Example sentences of "[verb] not [vb infin] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Either what woman having ten pieces of silver , if she lose one piece , doth not light a candle , and sweep the house , and seek diligently till she find it ? |
| 2 | … As to the matter of there being no appeal from an arbitrary sentence ; it is true , the case is the harder , because the party is concluded by one judgment , but it doth not lessen the validity of the sentence , nor doth it in any way prove that you shall find out some way to examine this matter at law in a judicial proceeding . |
| 3 | Scott expects ‘ pockets of horror ’ among those who hate sport or would do not relish a stadium at the foot of the garden , but he senses excitement generally . |
| 4 | May I I do not need an adjournment but may I back away from the microphone to take instruction ? |
| 5 | I was certainly the ideal subject for his little tricks of ringing the door bell and running away , because I dared not ignore the summons in case it might be a client , and also the consulting and operating rooms were such a long way from the front of the house . |
| 6 | Trilateralism was certainly an effective antidote to isolationism , even if it did not extinguish the assertiveness shown by the Lord Chancellor 's Department in securing a faster growth in the rate of expenditure on the courts and legal aid than did the Home Office on the police and prisons . |
| 7 | This was a novel requirement and appeared inconsistent with the decision of the Lords in Newbury , where the defendants did not aim the stone , which killed the victim , at him . |
| 8 | The first rehearsals of an opéra would often be chaos if his talents , or activity , did not clarify the performance . |
| 9 | Under the charter-party , payment was to be in ‘ cash ’ into a London bank by a Sunday , but the charterer 's London bank did not deliver a payment order to the owner 's bank until the Monday . |
| 10 | Dacourt threw him an angry glance but , slightly mollified by Benjamin 's assertion that Vulcan did not bear the guilt for Waldegrave 's death , nodded and stumped off . |
| 11 | Sandweg church was different from other churches on the island in that its frescos did not bear the imprint of the celebrated Elmelunde master but of some unknown artist who , it seemed , had neither painted nor supervised the painting of any other works of public art . |
| 12 | It has to be said , however , that despite passionate support from 105,000 fans in the Nou Camp , their performance did not bear the hallmark of European champions . |
| 13 | War in France had not hitherto been popular : in the thirteenth century it had been said that the English knights ‘ did not give a bean for all of France ’ , and resistance to service in France had been an important element in the political crisis of 1297 . |
| 14 | According to this source , and obviously excluding those firms who did not give a year of formation , only fifteen firms were established in the 1960s . |
| 15 | It was early yet — not even six o'clock — and they were high on spending money and trying lovely outfits on , so did not give a toss . |
| 16 | Judicial separation by the ecclesiastical courts , which did not give a licence to remarry . |
| 17 | It was nature that had turned her grey , she said , and she did not give a damn . |
| 18 | You did not give a name . ’ |
| 19 | Many members of the Admiralty were furious with their First Lord when the temporary appointment was ratified on November 28 , but Churchill did not give a fig . |
| 20 | Foreign Minister Theodore Holo disclosed on Nov. 5 that the government was seeking renewed ties with Israel but did not give a timetable for normalizing relations . |
| 21 | In it she asked him to come home , but she did not give a reason . |
| 22 | He was sitting there with his head in his hands ; he did not rise when the train passed ; he made no movement ; he did not give a glance at the signs I made him ; and for a long time as the train was carrying me away , I watched his little motionless , grief-stricken figure , lost in the desert , an image of my own despair . |
| 23 | Parliament did not give the Secretary of State the power to fix poll tax levels . |
| 24 | The Commission and the applicants in the main proceedings considered that the genuine link which was required to exist between the ship and the flag state under the Conventions of 1958 and 1982 did not give the member states the power to enact their own laws with regard to flagging without having regard to the requirements of Community law . |
| 25 | The Boston text relates more exclusively to the movement itself and includes , along with historical material , a brief statement by Mark Francis which is intended to justify and explain the motives behind the exhibition ( the Situationists did not give the event their blessings and none of the past members participated in its planning ) . |
| 26 | He did not give the money to charity . |
| 27 | Mary , who now combines her psychology practice with astrological counselling , said : ‘ As a psychologist , for a long time I had been aware of a lack , that this science did not give the whole of the picture . |
| 28 | A relative novelty for this important property was that , for once , Sotheby 's did not give the consignor a guarantee , correctly judging that with material this good there was little reason to feel the sale would not do splendidly . |
| 29 | The Mail in 1971–3 did not give the radio schedules , while the Times usually printed the wrong day 's schedules and then only for the General Service ( English ) , omitting altogether the Home Service ( Zambian languages ) to which the majority of its readership listened most of the time . |
| 30 | A junior minister 's pay scarcely covers the cost of a man 's cartridges for the year , but Soames did not give the matter a second thought . |