Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] in [noun] [conj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It does not exist in Germany and I was curious as to how far into Central Europe the corso penetrated . |
| 2 | Even if cubs had been reared on human flesh , they did not persist in man-eating once they had grown up . |
| 3 | Nicotiana do not bloom in December but I smelled them , and with them another smell , a cigar , but James had not smoked cigars nor was there anyone near who did . |
| 4 | But the cable operators told the government that they would not invest in cable unless they could have pay-TV as a sweetener . |
| 5 | By the middle years of the fifteenth century litigants in civil suits before the Parlement of Paris could send word that they would not appear in person because they were engaged in war for the public good ( ‘ in expedicione causa rei publice ’ ) or were being detained as prisoners by the enemy . |
| 6 | Through them , it is possible to argue , as Foucault concluded from the design of the Panopticon , a whole type of society may emerge , a society based on the protection of sectional interests through subtle coercion , whose technology is used to preempt what people can and can not do in buildings that they use or occupy . |
| 7 | This is not done in man because it leads to Charcot joints and a deafferentation phantom , two signs the horse may not be able to display . |
| 8 | Similarly , the muscles will not grow in length unless they are attached to tendons and bones so that as the bones lengthen , they are stretched . |
| 9 | Some people do not believe in Jesus because they do not believe in the miracles . |
| 10 | As I said before , this kind of political analysis has simply not advanced in Europe as it has in Britain . |
| 11 | Gunpowder is not used in rifles because it produces smoke an leaves a residue in the barrel . |
| 12 | There is only one exception to this closing date , that is if you can not vote in person because you are ill , and you could not have foreseen this on the closing date for applications . |
| 13 | ‘ I realise you lack experience , Seb , but you 're not lacking in ambition and you 're eager to learn . |
| 14 | At this time of year , mid-Autumn , the snow has usually not arrived in Tromsø and it is possible for you to have the hills to yourself in Tromsdalen or , better , in Lyngen , but this year there was already a metre of the stuff down at sea level . |
| 15 | Except that they did not go , as promised , to the Rotunda , but went instead to a rival attraction advertised in Saunder 's News-Letter & Daily Advertiser : one , indeed , which ensured that Monsieur Jerricault 's Great Picture did not triumph in Dublin as it had done in London . |
| 16 | So it 's a suggestion at the moment , it 's not a firm proposal , it 's not fixed in concrete and I would hate anyone to think that that was the case . |
| 17 | We can not live in isolation if we wish to be close to God . |
| 18 | Lying is never due to witchcraft , nor can it excuse adultery ; a thief can not plead in mitigation that he was bewitched , for witchcraft is not recognized as a cause of theft . |
| 19 | But he has also discovered that the Gorbachev magic has not worked in Romania as it has elsewhere in Eastern Europe . |
| 20 | This notice warns customers that they should not deal in derivatives unless they understand the nature of the contract they are entering into and the extent of their exposure to risk . |
| 21 | It suited Adam not to reply in German and he gesticulated wildly as he tried to make her understand . |
| 22 | The plaintiff could not sue in contract because she was not a party to the contract ; it had been her friend who had bought the drink . |
| 23 | She could n't stay in Ireland if he was right about Joe Burns . |
| 24 | ‘ You ca n't stay in Ireland if you 've fallen out with them … please , darling Frank , come here to me . ’ |
| 25 | But as she said she she just had to she could n't stay in bed when she had kids running all over the place . |
| 26 | The sink was squared-off and old fashioned , with a white splashback and a tilting mirror ; Forester switched on the fluorescent shaving light and tried to tip the mirror to look at himself , but it would n't stay in place until he found out how to tighten a chrome-plated hexagonal nut on the hinge . |
| 27 | ‘ I could n't stay in hospital because I knew he was there , ’ said the father-of-one . |
| 28 | I would disagree that er , humans are n't used in experiments because I think that we 're all being used at various |
| 29 | The train could n't stop in time and he was n't there by the time we had reversed . |
| 30 | The train could n't stop in time and he was n't there by the time we had reversed . |