Example sentences of "[not/n't] [vb infin] us [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Minister should not give us that disingenuous stuff about new equity , which is not meant to assist with buying Scottish Bus Group companies . |
| 2 | Studies based on states ‘ can not give us that understanding we seek of world society ’ either within or between states ( 1972 , pp.19 , 20 ) . |
| 3 | If you do not give us this information , or you give false information , you may be subject to a penalty of £50 for the first offence and £200 for any subsequent offence . |
| 4 | Althusser suggests that although Marxist history is defined as a theory of the modes of production , Marx did not give us any theory of how the transition was effected from one mode of production to another , nor of how each mode of production was constituted . |
| 5 | Father cared , but he did not give us enough time and attention . |
| 6 | Please do not judge us all by these ignorant officials . |
| 7 | Even translation from morse into natural language does not take us all the way to consciousness ; for , in the absence of consciousness , language is merely variegated sound , rather than the rich varieties of meaning that are embodied in , for example , Shakespeare 's texts . |
| 8 | Because of the existence of such prejudice among the early believers , it should not surprise us that prejudice will , and does , exist in churches today . |
| 9 | It should not surprise us that misery turns to protest when the temptation of the ballot box invites . ’ |
| 10 | Unless we make it trivially true that gold is malleable , by explicitly including malleability in our idea of it , we can perceive no connection between the ideas of gold and malleability ; our observation and experiment do not tell us that gold must be malleable ; we have no knowledge that it is . |
| 11 | Can he not tell us that ? |
| 12 | Thucydides does not tell us all we need to know about these encroachments on Peloponnesian League allies , and there are other encroachments which he scarcely mentions at all . |
| 13 | A source might not tell us all we would like to know ; a document may sometimes be biased — but these sources are still the only direct evidence we have , and the historian has to learn to use them effectively . |
| 14 | The Bible does not tell us more than that . |
| 15 | He was , however , extremely discreet and did not tell us any results of the Cabinet soundings in detail . |
| 16 | ‘ … we are of course much gratified to hear of your safety and that your expedition is progressing so prosperously : at the same time the Letter although a long one does not tell us half the things we most wished to know : it does not say ought of your movements , when we may expect you home , how Mrs Gould is , whether your attendants have answered your expectations , how Mastr . |
| 17 | Thus criminal laws against murder , rape , robbery , and assault do protect us all , but they do not protect us all equally . |
| 18 | This restriction does not lose us any power , however , because every occam program can be identified with the set of its finite syntactic approximations ( a term which is defined precisely in the second section ) . |
| 19 | A more substantial criticism of this line of thinking is that , being sociological and stating what is the case , it does not offer us any positive conception of what could be the case . |
| 20 | In fact he did not ask us any questions at all , but read aloud from Shakespeare , waving his arms dramatically and enjoying the sound of his own voice . |
| 21 | The Princess did not help us this year . |
| 22 | He did n't treat us any different , but he was a completely changed person . |
| 23 | You ca n't ship us all home now ! ’ |
| 24 | ‘ There wo n't be quite so much for everybody as usual , but it will be stronger and it wo n't make us all sick quite so easily . ’ |
| 25 | I do n't want us both to be telling a set of different lies , and coming up the idiots after all . |
| 26 | Our children are almost grown , they do n't need us any more . |
| 27 | Playing the Tory game does not work in securing power , and would n't do us any good in the long term even if it did . |
| 28 | As Andy admits : ‘ It certainly did n't do us any harm . |
| 29 | But it wo n't do us any good either cos we wo n't have any work to do . |
| 30 | Did n't do us any harm |