Example sentences of "not [verb] [conj] [pron] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the end each successive British government was obliged to trust the Americans , and to hope that circumstances would not arise when it disagreed with American policy . |
| 2 | I was much more impressed by Mr. Kasner 's evidence than by that of Mr. Mahmoud , but I do not think that they differ on any material point . |
| 3 | The noise in the Chamber tonight did not do the House great credit , but I do not think that it came from one side alone . |
| 4 | Whilst I would apply that proposition completely in most cases , and particularly in cases which affect life , liberty or property , I do not think that it applies in all cases . |
| 5 | There was no tax invoice because the firm was not registered when it billed for the work . |
| 6 | Again , how — if at all — does a mosquito perceive its own high-pitched ping as it closes in on its prey , a sound not uttered as it dances with its fellows in gay abandon in a summer evening 's cloud . |
| 7 | The Hanmers were unconnected with the gentry family of the same name at Marton and their surname was not formed until they arrived in Myddle . |
| 8 | This was one of the few liberties taken by the film 's editors , as no B–17 quite arrived that way on December 7 , but the shot was clearly too good not to include and it approximated to what had happened to a number of the actual B–17s which stumbled into the attack . |
| 9 | Sunlight reflected from a window among the palm trees to lance a sliver of dazzling light at our cockpit , then the reflection was gone and we were at sea level , engines screaming , and I fumbled for the camera , prayed it had not broken when it fell from the ceiling , and took another picture just before Maggot lifted the aircraft 's nose so that we swooped up and over the palm trees that edged the beach . |
| 10 | She closed her eyes , concentrating once again on her tightening fingers , trying not to think of Richie Daly and the Emma Bates ; trying not to weep when she thought about the waste of a good life , of fifty good lives . |
| 11 | ‘ You 're not suggesting that what happened to me this morning was attempted murder , are you ? |
| 12 | Live the natural way : No , I am not suggesting that you return to some sort of Tarzan and Jane existence , simply that you try and reduce your dependence on those mechanical things which sometimes seem to threaten to take over our lives . |
| 13 | I am not suggesting that he arrives at the meaning of Truth as the result of philosophical or metaphysical speculation in a vacuum . |
| 14 | Now a ‘ searching for something ’ or ‘ exploring ’ theme crops up a great deal in drama and there are many teachers who do not recognise that what looks like a tense , exciting , well-focused structure may be no such thing . |
| 15 | ‘ No , I can not concentrate until I know about Philippe for sure . |
| 16 | Even mistakes which diminish reputation will not count if they pale into minor significance beside the truth of major charges . |
| 17 | It was not supposed that they dealt at arm 's length . |
| 18 | Although T-lymphocytes probably act as mediators in the pathogenesis of Dupuytren 's disease , we do not know whether they act as regulator or effector cells ; nor has any specific antigen been identified . |
| 19 | I read — I do not know whether it came from the Department of Energy or from Conservative central office ; I suspect that it was the latter — that privatisation of the coal industry will drive a stake through the heart of Dracula , the leader of the NUM . |
| 20 | I do not know whether I speak for all my right hon. and hon. Friends . |
| 21 | Many subsequently returned to their homes , all over the Soviet Union , where the local doctors may not know that they worked at Chernobyl and may therefore not recognise subsequent cancers or other problems as radiation-linked . |
| 22 | It could be like the mysterious caller on the telephone to Mr Wallace requesting the visit to Qualtrough Avenue : you just did not know if it existed at all . |
| 23 | Endill did not know if he wanted to be hard but was too tired to argue . |
| 24 | Anthropologists , following Evans-Pritchard 's lead , have reacted against this way of seeing primitive , or non-literate , peoples , and maintained that they do not act as they do for the same reasons that neurotics act in Western society . |
| 25 | James II succeeded to the throne but the favourite illegitimate son of Charles II , the Duke of Monmouth , did not approve so he landed in the West Country and encouraged a Protestant revolt , but much of the public supported the King and the uprising was suppressed . |
| 26 | ’ It does not specify that it applies to all parties to the conflict , and is thus more ambiguous on this point than common Article 3 . |
| 27 | Although Gibbons has not said whether he agrees with that analysis , he has talked about ‘ a rotation ’ in which new programmes replace older initiatives . |
| 28 | Servants from these houses regularly flushed out the sewers with the water they used to wash clothes so the streets did not reek as they did in Southwark . |
| 29 | The difficulty was that the evangelicals took a low view of the deans and chaplains of colleges , and did not expect that anything run by them would have force and challenge . |
| 30 | Half of staff questioned believed it did not matter whether they lead by example . |