Example sentences of "not [verb] the [adj] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do not think the Prime Minister imagines that this country 's future would be secure if we remained outside . |
| 2 | When the other industry ( meals ) is untaxed and in competitive equilibrium , we showed in the last section that the marginal cost of producing films is exactly the value of the marginal utility sacrificed by not using the same resources to produce more meals . |
| 3 | The early pre-emptive presence of the blue helmets is an earnest of the world 's desire not to see the Bosnian war repeated in Macedonia . |
| 4 | The papal legate in England in 1213 , Nicholas de Romanis , reported that he had not received the 1000 marks left to the pope ( nor the 500 left to the cardinals ) by the archbishop of York , Geoffrey Plantagenet . |
| 5 | Try as he might it is clear that he can not make the economic figures add up , creative accounting or not , in a way which will make the parliamentary Tory Party arithmetic secure . |
| 6 | Of course there was nothing to guarantee that the soup you were canning would measure up to the quality or taste of Mother 's , nor that other soup canners would not make the same sales appeal . |
| 7 | Leech , who had expected a generous-minded rival , was amazed at Burton 's blunt declaration that if he could not make the acting game pay well and soon , he would be off . |
| 8 | Here we do not make the common assumption mentioned but not specified in connection with the first three examples , which is that an effect had a single cause . |
| 9 | Failure to bring about the defection would mean certain imprisonment , possibly death , for if he did not bring matters to a successful conclusion , Manville and his colleagues would not make the slightest attempt to help him . |
| 10 | Aoun responded in a typically robust fashion , declaring that " siege and starvation will not make the angry people kneel down " . |
| 11 | Then , how long before somebody proposes giving points for undersized fish that did not make the undersize fish measure ? |
| 12 | The fastenings for the steel bits would need to be on the gun deck , and it was on the gun deck they had some of the electronic equipment they did not want the Chilean officers to see . |
| 13 | Though you may not want the negative situation to arise and though you may do your best to avoid it , once you know what the worst possible outcome would be and that you could cope with it , a great deal of the anxiety is removed . |
| 14 | Assad did not want the civil war to continue , for if Lebanon suffered any more wounds some of its blood might seep into Syria , through those narrow grey wadis in the anti-Lebanon mountain range and down into the plateau beyond , perhaps even infecting Damascus , whose carefully balanced but Alawite-controlled metabolism had so far remained untouched by the epidemic on the other side of the border . |
| 15 | The new church should not be dismayed at trouble within or without in the early stages : it may well come as a result of being on a collision course with the forces of evil who , putting it bluntly , do not want the new church to survive ! |
| 16 | I am delighted , too , that my constituents can be told in the coming months that the Labour party does not want the single-person household to have a discount . |
| 17 | I think they will , but I can not be sure , and I would not want the National Curriculum to force him on unwilling teachers . |
| 18 | Also the councillors must not want the local fishermen to fish at Witton at a reasonable price compared to other local fishing areas . |
| 19 | The EABA did not want the British fighters eliminating other nations ’ boxers , so ruled they must meet each other first before the survivor boxes against other European nations . |
| 20 | Chancellor Helmut Kohl 's decision not to support the French proposal to fix the conference date in Strasbourg highlights his concern that the question of European monetary union and the inevitable transfer of powers from West Germany 's Bundesbank to the new European central bank would get caught up in the German general election next autumn . |
| 21 | In particular , the European Court did not answer the second question posed for its consideration by this House , which was concerned with the criteria to be applied by the national court in deciding whether or not to grant interim protection of the rights claimed . |
| 22 | Is it not astonishing that the Secretary of State , having made a decision on 15 Para , can not or will not answer the pertinent points put to him by my hon. Friend the Member for Glasgow , Hillhead ( Mr. Galloway ) and the hon. Member for Glasgow , Govan ( Mr. Sillars ) ? |
| 23 | ‘ They are not clear on their objectives and are not given the technical tools to use on the field so that they can not play to their potential . |
| 24 | A spokesman for the Soil Association , which monitors organic farming , said that the production of wholly pesticide-free food was impossible , due to residues in rain and groundwater , but that such accidental pollution could not explain the high levels discovered in the Warwickshire tests . |
| 25 | Simultaneously we had been in touch with Sir Hubert and had discovered that he did indeed give an interview to the representative in London and had spoken ‘ off the cuff ’ to quite an extent but not justifying the outright statement attributed to him . |
| 26 | When I was 16 I gained GSE grade one English and chose not to accept the only job suggested , packing boxes ; instead I tried further education . |
| 27 | So the newly established Energy Efficiency Office will have an important contribution to make in ‘ selling ’ energy efficiency particularly should rapid rises in energy prices not provide the prime incentive to economise . |
| 28 | Texas does not need the economic stimulus offered by Mr Clinton : the state has a muscular economy with an employment-growth rate that has exceeded the national average for the past three years ( see chart on next page ) . |
| 29 | Why have the laws of war not addressed the nuclear weapons question more successfully ? |
| 30 | But it has not solved the huge problems inherited from the past |