Example sentences of "not [vb infin] so [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Loving does not cancel out such bad manners or excuse them , and she would not think so either … . |
| 2 | Smiling at her father , who probably did not think so either if he would permit himself to be honest about it , she placidly allowed him to give her hand to Tristan who looked down at her very intently , his face noble and moved and marvellously beautiful in the jewelled light from the stained glass window . |
| 3 | You may not think so now , little one , but you were safer as my wife . ’ |
| 4 | An example of this has already appeared in Holland , where the Minister of Justice refused to approve policy allowing lesbians and gays to adopt children , arguing that Holland should not deviate so far from general European policy . |
| 5 | Berlin did not fall so easily . ’ |
| 6 | If only his head did not ache so badly that thought seemed driven out by the throbbing . |
| 7 | Protein molecules do not behave so equivocally . |
| 8 | And how do they react to those activities which might not chime so sweetly in the ears of employers … to Rastafarianism , feminism , peace campaigning or the like ? |
| 9 | I could not act so selfishly . ’ |
| 10 | She swore to herself that when she grew up she would not wait so long between courses . |
| 11 | James was in every respect the kind of driver Alexander would get along with and that their enterprise did not finish so very far from winning , and failed to win not a few times only through misfortune — or the injustice of fate , speaks creditably of an underlying seriousness that they rarely allowed to show . |
| 12 | Whether this is the way they express themselves does not matter so long as we can establish that this is the substance of their view . |
| 13 | This vagueness will not matter so long as one is clear about the level at which the formula of ‘ ought implies can ’ is being applied : thus the latter , and weaker , kind of ‘ can not ’ would be enough to provide a strong argument against the behaviour being made into a norm for a human society , but it would not be enough if the question concerned the adoption of a personal ideal in an individual case . |
| 14 | Will the Minister confirm that the Government will take the necessary steps — if necessary through Her Majesty 's inspectorate of pollution — to ensure that PowerGen complies with its commitment to retrofit 4 GW of coal burn should it not do so voluntarily ? |
| 15 | The Minister warned : ‘ He may be able to carry on in the job but he can not do so effectively . |
| 16 | For example , by the third sub-maxim of Manner ( " be brief " ) , wherever I avoid some simple expression in favour of some more complex paraphrase , it may be assumed that I do not do so wantonly , but because the details are somehow relevant to the present enterprise . |
| 17 | Rather , if faith does not begin , reason will not do so either . |
| 18 | The S.N.M. declined to attend and it seems that General Aidid did not do so either . |
| 19 | What I am clear about is that Parliament has not conferred such autonomy on a 16- to 18-year-old child by virtue of section 8 of the Act of 1969 , and that the common law , as interpreted by the House of Lords in Gillick 's case does not do so either . |
| 20 | In a dramatic personal speech , Mr Lamont disclosed that on Black Wednesday the Prime Minister wrote to him saying he was not resigning ‘ and I should not do so either ’ . |
| 21 | The fact that there may be others in society who do not do so well need not even occur to the individual . |
| 22 | Alas the ancients did not do so well at Tilberthwaite as we have seen . |
| 23 | It has been argued , for a long time now , that the reason girls do not do so well at mathematics is that females , from at least adolescence onwards , have poorer spatial visualisation ability than males . |
| 24 | Shareholders benefit from a dividend total lifted from 18.8p in 1991 to 19.1p , after a final of 12.9p , but holders of L&G investment policies will not do so well . |
| 25 | But he did not do so immediately . |
| 26 | I could not do so honourably . |
| 27 | If she is very apprehensive about how she is going to manage her role in society as a woman on her own , you could remind her of something she has probably completely forgotten : that she coped with life quite adequately as a single woman , before she met her husband , so there is no reason to suppose that she can not do so again , and possibly even better now because of the love they shared and her greater maturity . |
| 28 | I will not do so again . |
| 29 | It was even acceptable to chant or recite a verse or two in public if the young mirza had ‘ beauty and a good voice ’ ; but he should not do so too often or at length for fear — heaven forbid — that he be mistaken for a professional poet or singer . |
| 30 | If presented as a guide , not a rule book , and project leaders are free to reject any of its provisions , they do not do so irresponsibly . |