Example sentences of "[verb] [not/n't] [verb] of [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the final day of the meeting , progress was overshadowed by the UK 's refusal to agree not to dispose of radioactive waste under the seabed . |
| 2 | It was just a pity that the small stock of provisions did not allow of imaginative cuisine . |
| 3 | Depressed and anxious patients who sought refuge from their troubles by taking an overdose remained unconscious for a time but did not die of respiratory failure or asphyxiation , as happened only too readily after an overdose of barbiturate . |
| 4 | On the whole the working-class seaside resort did not become of major significance until the 1880s , and the nobility and gentry would scarcely consider a stay at Bournemouth ( where the French poet Verlaine found himself ) or Ventnor ( where Turgenev and Karl Marx took the air ) as a suitable summer activity . |
| 5 | What about my freedom to eat a canteen meal in relatively clean air , to wear clothes that do not reek of stale tobacco and to breathe air as clean as is reasonably possible . |
| 6 | His room was no bigger than Fat Eric 's , but the people in the house were friendlier , slimmer , and did n't boast of spinal surgery . |
| 7 | My grandfather saying that everything was going downhill , my grandmother talking of progress , but neither expecting it for that year or the next , they did n't dream of real change , not in their lifetime nor their children 's . |
| 8 | I had no idea you did n't approve of go-go dancing or I 'd never have taken you there . ’ |
| 9 | He did n't approve of Celtic influence on what he called " the pure springs of Anglo-Saxon democracy " , holding that most of what had gone wrong with Britain over the past thousand years or so was the fault of " Celtic individualism " . |
| 10 | ‘ I thought you did n't approve of manual labour , ’ Oliver said . |
| 11 | Do you know , they have n't heard of Mystical Medley ? |