Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] not [verb] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | In the last six articles I tried not to describe any canoeing technique as right or wrong . |
2 | I sat up feeling strangely light-headed and carefree ; maybe I 'd not had much sleep , but at least I had beaten the organist , at least I 'd been spared the Magnificat on an empty stomach . |
3 | I pledge not to buy any products made from tropical hardwoods . |
4 | I started not having much time for the French and the Walloons , which is to say the French-speaking Belgians , when I found myself among them in 1944 . |
5 | ‘ I try not to show any favouritism to the horses , ’ says John . |
6 | But I do not regard these factors as justifying sweeping away the law which for so long has regulated the conduct of charitable corporations . |
7 | However , I do not regard this problem as insuperable . |
8 | I am a woman , and also a writer who has used up her allotment of renown during her own lifetime ; and on those two grounds I do not expect much pity , or much understanding , from posterity . |
9 | I do not expect much joy from the Minister tonight , but I give warning that , for the time I remain on these Benches , with the label on which I came here eight and a half years ago — as a Labour Member of Parliament , albeit a Member who has a label beneath his name on the TV as an expelled Labour Member — I shall bring before the House the necessary measures not just to talk about the death of the poll tax but to bury it once and for all . |
10 | I do not expect any difficulty in getting approval for the larger sum , and can do that at the same time as tenders are to hand for acceptance , but it will remain important to contain the total project cost as far as possible . |
11 | I do not shirk any responsibility in this matter , nor do I shirk any responsibility for the actions taken by my officials or for the way in which the Parliamentary Under-Secretary handled the case . |
12 | He said : ‘ I do not feel any mercy for the IRA . |
13 | ‘ What I meant to say is , I do not feel any animosity to you , signorina . ’ |
14 | I do not want any criticisms that we may have of some home owners or some trends to detract from that important fact . |
15 | I do not want another family to go through what I have been through . |
16 | ‘ I do not make that distinction , ’ said Zeinab . |
17 | I do not make that presumption . |
18 | I do not make any award for the sums claimed from disposable income for her employment during the said , the alleged year off , since I 'm not satisfied she would have had a year off , or would have had any disposable income even if she had taken that year . |
19 | I do not make any apology for accepting that single millionaires will be at an advantage in that situation , but the millions of people on lowish incomes , particularly the retired , will be penalised most . |
20 | I do not make this point to suggest that all these theories are wrong in every detail , but to underline the importance of looking behind the apparently innocent measures on which so much of the global-system literature is based . |
21 | We have set up a Review Group but I do not think all action can wait on its recommendations . |
22 | I do not think that section 3(1) envisages any such act as an ‘ appropriation , ’ whatever may be the meaning of that word in other fields such as contract or sale of goods law . |
23 | The low style is surely recalled by the colloquial " " Hé " " given to God and St Peter as noted above , and the high by the description of the young wife in Les Trois Boçus : ( a beautiful girl So beautiful that she was a delight And if I should tell you the truth I do not think that Nature ever made Any more beautiful creature . ) |
24 | I do not think that research has gone as fast as it should ! |
25 | But leaving that aside , as I have already explained , the court will not be ‘ hearing and determining the swap cases together ’ and I do not think those words can be stretched so as to include the present procedural arrangements . |
26 | ‘ I do not think any publisher has given any journalist that chance before in the United Kingdom . ’ |
27 | But I do not think any traveller has ever been in a worse situation than I was then . |
28 | I do not think this grouping or group let is yet a class either in itself or for itself and it may never become one . |
29 | I do not think this experience is confined to women , but it symbolizes something of the quality of the Great Mother , and it shows how we have the ability to conceive and carry to birth on a level other than the physical . |
30 | I do not think this difficulty is insuperable , particularly if one accepts that a single gene mutation could have a large effect in fitting an organism to a new environment . |