Example sentences of "[verb] not give a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This eminent folklorist , however , has not given a full consideration to the Celtic background . |
| 2 | The Bank has not given a formal ruling on this method of presentation from a capital adequacy perspective . |
| 3 | Although the House of Lords did not give a concluded opinion , the inclination of the judgments was that the court could not use the test to limit a plaintiff to a proportion of his losses . |
| 4 | Although he did not give a new date for the elections , Traore stressed that the postponement would not affect the timetable for the transition period which had been extended in December [ see p. 38563 ] . |
| 5 | The film is the story of decadent British aristocrats who did not give a damn for anything but their own pleasure . |
| 6 | During his opening speech , I asked the Secretary of State a question to which he did not give a full or satisfactory answer — why had not the Government sought to introduce those measures before they privatised monopolies , rather than wait until the customers had suffered the consequences of several years of high prices and not necessarily improved services ? |
| 7 | The Minister did not give a clear response to the question from my Hon. Friend the Member for Dundee , East . |
| 8 | It said that PW 's independence was compromised by BCCI loans to partnerships in Panama and Barbados , and that from 1987 onwards the firm had ‘ ample reason ’ to believe that BCCI 's accounts did not give a true and fair view of its financial situation . |
| 9 | The reader should realize that Einstein did not give a rigorous mathematical proof of GR and neither has anyone else . |
| 10 | Inventories , therefore , do not give a complete picture of a person 's wealth . |
| 11 | The perception of their situation by the unemployed must be changed , and if you do not give a higher expectation to people , how could you motivate them to participate in training schemes ? |
| 12 | He also ignored the fact that the majority of other European Community members do not give a compensatory day off when a national holiday falls at a weekend , as is normal practice in the United Kingdom . |
| 13 | These levels are misleading any way because they do not give a true indication of the ‘ quality ’ of the protein . |
| 14 | Data collected from a renal unit do not give a true reflection of need as general practitioner and consultant referral rates may be influenced by their perceptions of the services available . |
| 15 | Such studies do not give a true reflection of population needs , nor may the clinical indices used to predict survival or estimates of prognosis be applicable in the wider population of patients with severe acute renal failure . |
| 16 | They were joined by up to a dozen others by the end of the decade but , since the records do not give a clear indication of how far treatment was effective , there can be no precise figure for the number of serious cases at any one time . |
| 17 | There is a strong moral argument within the labour movement , that rejoke rejects workfare and other half-baked schemes which do not give a fair day 's work for a real fair day 's pay . |
| 18 | ‘ Did n't give a tuppenny damn really . |
| 19 | Those old 2-D screens did n't give a good picture . |
| 20 | They did n't give a damn for what we call reason , they were liable to act wickedly at a moment 's notice . |
| 21 | He followed me , almost in tears himself , and said that he did n't give a damn for his bloody socks . |
| 22 | We were not allowed to get up early without permission , but I did n't give a damn for that . |
| 23 | I suddenly realized that I was n't myself any more : I did n't give a damn whether he was wearing a tie or not . ’ |
| 24 | As long as the planes came to drop his explosives he did n't give a damn for the rest of the war effort . |
| 25 | Two of us decided in favour of The Sunday Times and against Mrs Thatcher , and those two did n't give a damn for Mrs Thatcher , we each of us decided it was a matter of principle , knowing that we were bound to be criticised , whatever we did , and we decided it , and there 's an end of it . |
| 26 | But Peter was already hurrying down the steps and did n't give a backward glance . |
| 27 | ‘ I do n't give a goddam . |
| 28 | They do n't give a lazy damn . |
| 29 | We still do n't give a damn that X died last Sunday . |
| 30 | Nigel Lawson enrolled in the Clark Gable ‘ Frankly , I do n't give a damn ’ school when he fell foul of his own party over a rise in interest rates just before the Tory conference . |