Example sentences of "[noun pl] [not/n't] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If he 's finished you 'd think he 'd have the manners not to leave the table in such a mess , ’ the girls would grumble ; but they or Rose would always put his books away . |
| 2 | In other words , manners not only make the man , but lack of them make men into animals . |
| 3 | It 's thought bad manners not to offer a visitor a night of passion after tramping round the icy far north . |
| 4 | ‘ Yes , ’ she agreed without elaborating , because although it was true it was n't entirely the truth , and she hoped he would have the good manners not to probe further . |
| 5 | Among the subjects the report would like to see companies publish in their annual reports are details on environmental policy ; environmental objectives ; information on action taken and the costs of passing environmental objectives ; compliance with regulations ; significant environmental risks not disclosed as contingent liabilities ; and key features of external audit reports on the enterprise 's environmental activities . |
| 6 | Refusing to pay the army 's wages risks not only throwing away all that has been achieved , against the odds , but also consigning Cambodia to renewed civil war . |
| 7 | However , there are difficulties with latent defects , for example , characteristics not known to be harmful at the time of delivery , or immunities to harmful substances being subsequently discovered . |
| 8 | The term " trade description " is defined comprehensively in s2(1) as follows : A trade description is an indication , direct or indirect , and by whatever means given , of any of the following matters with regard to any goods or part of goods , that is to say , ( a ) quantity , size of gauge ; ( b ) method of manufacture , production , processing or reconditioning ; ( c ) composition ; ( d ) fitness of purpose , strength , performance , behaviour or accuracy ; ( e ) any physical characteristics not included in the preceding paragraphs ; ( f ) testing by any person and results thereof ; ( g ) approval by any person or conformity with a type approved by any person ; ( h ) place or date of manufacture , production , processing or reconditioning ; ( i ) person by whom manufactured , produced , processed or reconditioned ; ( j ) other history , including previous ownership or use . |
| 9 | A Muse sits on a rock , and Apollo before her stands not on the base-line but on an irregular indication of ground just clear of it . |
| 10 | The syntax defined by the Guidelines not only formalizes the way in which such features are encoded , but also provides for a detailed specification of legal feature value/pair combinations and rules determining , for example , the implication of under-specified or defaulted features . |
| 11 | Pre-literate peoples not only agree with modern taxonomists about species , but in at least some cases agree in identifying the same higher categories . |
| 12 | We must embrace and involve the local peoples not just in Lusaka , or any capital city , but in Luangwa , in the countryside . |
| 13 | Her babies ' eyes are not yet open , their ears not yet sensitive . |
| 14 | Back in those hours I had remained a long time outside the door of North One , being filled by a sorrow so complete it overflowed , and I covered my ears not to hear any more . |
| 15 | There is strong lobbying pressure for the governments that control portions of the polar ice caps not to build settlements there . |
| 16 | Okoye has endeared himself to team-mates and fans not only through his play on the field but through his incredibly modest behaviour off it . |
| 17 | Both goals were examples of calm finishing by the winger who is pleading with White Hart Lane fans not to label him ‘ Dazza ’ . |
| 18 | It was a disappointment for his many fans not to see him in action . |
| 19 | However , the collectable aspect of the genre is also a factor : fans not only want their favourite author 's books in hardback , they want the paperback , the graphic novel and the T-shirt as well . |
| 20 | Plumage , except adult Egyptian Vulture , various shades of brown ; often with a neck ruff and legs not feathered below ‘ knee ’ ( except Lammergeier ) . |
| 21 | Distinguished from young Partridge ( p. 103 ) by buff streaks on head , no chestnut in tail and male 's blackish ( rarely rufous ) throat markings ; from Andalusian Hemipode ( p. 110 ) by buff not orange breast and flanks streaked not spotted ; and from Corncrake ( p. 115 ) in flight by legs not dangling and no chestnut in wings . |
| 22 | No I do n't think that nerv that 's nervous cos hi his front legs not . |
| 23 | Survivors not treated with acyclovir often report significant neurological deterioration over the years after the acute onset of infection . |
| 24 | The broader approach that we advocated covers not only sentence structure but also larger patterns of organisation , not only the forms of written academic English but also a range of stylistic and dialectal varieties , not only language structure but also meaning and use . |
| 25 | Thus ethnographic interviewing describes an open ended unstructured approach designed to encourage informants not only to describe individual infant care practices but also to locate them within a broader ideology . |
| 26 | In the article on Jakobson this position was somewhat modified ; Riffaterre proposed taking as his informants not average readers but the so-called ‘ Superreader ’ , a figure representing the sum of reactions to the language of a text manifested in the published work of its interpreters , translators and so on . |
| 27 | Certain men — husbands not excepted — seemed drawn like a magnet to a female in her circumstances . |
| 28 | This is the most spectacular section of the Dee , its steep confining walls fringed by dense woodlands and its rocky bed much too rough for the passage of walkers not addicted to hard labour and who have respect for their clothes . |
| 29 | Metal ring spanners not . |
| 30 | These could presumably include methods not involving the use of letters rogatory at all , though given the legal traditions of the region such radicalism seems unlikely . |