Example sentences of "not [verb] at [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the Tuesday of the first week , Cassie knew that she could not stay at Rose Cottage any longer . |
| 2 | I could not stay at home and write a novel because I feel too tired and run down , and need a break from mental activity . |
| 3 | It is never shrouded by clouds , it does not disappear at night nor does it move . |
| 4 | Prejudice is another human weakness , and like our emotions does not disappear at conversion . |
| 5 | Let us be worthy of that lesson , and not flinch at deaths which are needful to protect a thousand billion other mortals . |
| 6 | He did not talk like this with anyone else , but his father would not laugh at talk of the Holy-Place-From-Over-the-Great-Water or the Yellowlegs Who Has Lost Much . |
| 7 | If a child is not registered at school the LEA must issue a school attendance order ( SAO ) against the parents under section 37(1) of the Education Act 1944 . |
| 8 | Editor , — We strongly support A L Clark and A J S Coats 's conclusions that screening for hypertrophic cardiomyopathy is not justified at present and that more research is needed on both the effectiveness of early treatment and the natural course of minor abnormalities detected by screening . |
| 9 | He was ordered not to sit at Newcastle Crown Court while her claims were investigated . |
| 10 | He realized that his own interests were not favoured at school by boys or masters : |
| 11 | This tends to suggest that one should look more closely at the characteristics of those sustained or not sustained at home , and at the decision to admit to an institution . |
| 12 | As the tracks were not completed at West Croydon , such transfers proved rather difficult and cars had to be moved at night , using temporary rails to bridge the gap at the top of Tamworth Road . |
| 13 | This flexibility is particularly valuable when so many of the subjects within the Faculty are not taught at school and the first year university course will be the first opportunity to sample them . |
| 14 | It has shown itself all at once , she can not remain at home for very much longer . ’ |
| 15 | The home help service would not lock clients in their homes ; its view being that such people should not remain at home if they needed locking in . |
| 16 | ‘ She said she had known for some time that she and Fabien could not remain at La Tour Monchauzet after their marriage — that they had been talking together about moving away — of going , perhaps , as far as Australia or California and starting a totally new life . |
| 17 | The notices cluster along main streets and around candidates ' homes , and analysis suggests they were not posted at whim , but organised by the candidates . |
| 18 | I understand this has been given some serious consideration , but it has been decided not to proceed at present . |
| 19 | Bob McLean , convener of the home rule pressure group , Scottish Labour Action , stressed that proposals for the election of a Scottish party leader by the Scottish party conference were not targeted at Mr Clarke . |
| 20 | Coventry , however , have not won at home in the League since mid-September and are without the suspended McGrath , Gynn taking over in midfield . |
| 21 | Realist or " realo " Green delegates had not succeeded at Neumünster in ending the separation of party and parliamentary office , nor in electing their supporters to the leadership , Ludger Volmer and Christine Weiske being elected as spokespersons . |
| 22 | She had not looked at Mrs Frizzell 's copy , so this was her first glimpse of it . |
| 23 | She had not looked at Paviour until then . |
| 24 | The T'ang had not looked at Fei Yen , and his comment seemed quite innocuous , but she knew how traditional her father-in-law was . |
| 25 | It then mentioned the ‘ Habitans in Sicco ’ letter and some comments Street made at a meeting of the Architectural Photographic Association on 15th February when he assumed that the Opposition MPs either had not looked at Scott 's design or that ‘ they misrepresented the facts ’ . |
| 26 | It is very much to the credit of my right hon. Friends the Prime Minister and the Secretary of State for the Environment that they have returned to basics and have not looked at finance in isolation . |
| 27 | Adimov had not looked at Holly , he was far to the front of the slow-moving line with his cronies , the iron men of the huts . |
| 28 | RECORDS are not expected at Tranmere Sailing Club 's Isle of Man midnight race this evening . |
| 29 | He was not expected at Bramshill until after luncheon and had planned to take his time over the journey to north Hampshire , visiting churches at Sherborne St John and Winchfield and lunching at a pub near Stratfield Saye before arriving at Bramshill in time for the usual courtesies with the Commandant before his two-thirty lecture . |
| 30 | For the latter , the additional time spent on reading words occurring at clause boundaries ( in comparison with words not occurring at boundaries ) was 73 milliseconds . |