Example sentences of "not [vb infin] [adv prt] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I WAS delighted that Newcastle City Council leader Jeremy Beecham will not bail out the ailing Newcastle United FC ( Echo Jan 15 ) . |
| 2 | Reports in mid-October suggested , however , that US and United Kingdom investigators still believed that the new evidence did not rule out the original assumption that the attack had been ordered by Iran and Syria in revenge for the accidental shooting down in July 1988 in the Gulf of an Iranian airbus by the USS Vincennes , when 290 people were killed [ see pp. 36169-70 ; 37898 ] . |
| 3 | ‘ No stock-taking ’ policies are adopted partly because of staffing shortages , but also on the premise that stock-taking is a waste of time because it does not bring back the missing books , and any item which is really important will be requested on reservation ( though a central reservation system , if employed , may mean that missing titles go unnoticed ) . |
| 4 | As James says , anger that is left unresolved ‘ does not bring about the righteous life that God desires ’ ( Jas. 1:20 ) . |
| 5 | The danger , clearly , is that a tight budget will not bring about the desired response from the financial markets , and business will get the worst of both worlds — continued high interest rates and no help from the budget . |
| 6 | Nevertheless , it was a defiant stand which was to be admired even if the final outcome did not bring about the desired result . |
| 7 | and we will not give up the good things in life for Greenpeace and for a clean environment |
| 8 | For all their talk about the wisdom of the marketplace , the Thatcher government could not give up the paternalistic idea that they had to regulate the independent television companies , with the continuation of the Independent Broadcasting Authority in the guise of an Independent Television Commission . |
| 9 | [ Guevara then went on to mention ] some things he had in mind : — ( 1 ) That they could not give back the expropriated properties … but they could pay for them in trade . |
| 10 | The local newspapers in Ulster printed our press statements , but did not follow up the Black story on their own despite the clear indications of sinister and dramatic happenings . |
| 11 | Obviously they can not weigh up the comparative cost of some type of credit which is beyond their ken . |
| 12 | In fact , analysis of the interview material did not mark out the Irish women as particularly different from their British-born counterparts on any dimension of attitudes or behaviour . |
| 13 | If the bank mortgage form does not set out the precise amount of the home loan and the terms under which it is to be repaid , then it is important to ensure that the client receives a letter from the bank manager spelling out in precise terms the nature of the loan , the interest rate applicable to it and the regularity of the instalment payments . |
| 14 | It announced that it would not be concerned with the public sector and that it would not take over the extant SORPs from the Accounting Standards Committee . |
| 15 | I shall not read out the main provisions of the agreement , because they fall outwith the terms of the Adjournment debate topic , but they are available to the general public , and to hon. Members in the Library . |
| 16 | Employers could not pass on the extra costs to the consumers either at home or abroad because of international competition — British goods would have been even more expensive than foreign goods . |
| 17 | He went the long way home , but did not go down the little gang plank to the barge of a friend of his — a woman who kept ten or so cats on board and brewed some awful drink out of peaches . |
| 18 | ‘ Why not go out the front gate , the way they came in ? ’ |
| 19 | However , the likelihood is that processing and seeking will be entirely overlapped so this will not hold up the overall run very seriously . |
| 20 | The tribunals are meant to provide simple informal justice in an atmosphere in which the ordinary man feels he is at home … an atmosphere which does not shut out the ordinary man so that he is prepared to conduct his own case before them with a reasonable prospect of success . |
| 21 | But all the will-power she could muster could not shut out the desolate sense of emptiness that had closed like a cold hand round her heart . |
| 22 | The boy could not breathe in the choking air and began coughing and panicking . |
| 23 | Miller and Swift do not point out the important fact that conservatives care for language in itself , and not just as an indicator of social mores . |
| 24 | While Poulantzas allows that the sort of research designed to sustain this view has some limited use 's he first of all objects that it does not bear out the factual claim that government officials and leading capitalists belong to an identifiable group . |
| 25 | But there could be more trouble if the king does not open up the political system or do something about the great disparities of wealth . |
| 26 | So long as the Algerian and Berlin crises were continuing , de Gaulle did not spell out the full implications of this threat , although his decisions , in 1959 , to withdraw the French Mediterranean fleet from NATO and to deny the US permission to base atomic weapons in France were clearly designed to reinforce the original message . |
| 27 | If it does not kill off the golden goose , it will certainly let it starve to death through neglect . |