Example sentences of "not [vb infin] them [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The American expression for this position is to say that the resources of a local authority are not ‘ fungible ’ , meaning that we can not treat them as one mass . |
| 2 | When they participated in the market economy , they were usually confined to menial positions , many of which did not bring them into much contact with men . |
| 3 | If Harriet did not carry them to higher ground they would surely drown . |
| 4 | Mere spatial separation does not divide them from each other . |
| 5 | What it provides is that a company proposing to allot equity securities shall not allot them to any person unless it has first offered , on the same or more favourable terms , to each person who holds relevant shares or relevant employee shares , a proportion of those equity securities which is as nearly as practicable equal to his existing proportion in nominal value of his aggregate holdings of relevant shares and relevant employee shares . |
| 6 | I would not recommend them for submersed cultivation and I do not believe that a reputable aquarium dealer would sell you those plants as aquarium plants . |
| 7 | Mr. J. praised the nurses who had looked after his mother , and did not blame them in any way for her death . |
| 8 | It is important to recognise that the research itself , and its setting , inflicts its own contingencies on the choice of indicators : research using interviews will have to use indicators that are largely constructed out of respondents ' answers to questionnaire items whereas observational studies , and Lazarsfeld did not preclude them from variable analysis in principle , would have to use others . |
| 9 | We also generalize about the taste of the discriminating and set up standards , useful as guides as long as one does not credit them with greater authority than a considered choice which violates them , but not without the suspect motives and tyrannical pretensions of standards in morals ; if you show signs of food-and-wine snobbery , I had better when listening to your recommendations take care to distinguish what I sense on my tongue from an affected taste . |
| 10 | At least he states his beliefs as they really are , and does not mould them to electoral advantage . |
| 11 | But if they , we will , we will not allow them within this area which we intend to demolish and rebuild . |
| 12 | ‘ True , we must not put them in more danger than is needful . |
| 13 | These should be few and simple , and must certainly not involve them in any anxiety , or a sharp increase in effort or expenditure . |
| 14 | Indeed , she did not accompany them on this stroll along the Western Esplanade to the Dumpton Gap even in their thoughts . |
| 15 | Being fascinated with the problems of developing highly professional staff , and having many years of experience in recruiting from almost every British campus , I could not accept them as good building stone and felt obliged to turn them down . |
| 16 | John Coffin , she felt sure , would not ; he might think the same things , but would not say them in that way . |
| 17 | While they provide a context in which to appraise the changes made by the Act of 1935 , which was I think the purpose for which Mr. Whitaker cited them , I did not find them of direct assistance . |
| 18 | I do n't want them after this visit tomorrow I might go out one more time |
| 19 | ‘ I do n't want them in this country . |
| 20 | Here the first thing to check is whether they are slips or not : if the pupil can correct his own errors , do n't count them as serious spelling miscues . |
| 21 | Their value is 200 GCs if sold to a collector ; non-collectors wo n't buy them at any price . |
| 22 | When we are old we take longer to recover and because we ca n't discharge them to nursing kind of beds then there 'll be back up in the John Radcliffe Hospital and extra pressure there . |
| 23 | Lentils coming from Ethiopia , you get wheat from the States , rice from the States , ap apples from France , tea from India , coffee from Brazil and Columbia , sugar from the Windward Islands , bananas from all over the place , you know those are the things that keep us alive , no , you know , whether we one think they are or not , but I mean them things are what keeps the economy alive for one , it 's also what keeps us personally alive if you do n't know why we take an interest in Third World issues , I would say that it 's that , we 're dependent on these countries , we could produce enough foods for our own needs , but we would n't have oranges , coffee , tea , sugar , you know cos we ca n't grow them in this country we , we really depend on those things to stay alive , and for that reason alone we should have some kind of interest , if you went to Kenya for example they would be staggered at how little you know about their country given how much they know about yours they know a lot about this country , a lot of it is a bit loopy , but then what you know about their country is probably a bit off centre as well , and you know I hope that this is something that we 're reversing in this section , our perceptions of the Third World or the south or whatever we choose to call it , colour a lot of the things that we think and do and say and it increases the amount of racism that there is around us all , all those kind of things , erm and I think that it is really important to look at what a perception is , you know , for example what 's your perception of this ? |
| 24 | You did n't weight them in any way ? |
| 25 | Do n't believe them for one minute |
| 26 | But Crosby wo n't see them in reserve team action tonight because he 's set to be away on scouting business . |
| 27 | However , how does that come about , I mean if supposing you were a , a member of a very large group like the Catholic Church getting on to a billion people say , well you ca n't possibly identify with a billion other people you ca n't meet them in one lifetime let alone ties with them , so how does , how does narcissistic libido unify the members of vast groups like the Catholic Church ? |
| 28 | I did n't oppose them in any way you see . |
| 29 | Besides , I do n't take them into deep water . |
| 30 | We ca n't have them till this work 's done |