Example sentences of "not come [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 The answer is that , despite his biographer 's sterling efforts to dig up neat psychoanalytic excuses for even his most venal sins , a Dickens often given to kindness , empathy and geniality but more predominantly disposed to be cruel , self-centred , self-pitying and sententious does not come over as an especially lovable specimen .
2 There are some aspects of our personalities which may not come over in the brief span of an interview , but which those close to us know only too well .
3 Surprisingly sometimes this does not come over in the investment overview or information memorandum .
4 I myself would I am sure hereafter regret not visiting this part of V. D. L. , and under all circumstances I have agreed with Lady Franklin to wait one week longer after which to return if the wind should not come round to the eastward or northeast , either of these winds would take us to the desired place in a few hours .
5 The difficult search for a replacement for Bean after his retirement did not come up with a suitable candidate ( see The Art Newspaper No.17 , April 1992 , p.5 ) .
6 Students frequently say they have done the recommended reading , taken the necessary notes and reviewed all their materials , but still can not come up with a solution to the problem posed .
7 What , if anything , should disconcert us if we can not come up with a trouble-free definition ?
8 That has already been increased to fou fourteen hundred er you when you 're making your recommendation may or may not come up with a recommendation for a somewhat larger settlement .
9 There were , however , some cases in which the model did not come up with a valid parse , that is , a pattern that represents complete coverage of the input by a set of nonoverlapping words .
10 It does not come up with the rations .
11 Does the Secretary of State agree that when local democracy does not come up with the results that he wants he abolishes it ?
12 If BR does not come up with the money the council is warning it may take action to force them to remove the ticket office .
13 She learnt that these plates did not come up to the manufacturer 's high standards and would go back into the melting pot .
14 Ruth would almost certainly not come up to the flat .
15 The first 15 overs yielded only 30 and the 100 did not come up until the 35th over .
16 The table provided in the Library note projects that we shall not come up against the upper ceiling of the present capacity in either this or the next financial year .
17 At the present pace of progress in Brussels , similar changes throughout the EC may not come in for a dozen years or more , and British farmers fear that they will lose business while waiting for European competitors to catch up .
18 Although tankers did not come in for the attention they received in the 1980s , on 25 January Platt 's carried an account of an attack on an Iraqi tanker by US aircraft .
19 She left the Tyne yesterday for six days of sea trials and ‘ our worry is that it will not come back to the river but will be completed somewhere else in the UK ’ , he said .
20 Van Cheele 's old dog , when he saw the boy , had run away in fear and would not come back into the house .
21 Mr Rochester is always very popular with the ladies at these parties , so he may not come back for a week or so . ’
22 He did not come back until the evening , and then he was drunk .
23 But so many would not come back from the war .
24 Sheer orders of magnitude matter , and the orders of magnitude do not come down on the side of the real-balance effect .
25 Did it really not come down to a fear of the knife ?
26 Her left hand did not come down upon the ground .
27 So it is that when Mr Major explains that he has , by devaluing the pound , given British industry an exceptional chance to improve its exports , he insists that ‘ this did not come about as a deliberate act of policy ’ .
28 New concepts of force and inertia did not come about as a result of careful observation and experiment .
29 The absorption of the heretic Bosnian ( Bogomil ) Church into the Islamic world did not come about as a result of a dramatic act of mass conversion , but , if Ottoman statistics are to be believed , it was a relatively rapid process .
30 He believed that socialism would not come about as the inevitable result of impersonal laws of economic development but would have to be built by active human beings working purposively and creatively .
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