Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] [prep] the [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like Flynn before him , Fonda can not stay in the town he has tamed and rides out at the fade-out into the desert . |
| 2 | This general tendency in soil conservation evaluation derives from similar problems identified by critics of the existing approaches to agricultural research , namely the lack of a continuous outreach to and from research stations and farmers , and the conducting of programmes under conditions that do not exist for the farmer/pastoralist who is supposed to adopt them ( Biggs 1981 ) . |
| 3 | Not only does it hamstring itself by trying to please all nations , it also attempts to appeal to a mythical European consciousness that can not exist in the continent whose countries have spent centuries ever more jealously defining their national characteristics . |
| 4 | These rights do not exist in the information itself but arise from its confidential nature and the circumstances in which persons other than the originator of the information come by it . |
| 5 | Robson is anxious not to fall into the trap which ensnared Alf Ramsey in 1973 , when England sought a draw in Poland with a team packed with defenders and lost 2-0 , but sensible precautions will be taken . |
| 6 | Then come the secular offices : those of chamberlain or treasurer ( the treasure was kept in the king 's chamber ) , the count of the palace , who handled legal appeals not heard by the king himself , the seneschal , the butler , the constable and a string of other household officers . |
| 7 | He wondered aloud why they had not heard from the officer who had gone to check on the man seen with MacQuillan at the Black Friar . |
| 8 | Microsoft Corp is now saying that Windows/NT will be announced on May 24 and that the target is to deliver it before the end of the second quarter , although US PC Week does n't expect ships to start until July ; there 's no exact date , says the company , since it will not ship until the product it is spot-on . |
| 9 | A key at the back of the book provides the answers to the exercises plus any tapescripts not given in the exercises themselves . |
| 10 | Because there are many types of surgery the examples used may not relate to the patients you encounter on your first surgical ward . |
| 11 | He fished the cubes out and put them into an ashtray and found it all he could do not to weep at the mess they made with the ash . |
| 12 | The effects of too much alcohol are not limited to the person who drinks . |
| 13 | This explains why Mr. Llewellyn-Jones , for the defendant , sought to persuade your Lordships that the power to order the board to pay the defendant 's costs under section 18 was not limited to the costs he incurred as an unassisted party but extended to the whole costs of the proceedings . |
| 14 | These are hard persistent offenders who are not benefitting from the treatment they 're getting from social workers . |
| 15 | We would not object to the guide my Lord but what we would object to do n't object to the guide my Lord but what we do object to is is what this er solicitor would have done in relation to it |
| 16 | If a Central Authority considers that a request for service does not fall within the Convention it may reject it . |
| 17 | Maritz is not returning to the L.P.G.A. She will play in Europe again next season , by which stage she believes that she will have gathered sufficient experience to fix her sights on America . |
| 18 | He is bound to say this , indeed , for if we considered only the positive consequences of an action , and not those which would have occurred if it had not been done , one could not count in the suffering which an action prevented in its favour , which would be absurd . |
| 19 | Care must be taken not to over-commit on the information which will be provided . |
| 20 | Care must be taken not to over-commit on the information which will be provided . |
| 21 | Barry Took , who wrote the first forty shows of the series with Bernard Merriman , remembers it all with an affection that is certainly not confined to the money it bought him . |
| 22 | I did not know at the time who had commissioned the poll , but I learned afterwards that it was the Conservative party . |
| 23 | Left staring at him while waiting for her full wits to return , Leith did not know for the moment what on earth was going on . |
| 24 | She did not know of the vow he had made that if it ever did come he would make sure she was the first to go , even if it meant him staying in the Cages . |
| 25 | ‘ He told me , ’ said Hugh , ‘ as I think he told you , that he did not know in the darkness who the dead man might be . |
| 26 | When we are hurt by someone 's behaviour , all that is happening is that we are disappointed because they do not behave in the way we expect and the reality conflicts with our ideals . |
| 27 | It is not certain how many of the leading members were privy to this scheme : Lloyd-Greame seems to have sat on the fence ; Hoare , Wood , Cave , Salisbury and some of the other peers stood out for Baldwin , but this was not contained in the advice which convinced Stamfordham . |
| 28 | For the most part , the enzymes that our ancestors evolved to tackle natural chemicals work pretty well on synthetic ones — as long as they are not overwhelmed by the amount they have to detoxify . |
| 29 | The engineering contracts say that if disputes are not resolved by the engineer they have to be settled by arbitration . |
| 30 | The proposals to combat discrimination within the profession have not met with the support I would have hoped for . |