Example sentences of "[verb] not [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Small use threatening a man with harm to someone who matters not a rap to him .
2 This international co-operation between clearinghouses does not preclude international co-operation on an individual library basis , nor does it mean that the Australian , UK and USA clearinghouses will not provide a service to individual libraries in another country which has or has not a clearinghouse of its own .
3 It is a wild and mischievous allegation , for which the hon. Lady has not a shadow of evidence .
4 Having inundated us with Mozart last season , it has not a note of Rossini this summer .
5 ‘ He can not have God for his Father who has not the Church for his mother . ’
6 Someone who has not the concept of age can not be expected to see someone as young or old .
7 ‘ A man who exposes himself when he is intoxicated , has not the art of getting drunk . ’
8 Drescher has not the pervasiveness of Wedgwood 's image of the kneeling slave , first designed for a medallion at the time of the 1788 petition campaign but afterwards widely translated to other formats .
9 I certainly do not doubt the sincerity of the right hon. Gentleman 's remarks , but throughout modern economic history , when any Government have sought to misdirect national resources in a manner that goes completely against the grain of the marketplace , has not the result of such a regional policy been exactly the opposite to what the right hon. Gentleman has sought to achieve ?
10 While he was away at the buffet , MacMinimum said quietly to John : ‘ For God 's sake , say not a word on railways .
11 Is it not the case that when the Government privatised the electricity and gas companies they created not a range of companies which could induce real competition for the benefit of customers and the environment but large companies with near monopoly supply status which are not in the least interested in energy efficiency ?
12 In 1880 , this had already been discerned , but most men gave a growing acceptance to democratic institutions because they seemed to provide not a threat to , but a guarantee of , liberal standards .
13 A request was received from a household asking for support to turn down an application for a garage but it was deemed not a function for the Association .
14 A request was received from a household asking for support to turn down an application for a garage but it was deemed not a function for the Association .
15 His gift of salvation is for the whole world , it 's available , God willeth not the death of the sinner , but that all should come to repent .
16 Of course when the baths were made there were ladies days and gents days , mixed bathing was considered not the thing in these days , but it did come in in the twenty or the , or the late twenties .
17 He has n't a chance of getting his wish and leaving Manchester United !
18 There 's a stigma attached to the stay-at-home mum , as if she has n't a brain between the ears !
19 But I wo n't — because I do n't believe he killed the family nanny and he has n't a hope of proving his innocence .
20 Your friend Devlin has n't a hope of getting you out , of course , but we 'd love him to try . ’
21 and they absconded it , and the dog has n't a hope in hell and also the ones you get for the kids , when you sit in them they sit up like little chairs do n't they ?
22 And that is why we are so confident IBM — at least at the high levels where policy is made — has n't a clue about the nature of the large systems customers on which it depends for a considerable portion of its revenue and , we believe , more than half its gross profit .
23 He smiles a lot , talks to himself and uses a tennis court like an officer patrolling it , owning it and thumping around it as if he has n't a care in the world .
24 She 's has n't a soul in the world barring her sister who came down and identified the bodies . ’
25 Of course it 's only a rummage-search , but as far as we 've gone , there 's nothing in that boat at all that has n't a right to be there . ’
26 Denis , who has n't been on stage for decades , has n't a nerve in his body .
27 Leopardstown 's race has n't the charisma of last year when Dr Devious took on St Jovite , but then you ca n't have everything .
28 Well it has , but but the level that we 're pitching at has n't the level at which
29 But he has n't the nerve for this kind of thing .
30 I met not a soul on the walk , but the path was in very good condition , a feature we noticed many times in NZ , that the tracks are well looked-after even when apparently hardly used .
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