Example sentences of "[adv] [vb -s] not [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Assuming one is evident , Kondratiev 's discovery alone does not add up to a theoretical framework . |
| 2 | The boundary-maintaining function just does not stand up as a function of crime or deviance . |
| 3 | The idea of target setting based purely on ‘ doing better ’ without considering what the cost of that doing better is , just does not stand up to rational examination . |
| 4 | ‘ That just does n't tie in with what I know of you , the way you feel about your mother and your brothers . ’ |
| 5 | Seventeen and a half per cent is something horrible , it just does n't work out to anything reasonable |
| 6 | ‘ I was very happy when I learned I had got a place at Oxford and my mum still has n't come down to earth yet . |
| 7 | However , even with the tens of millions of personal computers and workstations in use around the world , networking and network usage still has n't taken off in a big way , the report says , because two things are needed : multi-tasking operating systems and the means to develop client-server applications . |
| 8 | However , even with the tens of millions of personal computers and workstations in use around the world , networking and network usage still has n't taken off in a big way , the report says , because two things are needed : multi-tasking operating systems and the means to develop client/server applications . |
| 9 | Then if he still has not come out of the tent I will go down there while it is still light , very quietly , and see if I can see , without getting too close , how he is . |
| 10 | The money will help offset big medical bills , but the brothers say it still does n't make up for their suffering . |
| 11 | Although the driver ant colony is an " animal " weighing in excess of 20 kg and possessing on the order of 20 million mouths and stings and is surely the most formidable creation of the insect world , it still does not match up to the lurid stories told about it . |
| 12 | The only site of note is a pass over the M62 motorway , which honestly does n't stand out in my top 10 sights of Britain . |
| 13 | It is on this point that participant observation in practice very often does not match up to the ideal form and some consideration should be given to the situation arising . |
| 14 | But Mr Robin Duval , chief television assistant at the IBA , the person who has been most closely involved in monitoring sponsorship , observes : ‘ The widely canvassed notion that sponsors never seek to influence programmes simply does not hold up in my personal and direct experience . ’ |
| 15 | Froggy 's murder , and even the attack on me , simply does n't fit in with what we know of Jefferson or Harley or even Martinez . |
| 16 | Lawrie Park Avenue today does not live up to expectations . |
| 17 | It may make for some good headlines , but De Niro certainly does n't come on like a tycoon , talking about his company as not so much a business , more an ‘ artistic community ’ where people can freely exchange ideas . |