Example sentences of "not [verb] people " in BNC.
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| 1 | This has not stopped people trying . |
| 2 | He did not think people wanted harmless fun on Sunday . |
| 3 | Lear must have found this side of Gould the most frustrating and hurtful ; he could not understand someone who did not think people were important . |
| 4 | ‘ I do not think people are particularly excited about the election because Clinton studied here , ’ she said . |
| 5 | Always he would advise me not to see people ; not to answer so-and-so 's letter ; not to take this admirer too seriously ; not to take Count X — as a lover . |
| 6 | yes , but is the insurance not , does it not cover people in the premises outside office time . |
| 7 | By 1985 Astra said it had found out why , and that the problem would not affect people . |
| 8 | However , the cut in tax relief will not affect people aged over 65 who have used a mortgage loan as part of a ‘ home income plan ’ to buy an annuity . |
| 9 | It was felt that training in West Belfast under YTP and JTP did not prepare people , especially the young , for jobs in industry and was not geared towards getting work . |
| 10 | But , again judging from the US experience , this awareness will not make people much more conscious of the actual money cost of different forms of credit than they are already , nor encourage shopping around for cheaper credit . |
| 11 | We do not want people who know about structuralism or the ‘ new criticism ’ . |
| 12 | The problem is that , because the broadcasters do not want people to receive their signals this way , information is not openly available . |
| 13 | ‘ We do not want people to have to go into betting shops to buy tickets , ’ said one Heritage Department source . |
| 14 | I was glad to see there were no towns here , because I did not want people to question me or pity me . |
| 15 | Labour does not want people to own their own homes . |
| 16 | You can not influence people without talking to them , and that is why I saw President ( FW ) de Klerk and Mr ( Barend ) du Plessis . |
| 17 | If this factor did not influence people , then the average repayment period chosen by people once they had been shown both APR and total cost as well as instalment amount would not vary very much between the different sets of respondents ( that is , those shown just the instalment amounts first , those shown APR too , and those shown total credit cost too ) . |
| 18 | The Chair should be firm in not allowing people to interrupt each other . |
| 19 | But , according to Haksar , what has also to be taken into consideration is the risk of violence that might result from not allowing people to express their feeling and here civil disobedience might be regarded as a safety valve . |
| 20 | However , the method by which a change in predictable monetary growth leads to a change in aggregate real output is not the familiar one — a higher rate of growth does not fool people into supplying more output . |
| 21 | Jekub was still not eating people . |
| 22 | Even if they do not damage people immediately , they could alter DNA and increase the risk of cancer . |
| 23 | I might remember not to treat people as if they could only act in one way . |
| 24 | Use your bell to warn of your presence — not to harass people . |
| 25 | Instead practise what you preach : after all there 's no logic in you telling her not to hit people if that 's exactly what you 're doing . |
| 26 | Creating our own reality is sometimes interpreted as meaning that we can not hurt people unless they allow us to do so . |
| 27 | However , we can not predict people 's actual performance from their level of experience . |
| 28 | At the best of times , General Kopyion was not informative ; he did not trust people , and gave away as little information as possible . |
| 29 | There is a perception amongst informed people in the community that there may well be a shortage of long stay beds in Leicestershire and you do need to bear in mind that the National Health Service is increasingly going down the road of not keeping people in hospitals longer than they have to because hospitals are perceived as being very , a very expensive way of providing beds and you have to take that into account because that 's a fairly clear national policy and you are likely to see an acceleration in that process from what I read in the national press . |
| 30 | The liberals wanted to promote a modern secular understanding of religion as a largely private matter which should be pursued in such a manner as not to offend people of other religions . |