Example sentences of "not [verb] [verb] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He never was — which was just as well since fate brought him a series of posts whose functions were not calculated to endear him to the public or the party . |
| 2 | The German and French leaders told the Prime Minister they did not want to see him in the run up to the Edinburgh summit , which begins on Friday . |
| 3 | For someone of this persuasion , who does not want to attribute everything to the workings of power , the problem obviously arises of why the sexes should have distinctive linguistic subcultures at all . |
| 4 | The tone of the article was that Charman was getting out because he did not want to commit himself to the group on a full-time basis . |
| 5 | After certain difficulties with the manager of the Old Vic , who did not want to commit himself to the play on the basis of the bare outline which had been shown to him , Browne approached the theatrical impresario , Henry Sherek , and asked him if he would care to produce the play — with Browne as director — at Edinburgh . |
| 6 | He may not be able to call upon the driver who took over the car to support his defence and to help him discharge the balance of probabilities in his favour , because that driver would not want to expose himself to the criminal charges of aggravated car theft . |
| 7 | It must be for the local authorities , which have the statutory responsibilities , to take those responsibilities extremely seriously and I would not want to divorce them from the primary responsibility for undertaking those tasks . |
| 8 | The federal pump-priming for their establishment , eventually extended to cover their first eight years , was not intended to support them for the long term . |
| 9 | However , this is not intended to condemn us to the conclusion that changes in society are the chance results of unrelated factors . |
| 10 | I would not presume to add anything to the Word of God but I have a sneaking suspicion that if Isaiah had been writing in the 1990s he might have added a phrase . |
| 11 | ‘ Thank you , ’ she said , not daring to look them in the face . |
| 12 | And , we 're not in doing , not intend telling you at the er , proposals we will put in the budget , but I can give you an assurance at this point in time , that we shall be borrowing money . |
| 13 | I think from the County Council 's point of view , the safeguard is there is no proposal to make those available for other spending within the committee and therefore , if hopefully we do not need to access them during the year , they are still available for Council in future years to , to meet other spending requirements . |
| 14 | Clearly , we would not need to concern ourselves with the meaning of analogue information if all sources of text , numerics , sounds and images were digital . |
| 15 | The important point about heritability is that we do not need to know anything about the actual genotypes in order to say what it is . |
| 16 | In a search system like Okapi , which ranks records by weighting terms , the system also does not need to know anything about the nature of the relationship . |
| 17 | Other than this we do not need to know anything about the portion of the sentence we have already generated . |
| 18 | To make a hole in masonry or concrete you do not need to exert anything like the pressure you do with a conventional percussion/ratchet hammer drill which basically relies on drill rotation to wear away the material . |
| 19 | It was clear that she had not expected to find him in the room . |
| 20 | The probationers told him to remember that every minute he was getting a little better , and Ward Sister told him not to make any effort , and not to try to take anything by the mouth . |
| 21 | He drove grimly and skilfully and he drove very fast as if he could not wait to get her on the plane to England and out of his sight . |
| 22 | Counsel thought so little of it that he did not seek to sustain it before the House of Lords . |
| 23 | I have to say though , that when we the Council advise other charities on the investment powers that they should take when they 're established and when they draft their Memorandum of Association , erm , we advise them to take wider powers er , than these , and we advise them that they should not seek to constrain themselves by the Trustee Investment Act nineteen sixty-one , as our own flexibility is constrained . |
| 24 | She had not looked deliberately , not wanting to tempt herself with the sight of him . |
| 25 | Can I , can I just say chairman , finally for point of clarification in case there 's any doubt about it I 'm not looking to turn it into the , into an absolutely like efficient business you know and everything succumbs to that . |
| 26 | Cooperators can not expect to protect themselves against the threatened attack of the opposing forces without carefully preparing a united plan of campaign , in the same way that the Labour Party has mobilised its battalions … |
| 27 | To save his neck and protect his family was perhaps not the noblest of motives for coming forward as a witness , but if the DEA had not sought to frame him under the misapprehension that he was feeding information to Pan Am and the media , and if the DIA had not lacked the will to protect him behind the scenes , the idea of coming forward would never have crossed his mind at all — indeed , he might never even have known that he had a contribution to make to the Lockerbie investigation . |
| 28 | The Sheffield Star , in a piece not destined to endear him to the average Brightside voter , wrote of his ‘ ministerial pin stripes and patrician smooth accent . ’ |
| 29 | He 'd not offered to help her with the Christmas preparations and she had n't felt like asking him . |
| 30 | Your brother perhaps will not mind fetching them from the Commissariat . |