Example sentences of "not [vb infin] with [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is certain that bees are very responsive to different tones of the human voice , and this is probably the reason for the country belief that bees are peace-loving beings and will not stay with a quarrelsome family . |
| 2 | Having three or more moles greater than five millimetres in diameter ( ones you can not cover with the blunt end of a pencil ) ; |
| 3 | As an exercise for the legs , Whernside excels but in immediate interest can not compare with the neighbouring Ingleborough and Penyghent . |
| 4 | Though so it serve our purpose , I would not quarrel with a little license . ’ |
| 5 | To say that Miranda on the island and Rosalind in the forest ‘ correspond to the soul of the ducal crown which can not remain with the illegal usurper , but must live in exile with the rightful ruler ’ uses queer and difficult language without helping matters one jot . |
| 6 | Elite theorists argue more generally than pluralists that where elites can not act with a considerable degree of autonomy in deeply divided societies , centrifugal tendencies are much more likely than centripetal ones ( Nordlinger , 1972 ) . |
| 7 | The parents did not have a policy of stressing racial pride or identity and these children did not identify with the black community . |
| 8 | It would be odd if they did , since feminists , like philosophers , do not speak with a single voice . |
| 9 | But at the moment , I can not speak with the same feeling of achievement about caring for er , elderly , the elderly relative , whereas I think I can say with conviction we 've done quite a lot for those with small children . |
| 10 | The brown carpet was cigarette-burned and none too clean , but at least it did not clash with the shabby beige of the walls . |
| 11 | Of all the competing political parties , only the " Lithuanian Communist Party on the CPSU platform " ( a breakaway faction of the CPL , which favoured continued subordination to the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and drew its support overwhelmingly from the minority Russian , Byelorussian and Polish populations — ibid. ) did not campaign with a pro-independence manifesto . |
| 12 | For example : each soloist need not begin with a formal bow to a king or to the audience , nor end with another bow or considered pose ; but such behaviour may be included if the choreographer wishes to locate dance in a particular century and probably a palace in which the story unfolds . |
| 13 | The threat from land-based medium-range Soviet weapons did not begin with the initial siting of the SS-20s in 1977 . |
| 14 | His words are a sober reminder that rebellion against God does not begin with the clenched fist of atheism but with the self-satisfied heart of the one for whom ‘ thank you ’ is redundant . |
| 15 | However , we need not begin with an arbitrary column ; we can readily find an appropriate column to begin with , which avoids many iteration steps . |
| 16 | You can not work with a dirty tool . ’ |
| 17 | It is strong with public service workers whose relation to the generation of wealth is indirect , but it does not work with the young bank employee in Basildon with £15,000 a year and prospects . |
| 18 | Agreed that their exact requirements should be clarified and detailed cost schedules should be prepared , as this seems a reasonable source of income which would not conflict with the current work-load . |
| 19 | When producing an illustration Minton had to be pragmatic : there was a need for clarity , to attract and hold the eye , for a decorative solution that did not conflict with the commercial purpose of the commission . |
| 20 | These eyes began to discern in the Bible distinctive themes and emphases which did not harmonise with the official theology . |
| 21 | Furthermore , possession of HLA B8 DR3 did not correlate with a higher antibody titre ( p>0.05 ) . |
| 22 | One possibility is that the kinds of rules which operate within sentences operate between them as well : that grammar , to put it another way , does not stop with a full stop but reaches over it . |
| 23 | If people 's everyday reality does not fit with the official version this can have the profoundly negative effect of devaluing individual , community or cultural perceptions and engendering a sense of powerlessness . |
| 24 | There is no need at this stage to give explicit gory or shameful details but only to begin to recognise that the simple facts of the previous behaviour and consequences do not fit with the previous belief that all this could be managed satisfactorily alone and without outside help . |
| 25 | Although Taylor was carrying out his research at the beginning of the century and despite the fact that his conclusions did not meet with the universal approval of either the workers or the management he left an important legacy which later theorists built upon : |
| 26 | A major problem with the model , however , is that it predicts a rather uniform and extensive pattern of uplift which does not accord with the typical morphology of continental plate interiors . |
| 27 | When an applicant comes into a priority category or reaches the head of a queue and is offered housing , he or she then has to decide whether to accept the offer if it does not accord with the original preference . |
| 28 | Provided that the authority adopts a meaning which is reasonable or has a rational basis the courts could accept that interpretation , even if it did not accord with the precise meaning which they would have ascribed . |
| 29 | By the early years of the twentieth century , however , stations could not compete with the upward thrust of American urban architecture . |
| 30 | Cultivations are carried out for three reasons : to improve the soil crumb structure and so create an ideal seed-bed for the crop ; to uproot and kill weeds ; and to bury turf or crop residues where they will rot down and not compete with the ensuing crop . |