Example sentences of "not [verb] [pn reflx] [prep] be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is an area of special problems which do not lend themselves to being handled easily by familiar logico-linguistic techniques and require a different type of treatment . |
| 2 | She examined the cat slowly and carefully , not allowing herself to be distracted by the thought of Mr Miller waiting irritably for the vaccination cards or her future appointment with Dawn . |
| 3 | It emerges from the guidance note that the DSS does not consider itself to be bound by settlements negotiated with Inland Revenue PAYE officers . |
| 4 | Women often feel that they are not at risk because they do not feel themselves to be associated with any of the so called ‘ high risk groups ’ and , although we are encouraged to have safer sex , AIDS does not really seem to be an issue for us . |
| 5 | Something was wrong ; she should have listened to her instincts , not allowed herself to be lulled into a false security by the normal appearance of the flat . |
| 6 | In fact , it may be added , we do not take ourselves to be faced with such an overwhelming task in connection with condition-sets for an effect , and hence for this reason too those sets are wrongly conceived as causal circumstances . |
| 7 | ‘ The court must take a broad view of the decision and not allow itself to be bogged down in minutiae , or led into the error of taking over the role of a fact finding tribunal . |
| 8 | However , the type of outlet is secondary to the quality and price of the rugs being sold ; it is therefore essential to shop around , and not to allow yourself to be rushed into buying . |
| 9 | But I was determined not to allow myself to be hauled in like a helpless fish as he reeled in his capable line . |
| 10 | Travis was impatient to get on , but Paige was in a Libran mood , depressed and bloody-minded enough not to allow herself to be chivvied before she was ready . |
| 11 | The inspector should not allow himself to be led , often with the best of intentions , by people proud to show off the area . |
| 12 | In the normal course of things he was benevolent , but absent : he did not allow himself to be drawn either in anger or in passion . |
| 13 | Adding that he would not allow himself to be intimidated , he pointed out ’ — as did my hon. Friend the Member for Dewsbury — ’ that legal proceedings were pending against ten of the twelve EC countries for failure to respect EC rules on the assessment of large-scale works . ’ |
| 14 | It is what makes the difference between the phrase ( 30 ) , where the first-order relation is of course qualification , and the completeness of ( 31 ) : ( 30 ) lucky Gomez ( 31 ) Gomez is lucky Similarly , this is the difference which opposes ( 32 ) and ( 33 ) , where the relation assigned is equation rather than qualification : ( 32 ) the broker , a man in a grey suit ( 33 ) the broker was a man in a grey suit The notion of " completeness " may seem vague ; again , however , we should not expect it to be defined more closely for the very good reason that fundamental notions — and we take assignment together with equation and qualification , along with the ideas of entity and property , to be the bedrock of linguistic structure — do not allow themselves to be defined . |
| 15 | New conveyancers should not allow themselves to be bullied by more senior members of the profession who have had years of experience . |
| 16 | I shall not allow myself to be tempted to discuss devolution , Mr. Deputy Speaker , apart from getting into trouble with you , I should get into trouble with my Hon. Friends . |
| 17 | I can not allow myself to be praised , for that is not a virtue , she thought . |
| 18 | Do not allow yourself to be pushed around by an agency that tells you they have a large number of suitable vacancies and then persists in sending you for jobs which are not within your specifications . |
| 19 | Do not allow yourself to be intimidated . |
| 20 | Concentrate on what is being said and do not allow yourself to be distracted by whatever else is going on . |
| 21 | There are bound to be some tears around the 4th and 10th but , with Jupiter in Libra for the first time in a decade , you can not allow yourself to be constrained any more . |
| 22 | Why not allow yourself to be seduced by the voluptuous charms of a luscious pudding every now and again ? |
| 23 | Do not allow yourself to be fobbed off without getting the information you need . |
| 24 | The National Council advised the Bristol conference of the League of 1935 : We must not allow ourselves to be diverted into activities definitely condemned by the Labour Party which will jeopardize our affiliation to and influence in the Party . |
| 25 | But given its setting , we must not allow ourselves to be blinded by Abraham 's bravery , nor , when we read of the resounding success of his venture , by his military prowess . |
| 26 | The claim that a class may or may not allow itself to be exploited is another case of Poulantzas ' belief that the course of the class struggle is not altogether determined by the structural constraints of a particular phase of capitalism . |
| 27 | Jim Birrell , chief executive of Halifax , has made it clear that Halifax will not allow itself to be frogmarched into a potentially damaging merger with a large but weak society . |
| 28 | The SNP must not allow itself to be bullied by Labour in the stramash over the Commons vote . |
| 29 | It must be observed that the point of the mother 's stories was not that Daphne should embrace her sister shepherdesses in a sapphic idyll , but , very simply , that she should not allow herself to be seduced . |
| 30 | She would not allow herself to be pulled inexorably towards some unknown destiny that he had in mind . |