Example sentences of "[not/n't] [vb infin] that [noun] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If Lord Eldon used any language which could be so interpreted , we must conclude that he either did not guard himself so cautiously as he intended , or that he did not lend that degree of attention to the legal doctrine connected with the case before him , which he was accustomed to afford . |
| 2 | Harris peremptorily summoned him to the committee-room after this latter incident and told him : ‘ We do not want that sort of thing at Lord 's , Fender . ’ |
| 3 | We can not answer that question with certainty , but the details of the story itself would seem to provide us with several clues . |
| 4 | Bankers , accountants , commercial and public services , and advisory services all provide a very important contribution to the farming sector but all this sound advice could come to little or nothing if the human factor , that is the farmer or his family , could not translate that advice into practice on the farm . |
| 5 | ‘ We do not need that kind of publicity and do not want to be involved in that sort of thing . |
| 6 | Freedom to worship our religion in our own country has been bought dearly with blood and tears — and you do not surrender that sort of freedom easily . |
| 7 | Women did not do that kind of thing , even in cosmopolitan Cairo . |
| 8 | The result was that very soon indeed afterwards my father came with a very sad but kind face in to the room where I sat alone and told me he was sure I should not do that sort of thing again . |
| 9 | I realised I had never ever shaken his hand before , MPs do not do that sort of thing . |
| 10 | You can not do that sort of thing if you 're a priest . ’ |
| 11 | You simply did not do that sort of thing to men like Luke Denner ! |
| 12 | Even if he had committed a murder the previous week , he would not betray that fact under hypnosis if he did not wish to ! |
| 13 | I can not borrow that amount of money because I 'm already overdrawn and I do n't know anybody who would lend me any . |
| 14 | Science can not provide that kind of certainty . |
| 15 | One can not keep that sort of information to oneself . ’ |
| 16 | It 's all here , so why not spend that holiday at home this year and give a boost to our much needed travel industry and tourism industry in this country ? |
| 17 | The people of my constituency are appalled that Monmouth borough council has millions of pounds tied up from the sale of council houses and can not use that money for housing . |
| 18 | A public body which has power to construct lavatories can not use that power in order to build a subway under a street . |
| 19 | The hon. Gentleman should not draw that type of conclusion . |
| 20 | ‘ without due care and attention ’ Means that the driver did not exercise that degree of care and attention which a reasonable and prudent driver would exercise in the circumstances . |
| 21 | We could n't do the likes of , we could n't invite Glyndebourne in or the Welsh National Opera because we just could not have that scale of operation on . |
| 22 | I doubt whether many young people will be deterred by a fine of £1,000 or £5,000 , because they do not have that kind of money available . |
| 23 | Most of us do not have that sort of time to spare . |
| 24 | If armour-plates of internal snobbishness divided millionaires from the rich , and these in turn from the merely comfortable , which was natural enough in a class whose very essence was to climb higher by individual effort , it did not destroy that sense of group consciousness which turned the ‘ middle rank ’ of society into the ‘ middle class ’ or ‘ bourgeoisie ’ . |
| 25 | League tables that do not take that correlation into consideration distort reality and are inaccurate . |
| 26 | The only prior knowledge a baby has is what is in its chromosomes , and chromosomes do not encode that sort of knowledge . |
| 27 | The fact that article 5(1) of the Convention of 1958 used the word ‘ nationality ’ did not call that view into question , since the flag flown by ships and the nationality of natural persons were not interchangeable concepts for all purposes . |
| 28 | ‘ Alas , ’ he said , ‘ I do not sell that kind of information . ’ |
| 29 | We shall not bridge that gap with particle accelerators in the foreseeable future ! |
| 30 | ‘ We can not allow that sort of thing to happen in the World Cup . |