Example sentences of "not [vb infin] [verb] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However we do not want to engage in the quantitative issue for the moment , but stay with the relationship between the theoretical concept and its operational definition . |
| 2 | Brendan Ormsby 's transfer from Leeds United to Cardiff City was called off yesterday after the defender decided he did not want to play in the Third Division . |
| 3 | Even if the employee is successful in the job , if the spouse can not adapt to live in the English culture and speak the language , the assignment may well fail . |
| 4 | Mr Donovan 's mere financial gain will probably make little difference to him and it is debatable whether his name ‘ has been cleared once and for all ’ as it did not need clearing in the first place . |
| 5 | The Institute of Taxation does not seek to interfere in the internal operations of the Tax Faculty , and it is wrong of Peter Wyman to suggest the contrary . |
| 6 | But Truman did not hesitate to intervene in the next crisis in the Far East , when North Korean troops invaded the South Korean Republic on 25 June 1950 ( CORE , pp. 150–51 ) . |
| 7 | To her chagrin he did not look hurt in the slightest . |
| 8 | This may or may not entail living in the same house . |
| 9 | Outsiders could not hope to participate in the learned debates on comparative anatomy at the great museums , but field naturalists relied on local amateurs for specimens and surveys , thus ensuring a much greater degree of interaction . |
| 10 | Even HG Wells might not have believed in the last years of the 20th century , plans were being laid to walk across the Martian south pole . |
| 11 | Plants and animals that were incapable of acclimatizing to cold would not have survived in the cooling environment of the early Pleistocene . |
| 12 | They may be of course , but we may not have looked in the right place yet to find that . |
| 13 | Job fairs are usually very lively and informal , and you can roam at leisure , surveying what is on offer and gathering literature on jobs you might not have considered in the everyday run of things . |
| 14 | But Chapman said later : ‘ If we had lost at Wembley , my opinion of Jack and his value to the Arsenal would not have changed in the slightest . |
| 15 | ‘ I do not intend to indulge in the disreputable and tawdry deceit of the Labour party , ’ he added . |
| 16 | Either the individual can not get to sleep in the first place or he wakes frequently during the night . |
| 17 | Perhaps such cases do not occur with the frequency one may so readily believe or that such cases do not get reported in the national press with the frequency that one might have expected ; or alternatively , perhaps the police are much more successful in capturing the so-called sex maniacs than we sometimes are led to imagine . |
| 18 | Somehow it does not seem to matter in the fast-moving , no-going-back whirl of a film that the hero is a complete fool . |
| 19 | The SDP leader Jón Baldvin Hannibalsson had declared that his party could not continue to participate in the previous PP-SDP-PA centre-left coalition arrangement without a clear consensus on two key policy issues : Iceland 's position in EFTA negotiations with the European Communities ( EC ) , in which he had personally played a leading role as Foreign Minister , and a proposed US$1,000 million project to build a new aluminium smelting plant south of Reykjavik . |
| 20 | We do n't want to go in the other room and watch the nasties do we ? |
| 21 | Although Jessamy still felt a little sorry for Eleanor , she did n't want to stay in the same room as her . |
| 22 | Of course we are all under pressure because we do n't want to get in the same position as last year . |
| 23 | Similarly some women ca n't or do n't want to ride in the latter stages of pregnancy but would like their horse kept in work . |
| 24 | And you do n't need to put in the whole amount , but then if you do n't put in the whole amount or you withdraw the net interest which you 're entitled to do then you 're pulling away the build-up are n't you ? |
| 25 | A Fill option is marked and documented but certainly on the ZX Spectrum version tested it does n't appear to operate in the expected manner . |
| 26 | Maxim had a torch which he used very cautiously , but at least they did n't have to whisper in the steady drone of rain . |
| 27 | The erm , yes these and it started to be like warfare more than a game you know at that stage but hopefully now we 're getting back to some sort of sanity with the membership cards you know , because we , the crowd is segregated from the away supporters now and that 's cos if Walsall go into the second division again they 'll have to spend so much I believe on the ground to cage the away supporters in which they do n't have to do in the third division . |
| 28 | It was so obvious that he would n't have cared in the slightest if she really had run off with the professor . |
| 29 | Is it a new editorial policy that New Scientist will investigate the number and source of replies to advertisements within its pages and then print snide remarks about why the unsuccessful applicants should n't have applied in the first place ? |
| 30 | Th the problem with suggestion therapy whether it be hypnosis or group therapy is it does n't tend to last in the longer run after the person stopped going to the group or they have n't seen the the er hypnotist for reinforcement . |