Example sentences of "[vb base] [not/n't] [verb] [to-vb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Im not going to argue this one . |
| 2 | Highly career-motivated middle-class people fill silences with socially acceptable noises ; people at the base of a hierarchy do not appear to need all this noise . |
| 3 | Finally the courts do not appear to exhibit such a protective attitude towards the employee when asked to control his misuse of business secrets . |
| 4 | Furthermore , these Creole features of grammar do not appear to carry any particular symbolic value either ( see the quote from Hewitt above ) and the contexts in which they occur do not make them look like code switches . |
| 5 | However , the Working for patients proposals do not appear to envisage such contracts . |
| 6 | Their starting point was Handel 's will , drawn up in 1750 , in which he bequeaths to his assistant Christopher Smith ‘ my large harpsichord , my little house organ , my music books , and five hundred pounds ’ Subsequent variations to the will by codicils do not appear to alter any of this . |
| 7 | But while the perceived effect of events on future plans may be a critical factor in the development of affective disorder , such general interpretations of events do not appear to offer much scope for intervention . |
| 8 | The new contracts may improve accounting procedures , but do not appear to offer more choice to either doctors or consumers , who will be bound by contractual arrangements , which the government recommends should be on a three-year rolling basis . |
| 9 | The courts do not appear to consider that legal representation is an absolute requirement of the rule although there is a readiness to imply it if procedural rules are silent . |
| 10 | A LABOUR MP WAS EXPLAINING to me why there are a number of his colleagues who are sponsored as MPs by the National Union of Railwaymen , but do not appear to have any connections with trains , railway junctions or signal boxes . |
| 11 | Thus , whatever success individual parents may have achieved via the 1980 Act 's appeal system , it seemed , by 1986 , that ‘ rights of school choice do not appear to make much difference to the outcomes of school admissions or to the LEAs ' management of school rolls ’ . |
| 12 | Thus , small establishments in retailing and in hotels and catering do not appear to make much more use of temporaries than do larger establishments . |
| 13 | Here we again begin to approach the deeper aspects of philosophy and I do not intend to say any more about it here . |
| 14 | I do not intend to say any more about this issue , which has already been referred to by my hon. Friends . |
| 15 | We do not intend to abandon this policy . |
| 16 | They are entitled to do that in a free European democracy , but we are entitled to hold our ground and to argue that we as a nation were never committed to a united states of Europe in 1973 , that we are not committed to it now and that we do not intend to pre-empt that decision . |
| 17 | This analysis was adopted and approved by this House and I do not intend to cast any doubt on it . |
| 18 | The answer is that we do not intend to meet all that shortfall . |
| 19 | I certainly do not intend to reveal any of the discussions between my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State and the leader of another state , as they would have to be confidential . |
| 20 | I do not intend to follow that , because we shall have an opportunity to do so on another occasion . |
| 21 | I do not intend to list all the normal things Excel can do — just take it for granted that you will be able to set up a spreadsheet to calculate whatever you want to — but I want to concentrate on some of the features that will certainly save time , effort , and head scratching . |
| 22 | One Officer , his face covered with shaving cream , looked in my direction and remarked , ‘ I hope , Piper , that you do not intend to play those bagpipes here ? ’ |
| 23 | We certainly do not intend to make any change that denies any asylum seeker or immigration applicant full , professional and convenient advice . |
| 24 | If our concern is health , widely defined , not merely medical care , it is probably inevitable in our present society that resources do not exist to meet all the demands that the pursuit of health for all may make . |
| 25 | I do not mean to deny all that has happened — there are some beautiful modern buildings . |
| 26 | I do not mean to imply that engineering should or could be an exact discipline . |
| 27 | People who consume fibre-rich diets do not tend to have many of the diseases associated with the developed countries . |
| 28 | I do not expect to see another version as good as Binyon 's … |
| 29 | They do not expect to make any other arrests . |
| 30 | ‘ I do not presume to make any claim , who am I to read such riddles ? |