Example sentences of "not [verb] [adv] [adv] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why not stay here tonight and on the morrow I will have someone take you over to Briar Cottage with a wagon ? |
| 2 | To the urban dweller , all woods look the same , but in landscape terms we must be careful to distinguish between the wildwood ( the remnant or successor of the natural or semi-natural woodland of Britain — which certainly does not exist anywhere today and probably has not since the Roman period ) and woods which have been to a greater or lesser degree managed for the production of timber and wood ( Fig. 63 ) . |
| 3 | The criticisms have fallen into certain categories , one general line being that the service has failed to adopt modern methods of management , that it has been slow in understanding the use of statistical information and of specialized knowledge of the social services , and that it does not think ahead enough or organize its planning on a sufficiently systematic basis , in part because officials spend too much time on routine departmental work . |
| 4 | Things are not altered so quickly or coarsely by common people as they are by fashionable people … |
| 5 | One of the problems with the stream situation was that those pupils who found themselves in the bottom streams , who found that they were perhaps not regarded so highly or so positively by their teachers , tended to respond with misbehaviour in their classes , with occasionally vandalism around the school and generally a negative attitude towards the school and their teachers in general , and the immediate effect of the mixed ability grouping was to eradicate behavioural problems of that kind almost entirely . |
| 6 | He did not answer straight away but stared , quite unruffled , down into her angry green eyes . |
| 7 | The McLaren girl did not answer right away and Mrs. Favor leaned towards the girl . |
| 8 | The edges of adjacent planks were not fastened together mechanically but stood open so as to form a V-shaped groove . |
| 9 | Prices have not fallen back much and can be as much as three times an equivalent property in France . |
| 10 | A remedy commonly needed in measles , especially if the rash has not come out fully or has disappeared again and they become more ill . |
| 11 | There is only one equation we have not considered so far and that is eqn ( 4.3 ) , which will probably look more familiar in another form . |
| 12 | Then , opening them again , she resumed her earlier apologetic furtiveness and , like a nocturnal animal twitching before a predator , begged her sister not to laugh , not to make fun of her , not to comment straight away or say she was an idiot or slap her down , but please , please , to let her have her dream about him just for a night . |
| 13 | If you are not , you may be heading for potential losses which could have been avoided and you are almost certainly not trading as effectively or profitably as you should ! |
| 14 | As she searched for them in her pocket , Oliver could not wait any longer and ran into her arms . |
| 15 | The main point to realise is that if you can not feel a positive lock , you are either not pushing hard enough or the lock is completely out of adjustment and too light to be effective . |
| 16 | Here and in the United States , most experts now agree that a doctor is not obliged either ethically or legally to continue treatment when it 's refused or is useless or has become a burden to the patient . |
| 17 | She , in whom a natural clear spring of charm flowed vigorously , who expostulated , articulated and knew her own mind with commanding grace — in private , not in public of course ( before others who were not family , such confidence in a girl would seem an outrage ) — could not speak up now and tell Rosa what she felt . |
| 18 | Catherine Lee is an artist who has surely not exhibited so extensively nor is so well known as her painter-husband , Sean Scully . |
| 19 | It is important to be aware that trade unions are organisations in their own right , and we must not assume too hastily or too readily that the goals of a trade union organisation are the same as those of its members or full-time officials . |
| 20 | You have doubtless heard from time to time some little of my movements on this side of the globe and if I have not written more fully and frequently to my friends in England I trust this will be attributed to the very pressing engagements which have fully occupied my time and mind . |
| 21 | The criticism was not made out loud but Jesus sensed what Simon was thinking . |
| 22 | It helps people to appreciate mystery by not defining too easily and sewing it all up . |
| 23 | It is often a good idea to have several small aquaria instead of one larger one , as it is easier to see the animals and to study them when they are in a small volume of water : they can not swim so far or so fast . |
| 24 | This point was not argued any further but afterwards it was clear that this teacher was not satisfied with the response . |
| 25 | So the course which was widely adopted was not to sell up entirely but to grant leases of land wanted for development . |
| 26 | I was actually quite low on the activists and higher on these three but I managed to wonder sometimes where I worked ever so hard on a session I ca n't really ca n't understand you know why it 's not going very well and I thought well when I then watched other people do something that had a lot of action I thought well why did they like that more and I never I did n't know but I 've actually learnt that you have to put activities in , cos you , you know you do get people with a very strong activist preference . |
| 27 | This can be done in various ways , most of which can be found in eighteenthand early nineteenth-century fiction , but not used so artfully or extensively . |
| 28 | Algae and other weed in the canal shows it is not used too often and some patches grow right across although it is not hard to paddle through them and the lengths of wood and other floating debris . |
| 29 | The notion of educational ‘ stages ’ is useful as long as it is not interpreted too rigidly or schematically ( Squires 1989a ) . |
| 30 | Significant works which have appeared in Latin America have not yet been translated ; and the Asian studies published are still provisional and have thus not contributed either substantively or ideologically to communication studies in the South . |