Example sentences of "not [verb] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Yes , but — are they not seeing the jokes ? |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | If you have to use deodorant , use the unscented , roll-on variety and try not to breathe the fumes . |
| 4 | Do not overtighten the screws or you could crack the mirror . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It was not handling the paints , she tells us , ‘ but handling of thoughts which overwhelmed me ’ . |
| 7 | Deng Xiaoping is 85 , and while apparently in reasonably good health , will not outlive the instigators of the ‘ counter-revolutionary rebellion ’ . |
| 8 | The golfers , four amateurs of handicaps ranging from 13 to 5 and four professionals , were told not to waggle the clubs or to bend the shaft on the ground but just to hit the ball . |
| 9 | Successful high-profile appeals of the Guildford Four , Birmingham Six , the Maguire family and the Tottenham Three have traumatised the criminal justice system and led to a Royal Commission , but they have not stopped the complaints . |
| 10 | We have a choice : either accept a UK transmission fee only from the BBC ( in lieu of the usual Channel Four model of a full commission ) or not make the programmes . |
| 11 | ‘ You did not expound the words of scripture . |
| 12 | Herodotus can not bring himself to believe in a story which gives as the cause of centuries of rivalry ‘ nothing worse than woman-stealing on both sides ’ ( 42 ) , for he does not think the Greeks could possibly have gone to war over anything so trivial , and indeed he appears to concur with the Persian view that ‘ no young woman allows herself to be abducted if she does not wish to be ’ ( 42 ) . |
| 13 | I do not think the prohibitions outlined in 3(a) would do any good . |
| 14 | As always , he did not think the lectures successful although he had tried to avoid all social engagements in February when he was working on them , he had still been distracted by rehearsals for The Family Reunion . |
| 15 | She did not think the masks were nice toys for young children . |
| 16 | Pannell Kerr Forster senior management consultant Nick van Marken said he did not think the changes would result in a dramatic increase in hotels . |
| 17 | No case of this kind has ever been considered by the courts before , and I do not think the dicta in the previous cases should be read as excluding a case of this kind where a landlord seeks , by a course of intimidation , to " annul his own deed " , to contradict his own demise , by ousting the tenant from possession which the landlord has conferred upon her . |
| 18 | feeling as if I 'm not using the resources I 've got . |
| 19 | ‘ They are not using the services in their own authorities so SSDs are misled into believing there is n't a demand for services . |
| 20 | The instructor should encourage the pilot to talk through his thoughts aloud to find out whether not using the airbrakes is caused by failing to realise the glider is too high or by not being quick enough to decide and act . |
| 21 | There 's no excuse for not using the gears , though . |
| 22 | To pick verses at random from the Bible proves nothing at all , except that we are gullible and are not using the Scriptures as we are intended to . |
| 23 | Users tend not to see the errors because they 're corrected by the network software , but the need for retries slows things down . |
| 24 | ‘ The kind who were disappointed not to see the panzers driving up to Buckingham Palace ? ’ |
| 25 | As a child he had lain in bed long into the night , plotting his escape from an alcoholic father and a mother who managed not to see the bruises and the tears . |
| 26 | Even the most committed opponents of capital punishment will find it hard not to see the Norwegians ' point of view . |
| 27 | It is difficult not to see the seeds of authoritarianism in this thinking : Rougemont says , ‘ C'est pour obéir que nous sommes libres ’ : it is in order to be able to obey that we are free . |
| 28 | However , dealing with local agents is another worry for the expatriate and so some employers manage the expatriate 's affairs in the UK during an absence overseas by paying the mortgage and rates when the home is empty or when the rent achievable does not cover the outgoings . |
| 29 | It will not cover the employees whose jobs are being transferred . |
| 30 | They produced fair quantities of copper and a little silver but , with a declining market for copper , could not cover the costs of installations and the travelling expenses of almost 150 Austrian and German craftsmen , a total which amounted to about £50,000 . |