Example sentences of "not [verb] [adv] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was so angry with them all that I could not stay there a moment longer , and rushed out into the darkness . |
| 2 | He must sit upright at a table to eat his meals : he can not eat off a tray sitting in bed or an easy chair . |
| 3 | But these are isolated groups which do not make up a force . ’ |
| 4 | Why not make up a party ? |
| 5 | At Procedure Roll a defender may , very occasionally , succeed in persuading a Court that the pursuer 's case is so hopeless that it is not worth allowing evidence to be heard because even if that evidence was heard , it would not make out a case which would entitle the pursuer to succeed . |
| 6 | Maura could see Terry 's lips moving but could not make out a word . |
| 7 | It is important not to miss out a part of the invitation . |
| 8 | THE National Blood Transfusion Service said last night that it could not rule out a patient contracting the HIV virus as Arthur Ashe did . |
| 9 | She noted that , if the shareholders decide against the increase , ‘ we have other offers , ’ and did not rule out a return to EDS . |
| 10 | Although it did not rule out a return to multiparty politics per se , the PNDC argued that in the past this had only bred " hatred , division and bloodshed " . |
| 11 | The 76-year-old Euro-MP , who currently lives in West Germany , said he would of course not rule out a run some time in the future but for the moment he feels he can do more to promote his country in the European parliament . |
| 12 | ‘ I will not rule out a merger with Aldershot . |
| 13 | He did not as yet know all the details of how they had died , and what had gone before , but rumour had it that no great physical strength had been involved so that you could not rule out a woman as the killer . |
| 14 | It can not rule out a difference in the pharmacokinetics of insulins from different species . |
| 15 | But he did not explain how a government excluding some of the world 's most powerful states could establish its authority — short of a new world war . |
| 16 | But resemblance can not explain how a thinker could experience one object as standing for another ; for how could the fact that a particular datum is similar to other things mean anything to a thinker unless he experienced it as being like many others — that is , unless he grasped it , not just as a particular but as an instance of a kind ? |
| 17 | And you , Bruno , can not remain here a moment longer . |
| 18 | This can be positively dangerous , if only because such practitioners may not recognise when a person is seriously ill . |
| 19 | CHERYL had not looked forward a bit to her holiday . |
| 20 | In the larder , Kathleen Lavender stared Vaguely at various vegetables , at tins of soup , at flour bins and chutney jars , worrying about lunch and not understanding how a solicitor could be mistaken . |
| 21 | ‘ In fact , it was about the only game in which I 've not picked up a knock since the start of the season . |
| 22 | Taking into account the fact that they made fewer comments about individual types of credit than men , women 's comments were more likely to be that they did not know how a type of credit worked than men 's ; and less likely to say that it was easy to understand and use . |
| 23 | For the benefit of readers who may not know how a magneto operates , Fig. 1 shows the basic principle of this device . |
| 24 | It was not because the rating system was bad , but because of the way in which the rating system was being carried out , attacking certain areas of domestic property , and , because the English had not carried out a revaluation since 1973 , Scotland got out of line . |
| 25 | Mrs Gordon ( 61 ) who lives in Kingshurst , West Midlands , and now works at a nursing home , admitted in an official statement released by solicitor Steven Jonas that she had not carried out a smear test before joining Dr Kumar 's practice , but claimed she followed a technique he taught her . |
| 26 | The kings shook their heads sadly saying that they could not wait even a moment longer . |
| 27 | The paper does not specify how a decision can be made about a word 's identity during continuous speech . |
| 28 | When he is not looking over a sea of grain , is overlooking the sea ! |
| 29 | Why does Elsbeth not bring forth a child ? |
| 30 | So the ministers in charge of the measure felt they could not bring in a guillotine or send the bill to a committee upstairs because most of the Conservatives would have voted against and , not being an issue of confidence between the parties , sufficient Labour dissidents might also have voted against the government to leave it in a minority . |