Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [conj] [pron] [verb] not " in BNC.

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1 Allow a maximum of 30 minutes per question ( if it is a 6-in-3-hours paper ) , using your stop watch so that you do not need to remember the time you started .
2 However the collapse of the wavepacket does not seem to carry information of this kind so that there does not appear to be a prima facie case of contradiction .
3 Perhaps this attitude of ‘ cooling it ’ , ‘ turning off ’ , ‘ keeping his head down ’ , ‘ disengaging ’ on the part of the failing student is a special case of what Roy Cox ( 1967 ) had in mind when he said : ‘ It is clear that where students are assessed in a way which is not seen to be relevant to what they are aiming at they will tend to distort and degrade the assessment so that it does not become a source of esteem . ’
4 I started using cow much when I did n't have any plaster or cement .
5 Digestion of the starch into its component glucose units takes place at the luminal surface of the gut epithelial cells , but these glucose units are immediately absorbed by the sodium ion/glucose cotransporter so that they do not contribute to the osmotic activity in the gut lumen .
6 I know but we 've got telly on and everything have n't we ?
7 Pike based his appeal on the contention that he had fed the horse properly but it had n't absorbed it .
8 Very , very confusing this is , the world is going upside down and he do n't know what 's going to happen next you see , for instance looking a year ago , two years ago the wall , the Berlin Wall was standing and the Russian empire was feared , all over the world , and now this day , it just fell on its face
9 Yeah , yeah was kind , it was kind of them , yes and we went all round the shops and er I thoroughly enjoyed it and in the new Co-Op as well you know , I thoroughly enjoyed it but he took me in the car so that we did n't have to hang about you see
10 This does not mean that a member can claim not to be bound by a rule merely because he has not bought a rulebook or not read it properly .
11 Adjust the height of the fitting so that it does n't obscure your view across the table while you 're eating , but is n't so high that you can look into the shade at the bulb .
12 Erm , amateur societies just ca n't exist without loyal officers and those officers have shown their loyalty by s standing again and we know the special circumstances appertaining to the , which brings us to the nitty- gritty now erm you said we have , Tracy , five erm perhaps you 'd better read those names out for us and then I think the best thing to do is to have a closed vote , where we give you all a piece of paper on which you state your nomination folded up so nobody else can see we 'll put them in a bag and then we 'll appoint a couple of to count the vote so that we do not the chairman .
13 ‘ He wants people to have a square deal just because he did n't have one . ’
14 ‘ I have many options , but I do n't want to transport the club elsewhere and I do n't want to merge . ’
15 Perhaps some forgiving souls might protest that former East German athletes had faced a particular difficulty in giving up the bad habits imposed on them by the success-seeking machine of the old Communist regime , and that it would be unfair virtually to close off their future just because they had n't yet properly learned another way of doing things .
16 However , as they had mostly lost significant amounts of weight already and it had n't occurred to me to ask them to measure their weekly progress in terms of inches , the results , whilst remarkable , were only visual .
17 Without patronage , however , political interests withered in time , for the needs of the voters would drive them to look for aid elsewhere if there did not seem a reasonable probability that their present connections might recover their lost influence in London .
18 Adeva should become an actress now that she does n't seem to have a record deal .
19 it 's up to us , we either the club out or we do n't .
20 One is guilty of assault occasioning actual bodily harm even though one does not intend to do so and one is not reckless as to the result : Savage [ 1991 ] 4 All ER 698 ( HL ) .
21 He added fuel to the theory last night by saying : ‘ We have the talent here but we do n't have the consistency .
22 Generally , VAT can not be waived on bad debts and you must pay the revenue even though you have n't been paid yourself .
23 ring me today and say that 's got diarrhoea , he 'll keep the car today but he do n't want it tomorrow can you find someone else who wants it .
24 They offer the boats for corporate sailing , entertaining and regattas , and you can join their sailing club even if you do n't have a boat .
25 Over the past few years , they have continued to perform successfully for this club even though they did n't know whether they would end up having their wages paid .
26 Over the past few years , they have continued to perform successfully for this club even though they did n't know whether they would end up having their wages paid .
27 But she also said Hawick wanted her to give up her partnership here and she did n't think she could bear to . ’
28 He may even be compelled to pay interest on arrears of rent even though he did not know that the rent was in arrear ( Allied London Investments Ltd v Hambro Life Assurance plc [ 1985 ] 2 EGLR 45 ) .
29 What they are writing about in reality are the ideal standards of their own social group , those that give meaning to their work practice even if they do not always live up to them .
30 Aunt Bedelia had the bedroom underneath and I did n't want her knocking on the ceiling with a broom handle so I decided for once to put up with his snoring and deep breathing exercises .
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