Example sentences of "not come [adv prt] [prep] a " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 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 .
3 But er before I came out I switched it on cos I 'm not coming back to a cold house .
4 It 's all right , sweetie , I 'm not coming back with a bone through my nose , but I might come back with a bit less of a bone in my head .
5 ‘ I 'm not coming back for a while .
6 I said could n't care less if it 's triple time I 'm not coming in on a Sunday .
7 I said I see enough of this place all bleeding week I 'm not coming in on a Sunday .
8 " I hope you 're not coming down with a fever , dear , " said my mother .
9 The difficult search for a replacement for Bean after his retirement did not come up with a suitable candidate ( see The Art Newspaper No.17 , April 1992 , p.5 ) .
10 Students frequently say they have done the recommended reading , taken the necessary notes and reviewed all their materials , but still can not come up with a solution to the problem posed .
11 What , if anything , should disconcert us if we can not come up with a trouble-free definition ?
12 That has already been increased to fou fourteen hundred er you when you 're making your recommendation may or may not come up with a recommendation for a somewhat larger settlement .
13 There were , however , some cases in which the model did not come up with a valid parse , that is , a pattern that represents complete coverage of the input by a set of nonoverlapping words .
14 At the present pace of progress in Brussels , similar changes throughout the EC may not come in for a dozen years or more , and British farmers fear that they will lose business while waiting for European competitors to catch up .
15 Mr Rochester is always very popular with the ladies at these parties , so he may not come back for a week or so . ’
16 Did it really not come down to a fear of the knife ?
17 So it is that when Mr Major explains that he has , by devaluing the pound , given British industry an exceptional chance to improve its exports , he insists that ‘ this did not come about as a deliberate act of policy ’ .
18 New concepts of force and inertia did not come about as a result of careful observation and experiment .
19 The absorption of the heretic Bosnian ( Bogomil ) Church into the Islamic world did not come about as a result of a dramatic act of mass conversion , but , if Ottoman statistics are to be believed , it was a relatively rapid process .
20 The plant — hospitals , equipment , surgeries — being state-owned and state-administered , those changes do not come about by a gradual process made up of an infinite number of individual decisions : they happen in lurches , of which the most visible form is not the provision of new plant but the discontinuance of old plant .
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