Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was so angry with them all that I could not stay there a moment longer , and rushed out into the darkness . |
| 2 | He must sit upright at a table to eat his meals : he can not eat off a tray sitting in bed or an easy chair . |
| 3 | In addition to those covenants mentioned by Scott LJ above examples of those which have been deemed to touch and concern the land include : a covenant for quiet enjoyment ; a covenant by the landlord agreeing to supply a housekeeper to clean a block of flats ; a covenant in which a landlord agreed not to open a public house within half a mile of the tenanted premises ; a covenant placing an obligation on the tenant to repair ; and a covenant in which the tenant agreed not to carry on a particular trade at the premises . |
| 4 | From every point of view , therefore , the Crabb affair was a classic example of how not to carry out a dangerous covert operation . |
| 5 | The object of the following analysis is not to carry out a Stalinist witch-hunt of the text in order to pillory a deviant , existential , petty-bourgeois discourse ensconced illegitimately at the centre of Nizan 's literary production . |
| 6 | But these are isolated groups which do not make up a force . ’ |
| 7 | The things which came out in therapy did not make up a complete , finished jigsaw , as I might have imagined . |
| 8 | It follows that we can not make up a square matrix X of eigenvectors to satisfy ( 8 ) ; for this reason the matrix B is said to be defective . |
| 9 | Why not make up a party ? |
| 10 | However , it does not make just a single prediction for the universe . |
| 11 | Maura could see Terry 's lips moving but could not make out a word . |
| 12 | At Procedure Roll a defender may , very occasionally , succeed in persuading a Court that the pursuer 's case is so hopeless that it is not worth allowing evidence to be heard because even if that evidence was heard , it would not make out a case which would entitle the pursuer to succeed . |
| 13 | In Washington this week Mr Ozal made it clear that he does not want either a Kurdish state or a divided Iraq . |
| 14 | However , this does not persist over a long time scale and is often not to be observed at all . |
| 15 | It is important not to miss out a part of the invitation . |
| 16 | The 76-year-old Euro-MP , who currently lives in West Germany , said he would of course not rule out a run some time in the future but for the moment he feels he can do more to promote his country in the European parliament . |
| 17 | But the Chancellor said in a series of television and radio interviews that he did not believe in ‘ trying to play silly games , political games ’ — and he would not rule out a further increase if it became necessary . |
| 18 | A good beginning does not rule out a calamitous ending : that is the way of war . |
| 19 | THE National Blood Transfusion Service said last night that it could not rule out a patient contracting the HIV virus as Arthur Ashe did . |
| 20 | I do not rule out a Labour government , pinned down by a narrow majority , seeking to enact at least some of its social legislation through a supportive EC . |
| 21 | ‘ I will not rule out a merger with Aldershot . |
| 22 | His three marriage break-ups have been traumatic , but he does not rule out a fourth attempt . |
| 23 | She noted that , if the shareholders decide against the increase , ‘ we have other offers , ’ and did not rule out a return to EDS . |
| 24 | It can not rule out a difference in the pharmacokinetics of insulins from different species . |
| 25 | But this does not rule out a high response to real wage changes which are thought to be temporary : for example , suppliers of labour may well want to take advantage of a temporarily high real wage by supplying more labour , taking leisure ( that is , supplying less labour ) when the real wage has fallen back . |
| 26 | Although police in subsequent statements inclined towards a simple robbery motive ( the killer stole Fr Men 's briefcase ) , they did not rule out a political motive . |
| 27 | Although it did not rule out a return to multiparty politics per se , the PNDC argued that in the past this had only bred " hatred , division and bloodshed " . |
| 28 | He said the battle over the motorway extension was important for the whole of Europe , and he did not rule out a further legal challenge . |
| 29 | He did not as yet know all the details of how they had died , and what had gone before , but rumour had it that no great physical strength had been involved so that you could not rule out a woman as the killer . |
| 30 | Title V of the Maastricht Treaty stipulates that the Common Foreign and Security policy ‘ shall respect the obligations of certain Member States under the North Atlantic Treaty ’ ; but this does not explain why a new structure is necessary at all . |