Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [pers pn] [verb] not [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I ca n't say that we 'll approve every one , but obviously we know that if you introduce a general charge there will be people for whom you do not want it to affect unfairly . |
| 2 | For some time before 5 p.m. her mother was alone with Miss T. What passed between them we do not know , because Miss T. has never been able to say and the mother , although a party to the proceedings , has never seen fit to give evidence . |
| 3 | Our main concern is here is a method that might be a problem it 's theoretically and physiologically could be a problem , about which we do not know the extent . |
| 4 | One third of all full-time courses at the University of Ulster require students to undertake a period of professional or industrial placement during which they do not receive grant aid but are remunerated by the employing organization . |
| 5 | In order to set a baseline her parents set aside an hour each evening for one week during which they did not tell Lindsay to stop , but recorded the duration of each nose picking session and the frequency . |
| 6 | Further , from the time of an announcement of an auction until 28 days after it has been held , the Bank observes a fallow period during which it does not sell stock of a similar type to that being auctioned so as not to be seen to be depressing the price . |
| 7 | There was , indeed , never a day , except when he was away on short holidays , during which he did not spend some time in her company , from the time of their first association in 1919 until her death in 1951 . |
| 8 | Copies of prints from earlier sessions for which we do not have the negatives , can be processed , but are usually more expensive . |
| 9 | It may prevent extraordinary powers , like that of compulsorily acquiring land , from being abused for unauthorized purposes ; it may prevent a corporation , constituted for purposes of public utility , from endangering those purposes by engaging in other activities ; it may protect the creditors of a company from the dissipation of the company 's capital , to which alone , in the case of a limited company , they can look for payment , and the members from seeing their contributions applied to purposes for which they did not bargain . |
| 10 | They none of them had much money , but the Bouveries had a house , for which they did not have to pay rent . |
| 11 | Some , when reaching their wedding day , may find it difficult to smile , feeling unhappily trapped , persuaded either by lover or parents into a marriage for which they do not feel ready . |
| 12 | This is despite the fact that it is the only universal non-contributory benefit payable to all mothers on behalf of their children , and thus guarantees mothers at least some income for which they do not have to ask their husbands or cohabitees . |
| 13 | Having accepted the fact that your body is a machine for which you do not have the manual , and that it is not like anyone else 's body , what can you do about it ? |
| 14 | At least by the eleventh century every king expected to recruit a part of his army by paying mercenaries , or from knights who received a fee not in land , but in cash ; though he did his best to make his great nobles provide contingents for which he did not have to pay , or ( at least in the twelfth century ) pay him in cash if they did not serve him in person . |
| 15 | The student should not assume facts contrary to those stated in the problem for the purpose of giving the examiner a piece of information for which he did not ask . |
| 16 | As for patients , most are satisfied by all aspects of emergency consultations with deputising service doctors , most of whom they do not know . |
| 17 | Emigrants — what proportion of them we do not know — dreamed of making their pile abroad and returning home , rich and respected , to their native villages . |
| 18 | After another round of serious negotiations the ARC finally agreed to release the report , the hard statistical evidence , but not the case studies , the interpretation of which they did not consider to be ‘ objective . ’ |
| 19 | On paper , the Democrats had comfortable majorities in the House ( 262–174 ) and the Senate ( 65–35 ) ; but an alliance of conservative southern Democrats and Republicans blocked the passage of legislation of which they did not approve . |
| 20 | The fact that the elderly parents acted reasonably and did nothing wrong and yet entered into an agreement , the ramifications of which they did not appreciate , did not affect the creditor so as to afford equitable relief to the parents . |
| 21 | Life in the slum forces parents to adopt child-rearing methods of which they do not approve , and Wilson concludes that ‘ in the world of poverty the material preconditions necessary for child-centred parenting do not exist ’ . |
| 22 | Their consequence for the tiny particles was only apparently random and unpredictable , due to the hidden atomic motions of which we did not have adequately detailed knowledge . |
| 23 | Therefore , a transfer from the husband to husband and wife " to hold upon the trusts of a declaration of trust of even date " may be rejected by the registrar , for its wording puts him on notice of a trust the terms of which he does not know . |
| 24 | It was reported that in 1985 and 1986 , objection was taken by the Lord Chancellor to Lord Justice Brown-Wilkinson 's participation in public debates as a result of which he did not appear . |
| 25 | After all the doubts and uncertainties , wrote Harsnet , most of which I did not admit to myself , or else tried to pretend were an integral part of the project , sense now that it is on its way . |
| 26 | The meadows were scattered with wild flowers some of which I did not recognise . |
| 27 | My hon. Friend has made the point clearly and I am grateful to him for doing so , in view of which I do not think a debate is necessary . |
| 28 | I looked at Jean-Claude as he gave me these instructions and I saw a side of him I did not recognize . |
| 29 | Some of it they did not believe ; some of it she did not report . |
| 30 | Your Royal Highness , it follows to me er Council have debated the Riding Report er a lot of it they did not accept , many of the ideas were referred back for further reconsideration and that is in the hands of the Central Management Committee at the moment and we are proposing to develop the ideas and come back to Council and the wh whole report is not forgotten . |