Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] [noun] with " in BNC.

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1 The counsellor has to enter into the family dynamic , not intrusively , not demanding compliance with the wishes or even with the needs of the elderly counsellee , but to ensure that the feelings and needs of each member of the family , however weak , are heard .
2 Li Peng told Anan that the progress in China 's relations with Vietnam would not affect relations with Thailand or other South-East Asian nations .
3 Unless sites are discovered by accident ( when a new road cuts through a prehistoric cemetery , for example ) most methods of discovery do not locate sites with sufficient accuracy for excavation to take place with confidence .
4 In the I970s the fuel boards were pressured by the Labour government not to disconnect households with children providing they would cooperate in paying off their arrears .
5 ‘ You can not make peace with dictators , you have to destroy them , ’ Nelson asserts at one point for the benefit of inattentive members of the audience .
6 Its calculations are all relatively local ones : neurones do not make contact with other neurones at any great distance in the same cortical region .
7 So long as the animals can not make contact with the nets there is no problem .
8 Their hearers completely fail to comprehend because the message is couched in unfamiliar vocabulary and does not make contact with any of their felt needs .
9 This was a very old set and did not always work ; as I did not make contact with the control tower I came round and I saw that it was all clear for me to land , so I put my wheels down and made my approach .
10 And his mother , anxious when she could not make contact with him , reported him missing nine days later .
11 The management usually have a ruling that receptionists do not socialise with the guests on a personal basis ; therefore staff should not make dates with guests or visit their rooms even if invited to do so .
12 Men , of course , would not make friends with a single mother for the reason that men do not make friends .
13 ‘ You should not make friends with an elephant keeper , ’ he had said , ‘ unless you first have room to entertain an elephant . ’
14 * Do not make coffee with boiling water .
15 That most German people did not want war with England was true by almost every account of neutral witnesses .
16 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 .
17 I also consider ( though this may only be expressing the same conclusion in another way ) that , for the reasons given by Mr. Langley , the injunction as at present framed should be interpreted as not prohibiting compliance with the section 39 notice .
18 Albania , however , definitely is a part of the developing world in the middle of Europe and it is difficult not to compare Albania with my previous experiences in Africa .
19 Any female who did not prefer males with the deleteriously exaggerated trait would indeed produce fitter sons than other females ; however , no one would mate with them .
20 That we do not treat animals with at least the same respect that we treat such unfortunate human creatures is seen by the liberationists as ‘ speciesism ’ in its purest form based as it is only upon the anatomical difference .
21 Children were constrained in the kinds of response possible and so appeared to treat less as more ; the younger children probably relied on a non-linguistic strategy of choosing the greater of two amounts , and this would account for responses to both more ( apparently correct ) and less ( apparently wrong ) when combined with partial or even no lexical knowledge ; and lastly , children were not given instructions with both more and less on the same occasion .
22 Those persistent but slightly fattening habits which are the key to your weight problem could be : having ‘ densely packed ’ calories at meals ( that means having a lot of fat , either visible such as butter on your bread or invisible like butter in a cake ) ; snacking in between meals , especially if those snacks include cream , alcohol and sugar ; and not expending energy with exercise to use up the calories .
23 Stone added that Sotheby 's and Christie 's , which had no comment on the matter , had been informed by clients that if new regulatory legislation passed , they would not consign works with the auction houses'New York rooms .
24 A man of a few carefully-placed words , not to lose contact with the external world .
25 They felt that they had a much stronger position than before and that a certain amount of muscle flexing was now unavoidable if they were not to lose face with their supporters .
26 Freddie , who is still grieving the death of his mother Hilda three weeks ago , aged 82 , is determined not to lose touch with his children this time .
27 TEACHERS were urged by John MacGregor , the Secretary of State for Education , yesterday not to disrupt classes with strikes next year in their pay campaign .
28 We will not consider words with stems of more than two syllables .
29 we can not predict outcomes with absolute certainty since individuals can take remedial action in the light of our forecasts .
30 Even the rules of social politeness , which suggest that we should not burden others with our problems , will lead us all to respond to enquiries after our health with an automatic ‘ Very well , thank you ’ when often we may be feeling poorly or even downright miserable .
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