Example sentences of "[not/n't] [be] [verb] with the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even this might have been bearable if the King had not been tainted with the vices of meanness and frugality . |
| 2 | In no circumstances can a debtor now be sent to prison for failing , no matter how deliberately , to pay a hotel bill or an account with a shop or a hire-purchase debt , yet the air has not been filled with the ululations of stricken credit traders unable to recover their money . |
| 3 | Auditors are normally concerned with ensuring that the accounts of a firm are an accurate record of its financial position and that employers or directors have not been absconding with the funds or ‘ fiddling the books ’ . |
| 4 | But grammar can not be equated with the devices used to exemplify its formal properties . |
| 5 | But if an alliance can not be made with the parents against what feels uncontrollably bad inside them , they may defect and identify with the ‘ bad ’ . |
| 6 | Cuvier insisted that the four types were simply different and equally successful body plans — they should not be ranked with the vertebrates at the top , since this would smack too much of the old chain of being . |
| 7 | Either I get hooked on the story or message to the exclusion of the drawings , or am arrested by the designs and can not be bothered with the balloons . |
| 8 | This secret could not be shared with the grown-ups . |
| 9 | THE SIGN up on the door of the venue read : ‘ The Beacon Theatre advises that Shane McGowan will not be playing with The Pogues tonight . |
| 10 | Newcomers to the Left could be forgiven for not being acquainted with the tactics of the Communists and with the tortuous and unedifying relationships within the United Front . |
| 11 | ‘ Bands bigger than us have got a responsibility — they ca n't be messing with the kids ! |
| 12 | That science can be dangerous because people are imperfect and ca n't be trusted with the weapons science creates . |
| 13 | It it 's obviously wrong that where they have had access , lawful or otherwise , that the that they should n't be interfering with the rights and the ability of the walkers to walk along that route . |