Example sentences of "not [vb infin] [verb] [pron] as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a free society , if trade unions want the rights of ownership , they can not expect to get them as a free gift and call it industrial democracy . |
| 2 | Henry Tyler would not have described her as a happy woman , but afterward he could not say that she had seemed at all unwell . |
| 3 | Julian , of course , would not have described herself as a prophet , because like all monotheists at this date , she believed that God 's revelation was complete and that the day of prophecy was therefore over . |
| 4 | For example , while the newcomers may fail to understand the skill and local status of the farm worker , they do not wish to treat him as a social outcast — this would run counter to the notion of community with which many newcomers strongly identify . |
| 5 | I have always known that she did not care to have me as a friend . ’ |
| 6 | She says she did want him out of the house , but she did n't want to kill him as a court was going to evict him anyway . |
| 7 | Er and in fact er I would say that had you become recognized as part of management , our members would n't have tolerated you as a shop steward . |
| 8 | I could n't remember her ever having been any different , and even Lili could n't have known her as a young woman , for Syl 's mother was old enough to have been his grandmother . |
| 9 | ‘ I would n't have classed you as a Shakespeare fan , ’ she said quietly , edging her way surreptitiously a foot further along the balustrade . |
| 10 | So , Pomerance argued it should be easier to process just the right hand signal if they 're not grouped together , if they if the processing system does n't tend to group them as a single entity . |
| 11 | Of course the Palace ca n't afford to leave her as a loose cannon . |
| 12 | After all , when racism takes the form of violence , they ca n't fail to recognise it as an attack on themselves , and part of a value system they can not go along with . |