Example sentences of "man [vb -s] not " in BNC.

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1 ‘ The best man has n't come .
2 And although the path from Harlequins coach to Geoff Cooke 's right-hand man has n't been without its problems , there has been a sort of inevitability about his gradual promotion to the national squad .
3 ‘ Even I know man has n't been around that long . ’
4 That man has n't got the morals of a ferret .
5 ‘ It may help to remember , ’ she adds , ‘ that the man has n't necessarily gone out looking , and he might not even be conscious of what it is he wants .
6 You 've been with Julius for ten years now , and if a man has n't wanted something in ten years , then he 's never going to want it .
7 The dead man has n't been identified but neighbours say two men lived in the cottage … both school teachers .
8 The dead man has n't been identified but neighbours say two men lived in the cottage … both school teachers .
9 He that man has n't g Hello .
10 That man has n't got buttons today .
11 The man has not moved .
12 The numerous studies of artefact types that have been produced are important as they form the basis for the chronology of the period , but beyond that their relevance to the study of man has not been demonstrated ( Evison 1955 ; 1958 ; 1963 ; 1967 ; 1968 ; Swanton 1974 ; Avent 1975 ; Avent and Evison 1982 ; Hills 1981a ) .
13 When the man goes to a club , the hearer assumes that the ‘ club ’ is in the same town , that the man has not caught an aeroplane and flown to Las Vegas .
14 This approach characterizes much of the brief and rather shameful history of anthropology , where the study of Man has not been of you and me so much as of those other strange folk whose bodies , habits and beliefs were alien , but whose lands , raw materials and pagan souls were so promising .
15 The man has not been reported missing , his office does not seem to be particularly worried about him , nor does his daughter . "
16 The Llangurig line is a classic in this respect ; much of the damage is due to nature and man has not gone out of his way to remove a monument of the past .
17 The association between a proximal small intestinal enteropathy and cryptosporidiosis in man has not been well established .
18 The dead man has not yet been identified although it is known he was 39years-old and was travelling as a front seat passenger in a Ford Escort van .
19 The man has not been named by police but was said to be aged 23 .
20 ‘ For man knoweth not his time ; as the fishes that are taken in an evil net , and as the birds that are caught in the snare ; so are the sons of men snared in an evil time , when it falleth suddenly upon them . ’
21 Man does not live by money alone , ’ he says .
22 Never , say the sceptics : the man does not stand for anything .
23 ‘ If a good Admass man does not order a steak , either he is not hungry or he ca n't afford the price . ’
24 It is for this reason that man does not have as much control over erection or ejaculation as he might like .
25 They parted at dawn but when he approached her later the same morning she froze him with an icy gaze and said , ‘ In the circle in which I move , sleeping with a man does not constitute an introduction . ’
26 If man does not bring to the universal conscience the paramount importance of self-control , monitored with reference to some all-powerful influence such as the Created God of this book , there is a grave danger that he could send his earth back to its pre-life state .
27 Such perception , and far more besides , is our true human heritage , but in this present age , ‘ modern ’ man does not employ it consciously , though many of the more simple tribes , living close to nature , most certainly do .
28 The outer form and the behaviour of the creature are thus always at one — man does not try to flap his arms and fly , any more than an insect seeks out the sex pheromones of another species as if they were its own .
29 Personifications of the Ultimate in such forms as Rāma and Kr a have to be regarded as symbols which manifest man 's craving for the Unseen for what suits one man does not necessarily meet the needs of another .
30 A man does not often say this .
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