Example sentences of "not [verb] [to-vb] a [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But we would not want to miss an opportunity or to court a refusal , ’ he said . |
| 2 | ( Please note that it is not intended to issue an agenda or further papers for the presentation . ) |
| 3 | That being so , and the items being so basic , their lordships held that the parties had not intended to make a contract but had simply agreed to agree . |
| 4 | According to the Lords 's report on the water industry , 191 do not appear to have an owner and valid engineers ' reports ( required under the 1930 Reservoirs Act ) can not be found for more than half of them . |
| 5 | Visitors to the Egyptian force in Saudi Arabia come away with the impression that it will not hesitate to join an attack if ordered to do so . |
| 6 | Whilst Alison states at the end of Chapter 11 that she would not like to have a period as it would signify that she had ‘ let up ’ control over her body , Freya feels quite differently , realising that getting her periods back would be a good sign of recovery . |
| 7 | They are not going to say a thing that can help Portland in any way whatsoever . |
| 8 | Behaviour like that is not going to save a son or daughter . |
| 9 | He was not going to get a bike because he would n't be able to reach the pedals , but I would n't have said anything even if I could have , because nobody expects people to tell the truth to women and , besides , that 's what friends are for , as they say . |
| 10 | but I mean even , even if we , if we get a date for next week Jane , we ca n't get in , cos I 'm not going to get a key and go in when she 's not there |
| 11 | But that , that is a Y equals something X to the tenth , so it 's it 's not going to have a gradient that requires Y equals something to the tenth . |
| 12 | you misinterpret me ( or my english is inconsise ( ? ) — ‘ some of us people on the list ’ should prabably be ‘ some people on the list ’ — i am — not — ‘ anti-Wilko ’ and i am not going to have a party when wilko is leaving . |
| 13 | There 's no point in phoning , nobody else 's mother will be phoning , they 're all allowed to stay without any of this fuss , I 'll just look like a complete idiot , and anyway , what do you think 's going to happen , we 're not going to have an orgy or anything . ’ |
| 14 | In Couturier v. Hastie , the House of Lords said it was a matter of construing the contract and it was only after doing so , that their Lordships held that the buyer had not agreed to buy a spes and that the contract was therefore void . |
| 15 | A few pages would not suffice to describe an idea that he required a thousand pages of his Life Divine to illumine ; my purpose in giving these few passages is to point in one of the directions that the creative mind can travel to find other worlds of serene delight and magnificence . |
| 16 | He was therefore not bound to hold an inquiry or grant a hearing prior to making the deportation order . |
| 17 | He had the good grace to apologise afterwards and I also expressed my gratitude that I did not have to wait an hour or so until the training was finished before I could obtain his team and get busy . |
| 18 | Broadly , the expectation is that the Monarch will not have to take a decision that will then prove to be a violation of the democratic process , because it will be up to whoever agrees to form a government in these circumstances to prove that he or she has adequate parliamentary support . |
| 19 | Darlington appeal co-ordinator Michelle Le-Neveu said donations did not have to cost a lot but should be high in nutrition like tinned fish or meat . |
| 20 | He did not wish to make a desert and call it peace . |
| 21 | ( 2 ) Equally , an offeror company may not wish to launch a bid if its own results are poor . |
| 22 | This is essentially a crafts-and design-based exhibition that does not attempt to give a European or transatlantic overview . |
| 23 | It may seem unnecessary to add : if given a choice , do not attempt to answer a question that you do not understand ( unless , of course , your plight is such that there is no other you can do instead ) . |
| 24 | Do not attempt to tie a tourniquet unless you have severed an artery and blood loss is so fast that you must stop the flow quickly . |
| 25 | In selling pharmaceutical products , for example , salespeople do not try to close a sale but instead attempt to achieve ‘ action agreement ’ whereby either the salesperson or the doctor agree to do something before their next meeting . |
| 26 | His term of detention was decided by police and government authorities and he was not allowed to present a defence or to be represented by a lawyer . |
| 27 | We went along not allowed to have a drink and all that . |
| 28 | As we were still undergoing our basic training , we were not allowed to have a bar and nor would we be allowed to make a tour of the rest of the bars in the regiment , a ruling which Mike , Marius and myself were determined to do something about . |
| 29 | She can not afford to make a mistake so she must leave herself to the administrations of Lady G , June 's of Hamilton or Gina Smart in Ayr . |
| 30 | This has serious implications for people in rural areas who can not afford to run a car or are physically unable to do so . |