Example sentences of "not [vb infin] [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Try to go to bed only when you 're tired but do not stay up past a certain critical time , say one hour after you would normally go to bed . |
| 2 | It is worth stressing that this study did not arise out of a leisured academic interest but out of an urgent need for material to use therapeutically with highly-disturbed young people . |
| 3 | The first submission by Mr. Ashworth was that a public nuisance can not arise out of a lawful act , whatever its consequences , and as what is complained of here , namely heavy goods vehicles being driven along Medway and Bridge Roads , is a lawful act , no public nuisance can arise . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Mr Collor 's problem is that although money is no obstacle to his multi-million dollar campaign , it does not make up for the thousands of enthusiastic party militants campaigning for his rival . |
| 7 | It will not make up for the insufficient level of public services that Cleveland has been given by BR . ’ |
| 8 | I could see by the light of his torch that the cave was deep and spacious ; I could not make out from the beam of light its total dimensions , but clearly a man would have had no problem stretching out to sleep there . |
| 9 | It does not rampage around like a chariot for example . |
| 10 | Some respondents felt that it was important that the manager had high expectations for punctuality and discipline so that resentment does not build up within the team . |
| 11 | Secondly , in dry summers the L3 are retained within the crusted faecal pat and can not migrate on to the pasture until sufficient rainfall occurs to moisten the pat . |
| 12 | Comment : Indirect questions are used all the time by people who need their status boosting through being given buckets of approval , or who are looking for a reason for punishing other people should they not fall in with the anticipated scenario . |
| 13 | However , we can not fall back on an ‘ outer estate ’ — ‘ inner-city ’ dichotomy here . |
| 14 | If his education were below that of his audience he could not fall back on the validity of the Sacraments he administered for support . |
| 15 | He used almost völkisch language , claiming that the Romanians ( unlike the Hungarian , German and other minorities ) were ‘ autochthonous ’ : ‘ They did not come from elsewhere , they did not fall down from the sky ; they were born and lived here , in this land , and they defended it with their blood . ’ |
| 16 | The tawny owl sample contains a lot of murids compared with other owls , and for this species the percentage molar loss is unexpectedly low because the murid teeth do not fall out of the maxilla so easily . |
| 17 | Ranulf was now fast asleep and the clerk breathed a prayer that his servant would not fall out of the saddle and break his neck . |
| 18 | Some have even kept their tattoos hidden from their children and have been reluctant to explain why they will not peel off in the sun . ’ |
| 19 | We had a punchcard in class the other day which would not catch on to the ‘ cogs ’ and allow itself to rotate . |
| 20 | They may not catch on in the north-east ! |
| 21 | How could clothes not dry out on a warm sunny day ? |
| 22 | The hospital management team for Claybury rejected the idea of the quadrant hospital concept , since this could not tie in with the principle of community care . |
| 23 | The Committee took the view that lawyers are unapproachable because of the inaccessibility of premises and their unwelcoming nature , because the methods of work do not tie in with the needs of clients , and because of a lack of response to the needs of linguistic minorities . |
| 24 | For a party you could prepare all four — and why not finish up with the orange and almond dessert on page 16 . |
| 25 | In Jane 's case , she could not snap out of a lifetime of worry overnight . |
| 26 | The first- and second-person pronouns are typical examples in that they do not refer back to a nominal expression in the text but to the speaker and hearer ( or writer and reader ) respectively . |
| 27 | I was certainly happy to make this find as the larger hammered silver coins of this period are not common and certainly do not pour out of the ground no matter where you live . |
| 28 | In those circumstances , vitamin and mineral deficiencies do not crop up in a couple of weeks . |
| 29 | You can not expect to be asked the questions exactly as they appear here and you will be badly thrown if you have programmed yourself with exact responses to very particular questions which do not crop up in the way you had anticipated . |
| 30 | Remember that these are colour effects , and they will therefore not show up on a black and white viewfinder . |