Example sentences of "not [verb] [pron] [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What I am concerned about is that electricity privatisation will not lend itself to improving the situation . |
| 2 | The state 's farmers and bee-keepers might not have realised that they were coping with an externality , but that had not stopped them from organising a market . |
| 3 | Doors and bolts had been fixed , but in a three-month period it was said that ‘ 14 dozen locks ’ had been broken , the children had burned down the door , and even iron gates had not stopped them from gaining access to the roof and throwing stones on people below . |
| 4 | Denying it had not stopped it from growing . |
| 5 | I would have thought that we could request the fenc the fencing and tell them our plans for the fencing and not lose anything by asking for them |
| 6 | for the animal in its mud burrow , valuable time will be lost if it can not prepare itself for foraging until after the tide has left the shore . |
| 7 | But this does not disqualify them from using the word , any more than the English who displaced the ancient Britons are disqualified from continuing to use the name ‘ Britain ’ ( no doubt to the irritation of their southern neighbours , the Bretons of Bretagne ) . |
| 8 | ‘ I 'm not accusing you of getting older . |
| 9 | If I could not reassure her by telling her Neil was there , and watching , it was possible , more , probable , that she would insist either on my moving into a lodging in the village , or that some of the men from the village would keep watch on Otters ' Bay and the empty house . |
| 10 | So in sense then that er the extent of your injuries really would not debar you from working offshore as far as you understand ? |
| 11 | In spite of the fact that since the Clean Air Act of 1956 , pollution caused by smoke has been greatly reduced to the benefit of those who live in the cities , we must not fool ourselves into thinking that there is no longer any problem . |
| 12 | But it was better not to anger it by sleeping on the bed . |
| 13 | Nonetheless , might neurobiologists in general , and memory researchers in particular , not gain something by concentrating on a limited number of model systems that everyone could agree on ? |
| 14 | For his part the president , as he tries to get the cooperation he needs , will not restrict himself to offering inducements . |
| 15 | In the Italian analogues the wife 's punishment is her realization that she has been tricked , and the implication that her " lover " did not consider her worth spending his own money on ; there , this is reflected by the wife 's helplessness when the trick is sprung — quite the opposite of what we have in the Shipman 's Tale . |
| 16 | It was the last of his nightly chores and he looked around once more to make certain that he had not forgotten anything before going up to the room where his young wife was resting . |
| 17 | I will not bore you with going through a lot of slides showing those comparisons , but in a short paper erm you must take my word for it that the two groups were comparable . |
| 18 | However , ‘ players ’ do not confine themselves to releasing into the public domain ‘ required ’ publications . |
| 19 | Owen also does not confine himself to writing only one type of poem but uses many different kinds so to appeal to more people . |
| 20 | The Labour Party document did not confine itself to proposing Newton Institutes . |
| 21 | Greta Burkill did not confine herself to looking after his education , but fought for him to spend a summer with his parents in Venezuela — a country not keen to grant visitors ' visas to Jews at that time . |
| 22 | If charges are intended to raise money , it seems odd not to impose them for staying in hospital or visiting a GP . |
| 23 | The government has , however , not committed itself to publishing the review and , Courtney added , it is unlikely to be published in its entirety as it may contain sharp judgements about the usefulness or effectiveness of some research activities . |
| 24 | Each side of the politician-media professional partnership is striving to realize certain goals vis-à-vis the audience : yet it can not pursue them without securing in some form the co-operation of the other side . |
| 25 | They budgeted for a pay award in line with inflation and while welcoming the ‘ well deserved ’ rise in teachers ' salaries say they can not fund it without cutting school budgets . |
| 26 | Electoral law does not forbid him from describing himself as Conservative but his rival , Mr Gerry Malone , will describe himself on the ballot paper as The Conservative Party Candidate . |
| 27 | While large firms have continued to increase their capital/labour ratios thus widening the productivity gap with smaller firms , this has certainly not prevented them from persuading their suppliers to improve the quality of their equipment . |
| 28 | Yet it has not prevented me from having a very attractive family and being successful in my work . |
| 29 | ’ Melissa was about to point out that Angy 's tender heart had not prevented her from flaunting Rick 's ring as if it were her own , nor had she intervened to protect Barney from hurt , but she merely said , ‘ It was enough to make anyone angry . ’ |
| 30 | Nevertheless , the Commission 's disquiet has not prevented it from agreeing the designation . |