Example sentences of "[not/n't] [adv] say " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( 1 ) Although the Act does not expressly say so , it is implicit in sections 10 and 11 that a demand for expenses must be served by the local authority before proceedings can be taken to recover them . |
| 2 | Did you never think that some women may not only say it but feel it ? ’ |
| 3 | We can not merely say the poem represents a kind of null context , where context is partly situation of utterance and partly based on previous elements in the discourse . |
| 4 | The engine produces an uneven cacophony of rattles , misfires and exhaust bark which , together with the odd puff of oil smoke from the crankcase breather , do not exactly say to a pilot , ‘ You can trust me , chief ’ , nor instil any confidence in the outcome of the next few minutes . |
| 5 | A CBS spokesman did not exactly say ‘ Bollocks ! ’ when we phoned to ask him if it was true — but his denial implied that he reckoned our enquiry was testicular in the extreme . |
| 6 | A CBS spokesman did not exactly say ‘ Bollocks ! ’ when we phoned to ask him if it was true — but his denial implied that he reckoned our enquiry was testicular in the extreme . |
| 7 | But one can not just say that the tau neutrino is heavy and leave it at that . |
| 8 | You could not just say , Christ will help you bear it . |
| 9 | ‘ Why can it not just say we 've landed ? ’ |
| 10 | You should not just say , oh there 's good I 'll phone him now because you need some valuable information . |
| 11 | So the important thing about this is that you can not , you can not just say modern equals bad , and trad is good because you must in order to argue Paul examine the |
| 12 | You can not just say ‘ Thank you and push off . ’ |
| 13 | During his 30-minute speech , the hon. and learned Member for Monklands , East did not once say where the money for his proposals — other than those on training and investment — would come from . |
| 14 | The an the result of getting the quotient and by the time you get to looking at those you 'll integration 's hard and you will not ever say again what you said to me a long time ago that you thought integration was a lot easier than differentiation . |
| 15 | The SSC also apparently got differing accounts of the project 's finances ; the participants in L* did not always say the same thing as the management . |
| 16 | We do not always say what we mean to say , and leave ourselves open to misinterpretation . |
| 17 | We find that this system works well : it avoids some of the problems arising from personalities , and it seems to be welcomed by all concerned even though self-selected referees do not always say what they are supposed to ! |
| 18 | Although the naming process is basic to clustering , I shall not always say what the names are . |
| 19 | We can not always say that . |
| 20 | ‘ Oh I can not possibly say at this point . |
| 21 | Her dislike of being alone after dark had certainly diminished as the weeks went by , but she could not honestly say that she was completely carefree . |
| 22 | But I can not honestly say that I find such an analysis applicable to my attitude towards the school authorities . |
| 23 | Although we can not honestly say that those who unsuccessfully oppose a particular decision or policy consent to that decision or policy when it is carried out despite their opposition , we can say that they are nevertheless bound by that decision in so far as they accept both the principle of majority decisions and the fairness of the procedures through which the decision is reached or the policy made . |
| 24 | It was a finely worked piece of silver and obviously of great value ; but while she admired it and felt honoured to receive it , Sara could not honestly say that she enjoyed having its chain about her neck . |
| 25 | The laibon does not strictly say this . |
| 26 | Before I ever had healing I was told that I might feel tingling or warmth , but alas , I can not truthfully say that I ever felt either , although of course , with hands laid on you , or just above you , there must be the sensation of touch . |
| 27 | I can not truthfully say that my work experience directly influenced my ambitions career wise but it did show me that the music business is not about ‘ Top of the Pops ’ but about a day 's work to be proud of . |
| 28 | It did not also say that Mr Major was yet much of a Prime Minister . |
| 29 | A man does not often say this . |
| 30 | It should be remembered that in this chapter we are dealing only with stress within the word ; this means that we are looking at words as they are said in isolation , which is a rather artificial situation — we do not often say words in isolation , except for a few such as ‘ yes ’ , ‘ no ’ , ‘ possibly ’ , ‘ please ’ and interrogative words such as ‘ what ’ , ‘ who ’ , etc. , but looking at words in isolation does help us to see stress placement and stress levels more clearly than studying them in the context of continuous speech . |