Example sentences of "the [noun] [noun prp] [verb] [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For instance , the verb regret seems to presuppose that its complement is true , and so we could try the following characterization : the sentence John does n't regret cheating can only be used appropriately in contexts where it is known ( or believed ) that John cheated . |
| 2 | And then the Norfolk Baileys do n't speak to the Lincolnshire Baileys . |
| 3 | The part Mandy did n't know about was n't going to blow over . |
| 4 | The Mother Superior did n't need to check Aggie 's flow , she did it herself , saying , ‘ Well , this one here ’ — she now thumbed towards Millie — ‘ I 'd like to bet she 's read the Bible from beginnin' to end , an' many other books besides . |
| 5 | He sent a message saying that the Phoenix King did not answer demands but granted pleas . |
| 6 | This was the question Richard did not want to answer . |
| 7 | At the moment Leyland does not see huge off-the-shelf sales for the transmission . |
| 8 | Productive regions of the world 's oceans today generate about 20–50 mg C cm , so the Hamersley Sea need only have been moderately productive to generate the iron deposits preserved there today . |
| 9 | The United Kingdom does not reprocess nuclear waste ; we do not even import nuclear waste . |
| 10 | The United Kingdom does not require prior permission , if reciprocity is accorded . |
| 11 | An EC regulation in the United Kingdom does not require further legislation in Parliament for it to be enforceable . |
| 12 | If the tradition still exists today — and it appears that it very much does so — it implies that the United Kingdom does not have for many loyalists a natural character of statehood in the way the Southern state has for catholic nationalists . |
| 13 | At the outset the book recognises that ‘ the United Kingdom does not have a monopoly on the best ideas or all of the problems ’ , so it is not a surprise to see discussion of Woonerven in the context of environmental protection and enhancement . |
| 14 | Accession should take such a form that although the United Kingdom did not forfeit the sovereignty of its Parliament , and could thus theoretically always assert it , it should , for the future , refrain from doing so . |
| 15 | Although British statesmen had played a prominent part in bringing these organisations into being , the United Kingdom did not become a founder member and later approaches to join were either ineffective or rebuffed . |
| 16 | I 'm afraid it still does happen that there is fanaticism , which is fanaticism is , as I understand it , self-righteousness with a strong religious dimension , and it does happen and I 've spoken of forces that erode it , but they can also exacerbate it , irritate it , into stronger activity , and of course we erm in the United Kingdom do n't have to look very far to see that happening , and it is , I think , a very great threat . |
| 17 | But , on average , people in the United Kingdom do not pay more tax than the average European . |
| 18 | And figures for the country of birth of heads of household give only a rough estimate of ethnic minority populations , as some members of ethnic minorities live in households whose head was born in the United Kingdom , and some of those living in households whose head was born outside the United Kingdom do not belong to ethnic minorities . |
| 19 | And the following month , July 1949 , Acheson apparently issued instructions that it was a ‘ fundamental decision of American policy that the United States does not intend to permit any further communist domination on the continent of Asia or in South-east Asia ’ . |
| 20 | The United States does not require advance permission . |
| 21 | The opinion stated : ‘ US agents have no law-enforcement authority in another nation unless it is the product of that nation 's consent … in the current international climate , this country can ill afford an operation that would permit others to argue that the United States does not respect international law . ’ |
| 22 | The cruise missile also has not been tested to its full distance overland , because the United States does not have the space . |
| 23 | Currently the United States does not have a droit de suite , a law that mandates that artists receive a percentage of the price of a work each time it changes hands . |
| 24 | The United States does not have a feudal history . |
| 25 | The president , according to the constitution has the executive power that executive power depends to a large part on the willingness of congress to provide the legal framework moments in which there is harmony and cooperation between president and congress tend to be exceptional rather than er a regular feature of the American system and if er the president manages to get something through congress , you can bet that very quickly the president will face some defeat in congress shortly thereafter to remind the president that the United States does not have , contrary to the popular press , does not have a presidential system of government . |
| 26 | But in September there were obviously fresh instructions : ‘ The United States does now place a reservation upon all of its pre-Geneva substantive positions , ’ said the delegate . |
| 27 | " You in the United States do n't understand how a country should be run , " the Shah had declared . |
| 28 | Many believed that the United States did not need to intervene on this scale in the international economy . |
| 29 | He shared the disappointment when the United States did not join the Baghdad Pact in 1955 . |
| 30 | So I said , well I I explained , now look , you were on an export price list now , one of the things Jerry did n't like |