Example sentences of "[vb base] [not/n't] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But stations particularly unstaffed appear not to fall within its remit . |
| 2 | Concepts concerning relationships between units are probably acquired in school , and most pupils appear not to deal with Imperial units to any great extent in the mathematics classroom . |
| 3 | Send not to know by whom the trigger is squeezed , it is squeezed by us all . |
| 4 | Accidental failure of electricity or gas supply not caused by the deliberate act of the supply authority . |
| 5 | Better not to exist at all . |
| 6 | Better not to look at Belle Maman 's face . |
| 7 | ‘ 'Would n't go on my own , would I ? ’ |
| 8 | The farther one went east from the Rhine , or the farther south from the Loire , the more diverse social custom and land tenure became : and above all , the commoner became ‘ allodial ’ land , land not held of any lord . |
| 9 | 20 But while he thought on these things , behold , the angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a dream , saying , Joseph , thou son of David , fear not to take unto thee Mary thy wife : for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Ghost . |
| 10 | Still the point was well made , I mean not sounding like you can sort of freeze an article to , not compromise the sort of committee , I mean , it is , dead if you give it away and you would n't consider pressure groups , they 'll pick up their report and their copies anywhere , and take bits out and quote you , I mean , I mean I know I 'm in this , I like to distort , like them to know our official disposition before it 's dead . |
| 11 | I tend not to shop in places like Marks and Spencer , but they have got some good gear in there . |
| 12 | In the Mediterranean , where many such frugivores overwinter , bird fruits tend not to ripen until winter , and show some of the attributes of tropical specialized fruits in that they are drier and more nutritious than northern fruits and can provide a complete diet for the birds . |
| 13 | So they tend not to thrive in dry centrally heated rooms . |
| 14 | The reasons for failure in these projects tend not to lie in the technical side , though the technology is complex , nor in the economic side , though the cost of these systems is very high . |
| 15 | For this reason hourly based fee structures tend not to include within the cost estimate any MAS involvement at the completion stage . |
| 16 | Amanda Lavelle , a urology ward sister at St Bartholomew 's Hospital , London , sees many patients with prostatic cancer : ‘ Men tend not to go to their GP when they first have urinary symptoms , because they think it is a normal part of aging . |
| 17 | It has already been made clear that the definition of a ‘ professional ’ degree course being adopted here is an operational rather than conceptual one : it is a course which has a consistent and fairly exclusive relationship with a particular occupation , exclusive in that graduates from such courses tend not to go into other occupations , and in that entry to that occupation is largely or wholly restricted to graduates from such courses . |
| 18 | On the other hand , a look at a small group of Young Conservatives might be able to throw light upon ideological issues , which tend not to arise in studies of society 's victims . |
| 19 | The most popular television crime series , such as The Sweeney , Minder , The Professionals , Juliet Bravo , Hill Street Blues , tend not to deal with corporate crime and the business criminal . |
| 20 | Feminist psychologists tend not to deal with these other discourses , except by adopting numerical strategies . |
| 21 | Similarly , investors tend not to deal with a new house if they are doubtful about its tenacity — and skilled market staff will not join a firm even for high salaries if they are unsure that it will remain in the market . |
| 22 | If we are very angry or excited , we tend not to listen to what other people are saying . |
| 23 | Members tend not to listen to each other . |
| 24 | So parents tend not to hear about the things that really go on a lot of the time in nearly all schools and they do hear a bit about the things that are a little bit different , so they can get quite a distorted picture of , of what 's going on . |
| 25 | Such fans tend not to travel on the regular ‘ soccer special ’ bus coaches and trains , preferring to use scheduled public transport . |
| 26 | Firstly , they tend not to originate from a real typographic font but are often variations on an original while , secondly , being bitmaps they can not be scaled . |
| 27 | As a consequence , individuals ( and many measures ) tend not to think of wealth and income as two sides of the same coin , but rather as different segments of that coin . |
| 28 | Yeah mhm yeah I mean you may want to select some stuff that 's y'know that represents different kinds of things because as I remember our conversations earlier , you were interested in er y'know sort of ideological soundness , political correctness and y'know were some things funny but sort of off-colour for other reasons erm er I 'm paraphrasing it badly but er y'know I think that th s so you might want to get some stuff that 's sort of ideologically sound and humorous and er some stuff that 's a bit off-colour and humorous and some stuff that 's erm sort of I do n't know some stuff that 's main stream but has got a lot of y'know if you look at something like say The Two Ronnies or something , there 's a lot of there 's a lot of racism and sexism in there but it 's because it 's sort of main stream because it 's family viewing and stuff like that people tend not to think of it as problematic . |
| 29 | In some ways , in fact , it 's a bit less worthwhile , in that you tend not to think about social matters , people 's characters and things like that . |
| 30 | Indeed , more than 30 per cent of clients are women who are generally more successful as they are better listeners and tend not to rush at obstacles . |