Example sentences of "not [verb] [adv] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Baffled by the elderly woman 's total animosity and unreasonable behaviour , she had at first responded by being anxiously deferential — abjectly agreeing to every outrageous demand on her husband 's precious time , despite not seeing very much of him herself . |
| 2 | It does not arise so much when the doubt lies between ( a ) consent and ( b ) no decision . |
| 3 | If this does not exist then both the government and its control of the timetable collapse but while the one lasts , the other is intact . |
| 4 | Thankfully , he was not bringing back any fish . |
| 5 | It 's a bunch that rides steadily , guided by experienced domestiques who know how to keep going and not lose so much time that they will be eliminated from the Tour as a whole . |
| 6 | And why does any star which is radiating energy not lose so much mass ( thanks to E=MC 2 ) that gravity can no longer hold it together ? |
| 7 | Poindexter 's expression all through his testimony was one of mystification , shrouded in patient smoke , as if he really could not think why all these people wanted to ply him with questions . |
| 8 | But you must not think too much about her . ’ |
| 9 | But I do not think so this afternoon . |
| 10 | This is the notion of the constituent power ( ‘ pouvoir constituant ’ — because we do not think along these lines , the English translation sounds strange ) . |
| 11 | I let in the clutch and gripped the wheel , taking it gently , not using too much power and just willing the tyres to maintain a grip on the rotten surface below the water . |
| 12 | And not using too much water . |
| 13 | Yeah , but basically from , from that programme all , all the er , you can see all the resources were really being used all week and , but I had a problem when we came to do the bedrooms that er , you can there , we ran out of work for the decorators to do er removing this thing , once you 've removed and then I managed to squeeze in , but where the second decorator 's erm up to room twenty-three but rather than erm have just one gang than , and not , not using as many as the resources as we possibly could I let them gave the second gang a few rooms that they could actually squeeze in without interrupting I 've let them do up to room twenty-three and then and then basically the carpenting and they have to come in after everybody else has done what they Monday morning basically we just decided that we really needed more resources the earlier sequence of events to , to get so we were getting to so whether we 've been given |
| 14 | It would be a mistake , however , to think that we do not cover extensively all the ground and territory that is available within those limits . |
| 15 | But , since these paragraphs might not cover comprehensively all errors , paragraph ( h ) was added as a catch-all provision to cover any other errors . |
| 16 | The 166 husbands whose occupations are recorded do not cover quite such a range of trades as the fathers — 64 as opposed to 76 — but that is hardly surprising since they are much more concentrated in a number of particular trades . |
| 17 | Indenbaum offered him some old pictures to paint over , but Modigliani picked carefully through them so as not to paint over any painting , however unimportant , which showed a hint of talent . |
| 18 | However they did not eat significantly more chocolate or feel greater cravings than eaters who made no secret of their habit . |
| 19 | If you know that a dessert is likely to be particularly rich but it is something you relish , then do not eat so much of the main course ; you will then be hungry enough to enjoy the dessert without feeling sick or bloated . |
| 20 | You may not want to get up and run a race immediately after eating but you should not eat so much that you find it difficult to climb a flight of stairs . |
| 21 | You should not eat so much . |
| 22 | You should not eat so much . |
| 23 | Women did not eat as many sausages , pies , or fish and chips than men , yet did have more fruit and recommended reduced fat milk . |
| 24 | Do not eat too much meat , fish , or shellfish in very hot climates : you are safer eating vegetarian food during your stay . |
| 25 | It only works , in fact , partly because people do not eat very much and partly because most of the work , the energy needed to fire the bullock , is not coming from wheat , it is coming from food that is not directly available to man . |
| 26 | It has been argued that continuous agriculture could be maintained if a closed nutrient cycle could be achieved , the canopy not perforated so that leaching would be prevented and the forest floor would not deteriorate , and if nutrients were added to equal those exported as crops and the diversity of species maintained . |
| 27 | Talking about him with the others , I did find out that several other people had had the same experience with him as me ; that his lovemaking was done in silence , that he never said a word ( in fact with me he hardly looked me in the eye either , just stared at his own hands as he moved them over my body , not stroking so much as seizing and kneading me , holding me down too ) ; but then later in the night you would wake to hear him talking to himself , lying there fast asleep ( O always asked the men he fucked to stay with him all night long , always ) , fast asleep and talking out loud in the night , talking in a fast , furious , hushed , hollow voice . |
| 28 | At the other extreme there are many malnourished children who do not make up those essential nutrients , which lacking in school meals , when they return home to eat . |
| 29 | The business class as a whole does not make up more than 0.2% of the population , although if its outer fringes are included it could approach 1% . |
| 30 | At the same time Wilson was bluntly told that the United States would not make good any losses that the British economy might suffer . |