Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] [pron] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am the first to admit that it is not easy , although I do wonder why we in tennis still use that argument as an excuse for not seeing what the Americans call ‘ minority ’ players more prominent in the British game . |
| 2 | The Shah used to dress that syllable , ANtellectuel " , when referring to anyone with education who was thought not to embrace everything the Pahlavis embodied . |
| 3 | ‘ May we not lend you a mount , Miss Abbott ? ’ |
| 4 | not make them an enormous feature . |
| 5 | They should not think her a woman who had let herself go . |
| 6 | He had said ‘ we ’ , which heartened McAllister enormously but also meant that she must try to justify his confidence , and not let him down ; he must not think her a fine lady only playing at life — she meant to do her share , and yet try not to hinder him . |
| 7 | I can not think what the Riding , but not only the Riding , will be without him . |
| 8 | ‘ I was afraid you might not think him the right friend for me , ’ said Mrs Ames . |
| 9 | I did not think it a good book , but I shall always be grateful to it . |
| 10 | I know and you know that Hardy did not think it a sad poem — just a comment and a summing up . |
| 11 | I , personally , do not think it a very good idea to have carpet in the dining room where it only picks up smells and gets dirtier more quickly than in most places since people do , without fail , drop things . |
| 12 | This birth was so quick and easy , Wilson could not think it the same process as Oreste 's . |
| 13 | Perhaps the only mistake I made all those years ago was not realising what an anti-democratic medium television would prove to be . |
| 14 | Making passing references to the poor , the black and to women does not make one a radical or even a liberal . |
| 15 | But that support , which the Nobel committee acknowledges , does not make her a guerrilla . |
| 16 | But Mrs Gandhi never forgave Khan 's opposition to her scrapping the privy purses , and to his regret she did not make him a minister . |
| 17 | It is often said that unfettered insider dealing does not hurt shareholders ; that insiders ' profits are not outsiders ' losses , but rather evidence of a more efficient allocation of resources ; Just because an investor does not make as much money on the sale of his shares as he would otherwise have done , does not make him a victim in the true sense , as nothing has been stolen from him . |
| 18 | That did not make him a criminal under section 14 . |
| 19 | Because they put 3 passes together 4 years ago does not make them a footballing side and they are only making friends now cos they are an easy touch . |
| 20 | Feeling guilty does not make me a better person . |
| 21 | Being restricted here does not make me a special case , though . |
| 22 | ( I may believe Jesus ' teaching to have been exemplary , or that he was a man singularly in tune with God ; but this , as I would argue , does not make me a Christian . ) |
| 23 | But again this does not make me a Christian . |
| 24 | ( This is obviously correct ; one does not make something a business secret by simply describing it as such . |
| 25 | Student union leaders at both Liverpool and Liverpool John Moores Universities stressed that students should not make themselves a target by going out alone . |
| 26 | And by , becoming religious and observing religious , er , practices does not make us a better person . |
| 27 | You may enjoy talking but this does not make you a wizard at verbal presentations . |
| 28 | Even this thing you say you did — even that does not make you a bad man . |
| 29 | ‘ These will not make you a courtier , Roger , but at least you wo n't be a beggar ! ’ |
| 30 | Personally , I reject the Oxford claim that English Literature begins with Anglo-Saxon , and would not make it a required subject . |