Example sentences of "not [verb] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The beach is all mine but I can not stay long for I lack a senorita to oil my back . |
| 2 | Many people living in ‘ inner cities ’ do not stay there because of the ‘ community ’ but because they can not escape . |
| 3 | On the positive side CAMRA can point to the success of the independent brewers , many of whom would not exist today but for the interest in cask ale generated by the Campaign . |
| 4 | None of this may be objectively true — alternative , better , jobs simply may not exist even when there is not a high level of unemployment — but to the extent that individual workers believe the dominant achievement ideology in society then they will not wish to ‘ confess failure ’ by admitting that they do not enjoy an adequate level of job satisfaction . |
| 5 | We are all but a part of a whole which has its own , its distinct , its other meaning : we are not ourselves , we are crossroads , meeting places , points on a curve , we can not exist independently for we are nothing but signs , conjunctions , aggregations . |
| 6 | Plans by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development ( EBRD ) to assist the clean up of environmental black spots in former communist countries are being impeded by a rule which says that the Bank can not lend more than 40 per cent of its funds to finance state projects . |
| 7 | Melanie tried to grasp how dreadful it would be if Finn were dead but she could not think coherently because of the terrible sound of Aunt Margaret 's silence . |
| 8 | If the slim person has eaten a really large meal , he or she will naturally be very full and will perhaps not eat again until hunger really returns ; in addition this type of person might take a little exercise to ‘ work off ’ the food . |
| 9 | However , the existence of such objects is always apparent to authors , so that they are not treated wantonly when a document is edited . |
| 10 | Squirrels are not treated literally as ‘ things ’ in the outer world but as , firstly , parts of sets defined by such criteria as ‘ those that live in trees ’ and , secondly , ‘ available for symbolic manipulation ’ since they can be taken to stand for the very trees they live in . |
| 11 | The danger with landfill is that waste not treated correctly before burial can produce a liquid run-off or gas that 's not environmentally friendly . |
| 12 | Her daughter Chandrika , whose politics have not altered much since her Left Bank days as a student at the Sorbonne , will be the province 's chief minister . |
| 13 | My great aim is to give you a periodical which you will not throw aside as soon as read , but which you will value and look over years hence as an old familiar friend , when you may be battling with the realities of life under the suns of India , in the backwoods of Canada or the United States , or the grassy downs of Australia , over the wide Ocean among the isles of the Pacific , or on the distant shores of Columbia . |
| 14 | Because technical terms are genuinely a part of language ( and not intended simply as items in a dictionary ) , they ebb and flow , and grow and contract , and shift in connotation . |
| 15 | Such musical devices are not intended therefore as direct Romantic ‘ mood-painting ’ ’ . |
| 16 | Lord Keith then seeks to distinguish the approach which should be taken in Webb from the ruling in James v Eastleigh Borough Council on the ground that Ms Webb was not dismissed simply because she was pregnant but because she would be unavailable for work at the critical period . |
| 17 | Similarly , when an engine fell off the DC-10 during take-off at Chicago , the administrator of the FAA was not dismissed even though his organisation should have ensured that the aircraft was subject to proper maintenance practices . |
| 18 | The first are generated by scanners and need careful handling , the accompanying bitmap for display purposes may not reproduce properly although the image will print correctly — this is caused by the difference in screen resolutions between the two systems . |
| 19 | As he left the room he urged Elisa not to go away before he got back . |
| 20 | I explained that I wanted the experience of running my own expedition and , after some discussion , he withdrew his objections but warned me not to go further than Bilen . |
| 21 | As soon as I decided not to go farther than Cambridge , I wanted to stop dead in the middle of the road . |
| 22 | It 's not touching either so you can play it . |
| 23 | There are still many buildings that are not listed simply because they have not yet been properly surveyed , or have somehow slipped through the net . |
| 24 | Wellcome would not comment further until the data from the study had been fully analysed , although the preliminary indications were ‘ encouraging ’ . |
| 25 | No-one was available from the Wales CBI for comment but Meirion Lewis , Welsh spokesman for the Institute of Directors , said he was surprised at the findings of the study , but could not comment further until he had seen it . |
| 26 | A spokesman for the company , which provided cooling and water tanks , tanks for the pavilion said last night : ‘ I can not comment further because the situation is legally delicate . ’ |
| 27 | Surely this could not explain more than two decades of political stability . |
| 28 | You do n't have anywhere to wash your clothes or even yourself sometimes , so you 're dirty and your clothes are dirty and you 're not eating properly so you 're more liable to illness and this sort of thing , so that you 're not likely to keep a job even if you get it , and you ca n't get accommodation without a deposit , and so you need several hundred pounds in order to get accommodation . |
| 29 | I had just had my forty-first birthday and had been going through a very unhappy time , not eating properly because I was economizing so much , and becoming properly run down . |
| 30 | Hence people who enter the premises as lawful visitors may not remain so if they step outside of their invitation or permission to be on the premises . |