Example sentences of "not [verb] [pron] [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That did not make him a criminal under section 14 . |
| 2 | It is often said that unfettered insider dealing does not hurt shareholders ; that insiders ' profits are not outsiders ' losses , but rather evidence of a more efficient allocation of resources ; Just because an investor does not make as much money on the sale of his shares as he would otherwise have done , does not make him a victim in the true sense , as nothing has been stolen from him . |
| 3 | Student union leaders at both Liverpool and Liverpool John Moores Universities stressed that students should not make themselves a target by going out alone . |
| 4 | You may enjoy talking but this does not make you a wizard at verbal presentations . |
| 5 | Merely exhibiting a sample during the negotiations will not make it a sale by sample unless the parties agree that it is a sale by sample . |
| 6 | Although he was wary of commenting on a specific meeting , Mr Hyde said the company ‘ would not make it a matter of policy to say we have been in contact or received authorisation , if that had n't been the case ’ . |
| 7 | Blacks need to realise that affirmative action can not solve their most serious problems , whites need to remember that affirmative action does not make it an advantage to be born black . |
| 8 | WHATEVER the home unions committee may care to think , the team who performed with great distinction in Paris are Lions to a man — and if the powers-that-be will not grant them the honour with a large ‘ L ’ they can hardly begrudge it with a small one . |
| 9 | Theseus would still be blundering around in the labyrinth where he went to slay the Minotaur , if Ariadne had not given him a ball of thread so that he could retrace his steps when the deed was done . |
| 10 | If the police had not given us the benefit of the doubt , I should have been more than a little proud to go to jail in his company , together with the Cup . |
| 11 | Now I 've not given you a lot of chance to speak because you said you do n't want to go and to , but I want |
| 12 | ‘ Do n't you know God has not given you the spirit of fear but of love and a sound mind ? ’ |
| 13 | I do not know what the Secretary of State is doing now to an article . |
| 14 | JOHN SMITH is preparing to launch the biggest tax assault ever on middle income families while claiming that he does not know what the effect of his tax hike will be on incentives , confidence or on the economy . |
| 15 | I do not know what the sensuality of a man is . |
| 16 | She gazed , wide-eyed , at the first large town she had ever visited , for Matilda had not permitted her the freedom of Gloucester . |
| 17 | She said : ‘ Claire did not show me the power of attorney … nor did she tell me that I had been made Michael 's attorney . ’ |
| 18 | Take her to Nicosia , but only if you will not do her the service of remaining here , in this town , at her side . ’ |
| 19 | Rovers enjoyed a heavy advantage in penalties before half-time but it did not do them a lot of good . |
| 20 | A tough looker is not necessarily a tough fighter , and we should not do him the favour of allowing his warpaint to add to our problems . |
| 21 | The pope did not send him a pallium until June 634 and , given the long-standing papal concern with the well-being of the church of Canterbury , a three-year interval between Honorius ' appointment and the sending of a pallium would seem to be rather a long time . |
| 22 | Nevertheless she said , ‘ Why not give her the benefit of the doubt ? |
| 23 | I for one will not give her the satisfaction of even seeming to care . |
| 24 | ‘ Why not give yourself a rest from it ? ’ |
| 25 | She would not give them the satisfaction of seeing her beg . |
| 26 | I told the hon. Gentleman that I could not give him the information for which he asked until October , when the 1991 population figures would become available . |
| 27 | An order for specific performance is one which requires the seller actually to deliver the goods and does not give him the option of paying damages instead . |
| 28 | ‘ The authorities will not give me a penny for my land ’ , he said . |
| 29 | And since she shared Humber 's and my attitude to our job , she did not give me the kind of pep-talk Aline would have come up with in these circumstances . |
| 30 | He did not give me the money for either . |