Example sentences of "not travel [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was an intelligent man but he had not travelled far , and we spent hours sitting on the verandah talking about our different cultures — he was fascinated by the idea of social security , the nuclear family , double-decker buses and cricket — while above us dark silhouettes of geckoes scurried across the strip lights . |
| 2 | A short time later they were making their way along the road that led beyond the property , and had not travelled far before Silas turned the minibus along a side-road that led towards the boundary . |
| 3 | It was quite an occasion in more ways than one , for I had not travelled abroad since my arrival in England back in 1967 . |
| 4 | Thus , although non-Muslim monotheists , like the Christians and the Jews , had not travelled as far along the road to truth as the Muslims , they were travelling in the same direction . |
| 5 | not travel aimlessly , but travel with a purpose . |
| 6 | If the board fails to respond to your weight , this is an indication that , either you are not travelling fast enough , or your weight is not far enough back on the board . |
| 7 | For once I was not travelling along a public road and here I was thinking about falling and having a broken ankle and nobody knowing to look for me . |
| 8 | Clear out your food cupboard and throw away everything that will not travel well , such as leaky , crushable or carbonated goods . |
| 9 | The practise of putting grease in the swivel housings should be avoided as this does not travel up to the front wheel bearings and leads to their premature failure . |
| 10 | He bought a bottle of Frascati ( a wine which does not travel much beyond Rome ) and they finished with creme caramel , cognac and several cups of coffee . |
| 11 | I have several times spoken of an " instantaneous effect upon B as a result of a measurement made on A. Is this not in flagrant contradiction to Einstein 's rule that signals do not travel faster than the velocity of light ? |
| 12 | Of course , extra space-time dimensions are a commonplace of science fiction ; indeed , they are almost a necessity , since otherwise the fact that relativity implies that one can not travel faster than light means that it would take far too long to travel between stars and galaxies . |
| 13 | Nagy and his coworkers have shown that the bitumen did not travel very far from the heat source before solidifying , so it did not move the uraninite away from the reactor site . |
| 14 | Its arrows do not travel very far but at a short distance it inflicts a very bad wound . |
| 15 | As in earlier times , people moved frequently within a wider neighbourhood than the parish , but usually they did not travel very far . |
| 16 | Despite the view that southern England must have been emptied by trekkers to the coalfields of the north , migrants did not travel far . |
| 17 | These short waves can not travel far because they bounce off even small objects . |
| 18 | Such high frequencies can not travel far because they are rapidly absorbed by floorboards , undergrowth , or even by the air itself , particularly if it is foggy or misty . |
| 19 | Their foot were not in the main Highlandmen — although they had some of these , from upland Perthshire and the Glens of Angus — and so could not travel so fast and far each day . |
| 20 | It had been discovered in the eighteenth century that light does not travel instantaneously from source to observer ; rather , it goes at a certain speed , about 186,000 miles ( 300,000 kilometers ) a second . |
| 21 | Note that the foot does not travel upwards . |
| 22 | ‘ Could we not travel safely on the road now ? ’ she asked cautiously , as they forded yet another stream . |
| 23 | I think he will not be allowed to come , not to travel perhaps . |
| 24 | If the Claimant was advised not to travel then we are entitled to repudiate the claim . |
| 25 | Though they stay at good hotels ( $2,150 a year ) , Britons prefer not to travel abroad . |