Example sentences of "not [verb] [prep] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We can not even conclude that we do not exist without presupposing that we do . |
| 2 | This places financial constraints on qualification as a barrister which do not exist for intending solicitors . |
| 3 | Although his business brought him into contact with many American settlers , he had received little co-operation in the collection of plants ‘ for what was common with them ( but rare with us ) they did not think worth sending ’ . |
| 4 | I thought that Doone might not think of looking in Perkin 's workroom for a match to the arrow 's wood . |
| 5 | She prayed they would not think of looking under the bed . |
| 6 | Potential new readers of Spare Rib would not think of looking under that section for a women 's magazine , and I assumed it was a mistake on the part of overworked staff . |
| 7 | When rights of conquest or hereditary rights had placed two or more territories under a medieval ruler , he was quite accustomed to finding that they were ruled under different constitutions and he would not think of trying to impose a uniform system of government on them ; Queen Elizabeth had rights and duties in England that were rather different from the rights and duties she had in the Channel Islands , which were all that was left of William the Conqueror 's Norman territories , and it was perfectly natural for each new English acquisition overseas to be won on terms that differed from what had happened previously . |
| 8 | Many people can not think of playing music or listening to it until six o'clock in the evening . |
| 9 | Ianthe did not think of asking John to accompany her , because it was difficult to imagine him in a church . |
| 10 | Ethel knew a lot more about what the master would and would not think of doing to a young woman than Mr Eames did . |
| 11 | We did not think of going to live abroad or of buying property outside Palestine . |
| 12 | You should not think of starting to write unless and until you 've completed four crucial preliminary stages : |
| 13 | I suppose the choir at Beverley should be thankful he did not think of performing the nine lessons and carols up there on top of the tower . |
| 14 | I did not think of following him , my feet seemed rooted to the sandy path and I saw him through a mist of tears as he appeared to melt through the door , which closed behind him . |
| 15 | If you 're always queuing up to use the washbasin , and have the space , why not think about installing more than one in the bathroom . |
| 16 | So , if you 're still lying in the tub , staring at that cracked sink , why not think about transforming your smallest room ? |
| 17 | But she did not think about giving anything to Finn ; he lived , now , in a country where presents and affection and loving and giving meant nothing . |
| 18 | He said that " the essence of the duty seems more likely to be that of not using without paying rather than of not using at all " . |
| 19 | Although diabetes is usually caused by a pancreas unable to do its job , it is not treated by replacing the offending organ . |
| 20 | Certainly , employers were not propelled into joining associations since by the time they were required by legislation to bargain with unions US manufacturing was itself organised into sufficiently large company units for employers to be self-sufficient and not to require association bargaining ( Thomson , 1981 ) . |
| 21 | Not overstretching by trying to cover too wide a range of applications simultaneously is also important . |
| 22 | They were not tricked into doing what they would not otherwise have done , they were tricked into doing what they wanted to do in that place and before witnesses and devices who can now speak of what happened . |
| 23 | Peers are asked if they wish to be granted ‘ leave of absence ’ and , if they do not reply in the negative , are expected not to attend without giving 30 days ' notice of intention to do so . |
| 24 | Even if play areas are created off-street , the impression must not be given that the rest of the street is not intended for playing children . |
| 25 | What is not consumed on bathing , watering lawns or irrigating golf courses goes on the sugar-cane plantations and tomato farms carved from the swamp . |
| 26 | If 2 had been going to choose A , she would work out that 1 would plan to choose B , in which case she would change her planned action to whatever is the best response to B , so falsifying the initial assumption that she would choose A. Thus 1 can not persist in believing 2 will choose A if he knows that she is as rational and well-informed as he is . |
| 27 | Thankfully she did not persist in pursuing her mad idea . |
| 28 | But it was not taken seriously in the West and Moscow did not persist in linking these American bases to the INF negotiations underway . |
| 29 | It is not justified by viewing his work comprehensively , even to 1967 ; still less so to 1978 when Scobie wrote . |
| 30 | Just because the vicar down the road is selfish and insensitive , I am not justified in concluding that therefore religion is bad . |