Example sentences of "not [verb] [adv] [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Knighton , whose bid to take over Manchester United failed in a blaze of publicity three years ago , said : ‘ Carlisle United will not survive without a development of some kind and I will not stay here subsidising the club . ’ |
| 2 | As our group made a hasty retreat , Bosnia 's Muslim interior minister , Mr Alija Delimustafic , entered the fray , pressing the Yugoslav Army commander over why its forces had not intervened earlier to halt the attack . |
| 3 | Law Society guidance to these amendment rules emphasises that the new requirements are not intended materially to increase the reporting accountant 's workload . |
| 4 | That the government , local authorities and private companies are not queueing up to offer the resources to enable CABx to extend their work can only be due to the movement 's failure to make its point effectively . |
| 5 | I ONCE mentioned to a local farmer that my grandfather had been born in the little fishing village of Staxigoe , to the north of Wick in Caithness , and he quickly warned me not to go about repeating the story , because of the supposedly dubious reputation the natives of Staxigoe have earned themselves down the ages . |
| 6 | The Jordanian foreign minister , Kamel Abu Jaber , speaking after talks with Syrian leaders in Damascus , called for the return of all the deported Palestinians , but in Cairo , the Lebanese prime minister , Rafik al-Hariri , did not rule out resuming the peace negotiations before the issue of the deportees was resolved . |
| 7 | However , he informed a parliament committee meeting on Jan. 9 that the central government was " working on a comprehensive action plan for revamping the administration in Punjab " , and did not rule out amending the Constitution to provide for more autonomy as long as all other political parties co-operated in the matter . |
| 8 | One reason why John 's air-taxi service was less than successful was his habit of pretending not to know how to fly the plane or , worse , pretending to have forgotten how to land it once he had succeeded in becoming airborne . |
| 9 | Morgan did not know where to locate the source of this ‘ central motive state ’ in the nervous system . |
| 10 | Fortunately these Austrians did not know how to wield the lash . |
| 11 | with one exception , all [ scholars ] contacted have expressed strongly that the service did not appear to see the practical relevance of university training , did not know how to exploit the benefits gained by the individual and in many cases showed noticeable coolness to those who were part of it . |
| 12 | Rory did not know how to take the information . |
| 13 | We still do not know how to do the sum over histories properly for the universe , but we can be fairly sure that it will involve imaginary time and the idea of space-time closing up on itself . |
| 14 | He washed his jeans in the bath as he did not know how to use the washing machine , Mr Burke said . |
| 15 | Whether because people really did not know how to interpret the revolution in England or because they wanted fairly complete independence and correctly suspected that William was going to exercise much the same overall powers as Charles and James had done , there was a revolt in New York that took some months to suppress and the colonists of Massachusetts at the beginning of the 1690s were no more reconciled to English rule than in the past . |
| 16 | Fiona admits she still does not know how to check the performance of the fund and that the only information she has received from the company is the annual report and accounts . |
| 17 | The difficulty is that , if the most preferred mate is slightly different from a familiar member of the opposite sex and if we do not know how to measure the difference , we can unwittingly present the animal with a novel object which is less attractive than the familiar . |
| 18 | He said many people who were given council houses subsequently lost them because they did not know how to pay the rent and cope with bills . |
| 19 | Mrs Hnatiuk , who was wearing a fast-looking white jockey cap , was only two rows in front of her and Mrs Frizzell did not know how to bear the suspense . |
| 20 | She did not know how to complete the sentence , an unusual slip for a lady with an Oxford degree in English . |
| 21 | The additional dwellings are not added on to eliminate the problem . |
| 22 | He did not enjoy relentlessly repeating the set during practices . |
| 23 | Bernard told Apricot that to believe in ghosts was to insult God : the souls of the dead went to heaven , purgatory or hell , depending , but did not hang around afflicting the living . |
| 24 | So in wooing militants he is not seeking only to heal the wounds of Punjab and Assam — he is following the one strategy which might sustain him in power . |
| 25 | The PAC said that de Klerk had not conceded enough to persuade the movement to bring its exiled cadres home . |
| 26 | For , it is obvious from the arson attack that there will be trouble is the travellers are not moved immediately to reduce the tension . |
| 27 | Accordingly the court decided that VAT was payable on these charges and could not be reclaimed from Customs and Excise if the customer did not show up to claim the room . |
| 28 | His wife 's hair was straggling over her eyes , and she had not made up to hide the ravages of the night 's events . |
| 29 | Payment under such pressure establishes that the payment is not made voluntarily to close the transaction . |
| 30 | In such a situation the teacher can not choose when to use the programme , and unless it is a rebroadcast , he will only have a very general idea of what the programme will be about or what its language content will be ( vocabulary , grammar , structures , level of difficulty , appropriateness , etc ) . |