Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [not/n't] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In return , Louis-Napoleon agreed not to return to France for some years . |
| 2 | Why that is so extraordinary is that governors of institutions of that kind tend not to want to give interviews to the press ; they keep their views very much to themselves . |
| 3 | That is , later transformations tend not to interfere with or undo the effects of earlier ones in the generation of a surface from a deep structure . |
| 4 | Being uncomplicated , the riders tend not to take much notice of it and in their minds , they have already finished . |
| 5 | The reasons for failure in these projects tend not to lie in the technical side , though the technology is complex , nor in the economic side , though the cost of these systems is very high . |
| 6 | With respect to strategy Japanese enterprise groups tend not to adopt the conglomerate model which is more common to large firms in the United States or Britain as the locus of their strategic initiative , preferring instead the keiretsu form . |
| 7 | In any case , big birds tend not to bother cracking nuts , but swallow them to be pulverised with grit in their muscular gizzards . |
| 8 | Prisoners tend not to re-offend , family relationships are maintained , and above all , through education prisoners are provided with the opportunity of a different role in society . |
| 9 | Parties to commercial contracts tend not to terminate the contract even in cases of breach of condition , but will normally be happy to allow the other party to make good any breach . |
| 10 | The duty of broadcasting and journalism in the world struggle became not to reflect the truth but to choose what should be true , in the interest of public policy . |
| 11 | Ossie has not signed a contract but we have shaken hands on a three-year deal . ’ |
| 12 | Judges are receiving firearms training from police but have threatened to go on strike as promised protection has not materialised . |
| 13 | English Heritage pays tribute to the work of Wandsworth borough council in ensuring that , if the owner of the building has not done the work , the council has done it and billed the owner . |
| 14 | Remains showing this design can be seen in a number of towns , especially where the city has since declined in importance and later building has not obscured the pattern . |
| 15 | Well , they erm , they use the latest techniques , agriculture has n't become , er , has n't stagnated in the presence of protectionism , because there 's always been an incentive there for farmers to maximize their yields . |
| 16 | But agriculture has not stood still . |
| 17 | The grant has not improved in any real sense to today 's figure of one point seven win wrong one point seven five million and now it 's the government 's intent to reduce the grant by stages until nineteen seventy , nineteen ninety seven it will be removed completely . |
| 18 | What photographer has n't heard of Picture Post — though I suppose the American in me world argue that all those magazines were imitators of Life . ’ |
| 19 | With the coil tap not selected , the toggle switches from the front ( single ) to the back ( humbucker ) pickups . |
| 20 | Avnet Inc 's proposed acquisition of Hall-Mark Electronics Corp has not gone down to well with Standard & Poor 's Corp , which said it may cut the distributors $100m of A-plus-rated subordinated debt . |
| 21 | The illustrations must do something that the text has not done or that the text can not do : ‘ You must never illustrate exactly what is written . |
| 22 | Perhaps this link has n't occurred to you , and perhaps when you consider it , it 'll make sense to you . |
| 23 | Research into classroom interaction has not focused directly on children 's explanations . |
| 24 | Because of privatization plans , British Rail has n't got any rolling stock on order . |
| 25 | of British Rail 's freight business originates in the north-west , is not it strange that British Rail has not talked to the majority of its users already about times and tariffs for the channel tunnel ? |
| 26 | Where God has spoken and spoken clearly , rationality comes into its own ; where God has not spoken , or for his own reasons has not spoken clearly , there is the area of mystery . |
| 27 | As a student of these matters , surely the hon. Gentleman recognises that in , for example , the past five years , the peak age for offending for a young male has not gone down but gone up . |
| 28 | Nella was thirty-two , an age by which if a blonde woman 's hair has n't turned dark , it never will . |
| 29 | The story has n't changed since we heard it on the radio . |
| 30 | The junior adventure story has not suffered the same extremes of literary discrimination . |