Example sentences of "[verb] [art] [noun] [not/n't] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Emily asked the Princess not to look at the work in progress , ‘ and she was very good about it . |
| 2 | Section 3(1) of that Act provides that in the action such damages , other than damages for bereavement , may be awarded as are proportioned for the injury resulting from the death to the dependants respectively , and the amount so recovered , after deducting the costs not recovered from the defendant , is to be divided among the dependants in such shares as may be directed . |
| 3 | The definition of p is such that the averaged expectation value of any quantum operator Q is given by As a quantum-mechanical operator , p obeys the Heisenberg equation of motion A major advantage of the density-matrix formulation is that it is easy to augment this equation by terms representing the interactions not accounted for in H. In the cases of interest , these can be represented by simple excitation and decay terms . |
| 4 | ‘ Besides , has the possibility not occurred to you that you yourself may not wish to be released ? |
| 5 | He has the right not to judge in feudal ( or state ) matters but in " matters of sin " . |
| 6 | It took the jury of seven men and seven women just over an hour to find the charge not proven against both accused by a majority . |
| 7 | Nevertheless much more attention has to be given to the ports de bras of all types of character in such ballets because these supply the words not spoken in dance . |
| 8 | James decided to concentrate his efforts on subduing Londonderry , but in the end had to ride back , damp and disappointed , to Dublin , where , on 26 April , as he wrote in his memoirs , ‘ he found the arms not arrived from Cork , Kinsale or Waterford ; and that in the arsenal nothing had been done for preparing of tools ’ . |
| 9 | The Cornish are fortunate to be able to paint their regional discontents in the attractive colours of Celtic tradition , which makes them so much more visible , even though it leads some of them to reinvent a language not spoken for 200 years , and even though the only popular public tradition with genuine roots in the country is Wesleyan Methodism . |
| 10 | This was not , of course , just a Protestant response , although it benefited the Protestants that the great Catholic powers of France and Spain should tear one another apart ; their temporary truce in 1556 had been regarded as a significant reversal to the cause of reform , and when the war was renewed one of the leading English preachers , Christopher Goodman , was to urge the English not to fight for Spain , just as Knox urged the Scots not to fight for France . |
| 11 | The feeling in the country was for the Queen , and Haymo the Bishop advised the Archbishop not to go into the city because of the high feeling towards the bishops and the danger to their persons . |
| 12 | In 1972 , a strike picket held a placard in front of a vehicle on a highway , urging the driver not to work at a site nearby and preventing him from proceeding along the highway . |
| 13 | Because of the impact of Socialism in power in Britain and of the welfare state during Attlee 's post-war government , Maurice attained a celebrity not known since his death eighty years before . |
| 14 | If we tried to describe a theory of legislation sufficiently uncontroversial to command close to universal assent among our lawyers and judges , we would be limited to something like this : if the words of a statute admit of only one meaning , no matter in what context they are uttered , and if we have no reason to doubt that this is the meaning understood by all the legislators who voted for or against the statute or abstained , and the statute so understood achieves no results not intended by all those who voted for it and would be so understood by all the members of the public to whom it is addressed , and could not be thought by any sensible person To violate any of the substantive or procedural constraints of the Constitution , or otherwise offend any widely held view about fairness or efficiency in legislation , then the propositions contained in that statute , understood in that way , are part of the community 's law . |
| 15 | It was a technological triumph and a magnificent intelligence coup , or would have been had the Russians not know about it all the time . |
| 16 | About the middle of the play , Hecate speaks this line having told the witches not to interfere with Macbeth 's destiny . |
| 17 | For centuries the British physician has told the patient not to bother about his health . |
| 18 | But the BFG was well paced , varied and skilful in special effects , enhancing the story not distracting from it . |
| 19 | This doubled the size of the enclosed docks and from a dry and inconvenient harbour Leith became a port not surpassed by many in the country . |
| 20 | Er to , to work the truth out of things , one has to think what Adam , Adam had lost in the beginning , what Jesus had to gain back , cos according to the Corinthian 's letter that erm Jesus came back to buy back what Adam had lost and if you can work out what Adam had lost in the , in the first place , then you can see the point why you 're put on the earth and you can see that it , that he , he was given a commandment not to take off the , the tree of kno knowledge written by were n't he ? |
| 21 | Subjects performed one practice trial using a junction not shown in the experimental stimuli before starting the description phase of the experiment . |
| 22 | as if to illustrate Lord Whitelaw 's point , an hour later Mr Nicholas Ridley , the Trade and Industry Secretary , announced a bill not contained in the Queen 's Speech . |
| 23 | 1.1 Duty not to compete within the duration of the employment contract This aspect of the duty of fidelity requires the employee not to work for any person who is or who might be in competition with his employer during the working day . |
| 24 | Written excavation records once consisted of observations written down in a notebook , but nowadays most archaeologists use printed forms , or even a series of forms , which are filled in to record the evidence not covered by the drawn and photographic records . |
| 25 | The central monitor , in turn , is given an incentive not to shirk in performing the monitoring function by giving him or her a right to the residual , that is , a right to the surplus that remains after all the other factors of production have been paid at the market rate . |
| 26 | Mr Roller warned that loans to the former Soviet Union were more frail than expected and urged the West not to rush into short-term solutions . |
| 27 | This was not , of course , just a Protestant response , although it benefited the Protestants that the great Catholic powers of France and Spain should tear one another apart ; their temporary truce in 1556 had been regarded as a significant reversal to the cause of reform , and when the war was renewed one of the leading English preachers , Christopher Goodman , was to urge the English not to fight for Spain , just as Knox urged the Scots not to fight for France . |
| 28 | This time with the Parliamentary Recess fast approaching , the Government urged the Commons not to insist on its disagreement with the Lords . |
| 29 | On the eve of the summit the exiled Amir of Kuwait , Sheikh Jabir al Ahmed al Jabir as Sabah , had appealed to Bush and Gorbachev to adopt " decisive measures " to end the Iraqi occupation of his country , while Iraqi President Saddam Hussein had announced that he would not pull out of Kuwait under any circumstances , warned the superpowers not to interfere in Arab affairs , and urged the Soviet Union not to give in to US demands . |
| 30 | On April 27th he signed a decree giving the president responsibility for foreign affairs and the same day warned the Serbs not to count on Russian help — a calculated snub to Serbophiles in parliament . |