Example sentences of "[pers pn] [modal v] not tolerate [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'll not tolerate activities that can blow up in our faces which I have n't known about . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I will not tolerate dissent , ’ said referee ‘ Jersey Joe ’ Walcott , who told the other chief offender Moin that it was time he ‘ grew up ’ . |
| 3 | ‘ I will not tolerate disrespect ! ’ |
| 4 | I will not tolerate insolence . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I will not tolerate children wandering around wherever their fancy takes them ! |
| 6 | We would not tolerate policies that drive out incentives . ’ |
| 7 | Similarly , if the employees feel industrial action is warranted , they will not tolerate nonconformists , because nonconformists weaken the group 's position . |
| 8 | Most people find they can not tolerate sugar after that period . |
| 9 | But he could n't tolerate incompetence . ’ |
| 10 | The only credible explanation is that Nkrumah , with Rhodesia fresh in his mind , felt he could not tolerate superpower indifference to the Third World any longer . |
| 11 | ( A few months later , president George Bush underlined the non-equivalence of ‘ women ’ and ‘ American citizens ’ : explaining why the US saw fit to invade Panama , he said he could not tolerate assaults on ‘ the wife of an American citizen ’ . |
| 12 | Leopold related the news , and the Archbishop 's excuse for not having allowed father and son to travel the previous year : ‘ he said that he could not tolerate people going about the world begging ’ ( 31 August 1778 ) . |
| 13 | Like a ringmaster cracking his whip to bring squabbling lions to order , his intervention was rapid and decisive , demonstrating at once that he would not tolerate insubordination and that this applied to everyone . |
| 14 | He would not tolerate bullying , especially by two of the stronger members of the section towards one who was weaker and actually ill . |
| 15 | Just as he will not tolerate questions about his private life , so he will also go ballistic if bureacrats attempt to meddle in his creative decisions — something which Pierre Berge ( the chairman of Yves Saint Laurent ) found out when he became superintendent of Paris 's opera houses in 1988 and attempted to take Barenboim on over the conductor 's directorship of the new Opera-Bastille . |