Example sentences of "not [vb infin] [noun] [prep] [pron] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 1.3 The employee 's duty not to make preparations in order to compete with his employer after he has left or to enable another to do so The employee can not make preparations during his employment , either during the working day or in his spare time , with a view to competing with his employer once his employment is over if such preparation may have a material effect on his employer 's business . |
| 2 | My godmother would certainly not want strangers on her property . ’ |
| 3 | Despite the imposition of price controls , his government could not win acceptance for its pay restraint policy on the part of the TUC . |
| 4 | An example of this was given in Chapter 4 , concerning female users with children who did not seek help from their GP because they assumed a direct link between the GP and social services . |
| 5 | It was further argued that Australian citizens , like British citizens , can not bring claims against their government for violation of Australia 's international obligations . |
| 6 | The girl Agnes left her home in secret , so that her pregnancy would not bring shame on her family . |
| 7 | That may be so , but it does not prevent people in our field from continually falling into the error of supposing that a solution designed to match one problem must be applicable to quite a different problem as well . |
| 8 | Pour some oil into a small dish ( do not pour oil onto your partner 's body , it can be quite a shock ) , oil your hands , then rub them together to warm the oil . |
| 9 | Admittedly , dealing with a woman as dominating as Catherine de Medici and a family as powerful as the Guises , which all three had to do , would have put strains on personalities far stronger than Francis II , Charles IX and Henri III ; but the fact remains that while , unlike Mary , they did not show indifference to their kingdom , they were exactly like her in failing to assert their control of it . |
| 10 | Changing to the Ford engine will not do wonders for your fuel economy . |
| 11 | We do not send information to your home . |
| 12 | Mr Hall said Miss Scott had explained she did not give notification of her mother 's death because she was afraid the authorities would discover the conditions in which they had been living . |
| 13 | THE man accused of attempted murder of Coast to Coast walker Josephine Chandler will not give evidence in his defence . |
| 14 | These are calculated for our sample of 1608 men who were unemployed longer than 28 days and did not give retirement as their reason for their pre-cohort entry job . |
| 15 | I explained to the man that I could not carry cheese to my appointment but that I would be back another day . |
| 16 | They can not report nonsense in your writing , they do not judge accuracy , including spelling , nor can they detect incorrect word usage . |
| 17 | The plight of abused ( physically , emotionally and sexually ) children is a tragic and sensitive story which apparently often goes undetected because the mother , fearing reprisals or removal of the children , does not report abuse by her husband/partner or visiting relative ( who often is the perpetrator ) ; in many cases having suffered violence herself from him ( Jones , 1988 ) . |
| 18 | Bennett was the last to bale out , He evaded capture on his adventurous journey from Norway to Sweden and this is best savoured by his own description in Pathfinder which , unhappily , does not report details of his encounter with Count Bernadotte of the Swedish Foreign Office : this must have been a very unequal contest . |
| 19 | Next morning she woke from an intense dream , and did not dare wonder about its meaning . |
| 20 | Ferkhan also owned land near the village and complained that lack of electricity meant that he could not pump water to his field and , as a result , he had grown only twenty tons of melons compared to eighty before the war … |
| 21 | Clearly the scene was beautiful , even though I do not see London as my city . |
| 22 | ‘ You will not use vulgarity in my presence , ’ he said , giving her a look of absolute coldness . |
| 23 | Suppose , on the other hand , that he is guided by law as integrity , which does not limit law to what convention finds in past decisions but directs him also to regard as law what morality would suggest to be the best justification of these past decisions . |
| 24 | Perhaps this is why straight lines do not suggest movement along their length as effectively as slightly curved ones . |
| 25 | All the advertising in the world will not draw people to your event if they believe they 're going to be there alone . |
| 26 | Thirdly , it does not inspire confidence in her work to find it not simply going beyond the independent evidence we have , but often going against it . |
| 27 | As a consequence , section 39 is useless because the council will not move people off its land . |
| 28 | Charman did not confront Gedge over his flirtation with Catt because he did n't want to cause a major disruption in the middle of a tour . |
| 29 | FORMER Trade and Defence minister Alan Clark will not face prosecution over his evidence in the arms-for-Iraq Matrix Churchill case , the Crown Prosecution Service announced yesterday . |
| 30 | The lesson is that we should not judge people by their reputation , without knowing a great deal more about them . |