Example sentences of "not [verb] [to-vb] that [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We do not wish to change that in any way , shape or form , but we are anxious about the word ‘ acceptability ’ later in the Clause' [ A local authority shall not promote the teaching in any maintained school of the acceptability of homosexuality as a pretended family relationship ] . |
| 2 | I do not mean to suggest that in every literal generation trees are taller than their counterparts in the previous generation , nor that the arms race is necessarily still going on . |
| 3 | But he did not seem to notice that in the previous paragraph he had just used the same method for boosting the production of Johannes Raven . |
| 4 | If we can start into the budget then , I think members will be fully aware of the wider context that the County Council finds itself in , and we 're not proposing to rehearse that at any great length for you other than if you wish us to er , run through that again . |
| 5 | I did n't want to say that to you in a letter or over the phone . ’ |
| 6 | We do n't want to squander that through lax cost control , irresponsible pay increases and things like that . |
| 7 | But we do n't want to discuss that before B do we really ? |
| 8 | And you do n't have to improve that by much , that 's what I 'm saying , you know , cutting down on your lunch time , do n't do it , but er , and I take the point that you , you made Jenny which is an excellent one , that here we are , we 've got this great swath of companies that , this great swath of companies , and the amount of time that we can actually spend er , doing cold calls or other things that we 'd like to do , er , is governed by something else . |