Example sentences of "not [vb infin] [to-vb] [noun sg] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The Belarussian government does not want to take responsibility for the results of market reforms . |
| 2 | The Asians will not want to lose ground in the mixed doubles in the build-up to Atlanta and the Belfast match will provide them with an opportunity to test the best in Europe . |
| 3 | Britain may not need to flaunt nationalism in the way characteristic of the United States but its education system can no more ignore the task of sustaining the national identity than education systems in any other nation-state . |
| 4 | The members of those boards would be saints if they did not seek to take advantage of the position in which the Government have placed them . |
| 5 | Therefore in practice from 1948 to 1975 the revenue did not seek to extract tax on the basis of the average cost to the employer of providing in-house benefits . |
| 6 | Bilingual lobbyists argue that they do not seek to challenge English as the state 's official language , merely to help recent immigrants , as well as foreign tourists and businessmen . |
| 7 | Prospects for 1993 are very mixed and boss Robert Fitzpatrick does not expect to achieve profitability for the entire year . |
| 8 | Despite the heresy of Barbusse 's cultural strategy between 1928 and 1934 , it is possible that the strategy itself did not appear to lack credibility in the minds of certain members of the PCF leadership . |
| 9 | A rapid review such as this of theories of knowledge and the curriculum can not hope to do justice to the various concepts and models , and risks inducing a kind of conceptual vertigo . |
| 10 | In Sheffield , householders do not have to carry refuse to the end of their drives — how do we construct league tables to reflect that ? |
| 11 | They argue that causation involves one event ( the cause ) generating or producing another event ( the effect ) , and that we can obtain direct knowledge about this causal generation : we do not have to infer causality on the basis of temporal priority . |
| 12 | Production in one division does not have to match production in the other as surplus can be sold to the market or shortfalls bought from the market . |
| 13 | If you sell all or part of your business when you retire , you may not have to pay tax on the first £150,000 of capital gain with a further exemption allowed of one-half of gains between £150,000 and £600,000 . |
| 14 | The force facility can be used as often as required for a particular SPR , for example , if a user does not wish to take responsibility for the SPR or if a user accepts the SPR but at a later date passes the work onto someone else . |
| 15 | The separation of these themes illustrated that , for tactical reasons , the party did not wish to draw attention to the full nature of its ideology . |
| 16 | At the same time , the purchaser will not wish to return cash to the vendor that he has not yet collected from debtors , nor will the purchaser be willing to use its own funds to satisfy creditors on behalf of the vendor . |
| 17 | We would not wish to outlaw parenthood on the grounds that some children are abused , even murdered , in the home . |
| 18 | The bronze versions are very recent and faithful to Ernst 's instructions : when he returned to France after the war , he had planned to work on the project but did not manage to reach agreement with the current owners . |
| 19 | An official spokesman said on June 20 that the government did not intend to suspend work on the Narmada River irrigation projects despite the recommendations of a World Bank-commissioned study , released on June 19 , which highlighted the project 's extensive damage to the environment and threat to the way of life of the local tribal population . |
| 20 | For the avoidance of doubt , Mr. Speaker , I do not intend to give way to the hon. Gentleman and , if he persists in intervening , it is merely because the Labour party 's grasp of democracy can not survive a week such as the previous one . |
| 21 | Yet The Stock Exchange , while strongly supporting the Cadbury initiative , has made it plain that it does not intend to require compliance with the code as a listing requirement . |
| 22 | I have caught chub on wet and dry fly , particularly on mayfly , but my experience of fly fishing for chub is so limited I would not propose to offer advice on the method . |
| 23 | Because the Czechoslovakian team could not afford to take part in the British leg of the European Grand Slam event next June , a competition was arranged to raise the necessary £600 to cover their expenses . |
| 24 | It did not start to spray urine at the age when any typical male would have done so . |
| 25 | Roland did not offer to accompany Blackadder to the London Library . |
| 26 | Obviously , she could not bear to hurt Fabien with the truth . ’ |
| 27 | I know I can do the job but I do n't want to put pressure on the board . |
| 28 | And I did n't want to go work for the Bank . |
| 29 | Jagger apparently turned up unannounced and ‘ did n't want to take part in the interview or even be photographed with his children . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ I certainly did n't want to take part in the play and I am not at all at ease with those — those people . |