Example sentences of "[vb -s] not [verb] [pron] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The arrival of another SeaCat vessel in May certainly has not hit us the way some people expected . |
| 2 | If your lecturer has not given you a book list , get one of your larger colleagues to persuade him to do so . |
| 3 | ‘ Do n't you know God has not given you the spirit of fear but of love and a sound mind ? ’ |
| 4 | I also know that your informant there has not told you the truth . |
| 5 | Quite deliberately the storyteller has not reported what the runner told the people of the town . |
| 6 | Such awareness does not govern everything a Home Secretary does or says in public , but it will never be far from his thoughts . |
| 7 | The isotherm for CO2 at 321 K shows that the gas does not liquefy whatever the pressure or volume at this temperature . |
| 8 | The ‘ Thatcher governments ’ of 1979 onwards argued that ‘ the world does not owe us a living ’ . |
| 9 | It is often said that unfettered insider dealing does not hurt shareholders ; that insiders ' profits are not outsiders ' losses , but rather evidence of a more efficient allocation of resources ; Just because an investor does not make as much money on the sale of his shares as he would otherwise have done , does not make him a victim in the true sense , as nothing has been stolen from him . |
| 10 | ( I may believe Jesus ' teaching to have been exemplary , or that he was a man singularly in tune with God ; but this , as I would argue , does not make me a Christian . ) |
| 11 | But again this does not make me a Christian . |
| 12 | But that support , which the Nobel committee acknowledges , does not make her a guerrilla . |
| 13 | Making passing references to the poor , the black and to women does not make one a radical or even a liberal . |
| 14 | ( This is obviously correct ; one does not make something a business secret by simply describing it as such . |
| 15 | You may enjoy talking but this does not make you a wizard at verbal presentations . |
| 16 | Blacks need to realise that affirmative action can not solve their most serious problems , whites need to remember that affirmative action does not make it an advantage to be born black . |
| 17 | A " customer " is a person with or for whom a firm carries on , or merely intends to carry on , " regulated business " or other business carried on in connection with that regulated business ; the reference to " other business " does not make someone a customer if he would not otherwise be but seems merely to extend the scope of the activities covered by the COB Rules . |
| 18 | Nevertheless , they all work basically by trying to fit the input into a set of stored templates , and if some input does not fit anything the machine has been given , it simply replies ‘ I do not understand . ’ |
| 19 | Lord Salmon gave as an example two instances of the valuation of a picture , the first for a client who does not tell him the reason for the valuation , and the second where the client tells him the valuation is needed because he is about to sell the picture to a friend . |
| 20 | This gives us , if we know the date of the award ( which is easy to discover ) , the exact date of all the external fences or hedges , but it does not tell us the date of the internal fences on the bigger allotments . |
| 21 | The council tax will treat widows unfairly in the same way , because it does not give them the discount that they deserve . |
| 22 | In these stories the young characters learn that their greater physical power does not give them the right to treat the little people as playthings or inferiors . |
| 23 | In 1915 , Grand Admiral von Tirpitz confided to his diary : ‘ The Kaiser does not give him a chance . ’ |
| 24 | When Michel Rocard was replaced by Edith Cresson on 15 May 1991 , his official letter of resignation made it clear that President Mitterrand had asked him to resign , even though the constitution does not give him the right ( the President is responsible for ‘ nominating ’ the Prime Minister and for approving the Cabinet , but not for dismissing him ) . |
| 25 | An order for specific performance is one which requires the seller actually to deliver the goods and does not give him the option of paying damages instead . |
| 26 | But the Bible does not give us a miracle on every page . |
| 27 | ‘ Her Majesty is paying your bills now , not the State , but that does not give you the right to behave any way you like . ’ |
| 28 | Your card does not give you the right to overdraw your account . |
| 29 | The mixture of an SD1 engine , Range Rover flywheel and exhaust in a Range Rover does not give you the power that you might expect , so be careful when mixing engine components such as flywheels , camshafts , distributor and carbs from different engine applications . |
| 30 | While the house in the wife 's sole name with a fixed charge in favour of the husband facilitates the wife 's control of the property , this does not offer her the flexibility to move house that might be incorporated when the house is held by trustees until a specified event ( see Chapter 6 ) . |