Example sentences of "not [vb infin] [verb] [adv prt] the [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 | Proud Leslie Peers , 17 , could not wait to show off the A-registration Ford Escort — a surprise gift from his mother . |
| 4 | MAS specialists do not seek to take over the work of an existing client service team . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Desperately deprived groups do not organize to bring about the downfall of a political system . |
| 7 | The room was growing very dark , yet Breeze did not like to put on the light . |
| 8 | A rising could be put down ; even though the BNA might dissolve into guerrilla bands it could not hope to take over the country . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 ? |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | That the two were incompatible was clear by the late 1140s but this of itself would not have brought about the annulment . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ( 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 . ) |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | We certainly would not wish to open up the question of need within that area . |
| 18 | Do not attempt to break up the tablet instead and powder it over the food at the next meal . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Furthermore , a greater emphasis on relations with Moscow does not imply giving up the country 's own democratic future . |
| 21 | She did not bother to wipe up the puddle . |
| 22 | 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 . ’ |
| 23 | The Rector , who could not afford to keep up the grounds , had no need of such a large house himself , and Charlotte decided to rent it . |
| 24 | Sinead , 25 , who has donated her £500,000 Hollywood home to charity , said she did not regret tearing up the picture . |
| 25 | But the Note also made clear that the western democracies would not intervene to bring about the change of regime they advocated . |
| 26 | Even the most casual reader of the Crossman and Castle diaries can not fail to pick up the sense of exhaustion that permeates their pages . |
| 27 | Randall for the London Board did not fail to point out the contrast between this and his own refusal of central funds for standardisation ( for which there was in fact a far sounder economic case ) . |
| 28 | But this difficulty was not necessarily insurmountable and certainly does not justify writing off the Duke as a political lightweight . |
| 29 | The current government must recognise that it can not continue to go down the line of an individualist anxiety- ridden state , of competitive individuals where the poor and disabled are left to starve on city streets . |
| 30 | But er I , I do n't want get out the kitchen , I want to keep cooking boys . |