Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] [pron] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Who knows what the exact situation will be and what problems will arise as those changes are forced upon the Scottish people who did not want them in the first place ? |
| 2 | The sort of people who wanted a house that size these days did not want it in the high street of a market town , and this young woman surely would not have the income to keep it up . |
| 3 | In a letter to Gilbert dated 16 November , 1840 he wrote : ‘ As I find the fauna of New Holland quite distinct and that of New Zealand to belong to an entirely different group of Islands I have determined not to include it in the present work ; you will therefore not go there … ’ |
| 4 | Perhaps Hincmar 's silence here was tactful , since Charles the Bald 's sons had not distinguished themselves in the traditional roles . |
| 5 | So while differential wage rates might explain the preponderance of women in the Mauritius EPZ , they do not explain it in the Mexican maquilas ( in-bond factories ) . |
| 6 | Because , as I say , we 've got recycling credits on our side , we 've got the fact that we 've got this outlet in Exmouth which will take the paper , and that 's why we 're looking at producing this workshop area , so that a lot of this stuff that goes to landfill , I 'm talking about , fridges , tables , whichever else that can be repaired and reused er , I know this is only on a very small scale , but one of the things that I think is very important with is that we 're not purely a recycling centre , we also want to set an education project , to raise people 's awareness of what yo yet waste production is n't about recycling , it 's about not producing it in the first place , |
| 7 | His knowledge of foreign issues was limited and Roosevelt had not consulted him in the brief period that Truman held the vice-presidency . |
| 8 | that does n't bother me , but considering it was only the second I 'd spoken to him and I did not fancy him in the least erm , it really made my skin crawl . |
| 9 | Given then that all public sector organizations will keep meticulous records of debtors , it is hard to see that much effort is saved by not incorporating them in the double entry . |
| 10 | The same happened at the Commonwealth Tournament later in the year — and to this day she wonders if this behaviour had something to do with the fact that the selectors did not include her in the 1984 match at Muirfield . |
| 11 | And one particularly thorough research study on boys growing up in London concluded that if a boy offends , the best way to prevent him from offending repeatedly is not to catch him in the first place ( West , 1992 : 104–11 ) ! |
| 12 | the best way to solve pollution problems is not to create them in the first place . |
| 13 | ‘ The best way to solve pollution problems is not to create them in the first place . |
| 14 | Certainly the tabular method of presenting results does not show them in the best light and the use of graphs would have made them much more accessible . |
| 15 | Two-thirds of a total of 324 companies interviewed said that the environment was not a trading issue last year , and 59 per cent agreed that it would not become one in the forthcoming year . |
| 16 | He did not realize it in the Sixties , nor the Seventies . |
| 17 | And while Robert Wilson admits that the appeal of managing his own company could become a reality one day , he does not envisage it in the near future . |
| 18 | Professor Davis noted that the industries which expanded before 1780 did not transform themselves in the dramatic way we have come to know as an industrial revolution . |
| 19 | The most glaring sin is the failure of husbands adequately to interact with their wives ' ideas , and the ultimate wrong-headedness of not consulting her in the first place . |
| 20 | In a national park , 33 such species were found : one endemic ( Acacia koa , Leguminosae ) though six other indigenous species were pantropical coastal plants , but three others with such nectaries elsewhere in their range did not have them in the Hawaiian populations . |
| 21 | Byron would not have me in the larger house , claiming that the dogs would never tolerate my presence without howling all night . |
| 22 | But I have not found anything in the careful judgment of Mustill L.J . |
| 23 | I think the most important thing about community arts is that it 's arts for the community , and invariably one is not approaching it in the same way as one would market , say , a show at the Theatre Royal for instance . |
| 24 | I was very discouraged and did not approach anyone in the other region , fearing the same response . |
| 25 | This will not surprise anyone in the old tradition which opposes Reason to Experience and contends that the absolute knowledge which science seeks comes only when Reason certifies the findings of Experience . |
| 26 | Because they had no way of driving out of office the men who ran the executive in their colonies , the colonial assemblies could not assert themselves in the same way as the Westminster Parliament , and had to fall back on using the seventeenth-century approach of saying that there should be redress of grievance before taxes were voted to run the government . |
| 27 | That position had been urged in amicus briefs filed by the French Republic and ( less emphatically ) by the Federal Republic of Germany , although the petitioners who had taken this position in the lower courts did not maintain it in the Supreme Court . |
| 28 | The risk of liver cancer associated with this did not bother me in the slightest ; |
| 29 | They might be , predictably , so unpopular that Parliament would not pass them in the first place . |
| 30 | It is my contention that a similar process is occurring for at least a significant part of the people of Tyneside today , although it is not affecting everyone in the same way and involves a complex process of what may be more apparent than real social differentiation . |