Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] with [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They say that the English can not stay with their child or friend or family in the hospital . |
| 2 | Yasmin is expecting another child in the autumn and , although she will have to make some difficult decisions about whether or not to continue with her career after the baby is born , she is still determined to carry on working for as long as she can . |
| 3 | Evidently the school had not communicated with his parents . |
| 4 | The offshore industry has trained a handful of apprentices , but these do not compare with its labour requirements . |
| 5 | These letters themselves , with their references to women and his dependence upon them , should be taken with the facts of his first impulsive marriage and his second happy one : all the available evidence suggests that when he allowed his sexuality free access , when he was not struggling with his own demons , it was of a heterosexual kind . |
| 6 | Even if the adults do not try to talk the child out of it , they may not persist with their request . |
| 7 | He had no real gift for the dramatic and could not to contend with his young competitor Joshua Reynolds in the Grand Manner . |
| 8 | He had chosen not to go with his parents to buy plants . |
| 9 | Because he was serious , and did not joke with his neighbours , people thought he was cold . |
| 10 | A person who is asked to take the test in circumstances such as these should pause and consider whether they are willing to do so , or whether they would instead prefer not to proceed with their life assurance or employment application . |
| 11 | Three hundred years after the events , our Irish nurses were still being exhorted not to consort with their British patients but to remember Drogheda and Wexford . |
| 12 | Our chances of ending the war quickly would certainly be greatly increased if the battle were won ; but if we failed to win it , even after what had already been achieved , our victory would merely be postponed and not rendered impossible , especially if we resolved in good time not to persist with our useless efforts at Verdun , but to take the initiative of attack elsewhere . |
| 13 | The psychological barrier , whereby potential clients feel that the CAB worker may not empathise with their predicament , was discussed in the previous chapter . |
| 14 | ‘ Much the same … missing Garry badly while trying to put up a brave pretence of not interfering with his work . |
| 15 | Sarazen was favourite for the 1932 title , but it was clear he would not win with his new caddie . |
| 16 | The GHS survey reported that two-thirds of carers were not living with their dependant . |
| 17 | We may then wonder why B 's children are not living with their father , wonder whether the exigences of his professional life , or of his relationship with the children 's mother , constrains him to live apart from them . |
| 18 | Children who are alienated by parental rejection , disaffected by continuous and severe punishment , do not identify with their parents ' point of view when they are being disciplined , and are therefore less likely to agree with the criticism being made and less liable to ‘ internalize ’ the judgement . |
| 19 | Since not every word in the lexicon is present in the corpus and those present need not appear with their rarer forms , the corpus is supplemented by the lexicon for determining the GFF ( i.e. each word in the lexicon is assumed to occur once in the corpus with each of the tags in the lexicon ) . |
| 20 | But the calm of the transcendent will nevertheless influence but not interfere with our lives . |
| 21 | It is hard not to sympathise with his desire to knock off managing director Duncan , a hammy , cantankerous old fool in Kevin Stoney 's playing . |
| 22 | After the initial flurry which prompted an internal memo warning staff not to fraternize with their neighbours , things soon returned to normal . |
| 23 | Most analysts said IBM Corp is not done with its restructuring , and there will be more to come — ‘ I think basically the mainframe business and the problems they are facing are very fundamental and will likely worsen in 1993 , ’ Smith said — ‘ the mainframe business is the main source of cash flow and it will be very difficult to offset that by improvements elsewhere . ’ |
| 24 | To understand what constitutes pregnancy-related unfavourable treatment is crucial since Article 10 of Council Directive 92/85/EEC obliges the Member States to take the measures necessary to prohibit the dismissal of women who are pregnant , have recently given birth or are breast-feeding , during the period from the beginning of the pregnancy to the end of the period of national maternity leave except in exceptional circumstances not connected with their condition which are permitted by national law . |
| 25 | So unless you have been self-employed or have had other money , not connected with your job , you may never really have needed to give the question very much thought . |
| 26 | The Chancellor of the Exchequer showed that the traditions of ‘ Brummagen ’ radical commercialism had not died with his father by being most worried about the effect of continued uncertainty upon the Christmas trade . |
| 27 | When it comes to installation , sound advice can be obtained from the Electricity Council , for electricity is a good servant but a poor master and the inexperienced should not tamper with its installation , especially in the presence of water . |
| 28 | It is then up to you to gauge their importance to you and to decide whether or not to comply with their demands . |
| 29 | The plaintiffs sued for the defendant 's failure to honour this promise and the defendant pleaded lack of consideration , the plaintiffs being already under a duty of delivery by the contract with A. The Court of Exchequer ( Martin and Wilde BB. ) found for the plaintiffs : Wilde B. thought that the plaintiffs might have found it advantageous not to comply with their contract with A so that their agreement with the defendant was a detriment to them ; in any event , they agreed to part with the cargo to the defendant which was a benefit to him . |
| 30 | The fact that the loan losses of the banks remain heavy will force the Norwegian government to agree to the merger which otherwise might not square with its normally tough monopoly considerations . |