Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] with a [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 | Though so it serve our purpose , I would not quarrel with a little license . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 ) . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . |
| 7 | It would be odd if they did , since feminists , like philosophers , do not speak with a single voice . |
| 8 | General seismic and other expenditures not connected with a specific exploration licence are written off to the profit and loss account immediately . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The aircraft was not equipped with a take-off-out-of-trim warning device . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | You can not work with a dirty tool . ’ |
| 13 | One possibility is that the kinds of rules which operate within sentences operate between them as well : that grammar , to put it another way , does not stop with a full stop but reaches over it . |
| 14 | It is important that the category of children with moderate learning difficulties , which has escalated to frightening proportions , is not replaced with a new category of disruptive pupils . |
| 15 | Similarly , investors tend not to deal with a new house if they are doubtful about its tenacity — and skilled market staff will not join a firm even for high salaries if they are unsure that it will remain in the market . |
| 16 | People are not born with a repressed set of experiences , but they acquire them , although at times Freud seems to suggest that some parts of the repressed material of earlier generations is inherited . |
| 17 | If we are not provided with a reasoned argument in its support , why should we accept , as if it were self-evident , that accuracy and acquisition orders are the same ? |
| 18 | The fieldworker was not provided with a formal set of interview questions to work through systematically ; a formal questionnaire is replaced with modules or sets of questions organized around specific topics . |
| 19 | After a leisurely day on the beach why not relax with a cool drink in our Smugglers bar whilst taking in the superb sea and Exmoor views . |
| 20 | A firm which is a tied firm must take all reasonable steps to inform itself and others acting on its behalf fully about what packaged products are available from the marketing group to which it belongs , and must not proceed with a packaged product for a private customer if it is aware of another packaged product from the marketing group 's product range which would meet the customer 's requirements better . |
| 21 | It is not a circular slipped under your door to which you may or may not respond with a pre-paid envelope . |
| 22 | The other five were well aware of the fragility of the Fourth Republic , especially after the 1956 French election , and fearing that the EEC might not happen with a different government in power in Paris , were keen to get things moving as quickly as possible . |
| 23 | Furth 's ( 1966 ) view is that there is an experiential deficit which appears repeatedly in test situations , but this does not coincide with a cognitive deficit . |
| 24 | In certain instances , the length of your particular track may not coincide with a balanced pleating arrangement because of the pre-determined size of the pleats , thereby leaving a larger than usual space at one side of your curtain . |
| 25 | And horrified Superintendent Peter Edwards of British Transport Police , said : ‘ We are very fortunate we are not dealing with a major disaster . |
| 26 | Fellows seems to have acted in the sale of the Grand Union to the Grand Junction , for in a letter to the Grand Union he pointed out that the price would have to be realistic , bearing in mind that they were not dealing with a willing purchaser . |
| 27 | Sometimes adults , inexperienced and suspicious of drama , could not cope with a vague suggestion that the second partner should be in role as a friend , colleague or relative . |
| 28 | Dame Sirith does not end with a brief moral in the way that so many of the French fabliaux do . |
| 29 | The regulators are not left with a free hand as the rules will still have to satisfy statutory purposes , a central part of which is investor protection . |
| 30 | There are cases in which prosecutions failed because the nuisance did not interfere with a sufficient number of the public . |