Example sentences of "[vb base] not [verb] [to-vb] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The developments that occurred : the extraordinary behaviour of certain sections of the press ; and the later career of the Duke of Windsor , provoked in me both short-term and long-term disillusionment ; but I do not intend to go into any further detail here , though I can not repudiate what I said . |
| 2 | It has been the long-standing practice under Governments of both parties not to comment on operational matters , and we do not intend to depart from that precedent . |
| 3 | I do not intend to interfere with any arrangements that you wish to handle yourself , but please let me know about all Medau special activities throughout the country ; especially those related to the Sports Council 's ‘ Ever Thought of Sport ’ and 50+ Campaigns and I shall be delighted to help if needed . |
| 4 | I do not presume to argue with these , but our modern parallels do not help us overmuch . |
| 5 | With the South Koreans proving to be serious challengers , the Japanese obviously do not want to contend with another team for Asian supremacy . |
| 6 | Is it really true that industrialists do not want to return to such a situation ? |
| 7 | The overwhelming majority of the British people do not want to return to such Victorian values as jobs at any price . |
| 8 | I do not want to go into that argument ; I simply wish to illustrate my point . |
| 9 | I shall say something this morning about the negotiation on political union , in which I am most closely involved , but I do not want to concentrate on those themes today , because the world has not obligingly stood still as we prepare the approach to Maastricht . |
| 10 | I do not wish to detract from all the good things about living in the U.S.A. , but I would like to assure ‘ Contact ’ readers that life over here is not all sunshine and roses . |
| 11 | We do not wish to listen to that noise all afternoon . ‘ |
| 12 | You do not need to type in all the dates for yourself — the spreadsheet will do it for you . |
| 13 | Happily I do not need to go into any great detail because on the central issues there was no great conflict between them . |
| 14 | I do not need to agonise about that sort of discontinuity of experience . |
| 15 | I do not need to refer to this . |
| 16 | You do not need to dip into this money at regular intervals , but wish to retain it for the future . |
| 17 | In contrast to these animals , many invertebrates do not need to accommodate at all . |
| 18 | They do not like to talk about such things to strangers . |
| 19 | Sometimes several chimpanzees may take part in the hunt , but they do not seem to collaborate to any greater extent than lions or wolves . |
| 20 | And then there are cases which do not seem to correspond with any of the given meanings . |
| 21 | In another sharp break with convention , the protagonist of Sonnets 127–52 ( I set aside 153 and 154 , two sonnets on themes traditional since the Greek Anthology , which do not seem to belong to this sequence ) gives his mistress not compliments but insults , or mock-compliments , and that at the level of the body alone : sex without love , as it were . |
| 22 | Ascarids , or large roundworms , are very common in young horses , but do not seem to appear in those over five years old . |
| 23 | Formally but icily they replied that they " do not desire to interfere with any views which he may have towards improving his position in life , but they expect that he will give them six months ' notice of his intention to resign the mastership of the School " . |
| 24 | I am sure that everyone in this room satisfies the Rabbinic condition for discussing the chariot of Ezechiel ( ma'ase merkava ) — namely to be wise and able to deduce knowledge through wisdom of his own — but I do not propose to indulge in this subject . |
| 25 | There are of course classes of preferential and pre-preferential creditors , but I do not propose to expand on that here . |
| 26 | But the Committee do not have to agree to this if it thinks that the new information is not important . |
| 27 | ‘ Obviously you do not have to answer at this stage if you would prefer not to , but I wondered if Mr Riddle had taken out any substantial life insurance or endowment policies ? ’ |
| 28 | Managers who never leave do not have to wait for another manager to retire or die so that they can fill their shoes . |
| 29 | If you have recently buried a pet you may even find that you do n't want to move at all . |
| 30 | ‘ I do n't want to lie to either of you , Sarella , but it 's all so difficult right now . |