Example sentences of "not [vb infin] [noun sg] with [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 So long as the animals can not make contact with the nets there is no problem .
2 This was a very old set and did not always work ; as I did not make contact with the control tower I came round and I saw that it was all clear for me to land , so I put my wheels down and made my approach .
3 If the present article can not answer every question raised by Carse , it will answer this one : ‘ did they [ at the Opéra ] or did they not beat time with a baton throughout the whole opera ? ’ ( p.311 ) .
4 Compliance with one set of rules or standards does not ensure compliance with the other .
5 Coun Williams added officers had contacted the African National Congress ' London office for guidance and had been told the organisation would not welcome trade with the country while sanctions are still in place .
6 In the event , however , the project occurred in neither of these areas : not in Barnet because the psychogeriatric service was still in the process of development ; nor in Southwark because , although there was an enormous amount of goodwill and enthusiasm for the project , the social services unions ( particularly the joint Home Helps Shop Stewards Committee ) decided that they could not endorse cooperation with the project , the main reason being that they felt — mistakenly in our view — that a project which employed its own carers might be a threat to the employment of local authority home helps , and that ‘ to endorse such a service is not helping the elderly in the long term , it is only carrying out this Government 's stratagem in closing Homes and hospitals ’ .
7 The dishwasher broke down and they could not keep pace with the washing up .
8 ‘ That is not to say that the squirearchy is extinct , rather that the squires that survive would not touch politics with a pitchfork . ’
9 Although it is clearly the case that coronations and royal weddings seem to evoke strong emotional responses ( Jennings and Madge , 1987 ; Ziegler , 1978 ) a rhetorical approach can not rest content with a description , which suggests that British attitudes are quite so straightforward .
10 The tradition in educational studies which seems to aid such views stresses that you can not change society with the school .
11 In the first case , identification with the law does not express identification with the society which is hostile to this law .
12 This is bad but , for all the anxiety , it does not bear comparison with the jolts of the mid-1970s and the early 1980s , let alone with 1929–31 when the value of British exports almost halved .
13 There is a great temptation to delete such a provision , but this would not find favour with the landlord and is therefore not worthwhile .
14 He would not find fault with the falsehood .
15 As for the Giggs/Kelly incident at the beginning of the game it looked like a perfectly fair challenge after all it 's not as if Girly Pallyster does n't make contact with the person he 's marking ( and that 's in both senses of the word marking ) .
16 As for the Giggs/Kelly incident at the beginning of the game it looked like a perfectly fair challenge after all it 's not as if Girly Pallyster does n't make contact with the person he 's marking ( and that 's in both senses of the word marking ) .
17 In his first interview with American television , President Saddam Hussein told C B S News that he did n't want war with the west , but he claimed that God was on his side and said that Iraq would come out victorious in any conflict .
18 We do n't want trouble with the law , do we ?
19 This was not to say that he did n't spend time with the army , lending vigorous help as the trains of oxen dragged the batteries into position , and the wagonloads of food and fodder , weapons and powder bumped fifty miles south-east from Kyrenia to where Famagusta lay , lodged in its bay , divided by ninety broad sea miles from Syria .
20 Well my feeling is that you know if yo if you 're car does n't run tinker with the carburettor and if it still is n't running right , tinker with something else , if you like , the fatal thing is to tinker with both because then you just do n't know what you 've got , and erm she 's been on , on this hormone replacement which is er er no big deal but , you know , hormones are
21 Whilst they disagreed about the objects of their enthusiasm , they did n't take issue with the idea of being a fan , so Mireille can safely say about Edd the Duck :
22 ‘ The cartoon characters ca n't have sex with the humans .
23 Ca n't play cricket with a jacket on can you ?
24 If you ca n't get help with the cost of dental treatment
25 If you ca n't get help with the cost of wigs and fabric supports
26 Anything so that he did n't connect Lori with the jade .
27 Do n't rub hair with a towel after washing — blot and leave it to dry .
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