be able to demonstrate the necessary state practice and opinio juris to substantiate a claim of customary international law , there is no reason why such general principles of law should not exist independently of the Convention .
18 The ‘ facts ’ of a pollution , like other forms of deviance , do not exist independently of the interpretative judgments which enforcement agents make about them .
19 What I have tried to say — namely that writing is not governed by the subjective intentions of its author , that ideas do not exist independently of the language which ‘ expresses ’ them — has ( inevitably ) been partially contradicted by the manner in which it has been said .
20 Theory Y , however , depends on mature individuals ; maturity , given the influence of group psychology etc , does not exist sufficiently on the shop floor to be practicable in its extreme form .
21 One thing seems clear , that such patterns did not exist only in the present largely abandoned marginal uplands , but also over great areas of the country .
22 But it is all too evident that there does not exist anywhere at the present time an active political movement which would be capable of initiating such a development , and if such a movement came into existence it would encounter immense difficulties .
23 The map showed the kind of town which did not exist anywhere in the empire .
24 As well as lines , Sumitomo had to install filters at each end of the lines to check that traffic that ought to be kept on the LAN does not disappear on to the WAN .
25 The stealing networks did not disappear entirely in the early years of the twentieth century , but their geographical range and the extent of their operations was sharply curtailed .
26 Let us be clear that we should not think merely of the Europe of the Twelve .
27 If the sociologist regards the interview schedule ( and , as we shall discuss later , the questionnaire ) in this way then he will not rush blithely into the field with a schedule which is the product of just a few hours ' odd jottings on rough paper .
28 None the less , Henry did not rush headlong down the road to schism .
29 There has been an encouraging 23% increase in general manufacturing R&D expenditure , but yet again , as a percentage of profits , the UK 's 11.7% does not compare healthily with the global 95.4% .
30 Their chaos and squalor did not compare well with the pristine beauty of Jerba and , as a lone male out of season , I was prey to a horde of street hustlers .
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