Example sentences of "that [pers pn] [vb mod] not give " in BNC.

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1 ‘ I assure you that I will not give any offence to the Lady Yolande .
2 I told the hon. Gentleman that I could not give him the information for which he asked until October , when the 1991 population figures would become available .
3 The next witness was the Duchess 's cook , who spoke very angrily and said that she would not give any evidence .
4 She sensed that he needed more , and this was something that she could not give … the secret places of her mind .
5 Mr Browning motioned his wife to be quiet and taking Wilson 's arm conducted her to the door , saying something to the effect that she must not give way to gloomy thoughts and that doubtless she was tired with a young baby still nursing and a house to run .
6 This is n't to say that you ought not to give such personal undertakings ; on the contrary , unless you have reason to distrust your client , you should be prepared to take this very small risk to facilitate completion .
7 In Leicestershire we are trying to produce an agreed policy between each practice and cardiologist , and I would entirely agree that you can not give a blanket yes or no .
8 ‘ I will allow you to take his soul , ’ said Fael-Inis again , ‘ but I must have your promise that you will not give his body to the Conablaiche .
9 I tell Opposition Members that we shall not give way ; we shall retain control over public spending .
10 The recognition that we can not give complete holist explanations of social phenomena does not undermine the centrality of the intuition to which the doctrine , in its various forms , is a response : the sense that many properties of individuals , whether tastes , aspirations , beliefs , expectations or habits , are to an over-whelming extent formed by society .
11 One thing to be said of that is that it does not at all follow , from the fact that we can not give particular descriptions of items that fall within a set , that we can not satisfactorily conceive of and describe the set .
12 The ones who served on the Organising Committee and the embryo Central Authority , and the remainder who joined them on appointment later in 1947 , were quite clear that they would not give up their statutorily entrenched independence to Citrine and Self .
13 [ Guevara then went on to mention ] some things he had in mind : — ( 1 ) That they could not give back the expropriated properties … but they could pay for them in trade .
14 They should not feel aggrieved at her asking for money ; when she went into the cold hall she felt that it would not give her back much , if anything .
15 Hailed by Sir David Wilson , the Governor of Hong Kong , as " a good agreement for Hong Kong " , the memorandum was widely seen as the UK acceding to China 's demands for a greater say in Hong Kong 's affairs , although Sir David claimed that it would not give China a veto over the Hong Kong government .
16 It was held ( a ) that it was a statement of present fact , namely that at the time the letter was sent the traveller had a definite and certain booking , ( b ) that that statement was false because the airline 's overbooking policy meant that the traveller 's booking was exposed to a risk that it might not give a seat on the aircraft , and ( c ) that the airline made the false statement knowingly ( and not merely recklessly ) since the airline was well aware of its own overbooking policy .
17 I think that I heard the Minister of State say that he would not give way .
18 Is the hon. Gentleman saying that he would not give it the limited powers of disposal available in clause 4(4) ( b ) ?
19 I had hoped that on my twenty-first birthday I would discover more about my future , but Mr Jaggers explained that he could not give me any more information , except that from now on I would have five hundred pounds a year to spend as I liked .
20 And he , too , when asked , gave the angel some fruit from his share , explaining that he could not give away his brothers ' pears .
21 The despair of Jack 's friends has always been that he will not give himself any trouble .
22 That being so , will my right hon. Friend give the House a commitment that he will not give way on that in the discussions next week ?
23 THE owner of a Newtownards pub targeted by loyalist bombers because it hosted folk music sessions has vowed that he will not give in to terrorist threats .
24 Fenton regrets that he can not give personal advice .
25 Foucault , as we have seen , is also criticized on the grounds that he can not give a cause for the shifts he describes , but this criticism itself begs the question insofar as it assumes a certain kind of history , which itself presupposes that there was a cause in the sense of a single uniform causality , rather than a disconnectedness in the scientific mode .
26 He tells me that sometimes my desire verges on cannibalism , and that he can not give me what I want .
27 The Home Secretary has told the Commission that he can not give advice on the matter .
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