Example sentences of "not [verb] [pron] [prep] [art] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A difficulty is that Mercier 's brushwork , and an essential freedom in his style , does not lend itself to the same kind of minute scrutiny that could be applied to a painter like Zoffany . |
| 2 | that does n't bother me , but considering it was only the second I 'd spoken to him and I did not fancy him in the least erm , it really made my skin crawl . |
| 3 | But she did not know which of the many doors of the hall-way was that of their bedroom . |
| 4 | You can not do everything at the same time . |
| 5 | Most countries organize censuses of their population on something like ten-yearly intervals , but not all do , and they certainly do not do them at the same point in time . |
| 6 | There are the facilities here and it 's a shame not to use it with the all the tramways and the railways lines . |
| 7 | For though princes might now punish delinquent vassals or officials ( see pp. 360 , 286 ) , there was solid political sense in not subjecting them to the same penalties as lesser men . |
| 8 | I think the most important thing about community arts is that it 's arts for the community , and invariably one is not approaching it in the same way as one would market , say , a show at the Theatre Royal for instance . |
| 9 | Because they had no way of driving out of office the men who ran the executive in their colonies , the colonial assemblies could not assert themselves in the same way as the Westminster Parliament , and had to fall back on using the seventeenth-century approach of saying that there should be redress of grievance before taxes were voted to run the government . |
| 10 | For its part , the trial does not test factual accuracy alone and does not test it by the same method as that employed by the police in their own investigation . |
| 11 | The past by its nature is only indirectly available to us ; we can not enter it with the same immediacy as the present . |
| 12 | This is a matter of personal conscience and what every member in the council chamber today must be aware of , is that there is a vociferous and committed group of people we know that because we 've all had a great deal of communication from them and interestingly enough I have and most of the communication I 've had has been in favour so victory , people who write must be extremely perceptive in , with er marketing the that 's not the point , we all know that there is a committed and vociferous group of people whose consciences do not lead them to the same conclusions as Mr 's conscience and the issue really is , do we in a liberal and democratic society have the right to impose our consciences on those of other people who live in the community and quite clearly and quite determinedly take a different view . |
| 13 | The general enthusiasm for the fortieth anniversary of the structure of DNA should not blind us to a few blemishes on the otherwise fair face of molecular biology . |
| 14 | It is my contention that a similar process is occurring for at least a significant part of the people of Tyneside today , although it is not affecting everyone in the same way and involves a complex process of what may be more apparent than real social differentiation . |
| 15 | All the world knows that the Mohammedans , following the example of their master , Mohammed , are very licentious ; wherefore the men among them do not content themselves with a few wives , but seek every method of gratifying themselves in this particular . |
| 16 | Most advocates of biological theories do not express themselves in the same bizarre language and style as Lombroso , and such theories of crime are not merely historical relics that died with Lombroso . |
| 17 | ‘ He 's got plenty of pace — but I 'll bet you £1,000 he would not get anything like the same results as Waqar and Wasim . |
| 18 | But since , against the odds , Alice keeps her cellar as ‘ the perfection of cleanliness ’ , the image is pleasing and does not impose itself in the same way on the reader 's imagination . |
| 19 | He says it 's me wife and she 's as mad as hell , and they says yeah we can hear her from here and s must 've said summat about writing and she starts bawling and shouting , oh summat about you 've got to write I want a letter by Friday , you 're not messing me about no more , you 're not talking to him you 're talking to me . |
| 20 | An impressive university department might be staffed with the established academics who have lately confessed , in print , to basic doubts about the validity and purpose of English literary studies ; and it is hard today to think of any branch of formal literary study that does not reflect something of the same malaise . |
| 21 | He did not say anything for a few moments and then he shrugged and gave a sharp laugh . |
| 22 | He he did n't make one at the same time as , you know , to actually show the folds and that |
| 23 | ‘ The trouble is it is unimaginable to him that his women do n't want it in the same way . ’ |
| 24 | Carers are often confused because they do n't know which of the many agencies to go to . |
| 25 | You ca n't buy me with a few armfuls of flowers . ’ |
| 26 | He so concentrated on his dialogue — I never had to reshoot a scene because Kenny fluffed a line — that he could n't do anything at the same time as he was talking . ’ |
| 27 | This is me , I goes , I goes I 'll let it slip this time cos you have n't seen me for a few weeks . |
| 28 | Another example , I wo n't give it in the same detail . |
| 29 | ‘ Do n't use it for a few days , and see how it goes . ’ |
| 30 | She did n't see him for a few days after that , and had time to wonder why she had made it all up . |