Example sentences of "not [vb infin] [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why not stay here tonight and on the morrow I will have someone take you over to Briar Cottage with a wagon ? |
| 2 | ‘ My mother can not stay here alone . |
| 3 | ‘ I did n't ask ; I told Gina where I was going but I 'd better not stay too long . ’ |
| 4 | But even when both parents register a birth , they may not stay together long . |
| 5 | This was approached from two angles : first , what was known as the ‘ battle for the fourth grade ’ , an acknowledgement that substantial numbers of children either did not go to school or did not stay long enough to consolidate literacy . |
| 6 | Method ( 2 ) , as discussed in chapter 3 , may not be of much value if managers do not stay long enough in one position . |
| 7 | No , I really could not stay there any longer . |
| 8 | She did not stay there long , but retreated from the fierce sun to the stern-cabin that she would be sharing with Ellen . |
| 9 | ‘ You did not stay there very long . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ He says that the lions will not stay any longer . |
| 11 | They have been indoctrinated for nearly forty years with the belief that their right to this pension does not arise simply out of a public decision to pay it but is a right vested in the individual by virtue of certain payments made by him , and analogous to what would be his entitlement under a contract with an insurance company . |
| 12 | So it has been for centuries , yet the multi-petalled bloom of modern times , epitomized by the modern Hybrid Tea rose ( or , as it is abbreviated , H.T. ) and probably most people 's mental image of all that a rose is and should be , is a product of modern hybridizing and cross-breeding that did not exist even as recently as medieval times . |
| 13 | To the urban dweller , all woods look the same , but in landscape terms we must be careful to distinguish between the wildwood ( the remnant or successor of the natural or semi-natural woodland of Britain — which certainly does not exist anywhere today and probably has not since the Roman period ) and woods which have been to a greater or lesser degree managed for the production of timber and wood ( Fig. 63 ) . |
| 14 | It can not exist anywhere else . ’ |
| 15 | However , impediments to women 's lives will not disappear as quickly as Mrs Thatcher did . |
| 16 | The criticisms have fallen into certain categories , one general line being that the service has failed to adopt modern methods of management , that it has been slow in understanding the use of statistical information and of specialized knowledge of the social services , and that it does not think ahead enough or organize its planning on a sufficiently systematic basis , in part because officials spend too much time on routine departmental work . |
| 17 | The train was braking hard now , but Harry could not think fast enough . |
| 18 | I hope you will not think too harshly of me . |
| 19 | Ellen had once assured me that I was only happy because I did not think too deeply , and probably she was right , but it is still that shallow contentment which makes people bring me their troubles just as the senator was now bringing me his two children . |
| 20 | Starting each hymn on the right note was a great problem for most of us , but I found that if I did not think too deeply about this but started off almost instinctively I generally hit something like the right note , thanks to my years as a choir boy in Maidenhead . |
| 21 | And a mind which is affected by stress or tension can not think as clearly . |
| 22 | Loving does not cancel out such bad manners or excuse them , and she would not think so either … . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | You may not think so now , little one , but you were safer as my wife . ’ |
| 25 | Before we make any radical changes such as doing away with jury trials , should we not think very carefully indeed ? |
| 26 | Finally , despite all the pejorative remarks and many statements along the lines of ‘ I personally do not think very highly of headhunters ’ , most accept fully that the headhunting business in Britain is here to stay . |
| 27 | The Princess , I realized , did not think very highly of the King . |
| 28 | Although our sense of smell does not compare as favourably as some of our other senses , it allows us to detect tiny traces of a very wide range of complex chemicals . |
| 29 | Do not make too sharp a point which can bend and so become blunt more quickly , and use a hand-held file rather than a mechanical grinder , which can overheat the crampon and ruin the temper of the metal . |
| 30 | The evidence indicated that , given the nature of continuous speech , a robust system would not make too early a decision , but would allow higher levels to inform the process of identification . |