Example sentences of "[adv] [not/n't] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had no idea what the country was like , I had purposefully not wanted any description of the landscape , city or culture . |
| 2 | A real rate of interest , which would be calculated as an annual rate per cent , takes into account the following facts : — the period of the loan may not be for a full year : interest is only charged on the actual amount borrowed ( eg not including any deposit paid ) ; — if regular repayments are being made , the full amount of the loan is not outstanding over the full year . |
| 3 | In theory it is possible to obtain insurance against warranty liability ( e.g. Directors and officers ) but in practice the insurers are normally so demanding in the kind of confirmations they require and so restrictive as to what they will insure ( eg not taxation ) that this is rarely practicable or worthwhile . |
| 4 | The directors of the target must consider carefully any commitment with an offeror ( or anyone else ) which would restrict their freedom to advise their shareholders in the future ( eg not to consider competitive bids ) as such commitments may give rise to conflicts of interest or result in a breach of fiduciary duties . |
| 5 | The most we can get is convincing parallelisms between the two and the fact that some parallelisms are much more difficult than others and have hitherto not been attempted is no reason for denying that a choreographic genius like Massine has the right to attempt this . |
| 6 | Philip thus forced upon the Netherlanders a degree of unity which had hitherto not existed . |
| 7 | Emigrés from the region in former Yugoslavia with , confusingly , the same name say that a show of such fragile works sends a strongly political message from Athens , which has hitherto not been a generous international lender of art . |
| 8 | A fourth gallery hitherto not previously in these columns is Gisela Capitain , at Apostelnstrasse 19 . |
| 9 | In the First World War Britain experienced conscription for the first time , and the mobilization not only of the whole work force but also of many women , hitherto not in employment , to assist the war effort . |
| 10 | The dust spreads far and wide in the wind , and there is a good chance that some particles of it will happen to land in another stream , hitherto not ‘ infected ’ with the seeds of this kind of dam-making clay . |
| 11 | It is also necessary specifically to select veined material for study , hitherto not a regular practise in traditional carbonate petrography . |
| 12 | Rincewind began to congratulate himself until , looking up , he saw what he had hitherto not noticed . |
| 13 | In further indications of increasing openness , Tirana radio on Nov. 23 , 1989 , reported the crash of two helicopters the previous day which had killed 23 people ; incidents of this kind had hitherto not been reported in the Albanian media . |
| 14 | Twenty two patients have hitherto not suffered from recurrence of Dieulafoy 's bleeding . |
| 15 | It has a vital role in promoting the use of machine-readable data particularly amongst historians who have hitherto not used this type of material . |
| 16 | Lactoferrin is an iron binding protein that occurs abundantly not only in the specific granules of granulocytes , but also in tears , milk , and secretions at mucosal surfaces . |
| 17 | Now these limits were fatal , they believed that they could win the war through air power and they , they could n't and the ground casualties , although fairly slight , when you think of it fifty thousand people killed is not a bi a large amount in a major war , far from it erm although erm militarily not that significant , politically they were devastating because people in America started to ask the question , what is this war for ? |
| 18 | They are furthermore not on the ends of words but in the middle : ‘ mariner/tarried in ’ , ‘ timber felled/Nimbrethil ’ , ‘ silver fair/silver were ’ , ‘ like a swan/light upon ’ . |
| 19 | I lay back , stiff not with fear but with social embarrassment . |
| 20 | Better not think about it . |
| 21 | You better not be driving . |
| 22 | ‘ Better not . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ Better not stand about . ’ |
| 24 | Better not talk on the phone , had we ? ’ |
| 25 | Jane thought she 'd better not offer to shake hands in case he let go of the stick and fell over . |
| 26 | He 'd better not let him loose . ’ |
| 27 | He 'd better not switch it on till he was in the wood . |
| 28 | If the ‘ green ’ biomass approach is taken there 's the problem of finding enough ground to grow crops for ethanol , and this had better not involve chopping down large areas of rainforest . |
| 29 | ‘ Perhaps I 'd better not ride schooling in the morning , ’ I suggested , as we reached the gate to the car park . |
| 30 | ‘ We 'd better not light a fire there , ’ I said , ‘ so we 'll take our food and water with us . ’ |