Example sentences of "n't [adv] [vb infin] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Well , I never did , ’ said Mrs Beavis in astonishment , ‘ I ca n't 'ardly credit Sergeant Joe doin' a thing like that . |
| 2 | A Lotus Elan provides more grip and a Peugeot 309GTi offers more communicative steering , but for a combination of fine throttle adjustability , knife-edged balance , the ability to stay accurately on line , and high levels of security — cut the throttle sharply and it wo n't suddenly swap ends — there 's little to touch the Corrado . |
| 3 | People do n't suddenly say things out of the blue , without a context . |
| 4 | And although that wo n't suddenly get Gower reinstated in the England team , it would send shock waves through the previously sedate world of English cricket . |
| 5 | ‘ I would n't only offer tea and biscuits , not even to you . ’ |
| 6 | Knitting machines do n't only make jumpers , they make whatever you want them to , given a little thought and love of the craft . |
| 7 | But the danger that it threatens is no small matter , and conference , it does n't only affect women , because if you lose a child or a partner , a cousin , an aunt , or a sister , then brothers , it affects you . |
| 8 | Like so many of the films that were to be made during the Second World War , The Four Just Men does n't only draw attention to the nature of the enemy ; it also presents an evocative picture of just what it is that is under threat — ‘ all the roads and rivers , fields add woods and hills that make up this funny old island . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ But we do n't only reflect public opinion , you know . |
| 10 | They did n't only want lumps on their heads |
| 11 | Ken was a shaper : he did n't only destroy boards , he created them too . |
| 12 | Dodo does n't only like people . |
| 13 | In 1990 Capirossi did n't only have Team Pileri nurturing him . |
| 14 | The prospect of 16 weeks on tour does n't especially fill Cargill with delight , so why do it ? |
| 15 | and erm er erm erm does n't necessarily bring people together , in fact , because it 's a , it , it 's a very isolating condition to be in . |
| 16 | We like to entertain , but these days we would n't necessarily offer meat . |
| 17 | He did not shy away from probing questions about his art or sex life ( he has gone to whores for the ‘ psychological experience ’ , claims Illona makes him so hot he can ‘ go again in 5 to 10 minutes ’ , and does n't necessarily think porn stars make better lovers ‘ if two people love each other ’ ) . |
| 18 | According to Stephen Auditaire of the Fremont , California-based X Business Group , corporations are adopting X as a component of their PC integration strategy — and that wo n't necessarily affect X-terminal business , as PCs are normally used only for occasional access to corporate databases , not the constant heavy graphical use more suited to X-terminals . |
| 19 | That would usually be called an engine , and in a car the engine just burns petrol and produces the mechanical energy in the shaft which turns the wheels , so the course is learning about the nature of mechanical forces and energy , thermal forces and energy and of the conversion of one form of energy to another , and in the process you learn that there are fundamental scientific laws — in particular the second law of thermo-dynamics — which says that you ca n't necessarily go form energy in one form with a hundred percent efficiency to getting it out in another form , so this limitation on your ability to convert from one form into another without waste in fact comes into many , many processes and every day processes . |
| 20 | The council 's emergency planning officer , Mike Hill , said : ‘ High tides alone do n't necessarily mean flooding , there has to be a combination of winds and tides , and this may not happen . |
| 21 | ‘ A non-appearance at work does n't necessarily mean illness , ’ said the vicar , with what Ianthe considered unbecoming cynicism . |
| 22 | Talent does n't necessarily mean facility . |
| 23 | This did n't necessarily mean hostility to religion as such . |
| 24 | We can incrementally manage our way towards open systems component by component , ’ is his message to users , ‘ but do n't do it all at once — and remember it does n't necessarily mean Unix . ’ |
| 25 | But finding a person to express this attributes does n't necessarily take care of them . |
| 26 | That need n't necessarily increase trade across countries just bec could possibly become er , more self sufficient . |
| 27 | ‘ The executive directors at NatWest were tremendously supportive but we did n't necessarily need support , we needed experienced guidance . |
| 28 | the er loss of their fertility and the loss of their children and , have sexual problems and problems like that , and they do n't necessarily need H R T they need lots of time , which they 're given . |
| 29 | Candidates over twenty-five may be allowed to enrol if they have obtained a position of responsibility in a non-accounting career — that means that you wo n't necessarily need A-levels to do the course . |
| 30 | ‘ I do feel the need to use the lyrics to get the information across to people who would n't necessarily pick things up . |