Example sentences of "[verb] not give the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Tantum criticised a suggestion made by the Law Commission this year that hacking in its simple form should be an offence which did not give the police powers to arrest suspects or search their premises . |
| 2 | The students from that time remembered a man with a sharp sense of the ridiculous ; who ragged them but was too shy to be intimate with them though they liked him much for his friendliness and his humour ; who was famous for long , sudden , and embarrassing silences ; who was so eccentric that none of them believed that he could later be a man of distinction in England or his Church ; a man who loved theology — they never met anywhere else a man who so loved theology , and who regarded theology as the highest intellectual activity for humanity ; a fierce defender of liberty of opinion , for Marxists as for anyone else ; whose principal theme was the glory of God , and who was evidently touched by his ideas of Plato ; who did not give the impression of a mind of exceptional ability — there was not enough knife in the mind — but who gave the impression of being an exceptional person ; who disturbed other people 's prayers in chapel with convulsive fidgets and sudden face-rubbings — they regarded him as tense in his devotions and were afraid of a nervous breakdown ; who had a manifest and rare mystical sense of the immediate presence of God , a presence so brilliant that it could almost overpower . |
| 3 | The Boston text relates more exclusively to the movement itself and includes , along with historical material , a brief statement by Mark Francis which is intended to justify and explain the motives behind the exhibition ( the Situationists did not give the event their blessings and none of the past members participated in its planning ) . |
| 4 | Frau Nordern did not give the lorries a second glance but dived down a side-street into a rather agreeable square . |
| 5 | And although Bryan Forbes made a stab at backing British filmmakers as head or production for EMI , the company that had taken over ABPC in 1969 , announcing 14 projects within months of taking over his new post , the line-up did not give the impression that he was in touch with any new sources of cinematic excitement . |
| 6 | A junior minister 's pay scarcely covers the cost of a man 's cartridges for the year , but Soames did not give the matter a second thought . |
| 7 | Mary , who now combines her psychology practice with astrological counselling , said : ‘ As a psychologist , for a long time I had been aware of a lack , that this science did not give the whole of the picture . |
| 8 | He did not mention his family and did not give the impression of a man with marital problems . ’ |
| 9 | Sophia Arkwright did not give the details , which Paul was to learn later ; the madman had slashed his wrists with a razor which a careless attendant had left within reach . |
| 10 | The Mail in 1971–3 did not give the radio schedules , while the Times usually printed the wrong day 's schedules and then only for the General Service ( English ) , omitting altogether the Home Service ( Zambian languages ) to which the majority of its readership listened most of the time . |
| 11 | The company , which is trading under Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection , did not give the nine month figures . |
| 12 | A relative novelty for this important property was that , for once , Sotheby 's did not give the consignor a guarantee , correctly judging that with material this good there was little reason to feel the sale would not do splendidly . |
| 13 | Men did not give the impression that their sexuality was at all vulnerable . |
| 14 | The court took the view , which was to be expressly repudiated in later cases , that although there was jurisdiction to entertain the action against the German corporation , this did not give the Californian court jurisdiction over persons or property in Germany . |
| 15 | And if he did not give the people , the sherpas who guided him through the terrain of industrial England , their own voice , the journey gave him a voice of his own . |
| 16 | The 1952 Works Constitution Law spread workers ' powers more widely across German industry , although this act did not give the same degree of influence as was provided in the coal and steel industries . |
| 17 | The Commission and the applicants in the main proceedings considered that the genuine link which was required to exist between the ship and the flag state under the Conventions of 1958 and 1982 did not give the member states the power to enact their own laws with regard to flagging without having regard to the requirements of Community law . |
| 18 | All that the case decided was that the Food Controller was acting outside the Regulations since the Regulations did not give the power to tax . |
| 19 | I hope that I did not give the impression that a Bill could be amended in any way at all as that is not so . |
| 20 | He did not give the money to charity . |
| 21 | God did not give the job , he could not , and he did not try to give the job to anybody else ! |
| 22 | Parliament did not give the Secretary of State the power to fix poll tax levels . |
| 23 | These data do not give the ship 's full performance but are experimental results collected under a variety of real operating conditions . |
| 24 | Do not give the child eggs , fish , chocolate , wheat , oranges , peanuts or other nuts for at least the first six months , and preferably for the first year of life . |
| 25 | How might you incorporate the principle of Ephesians 4:26–27 , ‘ Do not let the sun go down while you are still angry , and do not give the devil a foothold ’ , into a goal for your marriage ? |
| 26 | Other mags I 've looked at give this centrefold pull-out picture , yet their books do not give the great info like yours . |
| 27 | ‘ Do not let the sun go down while you are still angry , and do not give the devil a foothold ’ ( Eph. 4:26–7 ) . |
| 28 | They do not give the press or the universities or the churches the right to broadcast respectively the programmes on the news , education or religion , or to determine how they should be broadcast ’ ( Annan , 1977 , p. 9 ) . |
| 29 | The lanky West Indians rely not on lateral movement but on speed and bounce , as to England 's Malcolm and numerous others like him , who do not give the ball enough air in which to swing . |
| 30 | These bare figures do not give the whole picture , however . |