Example sentences of "and [verb] [not/n't] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , more than 30 per cent of clients are women who are generally more successful as they are better listeners and tend not to rush at obstacles . |
| 2 | Overseas financial institutions often come from a far different system in which rules and regulations are far more explicit , and tend not to be fully conversant with a less transparent form of control as operated by the Bank . |
| 3 | The general tenor of the article is that " Englishing " becomes a personal matter , raising questions of aesthetics and taste not readily accommodated within the framework of a theory of translation . |
| 4 | In reality , of course , the fascist variant of ‘ charismatic leadership ’ — there are obvious parallels in the Mussolini cult — was not only superimposed on existing bureaucratic power , but created new , extensive apparatuses of bureaucratic administration , and led not to diminished but to massively increased bureaucratic interference in all spheres of daily life . |
| 5 | And cared not to reply . |
| 6 | Instead the researchers changed the form of the question and asked not ‘ Why do you say ( or think ) that these are alike ? ’ but ‘ Why are these alike ? ’ |
| 7 | Its certainty was attained once the bill was separated from the charter party and became not only a receipt for the goods but also an independent ( captain or master of the vessel issued ) abstract document of title . |
| 8 | He slipped into Bulgarian and became not absurd . |
| 9 | Either it accepts the EC 's ban on further planting , or it applies for quality wine status and agrees not to use hybrid vines . |
| 10 | Each recipient doing business in or organised under the laws of the United States of America or in areas subject to its jurisdiction represents that it is an institutional investor , expressing an interest for its own account and agrees not to purchase , distribute or sell any of the Company 's securities or any interest therein except in compliance with the above laws . ] |
| 11 | The Government has failed to add any convincing arguments to its feeble justifications for the changes , and dares not come clean about the real reasons . |
| 12 | A movement moves : it does not , and dares not , coalesce ; and to capitalise it was no more than a modest journalistic hyperbole and a useful summary of an undoubted shift in literary taste . |
| 13 | Disabled people do not need to deny the individual psychological costs they pay ; rather , we need to identify them as a most directly experienced aspect of oppression , and dispute not the existence of psychological distress in disabled people but the kinds of causal account that are produced . |
| 14 | It 's a software product designed to run on either PC or Macintosh computers , and offers not just the facility to record , but also to analyse your training performances over several sports simultaneously . |
| 15 | He had arrived , pale and markedly short of sleep , at seven-fifty and at eight-thirty had rung Penelope Huntley 's flat to find her barely awake , bad-tempered , vague and professing not to have made an appointment at all . |
| 16 | Brooktree Corp , San Diego and Advanced Micro Devices Inc have settled all pending litigation and agreed not to sue each other on patents related to colour palette chips : the settlement provides for payment to Brooktree of $26.8m from an earlier award of cash damages for patent and mask work infringement and dismissal of all other litigation pending between them . |
| 17 | Some fish go a step further and display not one but a pair of false eyes . |
| 18 | With Buddie 's orders ringing in his ears , he stood his ground and made not the slightest move to obey . |
| 19 | He resolutely refused to conform to local customs and made not the slightest effort to understand the people . |
| 20 | Even these few quotations show that the notion of the ‘ map ’ or ‘ structure ’ of a subject is by no means straightforward , and involves not only the theoretical or conceptual unities which are referred to in the literature on the nature of disciplines ( OECD 1972 ) , but the approach , emphasis and even methods of teaching . |
| 21 | He spoke after Bronson 's owner appeared before York magistrates and admitted not keeping a dangerous dog under proper control . |
| 22 | Modest , discreet , industrious , and loyal , Bonham enjoyed the friendship , affection , and trust not only of Peel but of many other leading members of the party . |
| 23 | His twenty-rod patch cost him twelve shillings a year in rent and produced not only sufficient potatoes to feed the family from late May round to April the following year , but also a variety of other vegetables . |
| 24 | He is free born and trembles not at priestly threats or the papal curse … |
| 25 | Does ’ detailed information on how to judge a school 's performance ’ mean that the system will be the same as our parents charter , or does it , as it sounds , means that there will be an extra layer of bureaucracy , taking into its embrace Her Majesty 's inspectorate of schools and producing not what has been described as raw data , but information that colours it all ? |
| 26 | The kings were not simply put on their thrones by churchmen ; they were heirs and successors of barbarian chiefs ; they ruled by force and fear not by ideals ; the fact of politics not the ideals of churchmen were the stuff of their lives . |
| 27 | Lord have mercy upon us , and lay not these sins to our charge . " |
| 28 | All around her were the smiling faces so lacking at Oreste 's birth , for Ellen and William could not match the pride of Ferdinando nor the ecstasy of Pen , and she felt loved and treasured not pitifully alone and bereft . |
| 29 | They need in this very complex situation to check the accuracy of the various financial documents and to know not only what representations were made but how accurate they were . |
| 30 | This 40 Minutes Special ( BBC 2 ) was produced by Agnieszka Piotrowska , who never makes a bad programme and has n't made a better one than this . |