Example sentences of "[pron] [vb -s] not [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are very high quality soft pastels , with a wonderfully creamy texture which varies not at all from colour to colour , unlike other pastel ranges I have bought , where I have sometimes found that the darkest colours have been brittle and irritatingly scratchy to use . |
| 2 | Though they adopt the confusing and misleading distinction between normative theory and empirical theory , Duncan and Lukes argue cogently against Dahl that classical democratic theory is not invalidated by modern sociological findings since their ideals can logically contrast with facts without being invalidated by empirical research , which does not in any obvious way call for their general revision' . |
| 3 | ‘ I do n't think there 's anybody who 's worked here for a time who has n't at some time felt like crying , or who has n't actually cried or felt really down . |
| 4 | Admittedly , she does not at any point in her letter state explicitly her desire to return ; but that is the unmistakable message conveyed by the general nuance of many of the passages , imbued as they are with a deep nostalgia for her days at Darlington Hall . |
| 5 | No he has n't at all . |
| 6 | He has n't after all said anything false , because he has n't said anything at all : all he 's done is sigh . |
| 7 | Williams , Textbook of Criminal Law , 2nd edn , Stevens & Sons , 1983 , 764 , criticised Pitham : if a butler invites the maid to join him in stealing the Duke 's silver when he has found the key to the safe , surely he has not at that time appropriated the silver . |
| 8 | China 's initial response was that the speech could not be considered as a basis for talks " because it has not at all relinquished the concept of the independence of Tibet " , but on Sept. 23 disclosed an offer to hold direct negotiations to which the Dalai Lama responded positively . |
| 9 | But it has n't in other jurisdictions such as in the US , and parts of the Commonwealth or Europe , ’ said . |
| 10 | This system , generally known as the Cabinet system , has been , in its broad features , adopted by most European constitutional states , and it matters not at all whether they are called monarchies or republics . |
| 11 | The fact that none of them could decipher it matters not at all . |
| 12 | On the cold hill , a fence now surrounds the circle , and it interferes not at all with the mood or countenance of the rocks . |
| 13 | The system , with formal judicial intervention , has worked successfully in the US ; it operates informally but without full judicial approval in England and Wales ; but at the present time it obtains not at all in Scotland . |
| 14 | Western agencies are very envious of Mossad because it relies not on huge arrays of computerised technology but on a small group of efficient and dedicated men and women who are not bothered by any form of morality so long as Israel benefits . |
| 15 | The accused may be guilty even though he does not in ordinary language obtain a service . |
| 16 | ‘ Only he does n't at all believe in God . ’ |
| 17 | And he , he does n't at all now . |
| 18 | One thing to be said of that is that it does not at all follow , from the fact that we can not give particular descriptions of items that fall within a set , that we can not satisfactorily conceive of and describe the set . |
| 19 | But it does not at all follow from the fact that causal circumstances in a sense guarantee their effects that we can predict those effects better than we do . |
| 20 | No , the suspense novel does inherit from the traditional detective story that element of mystery ( though this need not involve a murder and the mystery of who committed it ) , but it does not at all inherit the need to have a battle of wits with the reader . |
| 21 | It does not at all . |
| 22 | It does not at this stage include any specific new products . |
| 23 | Even on the assumption that Yusuf Bali did draw up the original and not just the copy , it does not by any means necessarily follow that he was acting as in so doing ; nor , further , does it necessarily follow that if he were acting as he was doing so in his father 's absence from Bursa , much less his absence on the pilgrimage . |
| 24 | The first is that the CED worked with the semantic pairs , in the sense that it gave a statistically significant result , but it does not in this investigation . |
| 25 | Moreover Pt I has other limitations in that it does not in any case apply to all products , neither does it cover damage to business property or to personal property below £275 . |
| 26 | ‘ Owners Abroad have a link with Thomas Cook , but it does not in any way cause these sort of problems . |
| 27 | ‘ Owners Abroad have a link with Thomas Cook , but it does not in any way cause these sort of problems . |
| 28 | If it does n't for any reason , you have to dub in new matching background sound . |
| 29 | It does n't at that section . |
| 30 | I know it does n't in most but but there is enough of a a tie up |