Example sentences of "not [verb] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the overall shape of wage profiles are widely recognized why do workers not stay longer with one firm ? |
| 2 | The armed robber , needless to say , did not stay around to be sued . |
| 3 | Try to go to bed only when you 're tired but do not stay up past a certain critical time , say one hour after you would normally go to bed . |
| 4 | She was able to will her longing into an unexamined haze but she could not stay away from the post office on Monday . |
| 5 | For weeks he tried not to go near it , but he could not stay away from it for long . |
| 6 | If I promise to keep perfectly silent , why not stay here with me ? ’ |
| 7 | Then this mood would lift , and she could write appreciatively again : ‘ We get snatches of divine loneliness here … why not stay here for ever and ever , enjoying this immortal rhythm in which both soul and eye are at rest ? |
| 8 | Prominent advocates of ratification included EC Commission President Jacques Delors ( who declared on Aug. 28 that he " would not stay on for another mandate if the " no " vote won " ) and also both the RPR leader Jacques Chirac and the UDF leader Valéry Giscard d'Estaing , although many RPR and UDF members were opposed to ratification . |
| 9 | ‘ It is simply that for tax reasons we can not stay overnight at Manton , ’ Mrs Sangster explained . |
| 10 | She had been undaunted even when Henry said he 'd wager that she dare not stay alone in the Lodge while he and Lettice explored the woods outside . |
| 11 | " Still , I 'd better not stay long with the sepoys attacking … |
| 12 | Could not stay long in the room with it , but the ice had been broken . |
| 13 | As already mentioned , after puberty a girl does not stay long in her natal home . |
| 14 | It may well have been fun while it lasted , but we might guess by now that the Titfords would not stay long in Spa Fields , any more than they had anywhere else . |
| 15 | When challenged on this point , employers always produced a unanimous chorus to the effect that this was what women wanted , because they would not stay long in the trade before they married . |
| 16 | Now it is twelve o'clock and school is out and all those who do not stay behind for dinner are bounding down Trafalgar Street , the little ones paddling up to the Wellington-tops in the drifts left on either side by the snow plough . |
| 17 | It does n't work for her the mistress of the moment of sudden isolation at not seeing back to the black magician who fantastically juggles luminous hoops in the recto-rectangular hey put my mirror back . |
| 18 | This is a pity and I 'm afraid it 's a case of your researchers not seeing much beyond the end of their dicks . |
| 19 | I agree with Eric Hobsbawm 's assertion that nationhood need not arise exclusively from the past ( ‘ Whose fault-line is it anyway ? ’ , 24 April ) . |
| 20 | The latter are considered in the section on Freshwater Habitats , since their ornithological interest does not arise primarily from their geographical proximity to the coast . |
| 21 | But I think that question does not arise here from the facts . |
| 22 | She asked the Government to ensure that similar situations did not arise again in the future . |
| 23 | The problem of time in primary classrooms does not arise solely from external pressures . |
| 24 | It is worth stressing that this study did not arise out of a leisured academic interest but out of an urgent need for material to use therapeutically with highly-disturbed young people . |
| 25 | He argued that thought does not arise out of abstract logical puzzles but from specific problems which we encounter in practice . |
| 26 | The first submission by Mr. Ashworth was that a public nuisance can not arise out of a lawful act , whatever its consequences , and as what is complained of here , namely heavy goods vehicles being driven along Medway and Bridge Roads , is a lawful act , no public nuisance can arise . |
| 27 | If it is correct , in general , that a public nuisance can not arise out of the lawful use of a highway , as Mr. Ashworth submitted , it is not , in my judgment , because there is no unlawful act . |
| 28 | Although the extra representation for zemstva did not arise out of St Petersburg 's enthusiasm for local government ( but out of the determination of central agencies to prevent any one of their number dominating the rest ) , it nevertheless ensured " a large dose of decentralization " in primary education and gave primary schools a better chance than they would have had otherwise . |
| 29 | The problem does not arise merely through lack of moral fibre . |
| 30 | But Weitzman claims that scale economies can not arise purely through fixed costs ; that these costs must be sunk . |