Example sentences of "not [verb] us [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They do not repeat : ’ Do not bring us to the test , but save us from the evil one ’ , or , ’ Do not bring us to hard testing . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ West Brom will be less apprehensive about the replay , but playing away from home has not presented us with any major phobia . |
| 3 | He does not misuse freedom , and he does not expect us to either . |
| 4 | ‘ Although he had not seen us for six weeks , he soon recognised us and started shouting Tuffin George all over the shop . ’ |
| 5 | Thus even if we accept that the duty of directors to act in the best interests of shareholders can be equated with a duty to maximize profits this does not provide us with any real assurance that the wishes of the shareholders are being executed by the directors or that we have a satisfactory way of controlling the discretion accorded to directors in the name of the Rule of Law . |
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| 7 | So when he maintains that because we are , Truth or God is , or that God is the sum total of life , it could be argued that he is not presenting us with some kind of cosmological argument for the existence of God and that it is not his purpose to argue from the world to God . |
| 8 | Many of the topics they raise during this election campaign do not interest us at all . |
| 9 | Now the angels will not bless us for another year . ’ |
| 10 | This simile of the mustard seed is not to call us to some great Cecil B Demille-like ambition . |
| 11 | An ‘ only ’ dream has little effect on us ; we may remember it in the morning because it was funny or for some other reason , but it does not disturb us in any way ; most often , we recollect it only in the moments after waking and have forgotten it by the time we get out of bed . |
| 12 | The self-authenticating nature of their experiences meant that neither of them was able to doubt them , yet the similarities must not blind us to certain differences . |
| 13 | Your investigations , Mister Cowley , have not led us to any further evidence to confirm or clarify the intentions of these men ? , |
| 14 | Surprise ( in the sense studied in Baillargeon 's experiment — passive capture of visual attention ) is not an action so it can not tell us about central system function . |
| 15 | They can not tell us in any detail what kinds of investigations might be prompted by such conceptions , or how they may be carried out , what concepts and theories are relevant , and so on . |
| 16 | ‘ We must say to the public , ‘ you can not leave us without moral guidance on this . |
| 17 | With long-term injury victims Graham Hill and Ian Brady only recently back in full training , and not ready for a competitive return , Carroll admits : ‘ The situation does not leave us with many options . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ As a matter of policy , NatWest chose to shed market share in property lending in the late-1980s , but that did not protect us from bad debts . |
| 19 | The fact that such technology has already had a major impact upon the leisure industry should not fill us with wild joy . |
| 20 | Please candidates , do not deafen us with meaningless statistics about global sums and ‘ improvements in real terms ’ — they are political jargon for covering up the truth . |
| 21 | We therefore petition you as our benefactor and saviour to command Apollonius the governor of the district not to molest us in any way , since we are distinct from them both in race and customs … and we ask that the temple without a name be known as that of Zeus Hellenios " ( Ant . |
| 22 | It 's not to make us into some spiritual superstars , like some great leader of the past or present . |
| 23 | Whether such clear-sightedness is dismissed as the naivete of youth , or extolled as exemplary moral integrity untainted by the compromises of old age , does not concern us at this stage . |
| 24 | We can confine ourselves to models of the random coil , as this is usually believed to be most appropriate for synthetic polymers ; other models — rods , discs , spheres , spheroids — are also postulated , but need not concern us at this level . |
| 25 | Other special types are available in some cases to cater for specific applications but these need not concern us in this book . |
| 26 | For a period in the 1950s and 60s , North American geology was indexed in a separate publication by the United States Geological Survey as Bibliography of North American Geology ( BNAG ) , which does not concern us in this particular study , with the AGI 's publication changing title to Bibliography and Index of Geology , excluding North America ( BIGENA ) . |
| 27 | For a period in the 1950s and 60s , North American geology was indexed in a separate publication by the United States Geological Survey as Bibliography of North American Geology ( BNAG ) , which does not concern us in this particular study , with the AGI 's publication changing title to Bibliography and Index of Geology , excluding North America ( BIGENA ) . |