Example sentences of "not [verb] [pron] [is] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's not nacked it 's just that I 've lost seven pens like . |
| 2 | ‘ But you must not think it is only to bring you charity that I came . |
| 3 | The social worker I had at the time kept coming to see me in Low Newton and saying , ‘ Do you not think it 's best if you get him adopted ? ’ |
| 4 | " Do you not think it 's very hot in here ? " the maid suddenly asked the cook . |
| 5 | I do not think there is really any great crime problem in Barnard Castle . |
| 6 | ‘ Everyone will be watching her to see what she does and although I do not think she is very fit , she has to be the favourite to win . ’ |
| 7 | Most older people do not need what is interestingly referred to as ‘ warden-controlled accommodation ’ , although they seldom object to this extra facility . |
| 8 | Boat Race : ‘ I do not know who is ahead , but it 's either Oxford or Cambridge . ’ |
| 9 | With regard to things we do not know it is more difficult . |
| 10 | I am coming later to the ‘ none-atall ’ which is one of the more emphatic observations that I have to make , namely that one must not assume there is necessarily a rational purpose , or even a felonious purpose , in the breach of law and order and the commission of crime . |
| 11 | Sadly , the city can not do what is most needed : join its suburban neighbours in a regional government that does away with redundancies and evens out the huge inequities in school financing and municipal services . |
| 12 | There is a significant difference , and I do not feel it is only a class and an age difference , between the spare dignity of the oath Marco has learned from his early years and the oath which the Rat has devised as part of the game he has created for his Club : |
| 13 | I do not believe it is merely the result of social conditioning that in the Scriptures , in the Jewish and Christian tradition , mankind and the Church is presented as feminine to God , to whom our response must be one of obedience in contrast to those religions in which the divine is regarded as contained within creation and is to be manipulated or cajoled in order to provide what man needs . |
| 14 | He is not a sceptic about the reality of global warming — he can claim to have been the first man to notice it — but he does not believe it is necessarily harmful . |
| 15 | This does not follow what is generally accepted as good industrial/commercial practice . |
| 16 | It 's not moving it 's just that the model , when it gets pushed to its limits , does n't work any more . |
| 17 | ‘ I 'm not saying he 's raving mad , ’ she said , ‘ but he is n't like the rest of us . ’ |
| 18 | Sorry , just er to clarify was happy about er reversing the orders of these , provided we did not amend what is currently present er item one . |
| 19 | It 's very unfair with not knowing it 's like anything else . |
| 20 | But from his identifying a person 's body as it appears to that person with that person 's ‘ introspected self ’ , it would seem that Mace can not mean what is ordinarily meant by the former phrase . |
| 21 | She does not need nurses in uniform , she almost shouts : just because she is disabled , it does not mean she is medically ill . |
| 22 | The addition of paid work to the housewife 's activities does not mean she is no longer a housewife . |
| 23 | SIR — Just because something is made in Japan does not mean it is wholly reliable . |
| 24 | If food is not eaten it is then thrown away until the next meal is presented . |
| 25 | He has also been the main advocate of pluralism , and of not assuming there is only one correct interpretation of the past . |
| 26 | And therefore ( d ) ‘ this is [ sic — should be ‘ appears ’ : JD ] white' does not express what is directly evident . |
| 27 | I defy any woman not to think he is simply the most scrumptious thing on two legs . |
| 28 | The reader may feel perplexity , but the text will not amplify what is there or rewrite itself in a simpler form . |
| 29 | That 's not to say it 's just a question of luck whether you win — nothing could be further from the truth . |
| 30 | no , because the point is that Labour has not changed it 's course , which is recognizing that at the heart of it 's policies we have to show that we know the world has changed , and we 've got a message to women , which is that we know that you are essential in your role in the family , but we know you 're also essential in the economy , |