Example sentences of "[pron] [conj] [not/n't] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Discussing statements like these and saying whether they agree with them or not gives children an opportunity to consider views which conflict with their own and to modify their existing views . |
| 2 | The people who decide whether to believe them or not have been able to check their own stocks quickly , to make sure no bombs or material are missing . |
| 3 | ‘ How can you spend seven years with someone and not remain friends ? ’ |
| 4 | ‘ But you ca n't have spent a lifetime with someone and not feel some affection for them . ’ |
| 5 | There is a difference between marrying someone while not loving them and marrying them in order to use them as a private bank . ’ |
| 6 | LAMDA ( London Academy of Music and Drama ) runs a one-year course for overseas students only , which although not set up as a post-graduate course may include a number of students with extensive university theatre experience as well as some professional experience . |
| 7 | You ca n't understand anybody signing summat and not reading it can you ? |
| 8 | They may think the experimenter wants to know himself and not realise that he just wants to know whether the child knows the answer . |
| 9 | ‘ There 's one person you meet sitting in a restaurant having a chat , and then that person will go and put on a see-through lurex all-in-one bodice and stand in front of 10,000 people and make a complete cunt of himself and not think about it . |
| 10 | ‘ These are very specific injuries which if not treated properly can ruin someone 's sporting future , ’ said Nigel . |
| 11 | In fact Professor Hayek is sufficiently honest to admit that the free society which we have seen grow in Europe since the Enlightenment has produced through the writings of Marx and Freud a set of values which if not renounced will destroy the civilisation itself ; namely the pursuit of egalitarianism at the collective level leading to the replacement of the market economy by the planned economy and the pursuit of freedom at the personal level leading to abandonment of traditional morality based on the concept of right and wrong and good and evil . |
| 12 | This kind of generalised discussion can at the same time draw in a number of points covering health aspects , daily routine , and the emotional needs for company , and a sense of belonging which if not met can result in depression , anxiety or misery . |
| 13 | Grocery chains in particular require stock lines to meet sales turnover objectives , which if not met will result in the discontinuing of the line . |
| 14 | Examining the broad statements in community care plans and detailed information from agencies actively implementing the care programme she identifies some of the confusions between the care programme and care management approaches which if not resolved will lead back to some of the implementation problems identified in Huxley 's paper . |
| 15 | Because the light would just be going off into nothing and not coming back . |
| 16 | Must remember to spoon up my soup away from me and not slurp it all down my chin . |
| 17 | You said jump up by me and not sit , like . |
| 18 | Do you imagine I could bear to live with these glorious examples before me and not strive to emulate them , not strain every sinew to make Bewick still a name — ’ |
| 19 | I would n't have changed places with my father 's new children who , although they were five and seven , still seemed to smell of damp nappies and regurgitated milk , but I used sometimes to wonder what I would have been like if he had devoted similar time to me and not left me entirely to the women . |
| 20 | You must think I 'm absolutely barking just to have been sat with this in front of me and not done anything about it . |
| 21 | Peter immediately replied , ‘ I would like Susie to give up work and stay at home , so that I can be sure that she is not cheating on me and not planning to leave . ’ |
| 22 | She 'd been within a yard of me and not recognized me . |
| 23 | ‘ Yes , and , determined to find out the truth , because Phena is nothing if not determined , she went to where my mother used to live . ’ |
| 24 | The Omanis are nothing if not determined . |
| 25 | Equally foolish in my view , to return to the central subject of this book , is the insistence by Brian Way that children should be given practice in concentration , for second-order activities are nothing if not absorbing . |
| 26 | ‘ Please do n't say no , ’ said the producer , who produces nothing if not charm in abundance , especially over three thousand miles when you 're hungry for a closed vowel sound . |
| 27 | TELL IT like it is , wisecracking US motormouth takes on all the sacred cows of the not-so-free world and l eaves them if not slaughtered , badly mutilated . |
| 28 | This involves careful planning in building up contacts and nurturing them and not taking the first ‘ no ’ for an answer . |
| 29 | I think , a lot of people see the stray dogs problem as a big problem , certainly if people have decided to partake of pets , they have a responsibility to look after them and not throw them out on the streets . |
| 30 | There are some cases where I am just holding on to them and not cashing them in . ’ |