Example sentences of "not [vb infin] in their " in BNC.
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| 1 | Incidentally , despite these defeats in war , the Egyptians did not weaken in their worship of the cat . |
| 2 | Punishment is an unsatisfactory operational philosophy because it risks damage to the ultimate end of enforcement , and control of the case does not remain in their hands . |
| 3 | But the less well known foundations were threatened with extinction and many did not survive in their old state : some were refounded ( King 's School in Macclesfield , for example , received generous new endowments ) but not all benefited . |
| 4 | Although political ideology can play a significant part in re-shaping the penal system , as it did in 1964 through the influence of Crime — a challenge to us all , and to a lesser extent as it would have done had the Conservatives regained office in 1966 , incoming governments customarily do not pack in their baggage detailed blue prints on criminal policy . |
| 5 | The delegates do not act in their personal capacity but carry out the policies and instructions of their government , as shown by the provision that an alternate delegate can be empowered to act and vote on behalf of a delegate who is absent . |
| 6 | Zuwaya said they should not watch television together ; sons should not smoke in their father 's presence , nor try to wheedle or coax money from them ; and mostly they did not do those things . |
| 7 | The specific individuality of the species does not appear in their molecules or cells or even in the ability of the cells to communicate with each other during development or in adult life . |
| 8 | Even if the French do not succeed in their present bid to take over the last of the great American GA manufacturers , Piper , it 's hard to see what there is to stop them in their quest . |
| 9 | For instance , the last chapter may have inspired you to make some very definite statements based on things your parents did or did not do in their marriage . |
| 10 | I noticed that this did not feature in their party political broadcast , wrongly entitled ’ Made in Britain ’ and alleging that virtually nothing was made in Britain , when we not only have the successes mentioned by my hon. Friend the Member for Bury , South ( Mr. Sumberg ) in his constituency but export far more television sets than we import and make the best hi-fi in the world , and when one in ten personal computers sold in the world are made in this country — in Scotland . |
| 11 | The main criticism of the event came from dealers specialising in contemporary work : Waddington Graphics , in particular , noted that the balance of the fair was much in favour of Old Master dealers and that the juxtaposition of Old Master prints with contemporary prints did not work in their favour . |
| 12 | As Bismarck said , ‘ I have always found the word ‘ Europe ’ on the lips of those who wanted something from other powers which they dared not demand in their own name' . |
| 13 | Officers of merchant ships were particularly vulnerable if they did not have in their possession a written protection from impressment issued by the Admiralty , and David Scott was enabled to oblige both Provost Watt of Forfar and several influential merchants of Dundee by securing the freedom of Peter Brown , the mate of the ship John and Nancy of Dundee , though in this case the Dundee magistrates had to provide an able seaman as a replacement for Brown before he was freed from the pressing tender . |
| 14 | This seems a rather arbitrary procedure since most Scottish speakers — including educated speakers — do not have in their phonological systems a contrast between front and back low vowels and so would not differentiate these pairs . |
| 15 | ‘ Let them not take in their commons , neither make parks nor pastures of whole parishes : for God gave the earth to man to inherit not unto sheep and wild deer . ’ |
| 16 | They did not sell in their own names but in the name and on behalf of their principals , the Company . |
| 17 | Obviously , the cereals do not vary in their contents to take this into account . |
| 18 | However unlikely it is that American public figures would sue in Britain to vindicate reputations that they can not protect in their own country , the risk must still be weighed . |
| 19 | The towers of the cathedral did not crumble and fall , the choir in the precinct outside did not falter in their fund-raising performance for the Conservation of Rural England . |
| 20 | Some people can not live in their own homes without serious risk , and to them a D.G.A.A. Home will bring safety and comfort . |
| 21 | Yet few educationists would argue that they do not figure in their overall goals for what they wish pupils to achieve or that they do not impinge fundamentally on pupils ' potential success or failure . |
| 22 | Despite long negotiations with the local authority planning department , the site did not figure in their 1982 County Plan for residential development and alternative health service uses were therefore being canvassed . |
| 23 | At its peak the Association had around 250 members , most of them full members resident in Lewis , but there was a small number of associate members who received reports but did not participate in their formulation . |
| 24 | Most bereaved people soon begin to discover that grief does not settle in their life like a gravestone , permanent and immovable : it lives , moves and changes , like all great emotions , and they finally emerge from it not crippled , but stronger in many ways than they were before , in spite of their loss . |
| 25 | She screamed for her brother and tried to make the boys understand that she was the daughter of the house , but her pleas did not register in their drugged minds . |
| 26 | These were timeless things , and he would not acquiesce in their alteration . |
| 27 | And they wanted to know how they could immunize themselves , so that they would not succumb in their turn . |
| 28 | Control subjects that experienced training in which the immediate consequences of the light did not differ in their reinforcing value from one trial to another ( for these the interval between the offset of the light and food delivery was fixed and thus did not depend on whether it contained a tone or a clicker ) showed a steady decline in the frequency of the OR . |
| 29 | Such subjects , as a consequence , might not differ in their test performance from those who were explicitly trained to apply labels . |
| 30 | The groups did not differ in their card-sorting times on the other task . |