Example sentences of "not [vb infin] [pron] [noun pl] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Customers in search of lounge furniture need not restrict their purchases to the conventional combination of settee and two armchairs . |
| 2 | Josiah Wedgwood may have boasted his intent of " making such machines of men as can not err " but he could not nail his potters to the floor and was left to fume when they absented themselves for the local " wakes " . |
| 3 | ‘ We can not bury our heads in the sand and become competitive just by thinking that we are . |
| 4 | Although Goldmann accepts the significance of the social determination of knowledge thesis for epistemology he does not pursue its implications for the Marxist concept of ideology . |
| 5 | Why , then , could Tolkien not finish his legends of the First Age off ? |
| 6 | Furthermore , if speakers did not avert their eyes during the planning ( hesitant ) phases in their speech , there was a marked increase in speech disturbances . |
| 7 | President Carlos Salinas de Gortari has said on many occasions , in his campaign for a free-trade agreement , that if Mexico can not send its products to the United States , it will send its people instead . |
| 8 | He was at great pains to ensure that the public did not associate his performers with the bad name that dancers usually had . |
| 9 | Media Vision Technology Inc , making multimedia products in Fremont , California got its initial public offering of 1.75m shares , 1m of them new , away at $26.25 a share ; it did not give its plans for the $25m or so net proceeds . |
| 10 | And though he could not lift his eyes to the streetlights |
| 11 | Wolff will not sever his links with the MRC until spring 1984 . |
| 12 | And you come down through the alley way and you could not keep your feet on the floor ! |
| 13 | Always start ‘ Tall , good-looking Mary Smith , as she stepped out of her cottage that morning , did not realize she would not see her children until the following , three months later . |
| 14 | The truth is that acting in is isolation workers simply can not recognize their rights against the superior powers of employers and of capital . |
| 15 | And this could never be real , this never could be happening to her , walking on the white squares behind Finn , who moved as if he did not set his feet to the ground , so gracefully , so uncannily . |
| 16 | There was also concern that the government might not meet its undertakings on the integration of former guerrillas , particularly in the matter of land distribution . |
| 17 | The UN said that despite undertakings from Serb commanders the helicopters would be given safe passage it appeared Mr Karadzic and General Ratko Mladic , the Serb commander , could not control their troops of the ground . |
| 18 | And try as she might she could not detach her eyes from the object on the table that had so totally winded her . |
| 19 | Two acting notes for Frank : Less is more — do not shift your eyes at the audience so much , stare them down once every scene ; when in doubt about what to say next do not keep ad-libbing about Harry . |
| 20 | Several children did not join their friends in the water but watched them from the balustrade along the main road . |
| 21 | The action of the Parliamentary Party was very embarrassing for the Labour Ministers , who of course could not join their colleagues in the opposition lobby ; but it did more than anything else in wartime to identify the Labour Party with the widespread popular desire for social reform in the post-war world . |
| 22 | It is attempting to find out what is causing the mix , indicating it does not have its fingers on the distribution pulse because of its two-tiered channel . |
| 23 | We can not have their children in the hands of those unqualified to look after them . |
| 24 | They can not have their names on the electoral roll and , as a result , can not vote . |
| 25 | for example , should not have their links with the outside world severed by traffic flows past their doors . |
| 26 | ‘ I can only draw from this fact that the Careers Service did not destroy their copies of the incorrect documents and that it was theirs that was passed to the county councillors and Dr Ashok Kumar ( the Labour candidate for Langbaurgh ) , ’ says the statement . |
| 27 | why in due course , if proper use is made of native institutions , those races which are now subject should not take their places in the ranks of that group of allied nations , as they may I think rightly be called , which forms the [ self-governing ] British Empire … |
| 28 | The maid who opened the door to them could not take her eyes off the great fat woman in the biscuit straw hat with big cloth roses on its brim , and the cape that just covered her shoulders and showed an expanse of blue cotton bosom , the like she had never seen before . |
| 29 | Julia could not take her eyes off the beautiful mare . |
| 30 | There is a problem that way , as he can not take his dogs over the border . |