Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] [verb] not [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What the hon. Gentleman says about me does not concern me ; but , if he is calling the local enterprise companies liars , I suggest that he repeat that outside the House . |
| 2 | The incidence found was probably an underestimate of true community incidence as the protocol did not pick up those people in whom , for whatever reason , the clinicians caring for them did not measure the serum electrolyte values . |
| 3 | The affectionate bond that built up between them did not go unnoticed either by Prince Charles nor Mannakee 's colleagues . |
| 4 | They sang every song they knew , which between them did not add up to very many songs . |
| 5 | My body as it is for me does not appear to me in the midst of the world . ’ |
| 6 | My body as it is for me does not appear at all . |
| 7 | I could hear my mum and the teacher talking , but what about I do not know because i was too busy looking around the classroom , it seemed massive to me . |
| 8 | Part of me did not care one bit . |
| 9 | A weakness in any of them does not mean that faith is illegitimate but that it is an easy prey for doubt , as later testing may show . |
| 10 | One person 's reception of them does not reduce the ability of others to receive them . |
| 11 | Most of them did not control for a possible confounding effect of H pylori infection . |
| 12 | Sadly many of them did not show quite the high standard of dress they expect of their pupils . |
| 13 | Over the next few days , however , there were a number of such incidents and some of them did not end so happily . |
| 14 | Nine patients did not give their number of sexual partners and one of them did not tell her age at first intercourse . |
| 15 | It seemed highly unlikely that they were the same animals , and the verbal description of them did not fit that of the two rehomed dogs . |
| 16 | ‘ Maybe one of them did not want to be involved but kept quiet because of fear . |
| 17 | And never mind if some of them did not see a single golf-ball struck . |
| 18 | He looked round them all as though none of them afforded him any surprise , though two of them did not belong here , and to his certain knowledge had been elsewhere only a short time ago . |
| 19 | Most of them did not escape from wartime secrecy and were not properly developed until the war was over . |
| 20 | Certainly abolitionists used techniques which had a radical pedigree — this was a source of Wilberforce 's concern — but most of them did not tie them to programmes of large-scale reconstruction of the political order and sought to portray the economic change involved in abolition and emancipation as a smooth transition to a more profitable state of affairs . |
| 21 | Some of them did not flower too well in confined conditions and others , like the Double Yellow , proved intolerant of London 's smoke . |
| 22 | They were particularly vulnerable during their first 12 months and about a third of them did not live to reach the age of 10 . |
| 23 | And I realized too that often the three of them did not have enough to eat . |
| 24 | While the nursing staff had been keenly following the implementation of the ENP , some of them did not seem to be familiar with my parameters of practice — I sometimes missed patients that I could have treated because they were not being filtered through to me . |
| 25 | Most of them did not differ greatly from most other grammar schools , which also ( of course ) enrolled fee-payers . |
| 26 | My charge against the Government and most of the Conservative Back Bench Members is that the majority of them do not care , and those who do — I include the Minister for Housing and Planning — are too wedded to , too unable to break away from , the principles of the Government who during the past 12 years , have created the crisis . |
| 27 | One consequence of the rise in private asset ownership among elderly people is that many of them do not suffer any drastic reduction of their ability to consume on retirement : indeed , tax changes in the 1970s that encouraged pension schemes to pay out some of their assets as a lump sum mean that many retirees experience an increase in their consumption propensity in the first few years of retirement . |
| 28 | He does not believe that Britain lacks for entrepreneurs , but he is concerned that many of them do not do their homework well enough . |
| 29 | So I have to make decisions as I go along as to which points need to be spelled out , which of them can be stated sparely , or which of them do not need to be mentioned at all but can be left to be inferred . |
| 30 | It is important to recognize under what pressures newspaper correspondents work : many of them do not have shorthand and use their own personal notation system . |