Example sentences of "not [vb infin] [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 | He did not answer straight away but stared , quite unruffled , down into her angry green eyes . |
| 5 | The McLaren girl did not answer right away and Mrs. Favor leaned towards the girl . |
| 6 | As she searched for them in her pocket , Oliver could not wait any longer and ran into her arms . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Do not knit too quickly or you will find that you are racking as you knit , which will break or damage the needles . |
| 10 | Such a population , especially if the average size of a family continues to diminish , calls for more looking after , medically and physically , than an equal population of lower average age : it does not die so cheaply and it does not , medically speaking , survive so cheaply . |
| 11 | In his view it would not happen as easily or as quickly but the key point is , it could happen while maintaining the status quo . |
| 12 | At the beginning of a relationship sex is often taken for granted as a possibility , but girls have to take care that it does not happen too easily or too often . |
| 13 | If this does not happen then sooner or later we can all dig a hole and get in . |
| 14 | When a nation can not produce as cheaply or as well as foreigners , then no barriers will save it against smugglers , fashion and the consumer 's interest . |
| 15 | Some dubbed it a cosmetic exercise which did not go far enough and said too many concessions had already been made to industry . |
| 16 | Proposals to curb litter and waste did not go far enough and would land local authorities with extra bills but no additional resources . |
| 17 | In any case Kent County Council is concerned that they do not go far enough and has produced its own traffic strategy designed to reduce the pressure on smaller roads . |
| 18 | Doubts like this crystallize at one or two points , either where the presuppositions are so mixed and unsatisfactory that they are inaccurate , or where the presuppositions are true as far as they go but do not go far enough and so are incomplete . |
| 19 | At its July meeting the Council heard some members complain that the proposals did not go far enough and would not lead to greater freedoms for institutions , and heard others wonder if the long-term aim was in fact ‘ complete autonomy ’ . |
| 20 | Like elephants , it seems to me that bream do not forget easily either and experience from the past they learn from carefully . |
| 21 | But he would not press too vehemently or he would lose the support of the Prince . |
| 22 | She said I ca n't cope no more , she said I just can not cope any longer and I said you must n't feel like that I said you 'll break all our hearts , I said it 's , life will never be the same again , I said come on home with me , forget about this day , I said tomorrow we 'll come and pick your birds up cos she 's got two beautiful parrots , she 's got a Mulican white with peach |
| 23 | Pc Kelly told the jury he could not breathe very well and tried to make himself comfortable . |
| 24 | Do not bandage too tightly but arrange it so that you can move your ankle sufficiently to use foot techniques . |
| 25 | Darcy , who also began three under , did not play consistently enough and his 76 took him to a one-over-par 145 — but McLean had the worst fortune . |
| 26 | Specialist skills , apart from technology/computerization , did not figure very highly or very uniformly in responses , perhaps because it is felt that these are widely catered for already . |
| 27 | If the vulnerable organic layers did not exist teeth would not rot so easily but then they would be brittle and would probably break early in life . |
| 28 | But The Henderson Kids role did not last very long and Dannii still remained the more famous in the Minogue celebrity stakes . |
| 29 | Sadly , Marks did not last very long and he was the first of the Commanding Officers of the four founder squadrons to he lost in battle ; this was flat only great loss to the squadron , hut certainly to the Pathfinders . |
| 30 | The play 's strength is that it draws on Eliot 's earlier work and makes that earlier work transferable to the West End , a triumph in itself ; its weakness , like that of most of the plays , is that it offers us little we can not find more concisely and intensely expressed in the poetry . |