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

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1 Garrison Savannah who almost won the National two years ago appears to have returned to his old form if you take his Gold Cup run on board for he was always in touch before blundering and losing his chance late in the race , but he may not stay the trip as happened two years ago when he was beaten by Seagram .
2 Some will give the personal aspects the highest priority because of accumulated experience which shows that a client who is not emotionally ready for the severe belt-tightening and discipline involved in emerging from serious debt , will not stay the course .
3 I was working for a yarn firm who had just gone into the marketing of coned yarns — unfortunately they did not stay the course .
4 He can not stay the distance and his breathing is now difficult . ’
5 The trio kept the 3.5 litre Peugeot 905 ahead f or most of the rain-hit race to delight the flag-waving local and British fans and confound the critics who predicted the car could not stay the distance .
6 Dancing was a consolation for not seeing the lady .
7 ‘ The political situation in FIFA , at the moment , is such that we have to be very careful of not seeing the majority move towards that idea . ’
8 Not seeing the significance at the time of the two articles , or of the prong ( pitchfork ) and shovel that followed them , the two boys finished their frugal breakfast and set out upon their chores .
9 The footplatemen had nothing to gain by lying about the position of the distant signal when they admitted not seeing the home signal at all .
10 ‘ Yes , but — are they not seeing the jokes ?
11 In the Game of Life not seeing things as they are is like not seeing the ball clearly when playing tennis , or not knowing where the white lines are .
12 He was not seeing the ball so well .
13 Not seeing the size she was .
14 ‘ Not really ; it was a case of not seeing the wood for the trees .
15 THE Hitch-hiker 's Guide To Not Seeing The Galaxy Before Your Time : Do n't accept a lift in President Kennedy 's Cadillac , James Dean 's Porsche , Mark Thatcher 's Land-Rover .
16 ‘ People are just not seeing the value of breast milk , ’ says Alison Spiro , NCT milk-bank coordinator and Parents Family Health Adviser .
17 What makes a fanatic is not having strong and extreme ideals oneself but taking no notice of other people 's — not seeing the considerations that other people are concerned about .
18 There is a tedious pounding at the heart of this music , a sincerity that allows for only one angle of delivery , a passion that has created a pop atmosphere in which it 's impossible to be clever , cool or cynical , a soul whose impulse is NOT to embrace the avant-garde , like Faustus , and be cut into a thousand pieces by a sampling machine .
19 Hughes admitted that one reason for the slow growth of the movement in Wales was that the Church of Wales was in a minority ‘ and there did not exist the sense of peril which , he feared , must be admitted , had done so much in driving them together in England ’ .
20 If you have to use deodorant , use the unscented , roll-on variety and try not to breathe the fumes .
21 Either way , Churchill 's response to Franco 's October missive made very clear that the British government would not swallow the Caudillo 's attempt to rewrite history in his own favour .
22 This seems to be because of the small size of the owl in relation to its prey , so that it can not swallow the prey whole but tears it up as do the diurnal raptors ( see Appendix for details of little owl biology ) .
23 Sister stressed how important it is to speak to the troubled , to have time for listening and not to evade the issue .
24 They are divisive because they have a tendency to divide women into two camps ; those who have and those who have not shaken the dust of patriarchal conditioning from their feet .
25 Do not overtighten the screws or you could crack the mirror .
26 Do not overtighten the screws — you want to be able to remove them whenever any yarn gets caught in them , to keep them always in a ‘ spinning ’ condition .
27 It was not handling the paints , she tells us , ‘ but handling of thoughts which overwhelmed me ’ .
28 With Hitchock in this mood it already looks a good signing and Porterfield said : ‘ We are not bringing the Russian to take Kevin 's place .
29 Nor does a term cease to be a leasehold because it is determinable by an event which may happen , or which is certain to happen , within the term — e.g. if A holds land for 99 years or for 999 years , ‘ if he shall so long live ’ , he is still a leaseholder , though it is nearly or quite certain that he will not outlive the term .
30 Deng Xiaoping is 85 , and while apparently in reasonably good health , will not outlive the instigators of the ‘ counter-revolutionary rebellion ’ .
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