Example sentences of "[not/n't] [adv] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And Alex Stewart seemingly can not successfully combine wicket-keeping and batting . |
| 2 | When a Devonian stage in Canada may be 10 000 feet thick and a Jurassic stage in Sicily may be thinner than its characteristic ammonites , we can not altogether ignore sheer size . |
| 3 | Another factor was raised in a case in which the government did not properly consult local authorities ( as required by statute ) before making some regulations : by the time the application to revoke the regulations was heard , they had been in operation for some time and to revoke them would have caused considerable administrative inconvenience which could not be justified given that no real complaint was made about the substance of the regulations . |
| 4 | Debbie Jones , who co-ordinated the SSD 's response , describes the forms as a blunt instrument which do not properly measure disabled children 's progress . |
| 5 | Its view of corporate governance is rather limited and it does not properly address corporate governance as the network of accountability relationships that exists between stakeholders in a company . |
| 6 | In contrast to this , according to the emotivist thesis , the typical cause and effect of a statement like ‘ Personal affection is a great good ’ is not any kind of genuine belief , which could be true or false , but an emotional attitude of favouring personal affection , which each of us may find ourselves either sharing or otherwise , but which we can not properly call true or false ; it therefore has primarily an emotive rather than a descriptive meaning . |
| 7 | Non-dispersive interferometers , though available , were not widely used prior to the advent of modern computer technology . |
| 8 | Qualities that might generate and recoup excellent work in the classroom ( including , for instance , risk-taking , creativity , originality , the valuing of independence and initiative , a questioning and critical approach , etc. , none of which appear on the DES 's own list ) might not most endear new teachers to their colleagues ; and qualities like ‘ tidy appearance ’ that may be essential for staffroom acceptance may be relatively unimportant to children . |
| 9 | The duration of a partner 's liability is the subject of s17 of the Partnership Act : ( 1 ) A person who is admitted as a partner into an existing firm does not thereby become liable to the creditors of the firm for anything done before he became a partner . |
| 10 | Their experiments were criticised because they had not rigorously excluded unconscious cues that might have been provided by the human trainers , as in the case of the famous German horse , Clever Hans . |
| 11 | This means , among other things , that the electoral system should be one that does not effectively disenfranchise large sections of the citizenry , while at the same time it must produce a government that will be both effective and accountable . |
| 12 | It argued that without them : it would not be possible , in practice , to operate a system of resale price maintenance because it would be impracticable for each publisher to specify his own conditions of sale ; booksellers would find it impossible to comply with all the varied terms imposed by different publishers ; booksellers would lose their assurance that they were not being undercut ; and the Association itself could not effectively monitor individual resale agreements . |
| 13 | The closed conformation in this latter structure does not apparently have torsion-angle train , as judged from the stereo diagram of the active centre . |
| 14 | With mind all is opposite ; minds are not substantial , do not apparently obey physical laws , can not be directly observed or inspected , unless it is my own mind that is in question . |
| 15 | We can not literally weigh religious truth-claims or look at them through a micro- scope . |
| 16 | But the way in which the New Critics developed Eliot 's axiom did not entirely do away with the author : instead , by shifting his position from the outside to the inside of the text , they merely justified a shift in methodology from the biographical to the words-on-the-page approach . |
| 17 | Even the most experienced police interrogator can not entirely avoid leading questions , simply because he can not know what the witness actually knows or what really happened . |
| 18 | Anthropology for Eliot did not remake the myths , but showed how they had , while becoming the possessions of high culture , transmitted and not entirely transmuted primitive origins . |
| 19 | Yet the portrayal of sexual violence , combined with Emilia 's protest , leaves the impression that the conclusion does not entirely resolve thematic contradictions . |
| 20 | You can not entirely make light of such demonstrations . |
| 21 | The overall impression of similarity can not entirely mask significant differences between these districts . |
| 22 | Rose ( 1868 ) , do not obviously suggest serious historical study , but are rather part of a long series of more popular works on Mary , in which Jean Plaidy and Madeleine Bingham are among the most recent exponents ; and there is a certain charm about the publication , in 1793 , of a work by one J. F. Gaum , Marie Stuart und Marie Antoinette in der Underwelt . |
| 23 | No , I think that we had a fairly clear idea , certainly on the pension fund , we 've not obviously got accurate numbers , a clear idea of the broad er , shape of , of the problems and erm , that allowed us , without having to wait for very accurate figures , to draw the conclusions about the scale of the problem , the amount of investment we 'd like to , we need to make and thus erm , whether or not it was of interest to pursue . |
| 24 | Obviously , it does not suddenly become safe to steepen the climb at a certain height , and it is now recognised that the angle should be progressively steepened . |
| 25 | The welfare state and the managed economy did not suddenly emerge full-blown in this period . |
| 26 | But by the time Parasites Of Heaven was written an intensely negative aspect is unveiled : ‘ The nightmares do not suddenly develop happy endings , I merely step out of them . ’ |
| 27 | He wanted runners in his pack , so Neath — Waldron 's club , as his antagonists accusingly pointed out — came into vogue even though the evidence was swiftly adduced that outstanding club players do not necessarily make adequate internationals . |
| 28 | Binding does not necessarily mean final , because the determination may be subject to reconsideration by an appellate body . |
| 29 | There is utter and total confusion and anything that stands still they used to say they would paint it in industry they now say market test it and they do admit to us that the end object does not necessarily mean complete contractorization or privatization , but at this particular moment in time |
| 30 | But rough justice on one side of the green line does not necessarily mean rough justice on the other . |