Example sentences of "[verb] not [verb] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Regardless of how diverse the local population or economy is in each neighbourhood , the neighbourhood planner has not sought to ensure even representation and , indeed , in most cases representation did not reflect the local socio-economic profiles . |
| 2 | Given this assertion , the idea that we should consider the denial of this assertion in order to find out whether there is a presupposition in what the speaker has not asserted seems particularly counterintuitive . |
| 3 | That is the position from which he should be negotiating , but he has not started to do so yet . |
| 4 | ( as if he has not found favour enough already ! ) |
| 5 | Fool not to have done so . |
| 6 | As she looked into it , she tried not to let slip just what a luxury this was . |
| 7 | More recently , the disease had been confirmed on eight sheep premises , believed not to have imported recently . |
| 8 | All but one or two questions were concerned with basic mathematical concepts and skills , so that differences in curriculum might be thought not to have contributed greatly to failure . |
| 9 | The costumes for the Sadler 's Wells production were designed , at de Valois 's insistence , by Hedley Briggs , an old associate of hers , but they seem not to have differed materially from the ones by Hanns Ebensten which were used for the original Cape Town production . |
| 10 | Cassandra Wilson 's most recent album for Munich 's JMT label , ‘ Cassandra Wilson Live ’ ( JMT ) , was released in December , to little apparent acclaim ; Wilson is one of the top vocalists today , yet her fame seems not to have spread as far and wide as justice might dictate . |
| 11 | SAY what you like about City ethics , but at least resignation seems not to have passed completely out of fashion in the Square Mile . |
| 12 | But this shift should be seen in the context of the total demands of the elderly on resources which appears not to have risen so fast ; they have so far not been a dependent burden of significant dimensions despite their growing numbers , though as Thomson points out , this could change in coming years . |
| 13 | Lets not get carried away with thoughts of another 18 years in the wilderness . |
| 14 | Lets not get carried away with this alleged rift . |
| 15 | He did not want to live any longer . |
| 16 | Blinds on their own can fit any atmosphere , particularly if windows are awkward , small or you did not want to lose too much light . |
| 17 | She just did not want to leave here . |
| 18 | Unlike many of my friends , I did not want to leave home . |
| 19 | He and she were similar but he had a natural goodness which she lacked , and she did not want to claim aloud that she understood him because that , in itself , would lead to misunderstanding . |
| 20 | If it could be avoided , Yggdrasil did not want to spend too much time on the Princetown Input . |
| 21 | She was the tenant of the flat and did not want to move so the daughter and her husband had no rights to that accommodation . |
| 22 | Well , he did not want to give away too much ground at the start . |
| 23 | They did not want to repudiate totally their previous policies , yet had to recognise the disaster of which they had been part . |
| 24 | She did not want to pretend pleasure at being here and she did not want to witness even more proof of the life that had been led in this house , all of it with her father . |
| 25 | It was then , though , that she realised that , having wanted to come to London , having made the break from Hazelbury — as lovely as Hazelbury was — she did not want to return there unless it was absolutely necessary . |
| 26 | It struck Hoomey then that Nails did not want to go home , even — possibly — that he wanted company . |
| 27 | He did not want to travel far on his first journey ; he would leave the darker , more mysterious corridors until later when he had built up enough courage . |
| 28 | Bradshaw and Millar found that about two-thirds ( 62 per cent ) of lone mothers on income support said that they did not want to work immediately although they would want to work in the future . |
| 29 | Quality Kraft Carpets Ltd decided that they would immediately enter the North American market , but did not want to commit too much money to the venture in case it failed . |
| 30 | Sharply Miranda diverted her thoughts : she did not want to plunge again into pointless depression . |