Example sentences of "not [verb] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Knighton , whose bid to take over Manchester United failed in a blaze of publicity three years ago , said : ‘ Carlisle United will not survive without a development of some kind and I will not stay here subsidising the club . ’ |
| 2 | The villagers abused him , saying , ‘ You should help these people , not sit there weeping ’ . |
| 3 | As the discussion of the previous chapter would suggest , their objectives do not arise ready made in response to some supposed ‘ needs ’ of the accumulation process ; they emerge out of the complex interplay within the state of organized political interests . |
| 4 | yet , as Lancaster observes ‘ Librarians do not exist merely to acquire books or to maximise the work load at the circulation desk : presumably libraries are in some way concerned with certain uses of books and with certain desired outcomes of the reading process. , |
| 5 | But myths do not exist only to give human proportions to events ; they are also created to mystify experience . |
| 6 | They both tried , no doubt , to put us at our ease , but I do not think either had much understanding of small children . |
| 7 | A third of the Membership claimed to be unemployed and their reduced subscriptions of £6 did not cover even mailing costs . |
| 8 | It does not cover simply keeping goods after the accused has discovered that they have been stolen : Broom v Crowther ( 1984 ) 148 JP 592 . |
| 9 | The 49 children not treated surgically increased their SDS score for height a similar amount ( 0.31 ( 1.33 ) ; p=0.52 ) . |
| 10 | As our group made a hasty retreat , Bosnia 's Muslim interior minister , Mr Alija Delimustafic , entered the fray , pressing the Yugoslav Army commander over why its forces had not intervened earlier to halt the attack . |
| 11 | Neumann , conveniently , attributes to me a generalization I did not make then proceeds to refute it . |
| 12 | ‘ I do not want right done . |
| 13 | as if Erdle knew something about him , or his background , that he did not want generally known . |
| 14 | It must be stated at this point that it is not intended here to suggest that there is a conspiracy on the part of doctors to deprive patients of their rights , or that doctors act out of ill will . |
| 15 | Law Society guidance to these amendment rules emphasises that the new requirements are not intended materially to increase the reporting accountant 's workload . |
| 16 | The rules for modifying behaviour do not spring fully armed out of the genome . |
| 17 | Johnson arrived in Winnipeg for the Canadian championships , but his advisers notified organisers late on Friday that a week-old hamstring injury had not healed sufficiently to enable him to race in Saturday 's 60 metres . |
| 18 | Having not heard either work for some years , I was pleasantly surprised to be reminded what a delightfully unaffected piece the Missa choralis , in particular , really is . |
| 19 | FROM the way Soviet soldiers sometimes carry on , you would think they had not heard there had been a change in Germany . |
| 20 | Were they not given enough to do ? |
| 21 | This might be to speed the job up to earn a larger bonus or to create some leisure time during the working shift , or to slow the job down so that an impression of busy-ness is created and he is not given further work . |
| 22 | History is not taught just to produce future generations of history teachers and history graduates ! |
| 23 | He seemed unable to meet the coroner 's eyes , not daring even to look in his direction . |
| 24 | The nomes sat in the noisy darkness , not daring even to speak , and felt their world vanishing . |
| 25 | Her mam would say nothing , just sit there white-faced , cupping her hand over the latest bruise , not daring even to blink in case he said she was sleeping in God 's time when all he wanted was to raise his children decent . |
| 26 | ‘ They flocked around the pole , not daring immediately to come too near , their eyes and beaks devouring my body as I watched . |
| 27 | Yet it illustrated the fact that the United States could not remain completely isolated from Europe . |
| 28 | Contrary to what Harney says , the disc margins in this condition need not remain well defined . |
| 29 | Ian Lang can not remain complacently sitting on his hands in the face of an economic crisis which is damaging all our communities and condemning more than 80,000 Scots to long-term unemployment , ’ he said . |
| 30 | The Efta states remain outside the jurisdiction of the European Court and free from any EEC decisions which do not relate directly to trade . |