Example sentences of "[that] they [verb] not [vb infin] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The organizers hired the local library for the occasion and decided , on account of tension at previous gatherings , that they did not want any police officers present . |
| 2 | For others it might be that they want the relationship to end completely and do not want to be financially dependent on their former partners ( Bradshaw and Millar found that a fifth of those not receiving maintenance said that they did not want any ) . |
| 3 | Analyses of Chinese statues and coins show that they did not make much use of brass until about the sixteenth century AD . |
| 4 | I have talked to lady presidents of prior years who have said that they did not experience any difficulties . |
| 5 | The Rouhanyoun faction protested as some 1,100 prospective candidates were eliminated by the committees on the grounds that they did not meet minimum educational and other standards . |
| 6 | However , most of the interviewees stated that they did not perceive this process taking place . |
| 7 | lt appeared that they did not represent national cultural concepts in Japan . |
| 8 | The problem last season was that they did not score enough goals . |
| 9 | Andrew Collins QC , for the prosecution , said the papers , which include correspondence between a minister and senior civil servants , were immune from disclosure on the grounds of public interest , and that they did not contain any material relevant to the case anyway . |
| 10 | The statues in question are inseparable from the archaic series ; their freshness of surface suggest that they did not stand long above ground ; and it seems to me a reasonable conclusion that they were dedicated in the years immediately before the invasion . |
| 11 | Particularly in their polemical passages they have a freshness and directness , such assurance that the world is now their oyster , that it is easy to forget that they did not go uncriticized . |
| 12 | The most important common feature among them was that they did not have absolute rights over the land which they farmed , but that they were in some way dependent on a lord , who had a right to some part of their labour or their profits from the land . |
| 13 | It is almost impossible to believe that they did not have contemporary events in mind , and as Æthelred was certainly not victorious , the implication is that he was unwise . |
| 14 | It comes to this : some pits have been given a fighting chance — albeit in a contracting market — that they did not have last year . |
| 15 | It does not seem possible with the research which their Central Office are regularly doing , and with the continual monitoring of public opinion , that they did not have some idea as to how people would react . |
| 16 | For years nurses had wanted special pay arrangements which recognized that they did not take industrial action in pursuit of their pay claims . |
| 17 | Sometimes the king allowed subjects to take deer for themselves in his forests ; the warden 's duty was to see to it that they had a proper writ of warranty when they came to his forest , that they did not take more than the specified number , and that they took them in the prescribed manner . |
| 18 | A further 63% indicated that they did not use such a source . |
| 19 | That the police ‘ did n't give any ground ’ suggests controlled restraint , while the disclosure that they ‘ handed out as much physical punishment as they received ’ indicates that they did not use excessive force . |
| 20 | Only three SSDs said that they did not use residential facilities outside their area . |
| 21 | And Gaily took her quick reply for unwillingness , too , and decided that they did not know one another well enough yet to ask such questions , such casual , family questions , as between friends . |
| 22 | One group swore that they did not get any salary , but took the job to attract men for prostitution ; and others went out of their way to prove their own sophistication by talking to them . |
| 23 | Osman 's followers would have to get together ; and Owen would see that they did not find that very easy . |
| 24 | In a letter to the Independent , a representative of the Irish Freedom Movement alleged that , at the annual anti-internment march in London on 6 August 1988 , there were over thirty arrests , with the charges ranging from threatening behaviour to affray and some accused being ‘ granted bail only on condition that they did not attend political meetings or marches ’ . |
| 25 | The authors therefore examined the data for explanations as to why some women were more vulnerable than others , or , expressed another way , why some women seemed resilient to , or protected from , or were able to cope with adversity such that they did not develop clinical depression . |
| 26 | Others indicated that they did not need any more qualifications for progress at work . |
| 27 | John 's response is to say that they did not need false teachers , or any other teachers for that matter : ‘ you have been anointed ( lit . |
| 28 | Having perused the readers ads in the treasured final pages of Guitarist it would help if the advertiser indicated his area next to his area code , and that they did not ask overambitious prices . |
| 29 | The magistrates pointed out that they did not consider this sufficient punishment , but since the men already had a huge backlog of unpaid fines , there was little point in imposing a larger sum , and no alternative sentence was possible under current law . |
| 30 | But the fact that they did not impose formal constraints upon royal power reflected above all their overriding interest in the maintenance of a strong central state capable of holding the peasants in check . |