Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] [prep] [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " When I was dealing with the men personally I generally got them to see matters from my point of view , but unfortunately I could not stay in any one port for any length of time ; my subordinates did not have the same control over men as I did " . |
| 2 | While class-based information does not exist for all those students who fail to gain work after graduating from a YTS , the conclusion about how the scheme operates in the case of black youths is probably equally valid with respect to white youths without qualifications coming from poor , unskilled , working-class homes . |
| 3 | each has a separate thumbnail file , and if one does not exist for any given image , PhotoFinish creates one . |
| 4 | Mass owner-occupation is relatively new and does not exist in many other countries . |
| 5 | The actual agents of erosion may be completely different : glaciers do not exist in humid temperate regions except at high altitudes , where the climate is not really humid temperate , while wind , which is of considerable importance as an agent of erosion , transport and deposition in deserts , can almost be ignored except in the formation of coastal dunes . |
| 6 | This transitive dependency should not exist in third normal form . |
| 7 | There was , however , a complicating factor here which did not exist in any other European state . |
| 8 | And what we today call ‘ soteriology ’ ( the doctrine of salvation ) did not exist in any systematic way at all ( Kelly 1977 : 375 ) . |
| 9 | Either supposition leads to a contradiction , and the conclusion must be that such a class can not exist in any conceivable universe . |
| 10 | For example , the performance of the hon. Gentleman 's authority , Sheffield , was markedly inferior to that of Rotherham , although the discrepancies of the sort that he described do not exist in those two authorities . |
| 11 | These extremes of wealth and poverty apparently inseparable from corn-and-sheep husbandry did not exist in most pastoral regions , where , as a rule , little more than a tenth of all wealth belonged to men worth £50 or more . |
| 12 | Co-curators David W. Penney , Associate Curator , Department of African , Oceanic and New World Cultures , at the Detroit Institute , and George P. Horse Capture , a member of the Cros Ventre tribe and formerly Curator of the Plains Indian Museum at the Buffalo Bill Historical Center , tell us that ‘ art as a category did not exist in American Indian languages ’ , but their concern ‘ is not so much the issue of defining American Indian creations to fit a European definition of ‘ art ’ , but of redefining ‘ art ’ and consequently art history to include the artistic practices of American Indians , Africans , folk artists , and even the modern film industry , advertising and popular illustrations ’ . |
| 13 | Indeed , early exchange activities could not have done , since towns did not exist before late prehistoric times , and in later times periodic markets and fairs provided many of the opportunities for trade . |
| 14 | ‘ But he will be asked to accept the arguments put by the ESC and not insist on any extra payment . ’ |
| 15 | She was not in the least concerned at her mother 's solitary state but knew her to be so recently buffeted by events that she would not cavil at two visiting teenagers , although she had intimated to Sam that if she filled the house with them , she would kill herself . |
| 16 | However , a child , having the book read to them , would not think of such complex ideas , and after all the book was designed for a child . |
| 17 | I honestly can not think of one good thing which Labour proposes to do . |
| 18 | In August , near Worth , he sent his mother " a memoir of the horribly devastated battlefield , scattered all over with countless mournful remains and reeking with dead bodies " and in December he wrote to a friend : " if one is to avoid losing all courage , one must not think of these frightful things any more " It is apparent how far removed this mood was from any chauvinistic or militaristic fervour — nor would we particularly expect any such fervour ( despite long established misconceptions about Nietzsche 's attitudes ) from one whose ideas of German nationhood were moulded so largely by the cultural preoccupations of a Hölderlin or a Schopenhauer . |
| 19 | In fact , I can not think of any great golfers afflicted with legs divergent from the normal . |
| 20 | But he could not think of any other way to work safely . |
| 21 | Now I could write a book on Workers I have known and they are worth a mention here , because I can not think of any other branch of agriculture , but organics , where people will almost pay to work for you . |
| 22 | The farmer , who was a great coward , did n't like the idea of going back empty-handed to the tiger , but as he could not think of any other plan , he did as he was told . |
| 23 | The Armaments Inspectorate at Nuremberg , commenting on the successful concealment of preparation for the invasion , noted that ‘ the concentration of numerous troops in the eastern areas had allowed speculation to arise that significant events were afoot there , but nevertheless probably the overwhelming proportion of the German people did not think of any warlike confrontation with the Soviet Union ’ . |
| 24 | For some reason we do not think in such simplistic terms and did not dismiss the Director of Licensing at the CAA from office when the pilot of a Vanguard trying to land in a snowstorm at Basle failed to carry out a successful instrument approach and killed all those poor housewives out on a day shopping trip . |
| 25 | ‘ Mrs Hampton , you really must not laugh at these dark mysteries . |
| 26 | Barrister and writer Nemone Lethbridge , not a fan herself , wrote in TV Times , ‘ I can not laugh at this massive dose of humiliation and embarrassment . |
| 27 | Seed will not germinate in wet heavy soil , and plants that do establish will probably not survive the winter . |
| 28 | He was not reacting to this latest development , but to something that was going on outside . |
| 29 | Our minds wander to an empty place that does not compare to this natural extravaganza . |
| 30 | It was not filled with crusty old men and women poring over the paintings ; the whole building had a bright and open atmosphere , instead of the sullen brooding one she 'd expected . |