Example sentences of "not [verb] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I contacted my social worker and told her that I could not stay at this place and that she would have to find me a Cheshire Home . |
| 2 | ‘ I see , ’ said Fakrid , not seeing at all . |
| 3 | In his Dictionary ( 1697 ) , Bayle points out that although the ‘ new philosophers ’ do not set out to be sceptics , they go even further in extending sceptical arguments to the conclusion that smells , colours , and tastes , ‘ are perceptions of our soul and that they do not exist at all in the objects of our senses ’ . |
| 4 | In addition , the constant incursion and retreat of the sea creates and maintains vast zones that are neither wholly marine , nor wholly freshwater , nor wholly land-based ; intertidal zones that vary in width , between spring tides and neap , and which could not persist , or would not exist at all , were it not for the tides . |
| 5 | Although the family in the orthodox reader can not exist at all — there is no family so griefless , angerless , humourless , or so utterly devoid of conflict as the family in the orthodox reader — it is recognisable in externals … the detached house … father at leisure with the lawnmower ( or going to the office with the brief case ) , the large dog and the aristocratic cat , the tidy organised family consisting only of one father , one mother , one son , one daughter . |
| 6 | The only liberty I mean , is a liberty connected with order ; that not only exists along with order and virtue but , which can not exist at all without them . |
| 7 | But of course it is sometimes not possible , because historical research demonstrates conclusively that the kind of standardised written language which can be used to represent ethnicity or nationality is a rather late historic construction — mostly of the 19th century or even later — and in any case quite often it does not exist at all , as between Serbs and Croats . |
| 8 | The other and sometimes more difficult problem arises when the other firm does not exist at all , someone having , quite simply , forged a letterhead . |
| 9 | All three types of pattern , ( written , diagrammatical and digital or Form ) , are based on a tension , or gauge , swatch ; without this , the pattern would not exist at all in any form , because all knitting patterns are basically a notation of how to knit a shape with a given yarn and stitch type , mathematically calculated from the original swatch . |
| 10 | She suggests that the educational infrastructure does not exist at all in our present system but could be provided . |
| 11 | If the world had not first existed in the mind of God , it would not exist at all . |
| 12 | The penis did not exist at all in the British sex film because it was considered rude . ’ |
| 13 | While it would be foolish to suggest that a comparable problem does not exist at all in Britain , it is important to recognize that ours is a more simple system in which individual agencies have more clearly defined powers and more definite boundaries to their responsibilities and sphere of influence . |
| 14 | I am known yet do not exist at all . |
| 15 | A second dominant trend in the twentieth century is the gradual extension of democracy , but as I showed in Chapter 1 this was a slow and halting process in the interwar years , with democracy being suppressed in several European countries , by fascist regimes , the Stalinist dictatorship and the dictatorships in Portugal and Spain , while in the colonial territories it either did not exist at all , or in a few cases only in rudimentary forms . |
| 16 | The net assets of the Company , as stated in the balance sheet on page 18 , are more than half of the amount of its called-up share capital and , in our opinion , on that basis there did not exist at 31 December 1992 a financial situation which under Section 40(1) of the Companies ( Amendment ) Act 1983 would require the convening of an Extraordinary General Meeting of the Company . |
| 17 | The confusion to which the hon. Gentleman refers does not exist at any of the BP refineries that I have visited . |
| 18 | Between 1941 and 1945 it created a following for itself which has never been equalled since and certainly did not exist at any time prior to 1941 . |
| 19 | She was not in the least concerned at her mother 's solitary state but knew her to be so recently buffeted by events that she would not cavil at two visiting teenagers , although she had intimated to Sam that if she filled the house with them , she would kill herself . |
| 20 | She did not think at all of the consequences , only of the act itself . |
| 21 | Or did she not think at all ? |
| 22 | This may seem irrelevant to Hamlet taking revenge ; but this scene ( Act IV , Scene V ) shows the contrast between Hamlet , who thinks deeply about actions and their consequences ; and Laertes , the man of action , who does not think at all about the consequences of what he does , being driven by his heart rather than his head . |
| 23 | Nevertheless , the Minister did not think at this time that it was necessary to end the corporate status of Tanzania 's radio service . |
| 24 | He said that " the essence of the duty seems more likely to be that of not using without paying rather than of not using at all " . |
| 25 | ‘ Mrs Hampton , you really must not laugh at these dark mysteries . |
| 26 | Barrister and writer Nemone Lethbridge , not a fan herself , wrote in TV Times , ‘ I can not laugh at this massive dose of humiliation and embarrassment . |
| 27 | If you are an Imperial player and facing a foe that uses such despicable tactics then console yourself with the thought that at least the units firing at the Helblaster are not firing at other targets . |
| 28 | However , if the number of situations correctly recalled is divided by the number not recalled at each level of risk it is possible to get some picture of the relationship . |
| 29 | Looking back on these years , he remembered lying in the sun , his face covered with a straw hat : ‘ Other boys were always talking of when they would be men ; he did not want at all to be a man , or to possess things , but to remain as he was , in the same spot , and to know no more people than he already knew . ’ |
| 30 | Adam did not want at this point to speculate , it made hi– feel sick . |