Example sentences of "not [adj] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The cause of death will now be established by a home office pathologist : Friends of the dead woman say she doted on her two young children and was n't the sort of person to have contemplated suicide — the pathologist 's report will show whether or not that turns out to be true . |
| 2 | It swiftly transpired that the document handed to the fathers for discussion was not that drawn up by the Preparatory Commission , but one revised by members of the Commission who were also members of the curia . |
| 3 | Being his father 's son , he was a man of strong principles and he was not afraid to speak up for them . |
| 4 | On a more serious note , Rowell was a very impressive coach , demanding on the training field , decisively analytical off it — yet not afraid to speak out over indignities such as the Ubogu affair . |
| 5 | They were not afraid to come in after her . |
| 6 | ‘ But I 'm not willing to break up with my wife and son yet . |
| 7 | And then erm the lads in both they had decided they were gon na go on the go slow , but they were told if you go go on the on the go slow system , you 're gon na go home , he said , I 'm not prepared to carry on with that , he said , the manager there , that 's brother that is . |
| 8 | Constance , whose confidence was growing daily , was not prepared to give in to Nicky 's wishes merely because of his sex . |
| 9 | It was all Harriet could do not to confront her , have the whole thing out , tell her that she was not prepared to put up with such behaviour any longer , that she might be a war widow with a child , but she was living in her mother 's house and should at least not take such care and help for granted . |
| 10 | people , is not , are not just opting out of marriage , but they 're not prepared to put up with the situation , |
| 11 | ‘ I think it is a shame that more people are not convinced by the results that care in the community is producing and are not prepared to move over in greater numbers , ’ says Mrs Polson , who was also a sister at Aycliffe Hospital during her 10 years there . |
| 12 | She would have got soaked had they stayed any longer , and Ven was quite right to see it was not sensible to amble around in the pouring rain . |
| 13 | These have proved difficult if not impossible to pin down in any precise terms and demand for them appears to be similarly volatile … . |
| 14 | It is not easy to hit back at that sort of conversation . |
| 15 | It was not easy to grow up under the shadow is over whelming father as he lashed Iran into a nation , Like almost everyone else in Iran , the Crown Prince was very much afraid of him . |
| 16 | By all accounts , William senior was not easy to get on with the turnover of partners in the early years of the practice was rapid , until he met his match in one Major Faulks in 1905 who not only outlived him , but stayed with the firm as a consultant until 1965 when he finally retired — at the age of 90 . |
| 17 | I really thought I could n't bear not to at least understand what he was going through , but by that time my opinion was totally irrelevant — not wanted — added to which , I 'm not easy to get along with anyway because I 'm not a ‘ yes-man ’ . |
| 18 | THERE 'S not much to sing about in Britain 's current economic climate — but you would never know it . |
| 19 | ‘ Because there 's not much going on inside it ? ’ |
| 20 | It 's not unusual to go out with anyone |
| 21 | Thus when Mu Sagittarii has been definitely located , it is not hard to move on to M25 , M17 , M21 , M20 and M8 , though the beginner will have to be careful not to confuse them . |
| 22 | There 's not many left out of the companies . |
| 23 | Not many spoke out against sending the Taskforce — and I also admired him for taking over the Liberal Party in very difficult circumstances . |
| 24 | Mind you we 've got loads of staff nurses as well and they 're not all made up to . |
| 25 | Are we not all fed up with ‘ artistic culture ’ ? |
| 26 | There followed the annus mirabilis of 1889 during which , on Wilson 's later estimate , 130,000 members were enrolled in branches at 45 ports , a number representing , net of officers , engineers , cooks and stewards , " almost the whole of the seamen in the British mercantile marine " , though , he added with unusual candour , " it is true that they are not all paying up at the present time " , partly , it seems , because of the union 's policy of issuing " privilege tickets " involving no entry money or contributions until members could afford to pay . |
| 27 | That 's what made us play up , people just sitting there , not able to go up to the STU [ occupational therapy ] because there was n't enough officers or staff to take us . |
| 28 | " The amount the young can do nowadays — now when I was carrying Dan I was not able to get up for days together , me ankles swoll so , and I 'ad dizzy spells , something terrible , but she still gets around on that bike , perky as Punch . |
| 29 | For the first time Hitler was not able to get out from under the responsibility ; for the first time the critical rumours are aimed straight at him . |
| 30 | When a ring of netting is placed round a warren , all bolting rabbits must be caught provided that they are not able to get back into the burrow . |