Example sentences of "[pers pn] do not [verb] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now , I do not pretend for one moment that children should not be taught to add , subtract , read and think logically . |
| 2 | While my hon. Friend the Member for Oldham , West ( Mr. Meacher ) was speaking , I said that I challenged any Conservative Member of Parliament to spend just one week — I do not ask for longer — living on the money that so many of our constituents who are pensioners have to rely on — the state pension and income support . |
| 3 | I do not know for certain why I went up there to watch them doing it . |
| 4 | Nevertheless , I do not believe for one moment — I made this point on enough occasions to the hon. Member for Antrim , East ( Mr. Beggs ) — that , if we had not given potential investors the opportunity to buy a power station that could be converted to gas , there would have been much hope of bringing a gas pipeline to Northern Ireland . |
| 5 | There , I did not eat for two weeks , and Bothwell 's children — there were two babies — were born dead . |
| 6 | Joaquim Lobato said angrily , ‘ I did not ask for that . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ It was done from my section and I am afraid I did not ask for sufficient permission . |
| 8 | I did not ask for more money — I was in Bayreuth at the time . ’ |
| 9 | And he will answer , ‘ I tell you this : anything you did not do for one of these , however humble , you did not do for me. , Matthew 25 : 31 — 46 New English Bible |
| 10 | But Jesus said , ‘ anything you did not do for one of these , however humble , you did not do for me . ’ |
| 11 | Jesus Christ said : ‘ Anything you did not do for one of these , however humble , you did not do for me . ’ |
| 12 | She thought that her father probably now earned more than £100,000 a year , but she did not know for sure because it was nine years since she had last visited him , four years since she had last received a Christmas card from him . |
| 13 | Camilla 's sister , Annabelle Elliott , admitted that she does not know for sure whether there is any truth in rumours of a relationship with Prince Charles . |
| 14 | And we did not stop for four days , discussing every detail , going over every bit of ground . |
| 15 | Unfortunately , we did not anticipate the importance of observer bias , and we did not arrange for third party blinded observation . |
| 16 | More than usually generous credit terms may have to be offered , and although we did not allow for introductory discounts in our example , these may have to be offered to induce custom , with the degree of generosity perhaps varying by assessment of likelihood of payment and repeat orders . |
| 17 | Some prefer to feed from the tank bottom , or the midwater level , however , and if we do not cater for these fish they may find all the food gets eaten before any sinks down to them . |
| 18 | We do not seek for all to be totally convinced . |
| 19 | And though we do not know for certain , it does seem doubtful that the only sins against EPA science are those that have been revealed . |
| 20 | We do not know for certain what the total membership of any such set is , how many items belong to it , or the extent to which speakers vary in assigning items to the set . |
| 21 | A senior officer said : ‘ We have not exhausted all our enquiries yet and we do not know for certain if those ransom calls were the work of cranks . |
| 22 | They did not hope for any tangible support for their undertaking , but a charter would give them some standing in England , allow them to create a legal government , and possibly convince any enquiring Spaniards that they were not simply setting up a pirate base . |
| 23 | They had been told they did not qualify for 13 weeks ' money under benefit regulations . |
| 24 | This might explain why they did not attend for clinical review . |
| 25 | Moreover , when nineteenth-century feminists demanded equal education and employment opportunities for single women , they did not ask for any special consideration to be extended to women on account of their reproductive role . |
| 26 | They did not wait for blind Pew , who tried to follow them , tapping wildly with his stick . |
| 27 | Ideally , they do not wish for any interaction at all with the other kinds of superhuman beings . |
| 28 | This , however , is a misleading picture because many unemployed married women do not register with the employment exchanges because they do not qualify for any benefit . |
| 29 | Clearly compensation for people on low incomes is to be aimed only at those on income support , even though many disabled people have extra heating costs associated with their disability , and many others on low incomes , such as pensioners , may narrowly miss out because of small savings or because they do not qualify for means-tested benefits , but still live at income support level . |
| 30 | The principal weakness of the rescission remedy and the statutory alternative of damages in lieu of rescission , is that they do not provide for consequential loss , for example , profits on resale . |