Example sentences of "[vb base] not [vb infin] [noun sg] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We do not exercise power over explosions and crackling and snapping of fire like the strangers , we fall back into the waves — as Dulé 's mother did , the young woman I dug up all those years ago , who had been drowned , who had returned to the deep blue . |
| 2 | ‘ Do not demand interest on loans you make to a brother Israelite . |
| 3 | ‘ When we hear such sounds we do not pay attention to things like pitch and timbre . |
| 4 | However , the situation is slightly more complex in this case because some items ( for example , depreciation and revaluation of fixed assets ) do not involve movement of funds . |
| 5 | I do not expect shame from Ministers , but I should have thought that all the Ministers present , and all the others who might come in later , would be a little wary about pressing this matter . |
| 6 | He said that considerations of humanity are no substitute for prohibitive rules of international law and , by themselves , do not constitute evidence of rules prohibiting the use of nuclear weapons . |
| 7 | Until then I had always held the view that police officers do not fabricate evidence against men they know to be innocent , but rather against those whom they genuinely , if mistakenly , believe to be guilty . |
| 8 | They say they do not understand why their headmaster is so intent on persecuting them when 20 Jewish students do not attend school on Saturdays , a normal part of the school week in France . |
| 9 | Unlike many terrorists , Iranian or Iranian-linked groups often do not claim responsibility for atrocities they commit . |
| 10 | Eventually the local authority associations agreed a self-denying ordinance and in many authorities councillors do not seek access to records on individuals . |
| 11 | It has been their job to see that local councils do not spend money on activities which can not be justified by statute . |
| 12 | I am aware of journals that do not acknowledge receipt of papers submitted to them . |
| 13 | If we recognise that professionals do not have ownership of problems and that it is the primary managers ( parents ) who sort out problems , there is nothing to be gained by giving a contrary impression to parents . |
| 14 | As for the comparison with regions within the country which do not have balance of payments accounts , the balance of payments is a record of transactions between areas with genuine informational content even in these examples . |
| 15 | I personally do not have time for delays in this operation , and my approach has been ratified at the highest levels . |
| 16 | From this perspective , therefore , employers do not have power over employees , they do not give them instructions , but rather are involved in a process of constant renegotiation of the employment contract . |
| 17 | Hotels do n't give information about guests easily . ’ |
| 18 | You do n't want equality for women . |
| 19 | Indeed , her father had shocked her by breaking this silence and by advising her , when she went up to Cambridge , not to join the Communist Party ; a joke 's a joke , he told her , but you do n't want trouble with visas if ever you want to go to America . |
| 20 | If I do n't take control of things at once , she thought , I never will . |
| 21 | You do n't get water in pieces do you ? |
| 22 | If you 've got H I V , you , you do n't get waiver of premiums full stop . |
| 23 | But do n't add oil to baths if you have spots : try adding powdered seaweed to the water as it 's good for drawing out impurities . |
| 24 | A lot of countries do n't have control over their own economies , they do n't have control over things like whether of not people are going to have jobs , whether or not people are going to make a livelihood , whether or not people are going to even be able to live in the country , because in Ireland something like 1000 people a week are leaving the country in order to get work . |
| 25 | ‘ I do n't have time for games , Lori . |
| 26 | ‘ I do n't spend money on clothes , so I could n't save there . |
| 27 | I do n't mind talk about others getting the job when I 'm the man who has got it . |