Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] [not/n't] [vb base] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Will the Treasury guarantee the long term investment programme and not require an eight per cent return from Railtrack on such investment ? |
| 2 | However , it is possible to lose weight and not suffer a large drop in metabolic rate . |
| 3 | Nothing Mr Landor could do could touch her any longer — she could endure rages , witness violence and not flicker an eyelid . |
| 4 | I was instructed not to be too early — to wait quietly outside the entrance and not make a nuisance of myself . |
| 5 | I mean , why would anybody cover a Monkees song that everybody in the world f—ing knows off by heart and not do a damn thing with it ? |
| 6 | Must be normal bloke and preferably have run with some type of working class street gang and not have a domineering mum or anything |
| 7 | ‘ Working with Tracey is much easier than a group because you would have to stand around in the group and not get a chance of doing things . |
| 8 | But a benefit can quite properly be judged in terms of the advancement of knowledge and not require a specific clinical spin-off . |
| 9 | You could go all night and not see a single soul and the same in the city on a Sunday morning . |
| 10 | M. B. On Dock Duty , you 'd stand all night and not see a soul and the Liver Building up there with the clock gradually going round and you 'd think : ‘ I wo n't look at it , I wo n't look at it at all . ’ |
| 11 | The positive things that have come out of the divorce are that I have a much better relationship with my children and I can read a book in bed and not have a jealous partner by my side trying to prevent me . |
| 12 | And er they just used to go and have a quiet word and not make a fuss , no bother no nothing . |
| 13 | Computers for commercial data.processing , where the assumption may be invalid and where an accumulator would have to be very long to deal with character string data formats , tend to use the two-address format and not provide an accumulator . |
| 14 | you could possibly go all that way and not pick a hand up that would make you something . |