Example sentences of "do not [vb infin] [noun] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would not be so ungallant as to doubt the word of the hon. Member for West Bromwich , East today , but given the pressure that Labour Members placed on that Bill , a serious question mark would hang over any Labour Secretary of State who did not give way to pressure regarding the timetabling of a public inquiry procedure and who did not take some time to allow the result to be published or deliberated on . |
| 2 | He did not give figures for troops and hardware . |
| 3 | The German press disappeared after Germany 's defeat in the First World War , while the missionary press , though of some historical interest , did not give rise to publications of any major importance . |
| 4 | The company did not give details of drives used or capacities , or any indication of prices . |
| 5 | The national gallery told the Minister 's predecessor , the right hon. Member for Shoreham — no doubt the arguments were repeated to the Minister personally by many of the trustees and directors of the museums — that they did not want powers of disposal — not because they did not trust their own intellectual judgment , but , following the line set down in the Museums and Galleries Commission 's 1988 report on the national gallery , because those powers should not be forced on the galleries . |
| 6 | The intimation that Venables did not want Hughes at Tottenham was that it was a misjudgment by him . |
| 7 | That most German people did not want war with England was true by almost every account of neutral witnesses . |
| 8 | In a separate move the Chinese premier , Li Peng , who attacked Mr Patten earlier , returned to the fray , saying China did not want confrontation with Britain but the UK was putting ‘ obstacles ’ in the way of talks to try and defuse the row . |
| 9 | Frederica said she did not make associations between colours and other systems like alphabets or days of the week . |
| 10 | Those who claimed a break-even or loss situation did not make allowance for home produced food . |
| 11 | Surprisingly , his library did not contain works for flute . |
| 12 | Pound was in all seriousness embarked on an epic poem ( which he defined , following of all unlikely authorities Rudyard Kipling , as ‘ the tile of the tribe ’ ) ; he could not and did not expect understanding from readers who supposed that the epic poem had died in the seventeenth century if not before , whose expectations therefore were conditioned by their experience of the brief or else extended lyric . |
| 13 | Millwall did not sign Goddard in time to put him straight into their side . |
| 14 | At 2250 hrs that evening Eighth Army confirmed in a signal to 5 Corps that they were to act in accordance with AFHQ 's ruling that they could hand over all the anti-Tito Yugoslavs so long as this did not involve use of force . |
| 15 | Such a clause in a contract to supply building materials to a building contractor did not exclude liability for damages payable by the contractor to sub-contractors as a result of delay in delivery ( Croudace Construction Ltd v Cawoods Concrete Products Ltd [ 1978 ] 2 Lloyd 's Rep 55 ) . |
| 16 | There were hand-outs on ‘ Cruelty Free ’ cosmetics , positively promoting cosmetic companies who did not drip shampoo into rabbits ' eyes in what I knew was called the Draize Test for irritancy . |
| 17 | Hercule Poirot did not spring fully-formed into life on Page 34 of his first adventure , The Mysterious Affair at Styles . |
| 18 | For Moscow , agreements in certain areas , such as arms control , did not preclude competition in others , especially Third World conflicts . |
| 19 | If you did not burn chemicals like PCBs , what else would you do with them ? |
| 20 | No summary data are presented and some of the individual trials did not measure quality of life at all . |
| 21 | success rate of this operation did not represent value for money' . |
| 22 | On Nov. 12 the outspoken chair of the Campaign for Democracy Beko Ransome Kuti called on Nigerians to " make the country ungovernable " by acts of civil disobedience if Babangida did not leave office on Jan. 2 as promised . |
| 23 | Proast was restored in 1692 , but did not secure arrears of stipend , and the case dragged on until 1698 , in the reign of Archbishop Thomas Tenison [ q.v . ] . |
| 24 | The Act of 1988 did not govern access to quotas , but the registration of fishing vessels . |
| 25 | But revivalism in architecture did not mean lack of imagination or inventiveness — quite the reverse : it meant a prodigal outpouring of both . |
| 26 | This mis-demeanour did not debar Wright from election as ale-taster at the same court , and constable the following year . |
| 27 | Motorola did not return calls by press time . |
| 28 | Motorola did not return calls by press time . |
| 29 | We did not specify lists of terms and concepts which should be taught . |
| 30 | As shown in Figure 5 , treatment with cyclosporin A ( 5 or 10 mg/kg for eight days ) did not affect synthesis of prostaglandin E2 , 6k prostaglandin F1a , and thromboxane B2 by pancreatic tissue ex vivo . |