Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why not stay awhile and spend some time exploring the delights of this fascinating county . |
| 2 | But he could not stay here and wait to be captured . |
| 3 | The beach is all mine but I can not stay long for I lack a senorita to oil my back . |
| 4 | Many people living in ‘ inner cities ’ do not stay there because of the ‘ community ’ but because they can not escape . |
| 5 | Thus a political response does not arise automatically and fully formed out of the needs generated by crisis . |
| 6 | On the positive side CAMRA can point to the success of the independent brewers , many of whom would not exist today but for the interest in cask ale generated by the Campaign . |
| 7 | None of this may be objectively true — alternative , better , jobs simply may not exist even when there is not a high level of unemployment — but to the extent that individual workers believe the dominant achievement ideology in society then they will not wish to ‘ confess failure ’ by admitting that they do not enjoy an adequate level of job satisfaction . |
| 8 | We are all but a part of a whole which has its own , its distinct , its other meaning : we are not ourselves , we are crossroads , meeting places , points on a curve , we can not exist independently for we are nothing but signs , conjunctions , aggregations . |
| 9 | The unfree did not exist legally and could not plead in a court . |
| 10 | Plans by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development ( EBRD ) to assist the clean up of environmental black spots in former communist countries are being impeded by a rule which says that the Bank can not lend more than 40 per cent of its funds to finance state projects . |
| 11 | Some of them are on N two , that erm , not necessarily , in fact the majority of the forms in the supporting guidelines on manuals are not versioned yet but they , we followed the advice of Roy there and we have listed them in each of the guidelines with a statement of erm , we 've just , I mean , a clear listing there of each form and when we actually go to introduce the next time , reprint , we will then put version codes on them . |
| 12 | whatever disagreement there may be about size , there can be no doubt that this sector will not disappear easily and there is every evidence to show that with the economic crises of the 1980s , it has been increasing . |
| 13 | Were they to be realised , patronage might not disappear entirely but it would wither substantially as a result of being seen as increasingly unnecessary and underhand . |
| 14 | Melanie tried to grasp how dreadful it would be if Finn were dead but she could not think coherently because of the terrible sound of Aunt Margaret 's silence . |
| 15 | I do not think either that we can make sense of the Devil in the language of contemporary philosophy or science ; on the other hand neither do I believe that we should try and invent a modern mythology that makes the Devil more credible and accessible . |
| 16 | We did not think therefore that there was any merit in this ground of appeal . |
| 17 | I do not think then that we can ‘ blame ’ earlier generations for believing Christianity to be true . |
| 18 | These large spaces did not rush past but seemed endless because endlessly repeated . |
| 19 | ‘ I can not eat properly and I ca n't sleep before a round , I get very nervous . |
| 20 | If the slim person has eaten a really large meal , he or she will naturally be very full and will perhaps not eat again until hunger really returns ; in addition this type of person might take a little exercise to ‘ work off ’ the food . |
| 21 | He said he was not treated badly and that he was with other political prisoners . |
| 22 | The 1919 Murray 's Handbook asked in a revealing suggestion that travellers should watch out for instances when third-class passengers were not treated considerately and should report them to the management . |
| 23 | However , the existence of such objects is always apparent to authors , so that they are not treated wantonly when a document is edited . |
| 24 | Squirrels are not treated literally as ‘ things ’ in the outer world but as , firstly , parts of sets defined by such criteria as ‘ those that live in trees ’ and , secondly , ‘ available for symbolic manipulation ’ since they can be taken to stand for the very trees they live in . |
| 25 | The danger with landfill is that waste not treated correctly before burial can produce a liquid run-off or gas that 's not environmentally friendly . |
| 26 | The law was not formulated so that men and women could exchange favours promiscuously , but rather that a woman , being unable to decide upon a marriage offered to her , might select for herself without prior commitment from the men available and willing to accept her . ’ |
| 27 | In the first place they may want to do no more than ensure that the Constitution is not altered casually or carelessly or by subterfuge or implication ; they may want to secure that this important document is not lightly tampered with , but solemnly , with due notice and deliberation , consciously amended . |
| 28 | Biliary lipid composition was not altered significantly but bicarbonate output was increased at all doses tested . |
| 29 | Her daughter Chandrika , whose politics have not altered much since her Left Bank days as a student at the Sorbonne , will be the province 's chief minister . |
| 30 | My great aim is to give you a periodical which you will not throw aside as soon as read , but which you will value and look over years hence as an old familiar friend , when you may be battling with the realities of life under the suns of India , in the backwoods of Canada or the United States , or the grassy downs of Australia , over the wide Ocean among the isles of the Pacific , or on the distant shores of Columbia . |