Example sentences of "own [noun] not [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Besides , does not the practice of carving up the syllabus and letting each lecturer get on with his or her own bit not lead to overlaps , duplication , lacunae and untied threads ? |
| 2 | Additionally , the defendants had of their own accord not relied on the clause in other customer disputes , which showed that they themselves tended to regard its limitation as unreasonable . |
| 3 | As to the actual transfer itself , the Court had already held in Case 105/84 , Mikkelsen[1985] ECR 2639 that ‘ the protection which the Directive is intended to guarantee is however redundant where the person concerned decides of his own accord not to continue the employment relationship with the new employer after the transfer … ’ and so resigns or terminates the employment by agreement from the date of the transfer ( point 16 ) . |
| 4 | She told him on the bus , nerving herself , that the children were Charlie 's but that she had undertaken of her own accord not to tell anyone else because Charlie was the sort of person who could n't be lumbered . |
| 5 | Although she often maintained that it was her own choice not to attend , she told an American interviewer , I would love to go to board meetings where he [ Bernard ] is chairman but I 'm not invited . |
| 6 | ‘ Since the board has elected as a matter of practice not to give reasons , and has given none to Mr. Cunningham , it has been bound by its own logic not to attempt to justify for the benefit of the court the figure awarded . |
| 7 | The visit of the prune-faced yelling bundle had done nothing to change his own resolution not to produce a child , but certainly Susan herself had seemed happy enough . |