Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] with [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is certain that bees are very responsive to different tones of the human voice , and this is probably the reason for the country belief that bees are peace-loving beings and will not stay with a quarrelsome family . |
| 2 | Having three or more moles greater than five millimetres in diameter ( ones you can not cover with the blunt end of a pencil ) ; |
| 3 | After the last exchange of prisoners in mid-September , Iran had refused to release an estimated 17,000 Iraqi prisoners , claiming that Iraq still held 20,000 Iranians not registered with the International Committee of the Red Cross ( ICRC ) . |
| 4 | As an exercise for the legs , Whernside excels but in immediate interest can not compare with the neighbouring Ingleborough and Penyghent . |
| 5 | Though so it serve our purpose , I would not quarrel with a little license . ’ |
| 6 | To say that Miranda on the island and Rosalind in the forest ‘ correspond to the soul of the ducal crown which can not remain with the illegal usurper , but must live in exile with the rightful ruler ’ uses queer and difficult language without helping matters one jot . |
| 7 | If , however , no undertakings can be negotiated and the MMC investigates the merger and finds that it operates or may be expected to operate against the public interest , the Secretary of State has power to order the parties not to proceed with a proposed merger or to order divestment by the purchasing company if the merger has been completed . |
| 8 | The City Take-over Panel , which has to give its blessing to the ending of the contract , could take a dim view of the decision not to proceed with a formal bid . |
| 9 | If the Shareholders decide not to proceed with the proposed sale for any reason , the fees of KPMG and [ name ] will be calculated according to time spent and will not exceed £ [ x ] in the case of KPMG and £ [ y ] in the case of [ lawyer ] and all such fees will be payable by the Company . |
| 10 | The RC15K row counter is not included with the electronic KnitRadar either and has to be bought separately . |
| 11 | Final selection of the plates to be included in the test was determined by a number of criteria : the percentage of subjects getting an item correct had to increase with the age of the children ; the distractors at each age should attract responses , but not correlate with the total score ; and the final items needed to be evenly spread across the ability range . |
| 12 | Elite theorists argue more generally than pluralists that where elites can not act with a considerable degree of autonomy in deeply divided societies , centrifugal tendencies are much more likely than centripetal ones ( Nordlinger , 1972 ) . |
| 13 | ‘ If you look at past efforts to launch soccer here in the States it has not met with a great deal of viewing support , ’ said Bill Sherman , a vice president with the McCann Ericson advertising agency . |
| 14 | The parents did not have a policy of stressing racial pride or identity and these children did not identify with the black community . |
| 15 | In brief , it would seem that Anselm , like many reformers , had not reckoned with the solid weight of inertia on most matters , and positive dissent on others . |
| 16 | It would be odd if they did , since feminists , like philosophers , do not speak with a single voice . |
| 17 | General seismic and other expenditures not connected with a specific exploration licence are written off to the profit and loss account immediately . |
| 18 | They also knew they were not connected with the humanitarian assistance programme ( NHAO ) that was eventually run for the contras by the State Department , since those aircraft were ‘ beautiful brand-new L-100s , the most beautifully painted things ’ . |
| 19 | The persistence of such complaints , which from time to time were endorsed by local persons not connected with the woollen trade , suggests that these " oppressions " were widespread and long-lasting . |
| 20 | The Labour Research Department — not connected with the Labour Party — has been investigating what happens to ministers when they lose office . |
| 21 | They resolved that , if the money was now obtainable , it should be applied to assist the funds of the journal designated at that time the Veterinary Record ( not connected with the present journal of that name ) which was edited by professors of the College . |
| 22 | The brown carpet was cigarette-burned and none too clean , but at least it did not clash with the shabby beige of the walls . |
| 23 | What is the point of having the ultra-powerful weapon if it is not armed with the correct ammunition ? |
| 24 | It is like using an elephant gun to fire air-rifle pellets ; inappropriate , inaccurate and completely point of having an ultra-powerful weapon if it is not armed with the correct ammunition ; it is like using an elephant gun to fire air-rifle pellets ; inappropriate , inaccurate and completely unbalanced . |
| 25 | Of all the competing political parties , only the " Lithuanian Communist Party on the CPSU platform " ( a breakaway faction of the CPL , which favoured continued subordination to the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and drew its support overwhelmingly from the minority Russian , Byelorussian and Polish populations — ibid. ) did not campaign with a pro-independence manifesto . |
| 26 | The aircraft was not equipped with a take-off-out-of-trim warning device . |
| 27 | Hilton 's mystical theology is not conveyed with the passionate poetry that characterises Rolle 's writing , it is not attended by the rigours of the Cloud-author 's sense of that transcendent God who can not be known in any recognisable sense of the word , the visionary experience of Julian of Norwich , or the endearingly unbalanced enthusiasm of Margery Kempe . |
| 28 | For example : each soloist need not begin with a formal bow to a king or to the audience , nor end with another bow or considered pose ; but such behaviour may be included if the choreographer wishes to locate dance in a particular century and probably a palace in which the story unfolds . |
| 29 | The threat from land-based medium-range Soviet weapons did not begin with the initial siting of the SS-20s in 1977 . |
| 30 | His words are a sober reminder that rebellion against God does not begin with the clenched fist of atheism but with the self-satisfied heart of the one for whom ‘ thank you ’ is redundant . |