Example sentences of "not [verb] [conj] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | He used his hands flirtatiously , slowly , not flapping or pointing but caressing and floating , as if wiping his flat hand inches from the surface of a painting . |
| 32 | ‘ I have not decided whether to appeal because I have not yet officially been informed as to why I have been fined ’ he said . |
| 33 | And er , then I should go to the bobbin shop and ask them if they could get these done today and er , well we got this on , I said no but I , we want it if you could leave them on one side and erm I used to er I , I became , if I might say so and I 'm not boasting or bragging or anything , Michael , I 'm trying to tell you the situation as it was and er I was a very important man to and er they er got me er at one time to er figure out , they , they used to make what was called Woolworths locks . |
| 34 | Here there is a maze of rules about what you can and can not do and say but these are infinitely preferable to the alternative — control through official regulations and legislation . |
| 35 | Thus the name " Shakespeare " rigidly refers to Shakespeare , irrespective of whether we happen to be talking about what Shakespeare did or wrote , or did not do or write but might have done or written , i.e. about his actual or merely possible attributes . |
| 36 | These situations and circumstances are not seen as operating as ‘ causes ’ , in a determinist sense , but as offering incentives or disincentives that will have some degree of probability of influencing the direction in which the choices are made . |
| 37 | The guard who had brought them went up beside the chair , knelt and spoke quietly to Bruce in a language Corbett could not understand and guessed that it was probably Gaelic , a language totally alien to him . |
| 38 | The second tough was aiming his little pistol at me , using both hands to steady his aim — he had had sense enough not to fire when running and waste his one shot . |
| 39 | She is talking about an enemy which you can not see or hear or smell . ’ |
| 40 | In both cases , the thing had seemed a sheer impossibility ; he had not thought but known that , being what he was , he was psychologically incapable of doing it ; and then , without any apparent movement of the will , as objective and unemotional as the reading on a dial , there had arisen before him , with perfect certitude , the knowledge ‘ about this time tomorrow , you will have done the impossible ’ . |
| 41 | If the defendant is a person under disability he may not defend or counterclaim except by his guardian ad litem ( Ord 10 , r 1(2) ) , see Chapter 5 . |
| 42 | CIMA suggested that the proposals should be included in Cadbury 's code of best practice , while Coopers & Lybrand thought that a Stock Exchange requirement would not work and added that ‘ it could not see why the OFR could not in principle be a Financial Reporting Standard ’ . |
| 43 | No Government in this country today which has not faith in the future , love for its fellow-men , and which will not work and work and work will ever bring this country through into better days and better times , or will ever bring Europe through , or the world through.6 |
| 44 | I would go further I am not sure whether my Hon. Friends presented such an amendment but it was not called and ask that such a consultative committee comprise a large number of women bus users . |
| 45 | Now Mr and Mrs Jones believe it is easier not to press and to wait until she falls asleep on the settee before taking her to bed ( usually about 11 pm ) . |
| 46 | As I do not suggest or recommend that we reduce our intake to such a very low level , we need not concern ourselves that we will eat insufficient quantities to endanger our health . |
| 47 | The tiny tracheae , which are strengthened with rings in their walls , do not flatten but shorten and expand like concertinas . |
| 48 | Trees did not whisper and murmur and chuckle with an evil malevolence … |
| 49 | Chris always ends his visits by asking children not to disturb or try and touch snakes they may find in the wild . |
| 50 | Yet the above argument does not demand or predict that every criminal law directly represents the interests of the ruling class . |
| 51 | As to the presumption , Mr. Philipson , while prepared to acknowledge that it would apply to the reasonableness test , submitted that it did not apply when considering whether the Bank of England was acting in performance of its functions . |
| 52 | Even the fires in the depths of the crater mouth had a kind of slow sly laughter in them that did not erupt and scream and tear at you as these fires did . |
| 53 | One last shattering figure is that 700 million adults can not read or write and 250 million children under 14 do not attend school . |
| 54 | But for the remainder of the Fifties the initiative was seized in the Soviet Union , and often the world , by this gifted peasant , a copy-book proletarian , a metal worker who did not read or write until he was in his twenties and who summed up in his character so many of the strengths and weaknesses of the Communist system . |
| 55 | She will not respond except to indicate that you are a chancer or a smoothie who is attempting to circumvent the proper rules and procedures . |
| 56 | It is a defence , however , if the defendant can satisfy the court that it was not known or suspected that drug trafficking was involved , or that he disclosed his knowledge or suspicion to the relevant authorities . |
| 57 | So to say , ‘ Jesus is God ’ , does not imply or claim that we have made direct observation of a hidden ‘ divine nature ’ in him , or explored his relationship with the Father from the inside . |
| 58 | These birthmarks do not fade but mature and darken with age , with the relatively normal vessels of a juvenile mark undergoing degeneration with dilatation and stasis . |
| 59 | Not knowing whether to interpret or not , and trying to decide between two impossible alternatives , is a characteristic problem for the ‘ nervous ’ Mr Palomar who , ‘ to defend himself against the general neurasthenia … tries to keep his sensations under control insofar as possible ’ ( 4 ) . |
| 60 | In short , he was on the point of hysteria , not knowing whether to laugh or cry , |