Example sentences of "not [verb] of [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oethelwald is not heard of again after the battle and Oswiu re-established an overkingship of the northern Angles with his son , Ealhfrith , as co-ruler or sub-king over the Deirans ( Vita Wilfridi , chs 7 , 10 ) . |
| 2 | In the United Kingdom , Derry/Londonderry was the first and their game was called The Maiden City , presumably in order not to alienate that half of the community which did not approve of either the name Derry or Londonderry . |
| 3 | He did not approve of only children , even though he was one himself who had married another . |
| 4 | Puritan and Calvinistic tradition would not approve of actually enjoying such a ceremony and no doubt someone would have pointed out that Ruth first caught Boaz 's eye by uncovering his feet as he slept and lying alongside them . |
| 5 | Experience does not consist of simply being faced with an event but is more a consequence of the construct system 's revision towards greater validity . |
| 6 | At first the Egyptians did not realize that the astronomical year does not consist of exactly 365 days but contains an extra fraction ( about one-quarter ) of a day . |
| 7 | Since Plato ( dreamed that he ) saw Socrates most days , and this was among the most vivid and consistent of all his experiences ( dreams ? ) , and since Socrates said things which he , Plato , had not thought of before and which sometimes surprised him , Plato found it most consistent and convenient to ’ believe ’ that Socrates really did exist . |
| 8 | Of course , there might be other forms of intelligent life , not dreamed of even by writers of science fiction , that did not require the light of a star like the sun or the heavier chemical elements that are made in stars and are flung back into space when the stars explode . |
| 9 | I know it is difficult to discuss a scientific topic nowadays without dragging in recombinant DNA somehow , but I can not conceive of even the most tenuous connection between genetic engineering and the quantum theory . |
| 10 | Eileen 's death had made the lot of them aware of depths in themselves and in each other that they had not known of before . |
| 11 | That is , pronouns which ‘ shew ’ are called ‘ Demonstratives , because they shew a thynge not spoken of before ’ , while those that ‘ rehearse ’ are called ‘ relatives ’ , because they relate or refer back to something already mentioned — we would call them antecedents . |
| 12 | However , the relatively small number of left handers without early birth injury who were stimulated does not permit of seriously challenging the accepted view . |
| 13 | One need not partake of overly sentimental or nostalgic views about academic freedom and communities of scholars to recognise that open doors and free and easy communication — face to face and in print — are the fundamental difference between the aridity of Soviet science and the fabulous productivity of American science . |
| 14 | Politics is thus not conceived of as ‘ a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants ’ ( Burke ) , nor as a matter of interests , conflicts and political goals , but instead as part of the struggle between good and evil . |
| 15 | He said , o I hope you 're not thinking of away so I can have these tickets he said ? |
| 16 | The words that were described were called ‘ simple ’ words ; ‘ simple ’ in this context means ‘ not composed of more than one grammatical unit ’ , so that , for example , the word ‘ care ’ is simple while ‘ careful ’ and ‘ careless ’ ( being composed of two grammatical units each ) are complex ; ‘ carefully ’ and ‘ carelessness ’ are also complex , and are composed of three grammatical units each . |
| 17 | But environmentalists have pointed out that it is already being used by western companies to dump toxic materials with impunity which they can not dispose of legally in the west . |
| 18 | Of course the most cursory glance at Dunning 's ‘ Threnody in Sapphics ’ ( not to speak of more miserable performances like ‘ Isabelle of Hainault ’ in The Exile number 3 ) shows that Pound had , as it were , no alternative ; there was no way to vindicate Dunning by imagist principles . |
| 19 | He went to ground and was n't heard of again until 1975 when word reached the CIA that he was training the Marxist MPLA soldiers in Angola . |
| 20 | quite sure he has n't heard of before . |
| 21 | Downstairs what he ( he would ) called ‘ the lounge ’ is a beautiful room , much bigger than the other rooms , peculiarly square , you do n't expect it , with one huge crossbeam supported on three uprights in the middle of the room , and other crossbeams and nooks and delicious angles an architect would n't think of once in a thousand years . |
| 22 | ‘ Ca n't think of anywhere myself , let me think for a minute . |
| 23 | I ca n't think of anywhere that the stage designs have been more consistently imaginative and beautifully realized than in Salzburg over the last twenty years . |
| 24 | And I could n't think of anywhere else . |
| 25 | Me with an overview of the organization , to see if there is anywhere else we can put him , and off , off the top I ca n't think of anywhere . |
| 26 | I tried the Aurora Corona Rest Home again because I could n't think of anywhere else . |
| 27 | ‘ I ca n't think of anywhere where I 'd get better working conditions than that . ’ |
| 28 | No I ca n't think of anywhere we would go when we have n't got Chrissy with us . |
| 29 | Well I mean I was saying to this bloke well can you think of anywhere where we might be able to , oh no no no ca n't think of anywhere . |
| 30 | erm possibly the wool shop , erm square one and Abbey National , I think I ca n't think of anywhere else at the moment |