Example sentences of "[not/n't] [vb infin] [pers pn] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 It will not cover me for the hearing .
2 This , of course , did not affect me at the time !
3 This suggests that something is amiss with the job definition and , by implication , also with education and training which does not prepare them for the reality .
4 The most frequent trigger to that crisis was career blockage , the realization that they , with the vast majority , would not make it to the top .
5 Some hard-pressed commuters may not make it to the end of the line . )
6 The model does not make it over the top of the loop and starts to fall inverted .
7 Tie the aircraft down with fixed pickets — concrete blocks and flimsy corkscrew pickets do not make it in the tiedown stakes .
8 do you not want me in the house .
9 We do not want it in the dictionary .
10 For this reason , the fact that three of the forty women had paid domestic help does not disqualify them from the title ‘ housewife ’ .
11 Thirdly , and consequentially , I argued that the elements of harmful consequences liability which are exhibited by the criminal law do not disqualify it from the status of positive moral order , because conventional morality ( as opposed to the critical morality of Kant or Smith , for example ) incorporates a notion of moral luck and indeed our ordinary moral attitudes would be unrecognizable without some such idea .
12 If the commissioner finds maladministration and the authority does not remedy it to the satisfaction of the complainant , there is no way in which the complainant can pursue the matter further .
13 ‘ I no longer want full government funding from a government that is going to be dictatorial as hell , which is not to say I would not prefer it under a government of a different kind . ’
14 I 'm grateful that you listen to him , and do not treat him like a fool just because he is old . ’
15 Do not treat me like an idiot . ’
16 I neither would nor could have murdered him , but I do not regard him as a loss . ’
17 Orthodox constitutional theory bestows on individual members the right of independent action and does not regard them as the representative of the party without which they would not have been elected ; over-solicitude for the wishes of their constituents would probably lead them into conflict with the party in parliament .
18 For example , it could be argued that ‘ photograph ’ may be divided into two independent words , ‘ photo ’ and ‘ graph ’ ; yet we usually do not regard it as a compound , but as an affix word .
19 To know he had considered her ‘ special ’ was satisfying , but she did not regard it as a signal to fall headlong into his arms .
20 Althusser uses this case to support his claim that Marx held a complex view of social change , and did not regard it as the outcome of a single contradiction between the forces and the relations of production .
21 Cunningham 's chummy dropping of the ‘ Mr ’ from his name did not fool him for a moment : the withdrawn and irascible figure he had encountered in mid-afternoon was nearer the soul of this man than mine accommodating and smiling host of the Skein of Geese 's oak-panelled restaurant .
22 But you must not build them on the graveyard .
23 But it is too soon for him to face the likes of Devon Malcolm , and Fletcher said the tour selectors would not consider him for the pipe opener in Faridabad .
24 She thought of Giles Carnaby both continuously and not at all ; he was permanently in the head , but as some unavoidable elemental force — she could not consider him as a person , reflect upon character or deeds .
25 By the time you 've booby-trapped your car , or hired an armed guard for it , walked miles , found the crag and avoided the most polished routes you might not consider it worth the hassle .
26 She hoped that if he was a churchgoer-which was unlikely these days he would not recognise her as the vicar 's wife .
27 If this was n't enough , the state does not recognise you as a mother until you are sixteen , when you are eligible to claim supplementary benefit , maternity grant and milk and vitamin tokens .
28 The difference was that until 1688 loans had been made directly to the King : he ran the government as an extension of his private household and , although he was the richest individual in the country , he was in many ways just a private borrower like any other and a prudent lender would not trust him with a loan that would run for a long time .
29 So I read it and I gave a similar look back and I think I probably said something like that did n't happen or something along those lines , that 's hard to believe that had happened and passed it back to him and then that was it , we did not discuss it at the time
30 ‘ I 'd rather not discuss it on the phone .
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