Example sentences of "not [verb] anything that [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Editor , — Allyson M Pollock and Azeem Majeed 's arguments in response to our editorial on consultant episodes could perhaps be summarised as ‘ the internal market is intrinsically flawed and we should not do anything that would delay its demise . ’ |
| 2 | A true friend would not do anything that would enable the disease to continue but would instead take the difficult and risky path of totally confronting it , while still loving the sufferer , despite all the harshness that the disease will cause the sufferer to throw in return . |
| 3 | At that moment I understood that the Army out there , with its tanks aiding those madmen or , OK , even those pitiful people defending their immediate right to life is not defending anything that can be described as a social or national cause . |
| 4 | Ace was uncertain whether or not to say anything that might disturb his concentration more than the noise outside did . |
| 5 | To say that Socrates is mortal is true is not to say anything that can not be said by asserting that Socrates is mortal . |
| 6 | Mary said : ‘ My ultimate concern is not to say anything that will damage Stewart 's career . |
| 7 | But more important still , in making such statements one is not asserting anything that could conceivably be interpreted in terms of non-relational , or " qualitative " , properties of the objects concerned . |
| 8 | He wanted to be quite sure of not missing anything that might be going on there . |
| 9 | My second point , and it refers to again er something that Barton Willmore referred to and that 's the question er an engine of growth , and it seems to me that that that such a settlement would become an en engine of growth in in the countryside , not least because of of the it would become self fulfilling , er and it would be the obvious sort of sink hole , as Mr Thomas said , for for subsequent land allocations , I think , erm this this point has been touched upon by both the representatives from Leeds City Councils and from Cleveland , Leeds City Council appear not to want it in the Leeds York corridor for just that reason , the representative from Cleveland , who unfortunately is n't here today erm does n't want it in the North of the county for for what I understand to be to be that same reason , erm and the Inspector at the Stone Basset erm enquiry in Oxfordshire , and I I do refer th to this in my evidence , he he drew a very similar conclusion about this when he said , and I quote , once destep once established the new town would generate a momentum of growth that would be difficult to contain , such growth , if allowed , could further harm the rural character of the countryside and the villages in this part of Oxfordshire , I think that conclusion can be applied to North Yorkshire , and I certainly have n't heard anything that would convince me that that such growth once it started could could be controlled , and indeed the the record of controlling growth against erm projected requirements in the structure plan to date has has not been good , witness earlier comments on the structure plan overshoot . |
| 10 | Arseholes , I would n't , I would n't do anything like that , I would n't do anything that might hurt |
| 11 | He had n't seen anything that could be a church . |
| 12 | ‘ We do n't like anything that might give someone the idea to stick a poor fish in beer . |
| 13 | When you carry out the initial survey to check just what you have got and what you want , do n't discard anything that might make a positive contribution to the garden later on . |
| 14 | He could n't afford anything that could blunt his instincts . |