Example sentences of "[not/n't] [adj] [conj] [pers pn] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This theme , the ties between city and colony , and the ways they were reinforced , weakened or broken in the great war , is important to Thucydides , and it is not accidental that it occurs thus early . |
| 2 | I tried to say perhaps this was not possible as we did not know what was outside the car park , walls , buildings . |
| 3 | The Court of Appeal held that he was not guilty when he had not decided whether to use it or not . |
| 4 | On the facts the accused was not guilty if he intended merely to delay paying a hotel bill of £1,286 . |
| 5 | The atoms are all ‘ frozen ’ into the random positions they occupied in the liquid , producing a material which is neither crystal nor liquid : not crystal because it does n't have an ordered structure , not liquid because it does n't flow . |
| 6 | I 'm not afraid because I know where I 'm going when I die . |
| 7 | It is not clear whether he knew then that Mrs Thatcher had decided to sign the statement and then issue her own alternative . |
| 8 | It is not clear whether he knew then that Mrs Thatcher had decided to sign the statement and then issue her own alternative . |
| 9 | ‘ They say they 're not interested but they send in helicopters and troops to take measurements . ’ |
| 10 | I 'm not interested because it does n't fit does n't cover the type of collecting I do . |
| 11 | Maybe he 's not interested because he has never needed a doctor . |
| 12 | It is not wrongful if he has rightfully rejected the goods for breach of condition . |
| 13 | ( " he is not old but he suffers terribly from gout " ) . |
| 14 | You 're not English and you 've never even been to England . ’ |
| 15 | A recent example is Smith ( 1989 ) , who thinks that Labov 's work is not theoretical because it does not address ‘ any linguistic issue ’ . |
| 16 | Most difficult of all , admits , is setting foreign language puzzles : ‘ I translated some puzzles into Russian once , which was not easy since I did not even know the Cyrillic alphabet ! ’ |
| 17 | ‘ That is not easy because we have only a few days together after being split for 10 months . |
| 18 | It was not easy when they came home . |
| 19 | ‘ And it 's not easy when you get home , either , ’ she warns . |
| 20 | They were ill because their clothes were not warm and they did n't have much food . |
| 21 | Gordon says it 's not natural if you do n't erm if you do n't look . |
| 22 | All the same , it is not obvious that he differed much from his English predecessors in this sort of area , for the Anglo-Scandinavian background outlined in the Introduction again becomes relevant here . |
| 23 | ‘ Either it will be revoked immediately or not renewed when it runs out in June . ’ |
| 24 | They are alleged to send the ball further but I 'm not sure that they put even a yard on a shot . |
| 25 | her parents , but they , they do n't have their friends , in fact I 'm not sure that they did very much at all , I think that Myrie meant it when she said that what they wanted was the most peaceful sort of Christmas that you could possibly imagine , with no big teas , big meals or anything |
| 26 | ‘ I 'm not sure that we have n't been at some point , ’ says Mr Garner . |
| 27 | He was pleased that he and his wife had been able to talk to the doctor but he was still not sure that he understood about either the X-rays of his bowel or the surgery which might be necessary . |
| 28 | Coupled with the challenges of a completely unfamiliar job , she was not sure that she had ever spent such an uncomfortable evening . |
| 29 | I 'm not sure that it does n't still go on actually . |
| 30 | I 'm not sure that I know how to explain it to you . ’ |