Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] [prep] [art] [noun] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | The government had not intervened in the dockers ' ban , and although they supported the Poles against the Bolsheviks they were aware of the general feelings amongst the working classes , which were expressed vociferously at workers ' meetings throughout the country . |
| 2 | Agreement between ( the Insurers ) and ( the Society ) in relation to policies of insurance issued by the Insurers in the joint names of the Society and any of its borrowers on properties mortgaged to the Society and for which the Society does not act as the Insurers ' agent for the collection of premiums . |
| 3 | Roskill J said that B was in breach of an implied duty in : ( a ) not communicating to the plaintiffs ' board the information which he received from the patent agents and in taking no steps to protect the plaintiffs against possible consequences of the existence of the patent ; and ( b ) using information regarding the patent for his own benefit . |
| 4 | By a notice of appeal dated 18 February 1991 the second defendant appealed on the grounds , inter alia , that the judge erred ( 1 ) in concluding that the first defendant was not acting as the plaintiffs ' agent when he procured the signature of the second defendant to the legal charge dated 3 July 1987 ; and ( 2 ) in not finding that the execution of the charge was procured by the undue influence and material misrepresentation of the first defendant and thereby in not setting aside the charge . |
| 5 | Thailand 's four labour congresses and unions representing state utility workers and other service sectors threatened to stage a general strike if the government did not accede to the dockworkers ' demands . |
| 6 | Although the other judges would not look at the assessors ' lists , Burn met them at the hall and compared his list of preferences to theirs . |
| 7 | Some groups were not favourably received partly because they had little to offer the council but also because they were seen as making ‘ unreasonable ’ demands on the local authority — that is , demands which did not square with the councillors ' own policy predispositions . |
| 8 | The change in bone density did not correlate with the patients ' age or number of years after the menopause . |
| 9 | He was followed in the same debate by a junior who informed the representative body that even if we did not vote for the juniors ' motion a solution would be imposed by the Department of Health in conjunction with the juniors whether we liked it or not . |
| 10 | I was not condemned to the Guérignys ' life sentence . |
| 11 | Though , as I mentioned , I was unable to make contact with Mr Mint , a letter accompanying his essay did make clear the unfortunate fact that its standard — or perhaps the startling originality of its thinking — did not meet with the examiners ' approval . |
| 12 | She noticed that several of the school parties were starting , tentatively to join up ; those of her own friends who were not suffering in the Ladies ' saloon were talking , intermittently , to a group of boys from a school in Birmingham . |
| 13 | The names of the gold winners were not known until the judges ' scores , which had been sealed , were opened and added up on the night . |
| 14 | It grew colder still as the night fell , a crackling frost under a sickle moon , but the coldness did not reach into the Norderns ' flat and it would not have done so even had the central heating broken down , the joy and relief of the family generating enough warmth to melt the polar ice-cap if necessary . |
| 15 | You 're not on , we will not be made the scapegoats , with public sector workers will not pay for the Tories ' mismanagement of the economy . |
| 16 | After a tough debate within the Miners ' Federation in 1911 — the miners were not united on the baths ' efficacy — some of the miners ' leaders collaborated with women activists in the labour movement and during the First World War brought out a pamphlet , published by the Women 's Labour League , promoting pithead baths , including testimony from Robert Smillie and the well-known feminist Kathryn Bruce-Glazier . |
| 17 | The Court would not interfere with the Commissioners ' decision , and the appeals would be dismissed . |
| 18 | The Environment Committee and its staff would ensure that the promoters could not interfere with the consultants ' conclusions and that the consultants , during the preparation of the report , had consulted local authorities and environmental agencies such as HMIP or the NRA , or other agencies . |
| 19 | Holly did not interfere with the baron's ' running of the hut . |
| 20 | However , the employers must pay the whole cost of the benefits that are not covered by the employees ' contributions . |
| 21 | She said she had not complained at the paratroopers ' barracks because she knew she would be in trouble for being out of bounds . |
| 22 | The focus , expressed in these quotations , is on the fact that some aspects of the passage did not conform to the readers ' expectations . |
| 23 | In the history of the nation , the temple — and its associated ritualism — rose and fell , as oppression and persecution ( not to speak of the Israelites ' hot-and-cold religious attitudes ) promoted or denied its expression . |
| 24 | When she did n't know about the terrorists ' demands ? ’ |
| 25 | Mind , I do like the girls I do n't know in the ladies ' room , gelling knives of black hair and saying , ‘ He 's a cunt , that one . ’ |
| 26 | Funny ; the place did n't smell like the McHoans ' house did . |
| 27 | It does n't fit with a newscasters ' tradition so it has to be tied down . |
| 28 | " Now you knew very well , Mr. Middlemass , that I do n't go into the gents ' cloakroom , not in working hours . |
| 29 | I did n't go into the parents ' room but went on beyond it to find myself in the rear part of the carriage , at the very end of the train . |