Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pers pn] [verb] not [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 31 | In all of that time on the continent we did not encounter one set of road works , one traffic jam or one police car . |
| 32 | Indeed , on the Lazarsfeldian conception we do not need to know what class really is . |
| 33 | But they were kept going in it , rather perhaps at the discretion of those running the schemes rather than to throw them out , and as a result we did not have a scrap of vandalism in the area during the whole of the summer holidays . |
| 34 | On 7 May the applicant was admitted to bail , and so far as we are aware has been at liberty ever since , although it appears that he has appeared on a number of occasions at the Guildhall Magistrates ' Court , to what effect we do not know . |
| 35 | Also , for this effect we do not require a single delay time . |
| 36 | As we have said , in practice we do not need to write down M1 etc . |
| 37 | ‘ … to be on the Riviera without a motor car is a condition we do not care to imagine ’ , reported Vogue in the 1920s . |
| 38 | As the result they do not sit very effectively over a bolt-hole . |
| 39 | She waited , but without much hope , for Rupert to offer to run her home in the car they did not know he possessed . |
| 40 | You see in in , on the continent they do not build council ghettos . |
| 41 | Mr. Watkinson referred us to three other decided cases in support of the contrary view , but to my mind they do not assist him . |
| 42 | But although such classifications may sometimes be useful in guiding empirical research they do not seem to me to take up directly the most important questions , which are those concerning the significance of social movements in the process of reproduction and transformation of total social systems . |
| 43 | one or two members who are resident in St Albans did ask me about their position on item two St Albans Transport Study er the advice that I gave them was that unless they er did which is likely to be affected by any identifiable schemes in the study they do not have a need to declare either a pecuniary or a non-pecuniary interest . |
| 44 | From the king 's point of view these schemes had many attractive features , but in practice they did not work . |
| 45 | Of course , banks still have to maintain adequate liquidity , but in practice they do not see a clear-cut dividing line between liquid and non-liquid assets . |
| 46 | To cut down on expense he did not get the big factory spreaders but started to spread it himself with tractor and shovel . |
| 47 | As a result it does not regard human action as a response or reaction to the system . |
| 48 | He chuckled , pretending to a lightness he did not feel . |
| 49 | Paul the apostle taught that Christian love ‘ never fails ’ , and as a result he does not recommend widows or widowers to remarry . |
| 50 | Weight for weight it does not compare favourably with foods like cereals and nuts in fibre content , although it works out well when you take into account how much fibre you get for a modest number of calories . |
| 51 | They considered themselves above parish apprentices , yet of the fellow members of the cutter club with whom he rowed on the Thames , Place recalled that the stroke was hanged for a murder he did not commit , not being able to provide an alibi as he was committing a burglary at the time , while the cox was transported for a robbery . |
| 52 | His rounds took him to most parts of the building and Rain was eagerly accepting that it must have been Stan on the second floor making her jumpy when he mentioned that since the murder he did not go into MacQuillan 's room or those next to it because the police were usually there . |
| 53 | The concept of the student with a broad scientific base is fine but in practice it does not work . |
| 54 | Whatever one 's interpretation of these events , however , attempts to explain away the chronological oddity of the attack on Hastings should not be allowed to obscure the fact that in practice it did not stop Richard taking control of the duke of York . |
| 55 | Whatever one 's interpretation of these events , however , attempts to explain away the chronological oddity of the attack on Hastings should not be allowed to obscure the fact that in practice it did not stop Richard taking control of the duke of York . |
| 56 | If there is a rule he does not like , he will form a exception . |
| 57 | He spent a total of four and a half months in custody for a crime he did not commit . |
| 58 | However , there are still many who feel that Beattie is the victim of a serious miscarriage of justice and that he has served almost 20 years for a crime he did not commit . |
| 59 | Claudia could see that locking up a Masai for a crime he did not understand was cruel and inhuman . |
| 60 | When he applied for judicial review he did not know whether his tariff exceeded 20 years , but on 10 April 1990 his solicitors were informed by the Home Office that it did not . |