Example sentences of "not [vb infin] [noun pl] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You should not make friends with an elephant keeper , ’ he had said , ‘ unless you first have room to entertain an elephant . ’ |
| 2 | The report comes out strongly against the imposition of trade sanctions against countries on environmental grounds : in an implicit reference to the recent US action against tuna imports from Mexico [ see ED 55 ] , the report says , " a country may not restrict imports of a product solely because it originates in a country whose environmental policies are different . " |
| 3 | Punchy thermals which delight the wings of gliders and do not trouble planes with a bit of weighty metal behind them are no longer conjured up by the morning sun to drive trepid microlight flyers back to earth . |
| 4 | Do not buy snails from a tank containing empty shells or dead snails . |
| 5 | Pauline Mitchell , head of housing , said : ‘ We do not have any areas for any particular people and we certainly do not identify travellers as a group . |
| 6 | When correcting errors , do not insert letters in a word that is wrong . |
| 7 | It is the firm conviction of your Board that you should not become shareholders in a company with such an unsound strategy . |
| 8 | ‘ They also do not like programmes with a lot of laughter or applause . ’ |
| 9 | Yanto did not like Sundays as a rule . |
| 10 | At the same time , successive items on the test do not measure changes in a child 's linguistic ability so much as the development of conceptual abilities which underlie the acquisition of abstract vocabulary items . |
| 11 | There are two points worth noting ; the default setting is not to read tags , something that the user needs to remember , and , so far , it seems that you can not mix tags within a paragraph . |
| 12 | There was no advance planning to reach this figure and I decided at the beginning that I would not cut corners in an effort to keep within the budget . |
| 13 | That support should not maintain institutions in a client or subservient role . |
| 14 | But such a name never appeared , perhaps for the reason the New Yorker itself suggested : you can not fix labels on a world of shadows . |
| 15 | Surely , ’ she added slyly , ‘ my good brother would not put obstacles between a queen and her throne or a mother and her son ? ’ |
| 16 | If the company you have hired can not obtain materials from a builder 's merchant without any advance payment there is something wrong . |
| 17 | A solicitor may not accept instructions in a matter in which to his knowledge another solicitor has been retained without the consent of that other solicitor , nor should a solicitor instructed in a particular matter communicate directly with anyone who has retained a solicitor on the other side , though a direct approach may be justified if there has been difficulty in making contact with that solicitor . |
| 18 | After taking advice from Religious Education Advisers , it was felt that the project would not address issues from a faith perspective , and was not essentially relevant to the National Curriculum . |
| 19 | The homework was interesting and demanded more investigation and some discussion with parents : she - the teacher — provided some useful clues for those who could not find names in an encyclopaedia . |
| 20 | ‘ I do n't regard Jews as a class , ’ he snapped back at his questioner , ‘ I regard them as a privileged misfortune . ’ |
| 21 | But Shelley knew she could n't rush things after a lifetime of mistakes . |
| 22 | But do n't make decisions in a panic . |
| 23 | Her friend said , " I do n't do things without a reason , only when I 've got something against people , so we did things like spraying walls , not bus seats , we did n't slash them because people have to sit on them . |
| 24 | Yet , although we had n't thought of a name , we 'd started to fancy doing a couple of gigs and , of course , you ca n't do gigs without a name . |
| 25 | I 'm sure David wo n't mind sandwiches for a day . |
| 26 | I just do n't like machines with a mind of their own — not even a moped ! |
| 27 | You do n't see ducks with a bow-tie on . |
| 28 | ‘ Most people do n't face emergencies as a matter of course , and no one expects them to be anything but human . ’ |
| 29 | Do n't press seams with a seam roller , especially on the non-vinyls , which have hollow backings filled with glue . |
| 30 | You ca n't put emotions in a bottle labelled ‘ Exhibit B ’ . |