Example sentences of "[vb past] [not/n't] [verb] [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | During his campaign , he promised not to raise taxes for the middle classes ; he is now faced with the realisation that if he is to cut the deficit and fulfil his promises to improve social welfare , education and training and to overhaul health provisions , then tax increases which extend beyond the seriously wealthy are unavoidable . |
| 2 | While western medicine has always tended to concentrate on the elimination of germs , the Unani doctors tried not to lose sight of the patient as a whole being ; they conceived of therapy in the original Greek sense of healing , at once taking into account physical , mental and spiritual well-being . |
| 3 | Further agreements in December 1887 and May 1888 extended the guarantee of the status quo to the integrity of the Ottoman Empire and Turkish rights over Bulgaria , while Spain agreed not to support France against the Triple Alliance . |
| 4 | Both parties agreed not to make peace without the other 's consent . |
| 5 | He told me I was turning into a jealous old queen but before he slammed the phone down he agreed not to tell Mother about the death . |
| 6 | He decided not to take part in the creation of the United Alkali Co. in 1890 , but amalgamated his company with another midland Leblanc soda manufacturer , Hunt & Sons of Wednesbury , in 1898 to form Chance & Hunt Ltd . |
| 7 | The American Stock Exchange has changed its mind and decided not to suspend trading in the Class B and Class C common shares stocks of Wang Laboratories Inc at the close of business on March 31 , as had previously been announced : it says the decision reflects its view that investors will best be served by a continuation of the orderly trading provided by its auction market system , but warns brokers and prospective investors to review Wang 's public disclosures on its reorganisation plan thoroughly before leaping in , and to consider carefully the many uncertainties over the value — if any — of its present classes of common shares outstanding . |
| 8 | A file was sent to the Director of Public Prosecutions , but the DPP decided not to press charges against the individuals concerned . |
| 9 | She decided not to tell Tait about the photograph . |
| 10 | A letter of Wealdhere , bishop of London , to Archbishop Beorhtwald in 704–5 reveals a state of estrangement between Ine and the eastern Saxon rulers , Sigeheard and Swaefred ; in return for the expulsion of the exiles , Ine undertook not to inflict vengeance on the eastern Saxons and a forthcoming council at Brentford , to be attended by the kings and their leading men both ecclesiastical and lay , was expected to resolve the crisis . |
| 11 | That situation was avoided in the present case , because the appellant chose not to give evidence for the reason already stated . |
| 12 | By implication , of course , those who chose not to become part of the ‘ generalized other ’ were less than fully developed . |
| 13 | When God in his wisdom chose not to bless women with the same convenient appendage through which men pass water , he left them with little choice but to strip off and squat . |
| 14 | He dared not look Mandru in the eye . |
| 15 | Early in the year , SCS could report a record quarter for increases in sales , capital and membership , reflecting a picture of growth over the year that did not dispel fears of the adverse influence of political involvement on trade . |
| 16 | A neighbour who did not give evidence at the trial of Lisa and Michelle Taylor has said she saw a girl resembling Alison , 21 , arrive home at 6pm on the night she was stabbed . |
| 17 | The accused , if committed , is given copies of the depositions , but is not provided with copies of the statements taken by the police except when the Crown intends to call a witness who did not give evidence at the preliminary inquiry , in which case the Crown will serve the defence with a notice of intention and a copy of the witness 's statement . |
| 18 | The plaintiff who did not give evidence in the county court failed to recover the excess payments on the ground that they were made voluntarily . |
| 19 | Why his Lordship should have concluded that the facts did not give rise to the issue is unclear , but subsequent events have shown that the decision has been of much greater importance for the scope of the right of public meeting than his Lordship imagined it would be . |
| 20 | Christopher did not give details of the US aid programme , but he offered some general ideas . |
| 21 | This was a very old set and did not always work ; as I did not make contact with the control tower I came round and I saw that it was all clear for me to land , so I put my wheels down and made my approach . |
| 22 | By the autumn , however , the Russians , through their ambassador in Istanbul , Andrei Italinskii , began to threaten the sultan that if he did not make concessions to the Serbs they would intervene to enforce the disputed Article VIII of the Treaty of Bucharest ( see above , p. 81 ) . |
| 23 | Some colleagues wrote to us to point out that the format of the main LITE questionnaire did not contain room for the kind of statements and categories which could display the situation in which they were working to develop the competence of their colleagues , both to enhance the strategies for promoting community languages in their area , and to raise general awareness of the deep educational implications of linguistic diversity . |
| 24 | Legislation on public health , sanitation and industrial conditions did not contain prescriptions for the direct regulation of sexual conduct . |
| 25 | While she would have preferred to manage alone , Ashley did not relish slip-sliding down the slope in an undignified arm-flailing fashion , nor on her bottom . |
| 26 | Merymose did not involve Huy in the search that followed . |
| 27 | A county court judgment did not carry interest under the Judgments Act 1838 ( R v Essex County Court Judge ( 1887 ) 18 QBD 704 ) , but the Lord Chancellor is empowered under s 74 of the 1984 Act to order by statutory instrument that county court judgments shall carry interest . |
| 28 | But these signals did not reach AFHQ until the morning of the next day , 15 May , long after Robertson had sent his response to McCreery 's AC/189 which had only asked for " immediate steps " to be taken over the approach of Army Group E , and which had made no specific reference to Croats . |
| 29 | The correlation did not reach significance in the offspring of the hyperglycaemic mothers . |
| 30 | They welcomed US President Bush 's recent decision to cancel development of new tactical nuclear missiles ( the follow-on to the Lance programme ) and artillery for deployment in Europe , but did not reach agreement on the withdrawal of existing nuclear artillery or short-range missiles before talks with the Soviet Union began . |