Example sentences of "not [vb infin] [verb] [adv prt] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Customers may not want to take up the credit on offer . |
| 2 | The Minister has repeatedly said that he does not want to single out the defence industry for special consideration . |
| 3 | Some novice gardeners may not want to do much actual gardening at all , but conversely , do not want to look out every day over a scene of threadbare grass and rotting fence . |
| 4 | Because there is so little drag on crossing two stitches every four rows this is one time when you will not need to take down a stitch to either side of the cable . |
| 5 | Proud Leslie Peers , 17 , could not wait to show off the A-registration Ford Escort — a surprise gift from his mother . |
| 6 | MAS specialists do not seek to take over the work of an existing client service team . |
| 7 | Ground ( 5 ) in effect argues that the justices did not appear to carry out the balancing exercise that they were required to do , weighing benefit against risk and I regard that as also a legitimate criticism . |
| 8 | It was a mark of her artistic intelligence and independence that she did not choose to dish up a pot-pourri of well tried favourites for the occasion , drawing attention to herself rather than the music . |
| 9 | Desperately deprived groups do not organize to bring about the downfall of a political system . |
| 10 | Players do not like setting down an instrument that has just become nicely warmed up , and taking up a cold one , unless there is a very good reason for it . |
| 11 | The room was growing very dark , yet Breeze did not like to put on the light . |
| 12 | ‘ Until that decision is known we can not begin to draw up an engineering schedule but we should have all works completed by the end of 1995 , ’ said an NGC spokesman . |
| 13 | A rising could be put down ; even though the BNA might dissolve into guerrilla bands it could not hope to take over the country . |
| 14 | Again this hope seems set against the tides of history , but again we can not be certain that a positive policy of Empire and tariffs could not have turned back the tide in 1902 or 1912 . |
| 15 | ONE advantage for small countries in large empires is that they do not have to think up a defence policy : their armies do what they are told . |
| 16 | Once she had taken off her black suit and was lying in bed dressed only in her underclothes and dressing gown , she admitted to herself that she was so tired that she might not have lasted out the afternoon in court without fainting . |
| 17 | Let me try erm a straw poll on you and I 'm going to ask those of you , I 'll give you a moment or two , who would 've signed up the Maastricht Treaty and who would not have signed up the Maastricht Treaty if you 'd 've had a free vote ? |
| 18 | As he was never in contention , he will not have used up the sort of nervous energy expended by Chip Beck , who recovered the lead he had lost on Saturday to edge out Greg Norman and Mike Standly with a final round of 70 . |
| 19 | That the two were incompatible was clear by the late 1140s but this of itself would not have brought about the annulment . |
| 20 | A former 60-a-day-smoker , Mr McTear is suing Imperial Tobacco for damages , claiming he would not have taken up the habit in the 1960s had there been health warnings . |
| 21 | ( This should not be taken to mean that such psychopathological trends could not appear in individuals before the coming of cultivation or delayed-return hunter-gathering , merely that they would have been much less common and could not have taken on the collective , cultural significance which they did in the Neolithic and subsequent epochs . ) |
| 22 | The relevant circumstances were that : ( i ) the limitation terms had nut been negotiated by any representative body ; ( ii ) the buyers could not have discovered the error ( i. e. that the wrong seed had been delivered ) until after the crop was sown , whereas the sellers were in a position to have known ; ( iii ) the buyers could not reasonably have been expected to cover such a risk ( i.e. of crop failure ) by insurance whereas it was possible for seedsmen to cover their liability by insurance at a modest premium which would not have put up the cost of seeds by very much ; ( iv ) the error could not have occurred without some negligence on the part of the sellers . |
| 23 | We certainly would not wish to open up the question of need within that area . |
| 24 | Do not attempt to break up the tablet instead and powder it over the food at the next meal . |
| 25 | This is easy to do but please do not try to hurry up the process up as ‘ slow and steady ’ seems to give the best results and takes less time than trying to hurry . |
| 26 | Other regions , which did not happen to pick up a rotation , would become oval-shaped objects called elliptical galaxies . |
| 27 | Furthermore , a greater emphasis on relations with Moscow does not imply giving up the country 's own democratic future . |
| 28 | She did not bother to wipe up the puddle . |
| 29 | But his assertion that a Scottish parliament should have some say over the siting on Trident nuclear missiles in Scotland brought an angry Mr Hughes to the rostrum : ‘ Let's not get dragged down the back alleys of stupid silly little constitutional issues which are doing this party no good whatsoever . ’ |
| 30 | Concerning videotapes , the Head of Department said that he only held two which were shared with another department ( i.e. were constantly reused ) and that he could not afford to build up a library of them . |