Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] [pron] [verb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do not think we have enough police living locally . |
| 2 | He does not think they constitute scientific claims . |
| 3 | I did not think you thought such things . |
| 4 | There is nothing wrong with being interested in , say , television but that does not make them research social scientists . |
| 5 | ‘ On the train from Harwich to London our cases were taken away as our guarantors did not want us wearing funny clothes , ’ one girl remembers . |
| 6 | The more able pupils often produce stereotypical work which may generate the ‘ right ’ answer but may not stimulate them to ask further questions . |
| 7 | Working together on the floor had not constrained them to produce similar representations . |
| 8 | Many parents can not identify who wins these battles and when they think about it carefully admit that in reality the child mostly wins . |
| 9 | But , for all the familiar historical reasons , they can not bring themselves to take decisive steps to tighten the ring around the IRA south of the border . |
| 10 | When they were not meeting they wrote long letters . |
| 11 | The House would not expect me to give any assurances about the timing of construction and the extent to which the investment appraisal test will be met . |
| 12 | Director of OEM and technology licensing for IBM 's advanced workstations and systems division , Lucian Bifano said ‘ Since the [ PowerPC ] agreement with Motorola and Apple 18 months ago , we speculated on who would be the first to market with a product ; we certainly did not expect it to come four months after our October announcement of the first silicon ’ . |
| 13 | The attack was based on a number of strands of evidence , including the fact that activation of the sympathetic branch of the autonomic nervous system was too diffuse to underpin the range of subtle emotional experiences of which we are capable , and the observation that severing the spinal cord in dogs does not prevent them displaying facial signs of emotion when provoked in an appropriate way . |
| 14 | Though typically economists look at the way in which human beings create and distribute goods and services , often with an eye on issues to do with efficiency according to some rational criteria , this does not prevent them using economic theories to examine , for example , educational provision , the supply of blood donors , voting choice , to name but a few . |
| 15 | In Commission of the European Communities v. Hellenic Republic ( Case 127/87 ) [ 1988 ] E.C.R. 3333 , 3348 , para. 7 the court referred to its established case law : see , inter alia , Hellenic Republic v. Commission of the European Communities ( Case 57/86 ) [ 1988 ] E.C.R. 2855 to the effect that the fact that member states retain certain monetary powers does not entitle them to take unilateral measures prohibited by the E.E.C . |
| 16 | ‘ If she 'd been in love with Henry she 'd have agreed to be his mistress — not made him wait seven years for a divorce before she let him take her to bed . |
| 17 | Applying these principles to the facts of this case , the central allegations were that Savory Milln knew that £23m of the sub-underwriting was being arranged through Mr Ferriday , knew that he was personally responsible for £7.5m and that it did not believe he had sufficient funds to cover his obligations . |
| 18 | I can not believe it took two weeks to discover that three of our Olympic athletes had taken drugs . |
| 19 | It 's a dog does not entail It has four legs |
| 20 | The USA told the Philippine government on Sept. 24 that if agreement was not reached it wanted four years to withdraw its forces from Subic Bay . |
| 21 | In discussions with me , representatives of all the major brewing companies have admitted that the orders did not force them to take those actions against the tenants . |
| 22 | I will not have you kissing other men in public ! |
| 23 | ‘ I 'm not saying we became best buddies because we never did , ’ says Penny . |
| 24 | We 're not doing it to compensate Social Services |
| 25 | It is not known who wrote these lines . |
| 26 | Lawyers already informally take on certain winners on this basis , and the reward proposed — a small uplift on normal fees — will not induce them to accept chancy cases . |
| 27 | We can acquiesce in this thought experiment only because we implicitly assume that enough behavioural complexity will be discovered for us to regard tribe members as having beliefs and intentions , even if , ex hypothesi , their very simple language does not permit them to express these beliefs and intentions . |
| 28 | Papa did not permit her to meet young men , and this was an adventure . |
| 29 | The project does not intend itself to collect actual papers and confines its attentions to non-governmental records only . |
| 30 | The Vienna Convention defines a treaty as an agreement ‘ governed by international law ’ and does not require it to allocate legal rights and obligations . |