Example sentences of "not [verb] [pron] [noun pl] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless , if we are to define what it is that influences our decisions whether or not to indulge our motivations towards crime we inevitably make suppositions about human needs or requirements , which are in turn predicated on assumptions about what it is that gives us pleasure or pain . |
| 2 | Had she not treated her subordinates with vindictiveness and meanness , Elena 's desire to cut a figure as ‘ a world-ranking scientist ’ would have a comical charm . |
| 3 | I do not want your emblems of slavery . ’ |
| 4 | He was interrupted by the arrival of three ladies , who had unfortunately not heard his comments on dress and hair . |
| 5 | He added that the sentence would not influence his negotiations with de Klerk on South Africa 's future . |
| 6 | The Court ruled that the French government had not examined his requests for compensation " within a reasonable space of time " . |
| 7 | Barclays has run into a sequence of big borrowers who can not service their debts on time and can not sell their assets to repay the debts . |
| 8 | So long as he was solvent in law , he could not proportion his payments to creditors according to their respective debts . |
| 9 | Zander have no problems sorting out live baits in coloured water in which I would not fancy my chances for pike using that method . |
| 10 | Hindus do not worship their images of stone or metal . |
| 11 | In other circumstances she would have been more than willing to engage in this conversation herself , for it was one she had frequently enjoyed ; she liked Otto , she had always mildly fancied that he liked her , she was amused by the offhand continental gallantries with which he interspersed , absent-mindedly , the rigour of his argument ; but tonight she was tired , her eyes were closing , she had had four hours of party already , had not enjoyed the Hargreaves drama , had not enjoyed her talks with Ivan Warner and Teddy Lazenby , had been polite enough for long enough , and wanted to go home ; so stood at Brian 's elbow , dully , a reproachful wife , slightly annoyed that neither of them took much notice of her , as Otto invoked the name of Max Weber , a name which meant nothing to her at all , a name which excluded her , exhausted her , and provoked her into prodding , yet again , but this time successfully , Brian 's arm , and murmuring of baby-sitter Sharon , who was only sixteen . |
| 12 | ‘ For not pressing my attentions on Maria Luisa ? ’ |
| 13 | He did not confine his activities to Claudine , then ? |
| 14 | Lord did not confine his ventures to cricket . |
| 15 | Even in private encounters , judges do not discuss their cases with politicians , and in return politicians should avoid embarrassing judges by involving them in what are essentially political issues . |
| 16 | If the police are truly interested in being accountable to and building bridges with those that they police , why did they not discuss their plans with representatives of the community organisations on the estate ? |
| 17 | The young in West Belfast know their rights in relation to the RUC and British army , but they do not know their rights in relation to jobs . |
| 18 | ‘ We are not basing our views on emotion , but on pure business . |
| 19 | Owing to Amal 's seclusion as a female , she could not identify her attackers by name , only that they were acquaintances of her brother . |
| 20 | We can not expect our competitors on mainland Europe to put up with such discrimination . |
| 21 | However , you can not exchange your stamps for cash . |
| 22 | A man who can not base his decisions on precedent and logic has no business being on the bench ( a premise that Justice Brennan never forgot ) . |
| 23 | The court stated that reasonable parents will not send their children into danger without protection and that both the parents and the occupier must act reasonably . |
| 24 | And it it really is covered by the passages in erm erm , just , I just reiterate that that that expressly referring your Lordship to it , professional duty except in so far as it may be necessary to elucidate the rules that that was at page eight hundred and forty one at the bottom and it goes over the page to eight four two and then proceeds to general proposition to those two experts ordinary witness may not may not give their opinions towards matters legal or moral obligation . |
| 25 | Robertson Nicoll told A. S. Peake in 1898 , ‘ You would not believe what hosts of letters I get , and do not print , about the kind of thing that is preached in many of our chapels just now , especially by the younger men ’ . |
| 26 | So too would the parents and , in the event of a difference of opinion , the local authority would have to consider whether or not to exercise its powers under section 33(3) ( b ) of the Children Act 1989 . |
| 27 | You state that Cuba is not testing its drug-users for HIV when in fact the country is testing its entire adult population for the virus . |
| 28 | But they 're not turning their backs on life , are they ? ’ |
| 29 | However , if we do not like being judged by an external tribunal , if we do not like our citizens being interrogated by foreign judges about acts committed in the United Kingdom , if we do not like our Acts of Parliament and our internal administration being scrupulously picked over by a European Commission , if we do not like the relations between the Crown and its possessions being altered over our heads , the remedy is in our own hands . |
| 30 | Others who are aware of these feelings dare not touch their children for fear of going too far and seriously hurting them . |