Example sentences of "[vb base] not [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But many species appear not to like the sound of a motor or a throbbing propeller . |
| 2 | In contrast , Echmatocrinus had plated structures on its polyp and tentacles but , unlike the co-occurring eocrinoids , the plates appear not to show a stereom structure . |
| 3 | She spoke with such vehemence Wilson thought it better not to risk a reply , though in her head she practised saying what nonsense she thought Mrs Browning spoke . |
| 4 | ‘ Better not to make an issue of it by my shifting , ’ Simon said . |
| 5 | Hampton M. Vins PS I hope you will charge your lowest price for it , and if you please not to send a duffil one , but a cloth one , full yard long , fail not on Wednesday , please to send it by Mr. Field the Waterman , who comes to the Beehive , at Queenhithe , pray do n't send a duffil one but a cloth one . |
| 6 | It is at times like this that I regret not doing a scientific 0-level and becoming a brain surgeon so that no one would ask me to wash up or scrub floors . |
| 7 | ‘ We tend not to use the word ‘ game ’ , sir . |
| 8 | Why do addiction treatment centres tend not to emphasise the possible cross-addictive nature of nicotine , caffeine , sugar and white flour for people with addictive disease ? |
| 9 | What that means is that when you 're facing up to foreign situations , you tend to pull together you tend not to divide you tend not to emphasise the differences between you . |
| 10 | Repetition is something many students avoid at all costs , and in their early music they tend not to repeat a single bar in an entire composition . |
| 11 | So you tend to gradually come round to the view that unless it 's causing very bad visual pollution , or you 've had a run of complaints about it , then you tend not to take a stat . ’ |
| 12 | On the other hand , we tend not to see the intense depression in a motionless and unresponsive horse , or the annoyance in one that has turned its back on the horse or person offending it , or the anxiety in the tightened abdominal muscles of the showpony expecting the pain of the spur . |
| 13 | Users tend not to see the errors because they 're corrected by the network software , but the need for retries slows things down . |
| 14 | Modern finishes tend not to encourage the ‘ nicotine ’ yellowing of binding any more and the chronically nostalgic will no doubt miss it . |
| 15 | Unlike their warm-blooded cousins they are quiet and clean , they also tend not to scare the faint-hearted as much as the sight of a full QWERTY keyboard ! |
| 16 | Another factor is lower house prices — people in Northern Ireland tend not to have the massive mortgages which crippled so many householders in England . |
| 17 | erm Well the schools communicate , but they tend not to tell the parents the obvious things . |
| 18 | When adults get upset about someone 's behaviour , they tend not to confront the protagonist , but withdraw into themselves . |
| 19 | AMERICAN sports fans tend not to believe the evidence of their own eyes until they can be shown a corroborating statistic . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Furthermore , they tend not to maintain a clear distinction between the speaker 's intended meaning on the one hand , and the message used to convey that meaning to a listener on the other . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | This was no doubt an acceptable enough decision on the facts had the EAT not propounded the thesis that ‘ if it was reasonable for [ the employee ] to decline these terms , then it would have been unreasonable for the employers to dismiss him for such refusal ’ . |
| 24 | " I think it was an Americans plot not to have the Shah come to the US , " he said later . " |
| 25 | One of the satisfying aspects of a high quality bass sound is that the listener can hear and separate the constituents of the overall tone ( a characteristic of top-drawer active EQ systems , which when boosting/cutting your required frequency band manage not to compromise the sound 's other components ) . |
| 26 | Fundholding poses ethical problems , either because it secures a better service for the patients of a fundholding practice over those whose doctors happen not to hold a fund , or because it does not . |
| 27 | Once again , the Government seem not to give a damn what happens to our skills and to the jobs of the future . |
| 28 | It is not at all unlikely that at the conquest , Mehmed II appointed someone mufti in the newly conquered city ; and since the sources seem not to mention the appointment of anyone else to the post , it may possibly be that it was made an for Hizir Bey . |
| 29 | Seeing just how comprehensive a work this is , with factory serial number , date of registration , date of next C of A expiry , owner's/operator 's name and probable base all listed , I can only surmise that the note-scribblers/pocket memo mumblers — many of whom seem not to have the slightest knowledge or interest in the type of aeroplane on which the letters are painted — are performing the latter-day equivalent of the sacred ritual which I and many others who have long since outgrown it once enacted in John W.R. Taylor 's ABC of Civil Aircraft Makings . |
| 30 | APART FROM ‘ Heaven Knows I 'm Miserable Now ’ , this was the only Smiths or Morrissey newie or reissue not to receive an NME review . |