Example sentences of "that [pers pn] [vb mod] [not/n't] give [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I assure you that I will not give any offence to the Lady Yolande . |
| 2 | Very few athletes enter sport without the assistance and encouragement of a teacher who might innocently create serious tensions , as with Jackie Jackson , whose PE teacher strengthened her commitment to athletics , a commitment which proved destructive to her educational aims , as she pointed out : ‘ I was spending so much time in athletics that I could n't give enough time to my ‘ A ’ levels . ’ |
| 3 | The next witness was the Duchess 's cook , who spoke very angrily and said that she would not give any evidence . |
| 4 | This is n't to say that you ought not to give such personal undertakings ; on the contrary , unless you have reason to distrust your client , you should be prepared to take this very small risk to facilitate completion . |
| 5 | The recognition that we can not give complete holist explanations of social phenomena does not undermine the centrality of the intuition to which the doctrine , in its various forms , is a response : the sense that many properties of individuals , whether tastes , aspirations , beliefs , expectations or habits , are to an over-whelming extent formed by society . |
| 6 | One thing to be said of that is that it does not at all follow , from the fact that we can not give particular descriptions of items that fall within a set , that we can not satisfactorily conceive of and describe the set . |
| 7 | What the Government is trying to do is to persuade the estate agents that they should n't give false particulars at all . |
| 8 | Fenton regrets that he can not give personal advice . |