Example sentences of "not give [art] [noun sg] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 According to this source , and obviously excluding those firms who did not give a year of formation , only fifteen firms were established in the 1960s .
2 Significantly , it does not give a deadline for Mr Yeltsin to present a new law on the government , ending his emergency powers .
3 The courts have held that if there is no evidence that the accused believed that he was not dishonest by the standards of ordinary people , the judge need not give a direction in Ghosh terms : Roberts ( 1987 ) 84 Cr App R 117 on handling ; Price ( 1989 ) 90 Cr App R 409 on deception ; and Squire [ 1990 ] Crim LR 341 on conspiracy to defraud .
4 Does my hon. Friend agree that the very people of whom Labour Members complain , saying that they do not give a service in Government Departments , almost always belong to unions who support the Labour party ?
5 Is not the simple truth that the Government do not give a damn about law and order and do not care about the safety of people in their homes and on the streets ?
6 Copyright does not give a monopoly in ideas ; what it does is to prevent a person from copying or otherwise capitalizing on tangible expressions of ideas made by others .
7 He did not give the money to charity .
8 Parliament did not give the Secretary of State the power to fix poll tax levels .
9 York winner Sabre Rattler will be backed for the big two-year-old race , but may not give the weight to Urry Urry Urry ( 3.00 ) .
10 Firstly , there was a widespread opinion that arts staff do not give the priority to INSET which other areas of the curriculum do .
11 And Letterworth had said that the deal was bogging down in that bloody stupid Olympic fracas and the Afghan mess , and that he did n't give a shit for politics , only for selling engines .
12 The fellow said he did n't give a fig about life so why should he fear death ?
13 You do n't give a toss about culture .
14 QUESTIONED about his war crimes , Arkan responded vigorously by saying : ‘ I do n't give a damn about Bill Clinton and his war crimes trials .
15 Two weeks in a semi-finished house , with a man who does n't give a damn about appearances have worked their magic , and I do n't know if I 'm Cinderella now or the pumpkin , but I 'm certainly not the obnoxious girl who arrived here a fortnight ago .
16 Biological functions do n't give a damn about nationality ; your arm works without knowing if it 's French or American .
17 I do n't give a damn about Ivan 's ridiculous rag , said Charles , but of course he did , he cared much more than she did , and with reason , for Ivan usually managed to deliver her some backhanded compliment , whereas Charles always got it in the neck : ‘ HEADLEAND CRASHES HEADLONG ’ had been the headline of Ivan 's latest piece of gossip , which had consisted of a dangerous account of Charles 's behaviour at a meeting of a board of directors , laced with unfounded but inventive innuendo about a country house which he and Liz were said to be purchasing as a tax dodge .
18 No father to speak of-he 's got a new family , lives in Germany , and does n't give a damn about Malcolm .
19 She does n't give a damn about politics — never has . ’
20 While I ca n't give a cause of death at this stage , I can say the dead man had suffered a number of lacerations about his face and body and a stab wound to his side .
21 Please do n't give a pet for Christmas .
22 Masculine like they do n't make them any more , do n't give a fuck about Dante , do n't touch alcohol , find it cold here after their own country and are more interested in praying and politics than getting laid .
23 I think that 's the problem with degrees , they 're all very specialized , and they do n't give a lot of scope for broad sort of study .
24 If that power was sufficient , the holy spirit , if that power was sufficient to raise Christ from the dead , you not think he 's able to exert that power in your life and in my life to make us live lives that are pleasing to God , of course it is so we do n't do it ourselves , just let me in closing mention one other thing , this relationship we have needs to be maintained , you know for any relationship to grow , one needs to spend time with the other person , I do n't give a lot of credence to the saying that absence makes the heart grow fonder , it does with somebody else , it 's true , it does not make it grow fonder of that person the person is you know who you , you heard this story so often , like particularly like going back during the last war , folk who were separated sometimes for , for , not just for months but for several years , there they were in concentration camps perhaps , in prisoner of war camps , separated for years , they come back home they 've got to get to know each other all over again you see that a relationship on a human level as well as in our relationship with God is dependent on , on association , it 's dependent on companionship , it 's dependent on spending time with the other person and in our relationship with Christ this is achieved by , by prayer , by knowing and understanding God 's word , by having fellowship with other Christians and fellowship with other Christians is not just meeting them and passing the time of day with them , oh that 's fellowship but it 's far more than that is required , there 's the fellowship in worship , we worship together , of course I can worship God at home of course I can do it , so can you do it and we , we should do it , but there 's that re , there 's that need , that requirement as God 's people we come together to worship him in a corporate act , in the sacraments , in , as we mentioned in , in earlier on in taking the bread and the wine and remembering the lords death , there 's a sense in which I can do it by myself
25 ‘ Even Liverpool have started doing it — and if they have , it does n't give a lot of hope to the rest of us .
26 I I 'm happy to serve as long as it is n't you know , I mean I I ca n't give a lot of time because er my time 's so committed .
27 It does n't give the impression of staff muddling on regardless : differences in theoretical perspectives are made explicit .
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