Example sentences of "[not/n't] [vb infin] [verb] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It did not want to part with the medium-wave lengths which allowed simulcasting on both FM and medium-wave , so that the deficiencies of one could be remedied by the other . |
| 2 | I did not want to go into the dark house , where I would spend the evening quietly with old Mrs Fairfax . |
| 3 | However we do not want to engage in the quantitative issue for the moment , but stay with the relationship between the theoretical concept and its operational definition . |
| 4 | ‘ We did not want to call off the current tour because it would have created immense resentment back home among the players . |
| 5 | One of the reasons for this , she explains , is that quite a lot of the small and medium-size firms in her area ( Hampshire , Dorset and Sussex ) do not want to recruit from the Big Six where most of the redundancies have been made . |
| 6 | Brendan Ormsby 's transfer from Leeds United to Cardiff City was called off yesterday after the defender decided he did not want to play in the Third Division . |
| 7 | Even if the employee is successful in the job , if the spouse can not adapt to live in the English culture and speak the language , the assignment may well fail . |
| 8 | However , in such cases one will often not need to progress to the follow-up sessions of therapy which would be needed by those others who are trying to overcome a particular problem . |
| 9 | So she did not need to go on the offensive and was not required to fight . |
| 10 | Mr Donovan 's mere financial gain will probably make little difference to him and it is debatable whether his name ‘ has been cleared once and for all ’ as it did not need clearing in the first place . |
| 11 | And I wonder if we do not need to enquire into the theological basis of both . |
| 12 | He did not need to look at the single shelf of books to know they would have titles like A Pilot 's War Memoirs or Regiments of the Burma Campaign . |
| 13 | They do not need to belong to the same phase . |
| 14 | Supporting cast DJ Renegade and secondary shouter Blue Eyes provide hardy back-up ; previous single ‘ Mind Of An Ordinary Citizen ’ , the breakneck ‘ Forward ’ and a dangerous tear through manifesto track ‘ Survival Of The Hardest Working ’ to close , are the muscular set 's highlights , and the moment where Blade gets our own Chris Hughes onstage to photograph him with his fans is cute — QED , this jolly , gentle , reassuringly chubby little geezer does not need to pander to the male hormones and the baser instincts of his audience to get noticed . |
| 15 | Others could not wait to merge into the New World and when marriage seemed to an easy route , they were soon sporting engagement rings off-stage but definitely not when Mary was around . |
| 16 | Nourse LJ also considered it was arguable that the plaintiff could not seek to rely on the literal clauses of the agreement when it had known that the disclosure letter was incomplete as to do so would be dishonest . |
| 17 | The Institute of Taxation does not seek to interfere in the internal operations of the Tax Faculty , and it is wrong of Peter Wyman to suggest the contrary . |
| 18 | He just did not expect to come across the late Norman Britton in the garden of the Ferret and Firkin at half past six in the evening . |
| 19 | The proposed broadening of the granting of investment aids for the purpose of protecting and improving the environment ( part of Article 3 ) is to be welcomed although it does not appear to square with the basic investment aid objectives of such plans because it appears to mean that environmental investment per se will qualify for support , even if not part of an agricultural improvement . |
| 20 | It could be argued however that according to the theory of bureaucracy the Central Bank would operate monetary policy to suit its own needs , and also that monetary policy ought to be operated by a body that is accountable to the electorate ( a central bank is not , although the Bundesbank does not appear to suffer from the above problems ) . |
| 21 | The largest-selling newspapers in Britain are owned by swashbuckling businessmen who do not hesitate to interfere with the editorial content of their papers and whose personal politics are so well known to all their staff that the proprietors can set the political tone of their employees ' work without crude , direct , and explicit interference . |
| 22 | But Truman did not hesitate to intervene in the next crisis in the Far East , when North Korean troops invaded the South Korean Republic on 25 June 1950 ( CORE , pp. 150–51 ) . |
| 23 | To her chagrin he did not look hurt in the slightest . |
| 24 | She did not like walking along the dark road , but she was not getting into a car with five blokes ! |
| 25 | So , in a paper written to commemorate the life and work of Danny Lehrman , whose critical interest in ethology and psychiatry had been considerable , I argued pessimistically ( Crook 1977 a ) that an understanding of the primate behaviour I had been reviewing ‘ provides no more than a kind of educational backcloth — a reference literature for university courses on human evolution and that it can not begin to touch upon the existential issues that are the central focus of living human relations . |
| 26 | This may or may not entail living in the same house . |
| 27 | Outsiders could not hope to participate in the learned debates on comparative anatomy at the great museums , but field naturalists relied on local amateurs for specimens and surveys , thus ensuring a much greater degree of interaction . |
| 28 | Sadly , even their combined efforts can not hope to compensate for the many jobs lost . |
| 29 | We can not hope to compete with the big stores for plain , cheap knitwear — they can buy their yarn at much better prices than we can and when we add costing for our time we price ourselves out of the market . |
| 30 | In other words , the sceptic , if he is to make himself understood , can not avoid relying on the conceptual scheme that he is overtly attacking , and if so , his argument collapses before it can even get off the ground . |