Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] [pron] [to-vb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Callaghan seemed to be implying that it was not enough to offer young people a broad liberal curriculum in school , if such a curriculum did not prepare them to face the unthinking anonymity of the factory production line . |
| 2 | Cassie , who by now was trembling so violently that she could not trust herself to lift the loaded tray , said lightly : ‘ Take the tray , will you , Jenny ? |
| 3 | ( I can not bring myself to follow the grotesque habit which Methodists seem to have learned from the Labour Party of dropping the definite article and so ‘ Conference does this or that ’ never ‘ The Conference . ’ ) |
| 4 | In a curious way , and despite its commitment to vigorous prosecution of the war , Common Wealth provided a refuge for pacifist-minded individuals who could not bring themselves to oppose the anti-fascist war . |
| 5 | For a moment Louisa could not bring herself to answer the frail smile . |
| 6 | Betty Rizzo suggests that Leapor 's metaphor is a sign of her limitations as a poet ; she can not bring herself to write the simple word ‘ mayfly ’ [ Rizzo ] . |
| 7 | It is perhaps surprising that Mr Lamont did not do something to stop the iniquitous practice of large firms delaying due payments to small firms , which has put may of the latter into serious difficulty . |
| 8 | It is perhaps surprising that Mr Lamont did not do something to stop the iniquitous practice of large firms delaying due payments to small firms , which has put many of the latter into serious difficulty . |
| 9 | I 'm not expecting her to do the heavy work . |
| 10 | It does not enable us to identify the faulty premise . |
| 11 | However , this is insufficient because by itself it does not enable us to understand the diverse experience of women of different ethnicities . |
| 12 | All three IBOA Resolutions on the Order Paper were adopted unanimously and as space does not enable us to reproduce the full statements made to Congress a precis is given here-under . |
| 13 | Therefore , when such plants are grown , care should be taken not to allow them to shade the entire water surface of the tank . |
| 14 | We pitched tents in the dark and clambered into our sleeping bags not knowing what to expect the next day . |
| 15 | I mean the erm I still had to have completely new guttering in the summer because you can not get anything to mend the other walls because it 's the wrong side ! |
| 16 | Satan was never wronged nor despised in Heaven ; the exaltation of the son was meant for the good of all the angels but he was so stupid his pride would not allow him to tolerate the unintentional insult . |
| 17 | But it would not allow one to predict the detailed sequence of changes in any run . |
| 18 | He spoke about the Jews in an Egyptian context , though the fragment preserved by Diodorus and quoted by Photius does not allow us to see the exact place of the Jewish excursus in the plan of his book . |
| 19 | The problem is that the research does not allow us to distinguish the relative usefulness of the different interventions or their component parts . |
| 20 | Mr. Lester , for the taxpayers , did not urge us to abandon the exclusionary rule completely . |
| 21 | That did not cause them to escape the sharp edge of Jesus 's tongue . |
| 22 | The new does not cause us to discard the old , but to see its contemporary worth . |
| 23 | These revisions do not ask us to view the prewar Japanese peasant as a prosperous and independent cultivator , but they suggest that at least part of the rural sector was benefiting from the course of development . |
| 24 | ‘ I can not ask you to become the senior member of the board ; that place I reserve for myself , and there is also Lessing whom you have not met . |
| 25 | All these ideas are fun , of course , but they do not help us to answer the original question . |
| 26 | He did n't want me to help the sick and sorry ! ’ |
| 27 | We would n't want him to play the same trick on us , stealing our clients so he can deal them elsewhere , " said Fox Milton director Philip Raisey . |
| 28 | Was she implying to herself that she did n't want anything to spoil the new friendly relationship that had arisen that evening ? |
| 29 | I mean I do n't want anybody to get the wrong idea what it says we 've resolved eighty percent of the outstanding grievances . |
| 30 | But I do n't want you to make the same mistakes the French make here . |