Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] [verb] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 He never was — which was just as well since fate brought him a series of posts whose functions were not calculated to endear him to the public or the party .
2 The German and French leaders told the Prime Minister they did not want to see him in the run up to the Edinburgh summit , which begins on Friday .
3 For someone of this persuasion , who does not want to attribute everything to the workings of power , the problem obviously arises of why the sexes should have distinctive linguistic subcultures at all .
4 She did not want to find herself in a hierarchical situation in relation to others at work , thereby creating false barriers and reinforcing the capitalist class structure .
5 A Punjabi speaking volunteer was suggested to sit in , but this was not acceptable as the family did not want to commit themselves to a regular time for the volunteer to call .
6 The tone of the article was that Charman was getting out because he did not want to commit himself to the group on a full-time basis .
7 After certain difficulties with the manager of the Old Vic , who did not want to commit himself to the play on the basis of the bare outline which had been shown to him , Browne approached the theatrical impresario , Henry Sherek , and asked him if he would care to produce the play — with Browne as director — at Edinburgh .
8 He may not be able to call upon the driver who took over the car to support his defence and to help him discharge the balance of probabilities in his favour , because that driver would not want to expose himself to the criminal charges of aggravated car theft .
9 It must be for the local authorities , which have the statutory responsibilities , to take those responsibilities extremely seriously and I would not want to divorce them from the primary responsibility for undertaking those tasks .
10 The federal pump-priming for their establishment , eventually extended to cover their first eight years , was not intended to support them for the long term .
11 However , this is not intended to condemn us to the conclusion that changes in society are the chance results of unrelated factors .
12 I would not presume to add anything to the Word of God but I have a sneaking suspicion that if Isaiah had been writing in the 1990s he might have added a phrase .
13 ‘ Thank you , ’ she said , not daring to look them in the face .
14 And , we 're not in doing , not intend telling you at the er , proposals we will put in the budget , but I can give you an assurance at this point in time , that we shall be borrowing money .
15 I think from the County Council 's point of view , the safeguard is there is no proposal to make those available for other spending within the committee and therefore , if hopefully we do not need to access them during the year , they are still available for Council in future years to , to meet other spending requirements .
16 Clearly , we would not need to concern ourselves with the meaning of analogue information if all sources of text , numerics , sounds and images were digital .
17 The important point about heritability is that we do not need to know anything about the actual genotypes in order to say what it is .
18 In a search system like Okapi , which ranks records by weighting terms , the system also does not need to know anything about the nature of the relationship .
19 Other than this we do not need to know anything about the portion of the sentence we have already generated .
20 To make a hole in masonry or concrete you do not need to exert anything like the pressure you do with a conventional percussion/ratchet hammer drill which basically relies on drill rotation to wear away the material .
21 I can not promise to make you into a world authority on ingredients , but I do hope to share my passion for good food with you , and to inspire you to try a different type of tea or a new way of serving pasta .
22 It was clear that she had not expected to find him in the room .
23 The probationers told him to remember that every minute he was getting a little better , and Ward Sister told him not to make any effort , and not to try to take anything by the mouth .
24 Obviously a testimonial of this kind was not designed to endear me to a number of critics .
25 He drove grimly and skilfully and he drove very fast as if he could not wait to get her on the plane to England and out of his sight .
26 Counsel thought so little of it that he did not seek to sustain it before the House of Lords .
27 I have to say though , that when we the Council advise other charities on the investment powers that they should take when they 're established and when they draft their Memorandum of Association , erm , we advise them to take wider powers er , than these , and we advise them that they should not seek to constrain themselves by the Trustee Investment Act nineteen sixty-one , as our own flexibility is constrained .
28 She had not looked deliberately , not wanting to tempt herself with the sight of him .
29 Can I , can I just say chairman , finally for point of clarification in case there 's any doubt about it I 'm not looking to turn it into the , into an absolutely like efficient business you know and everything succumbs to that .
30 In a free society , if trade unions want the rights of ownership , they can not expect to get them as a free gift and call it industrial democracy .
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