Example sentences of "not [verb] [adv prt] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Try to go to bed only when you 're tired but do not stay up past a certain critical time , say one hour after you would normally go to bed . |
| 2 | It is worth stressing that this study did not arise out of a leisured academic interest but out of an urgent need for material to use therapeutically with highly-disturbed young people . |
| 3 | The first submission by Mr. Ashworth was that a public nuisance can not arise out of a lawful act , whatever its consequences , and as what is complained of here , namely heavy goods vehicles being driven along Medway and Bridge Roads , is a lawful act , no public nuisance can arise . |
| 4 | But of course the water is not heaped up into a cube and so it is perhaps more appropriate , though less convenient , to think of this mass of salt water in its actual context — as a veneer-thin skin which lurks in those troughs and valleys which fall below the mean circumference of the earth 's planetary spheroid . |
| 5 | Crewe finished the first half the stronger and were possibly unlucky not to go in with a lead , the Leeds defense was looking fragile ( Fairclough was back at central def. — agghhhh ) , the midfield ( esp . |
| 6 | I would have smiled at the Kafkaesqueness of the situation , had I not broken out in a cold sweat and had I at that stage not been ignorant of Kafka 's existence . |
| 7 | It does not rampage around like a chariot for example . |
| 8 | And I just said , I 'm not walking around with a hundred and fifty quids worth of money . |
| 9 | Consequently the density reduction due to the high temperature of the fluid going into an upflow is not cancelled out by a density increase due to high concentration . |
| 10 | The government has still not come up with a dump for the masses of intermediate wastes , such as fuel cladding , that the plant would produce . |
| 11 | I am going to vote against the motion , I 'm disappointed with the liberal group not come in with a more constructive amendment or even a proposal , as I would say asked you to do . |
| 12 | Armed with your bridging loan , you are effectively a cash buyer , not caught up in a chain , and you can use this position to your advantage , demanding and getting a good discount . |
| 13 | His biggest regret , he said , was not signing off with a 34th try . |
| 14 | How could clothes not dry out on a warm sunny day ? |
| 15 | Similarly , interviews with pupils are included but were not carried out on a systematic basis and the results have not been correlated with pupils ' GT4 scores . |
| 16 | These functions are not carried out in a vacuum ; they are affected by certain key contingencies or variables . |
| 17 | I was surprised to see Benjamin keep to a swift gallop , not reining in until a good mile separated us from the convent . |
| 18 | In Jane 's case , she could not snap out of a lifetime of worry overnight . |
| 19 | The first- and second-person pronouns are typical examples in that they do not refer back to a nominal expression in the text but to the speaker and hearer ( or writer and reader ) respectively . |
| 20 | In those circumstances , vitamin and mineral deficiencies do not crop up in a couple of weeks . |
| 21 | The British constitution is not written down in a single legal document which enjoys a special political status above ordinary law . |
| 22 | Remember that these are colour effects , and they will therefore not show up on a black and white viewfinder . |
| 23 | For the fox , use sand or a very light shade of tan ( not too dark or it will not show up on a dark background ) . |
| 24 | We 're not a , our our physical body 's not made up of a multitude of hands or a multitude of feet there are feet , and the feet has one function , the hand has another . |
| 25 | All this administrative devolution was done by Conservative Governments , and it was not done out of a feeling of national sentiment , but because of the administrative requirements needed to achieve good government for the Scottish people . |
| 26 | The battle of words in a takeover bid for an engineering firm is hotting up — with shareholders being asked not to sell out to a cheap offer . |
| 27 | But give him his due , he does not give up for a scratch or two , and not even a dagger could hold him off for ever . ’ |
| 28 | Orkney Islands Council did not give up without a fight . |
| 29 | It 's our Party and we should not give up without a fight . |
| 30 | Taxi boss Dave Blyth said Derek did not give in without a fight . |