Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] [pron] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pricing is a key factor ; you will want to recoup your expenses and make a profit , yet not overprice your paintings for the sort of audience you will attract . |
| 2 | Nevertheless , if we are to define what it is that influences our decisions whether or not to indulge our motivations towards crime we inevitably make suppositions about human needs or requirements , which are in turn predicated on assumptions about what it is that gives us pleasure or pain . |
| 3 | Since the literary works to which Ken devoted himself in the long years which followed his brief episcopate were largely unremarkable and unread , the waste of his inspired and inspiring vocation as a bishop has appeared both to contemporary and subsequent critics exasperating ; for his scruples about swearing the oath of allegiance to William and Mary were so nearly overcome by his friends that he asked them not to continue their arguments lest he succumb . |
| 4 | And she had slept with Rufus in the Centaur Room , it being taken for granted she would share his bed , though Adam did not think her wishes had been consulted . |
| 5 | I do not think his remarks later in his judgment detract from this finding . |
| 6 | As has been noted , it was round about now that the Encyclopaedia Britannica contract was being fulfilled , and the houses involved ( Clark 's , Morrison & Gibb and Ballantyne 's ) all had women working their Monotypes in 1909.23 Fraser , the director of Neill 's , had told the Fair Wage Committee of 1908 that he did not think his customers would like the quality of machine work , but that if he did not employ women , he would certainly install machines instead.24 In January 1909 the STJ ( the Circular had now changed its name to the Scottish Typographical Journal ) was sounding the alarm : " Our trade is going over to machinery , and the machinery is in the hands of underpaid girls . " |
| 7 | Do not think your thoughts are your own thoughts they are the toys of the telephone |
| 8 | I did not think my remarks were particularly snide ; I thought they were straightforward and factual . |
| 9 | ‘ I do not think my pupils were strictly accurate about not meeting Sir Thomas before . |
| 10 | Mr Chris Spry , for the London ambulance service , said the army 's help was sought because crews were not using their radios to answer emergency calls . |
| 11 | Mr Chris Spry , for the London Ambulance Service , said the army 's help was sought because crews were not using their radios to answer emergency calls . |
| 12 | If your experiment involves other people ( e.g. if you are comparing different readers ' responses ) , you need to consider ethical issues which arise , including ( a ) getting their permission to use the results ; ( b ) showing them the results and explaining them ; ( c ) not using their names when you report the experiment ( even if they have given permission for this , there is unlikely to be any point ) ; ( d ) the ethical problem that sometimes an experiment is best conducted if the test subjects do n't know what it is for ; that is , if there is a " secret agenda " . |
| 13 | When you are not using your hands in this manner , keep them at your sides . |
| 14 | E. P. Thompson , in criticising Lawrence Stone 's reconstruction of The Family , Sex and Marriage , warned that : ‘ the point of history is not to see their occasions through the mist of our feelings , nor to measure them against the Modern Us . |
| 15 | The final decision will only relate to where the girl lives and does not affect her parents ' other rights . |
| 16 | The child sees them and talks about them ; but this does not affect his beliefs . |
| 17 | This will not affect your rights to act independently , although I would encourage you to take advice from Mr Popham since he is very experienced in protecting the interests of local residents/community groups in cases where major developments are being proposed . |
| 18 | There was a feeling that in some areas the members of staff in the department had not communicated their aims and objectives to their pupils . |
| 19 | Howard and colleagues do not compare their results with those of the pilot study , to whose success they owe their funding . |
| 20 | Fining teams for not completing their overs ( in one-day matches ) is inconsequential . |
| 21 | Mr Major and Mr Lamont did not eat their words out of a cavalier regard for the truth and a penchant for duplicity at election times . |
| 22 | Useful things for the community and not wasting their talents doing futile things . |
| 23 | Had she not treated her subordinates with vindictiveness and meanness , Elena 's desire to cut a figure as ‘ a world-ranking scientist ’ would have a comical charm . |
| 24 | Equally , the management of British Coal once again have not honoured their undertakings , they promised me that once they had considered the Consultants ' Report into the reorganization , they would consult with us . |
| 25 | ‘ Again he has not honoured his pledges . |
| 26 | She looked back at him , but this time he did not lower his eyes or tap his spoon against his empty cup . |
| 27 | For the account of the family portrait painter who ‘ did not spare his colours ’ , see Goldsmith 's The Vicar of Wakefield , chap . |
| 28 | do not prepare their interviews ; |
| 29 | In every street in Kuwait there is a resistance , there are young guys , women , kids , you know there are many different kinds of resistance not to carry their weapons , but to say no to them . |
| 30 | Dalyell did not pitch his ambitions at too lowly a level , telling the deputy of the Duke of Argyll that |