Example sentences of "not [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Felipe is just angry that Mitch touched me and that I did not repulse him quickly . |
| 2 | You can not insulate a man … |
| 3 | Also make sure that cisterns are well insulated with a proper insulating jacket ( or one constructed from loft insulation blanket ) , but do not insulate or put loft insulation under the cistern , so that some heat can pass through the ceiling to the water inside . |
| 4 | The high-cost economies of the EC can not insulate themselves from the world outside — from the more flexible economies of the Pacific Rim and North America . |
| 5 | I am surprised you have not witnessed ‘ fighting ’ between the loaches themselves . |
| 6 | In curing a Gentile , Mark is stressing the fact that Jesus ' power over evil is not witnessed by Jews alone , but extends to all people . |
| 7 | Milan can be circumspect about visiting conductors , but on this occasion even the orchestra was stamping its approval for Lorin Maazel , a phenomenon I was told the Scala had not witnessed for over two decades ( you would have thought they might have managed it in the recent past for Muti , watching with no evident rancour from the box : but apparently not ) . |
| 8 | Within hours of the closure of the polls , news of Aristide 's victory led to scenes of national euphoria not witnessed since the overthrow in 1986 of the notorious Duvalier family dictatorship . |
| 9 | Charles had almost certainly not witnessed his father 's effective deposition , but he now looked on while " faithful " bishops reclothed the emperor in his royal robes and rearmed him with his weapons . |
| 10 | The preceding decades has not witnessed governments unresponsive to electoral expectations and the nation 's problems . |
| 11 | Early in the year , SCS could report a record quarter for increases in sales , capital and membership , reflecting a picture of growth over the year that did not dispel fears of the adverse influence of political involvement on trade . |
| 12 | The dismissal of the Foreign Minister Argaña in July for publicly stating that the ruling Colorado Party would never give up power [ see p. 37651 ] did not dispel fears that the government 's undertaking to hold free elections in 1993 would be broken by his " stronista " ( Stroessnorist ) wing of the Colorado Party . |
| 13 | This did not dispel rumours , however , that the resignation was part of an effort to clean up the image of the justice system . |
| 14 | But this Keynesian demand management could not dispel much of the economic uncertainty faced by business . |
| 15 | It is up to politicians in a democracy to nurture faith in it , not devalue that faith . |
| 16 | She noted everyone in the choir , indeed , as part of a determined effort not to gaze all the time at Giles Carnaby , who was in the back row , in the middle of the tenors , straight ahead of her , where she could consider him in detail — silvery hair , grey herring-bone tweed jacket , greenish shirt , paisley patterned silk tie ( so much for not gazing … ) |
| 17 | Well I , I , do n't think no , no , there not gazing up is it really , I mean is , its so huge you could n't miss them |
| 18 | The earliest steam-pumps of Thomas Newcomen and others in the eighteenth century were not erected from the kind of detailed and accurate drawings customary by the nineteenth . |
| 19 | Though Premier John Major has said he will not sack his chancellor before the Spring Budget its is very likely he will be forced to dismiss him soon after . |
| 20 | A lot of Tories wanted John Patten out of education , but even tough leaders do not sack ministers in mid-crisis . |
| 21 | The Parliament could not sack individual Commissioners , or force amendments on legislation , nor did it develop much influence over budgetary matters until the 1970s . |
| 22 | Roger : Ministers have declared new rules or constraints in advance but one rule will definitely be that employers must not sack other employees so that they can take on Workstart participants . |
| 23 | In real life you will not have this limitation , but it will still be important not to ramble and repeat yourself . |
| 24 | Why not stay with what we normally hear and see and feel ? |
| 25 | Could not stay long in the room with it , but the ice had been broken . |
| 26 | Unlike other single women , Elaine can not stay out late at night : she has to be home in time to be put to bed by a nurse . |
| 27 | 6 October , 1835 FELIX MENDELSSOHN writes to his family from Leipzig : ‘ The day after I accompanied the Hensels to Delitzsch , Chopin arrived here ; he would not stay more than a day , and so we spent it together entirely , and played music . |
| 28 | ‘ It is simply that for tax reasons we can not stay overnight at Manton , ’ Mrs Sangster explained . |
| 29 | She was able to will her longing into an unexamined haze but she could not stay away from the post office on Monday . |
| 30 | The Scarman Report commented on the turnover of staff in the mail order department in 1976 : ‘ many of the immigrant workers did not stay for very long : the threat of dismissal must have been an anxiety for many in the workforce . |