Example sentences of "not [verb] [to-vb] [noun sg] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | just that issue was raised that we would not want to see demolition of Franklyns that block held up by this . |
| 2 | Company secretary James Anderson says he does not want to set foot in Teesside following the collapse of negotiations to open a prestige caravan storage site at Middlesbrough . |
| 3 | First , whereas positivism is concerned with the brute ‘ facts ’ of cultural life , critical theory does not want to separate fact from value or theory from practice . |
| 4 | The armchair traveller for whom you are shooting these pictures does not want to visualize paradise under cloud . |
| 5 | He did not want to appear flash in front of his workmates . |
| 6 | Our article of May 13 , 1986 was not intended to apportion blame for Mr Mikkelson 's death . |
| 7 | Institutions of higher education do not need to conduct research in order to justify the title ‘ institution of higher education ’ . |
| 8 | Because of the typical disparity in strength between men and women , a rapist frequently does not need to inflict injury in order to overpower his victim . |
| 9 | The new president is not expected to take office until March 1990 , or at best 1 January if Jose Sarney steps down from the presidency early . |
| 10 | These were not expected to take place until December or possibly January 1993 . |
| 11 | Although Cossiga was not empowered to remove Galloni from office , he took the unprecedented step of declaring that Galloni could no longer exercise powers delegated by the President ( who was ex officio President of the CSM ) . |
| 12 | Differential ownership of mechanical aids , and differences in the possession of amenities , may affect the way housework is done , and they may have some influence on attitudes to work tasks , but they do not appear to affect satisfaction with work . |
| 13 | An avowed enemy could of course be opposed with propriety , but if sufficient effort was not made to put victory beyond dispute , there was always some danger of humiliation , and , since there were inevitably many gentlemen who loved a winner , there would be some to see such a defeat as a sign to reconsider their political friendships . |
| 14 | If the 1960s had shown that the armed struggle was not in itself sufficient , the most frequently drawn ‘ lesson of Chile ’ was that the Left could not afford to dispense with it entirely , since the bourgeoisie ultimately would not hesitate to use force in defence of their interests . |
| 15 | Getting acceptance of the technical specification by these functions is the first hurdle for the project manager ; the process should be viewed as a form of insurance that the proposals are not going to give rise to problems in these areas , not as unwarranted interference with the job . |
| 16 | This is ridiculous I 'm not going to have time for lunch if I do n't go now … |
| 17 | Last month , the appeal court had heard fresh evidence from two witnesses not called to give evidence at Smith 's trial . |
| 18 | the play equipment is in need of upgrading but this is not scheduled to take place till session 1995–96 . |
| 19 | the play equipment is in need of up-grading but this is not scheduled to take place till session 1995–96 . |
| 20 | In this case the buyer is not bound to accept delivery by instalments . |
| 21 | You do not have to spend money on peppermints , either . |
| 22 | It lacked five days to Christmas , and it might be , with a good wind and a following swell , that they might not have to spend Christmas at Birsay . |
| 23 | a plaintiff sustaining an injury forcing retirement does not have to give credit for loss of earnings monies received under pension scheme to which tortfeasor as employer had contributed . |
| 24 | I do not wish to see reconstruction through bankruptcies . |
| 25 | The Italian Foreign Minister Gianni De Michelis said that while the EC did not wish to exert pressure on Israel , political issues could not be separated from considerations about trade co-operation with that country . |
| 26 | Do not attempt to give massage at floor level when standing and bending at the waist ; this is even more harmful to your back than using a bed . |
| 27 | The panel was confident that filtered blood was not indicated to prevent graft versus host disease ( irradiation of donor blood is better and cheaper ) ; to prevent transmission of HIV or hepatitis B and C viruses ; or in patients undergoing routine surgical procedures ( with the possible exception of patients with cancer ) . |
| 28 | Last year the Americans did not bother to renegotiate access to Berbera when their lease expired . |
| 29 | While they , unlike Feuerbach , certainly did not intend to turn theology into anthropology , did they nevertheless risk doing precisely that ? |
| 30 | Over the next few minutes Wickham learned that MacQuillan had not wanted to leave Barron in control anywhere , that Maureen and Barron had been and still were jockeying for position and that Maureen had enlisted Hunter-Blair 's support . |