Example sentences of "[vb base] [not/n't] [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In contrast , Echmatocrinus had plated structures on its polyp and tentacles but , unlike the co-occurring eocrinoids , the plates appear not to show a stereom structure . |
| 2 | She spoke with such vehemence Wilson thought it better not to risk a reply , though in her head she practised saying what nonsense she thought Mrs Browning spoke . |
| 3 | Hampton M. Vins PS I hope you will charge your lowest price for it , and if you please not to send a duffil one , but a cloth one , full yard long , fail not on Wednesday , please to send it by Mr. Field the Waterman , who comes to the Beehive , at Queenhithe , pray do n't send a duffil one but a cloth one . |
| 4 | So you tend to gradually come round to the view that unless it 's causing very bad visual pollution , or you 've had a run of complaints about it , then you tend not to take a stat . ’ |
| 5 | Fundholding poses ethical problems , either because it secures a better service for the patients of a fundholding practice over those whose doctors happen not to hold a fund , or because it does not . |
| 6 | Once again , the Government seem not to give a damn what happens to our skills and to the jobs of the future . |
| 7 | If you decide not to have a test for HIV then you should still follow the guidelines for safer sex and safer drugs use . |
| 8 | Where a child appears before a children 's hearing and the hearing decide not to impose a supervision requirement , the rehabilitation period is six months . |
| 9 | Try not to criticise a child who is showing grief . |
| 10 | Try not to make a pest of yourself though , they 're busy people . |
| 11 | Try not to make a habit of it … ’ |
| 12 | Try not to make a comparison . |
| 13 | If for some reason you can not or choose not to attend a course , then you will have to find some means of charting your progress with the limited help made available by colleagues . |
| 14 | cos you get the situation now , where they , choose not to charge a person , because it is n't worth it . |
| 15 | The European Court further ruled in this case that Arts 48 and 59 of the EC Treaty do not prevent a member state from requiring that the exercise of the profession of auditor in that state by a person qualified to carry on that profession in another member state be subject to conditions which are objectively necessary to guarantee observation of professional rules concerning the permanence of the infrastructure in place for the completion of the work , the effective presence in the member state and assurance of the observation of professional ethics , unless respect for such rules and conditions is already guaranteed by a reviseur d'entreprises , whether a natural person or a firm , established and recognised in the state , and in whose service is placed , for the duration of the work , the person who intends to exercise the profession of auditor . |
| 16 | It is clear that clauses of all these types operate to restrict the remedies available on a breach of contract ; they do not prevent a breach occurring . |
| 17 | Capital costs have risen as a result of increasing use of bought deals , and the need to set up research and secondary market trading operations ( to satisfy institutional investors ' liquidity requirements and to gain an investor base to complement primary activities ) , although capital requirements as such do not prevent a market being contestable . |
| 18 | Well I 've er as I 've previously said , in the County Council 's opinion , these two fields do not perform a greenbelt function , they are visually and physically separate from the open agricultural land both to the north and to the west of the sites . |
| 19 | The District Council considers that the noninclusion of the sites in the greenbelt is because they do not perform a greenbelt function , and not an indication that the sites are suitable for development , particularly as sufficient housing land has been identified in Local Plan . |
| 20 | I think that er I think the question of a strategic reserve erm falls er as secondary to the to the fact that the the land or the sites do not perform a greenbelt function . |
| 21 | Well as I 've s as I 've said earlier , erm what we 're basically saying is that because these erm sites do not perform a greenbelt function and er they then fall into a white land situation , that that white land is a is an area of land that becomes er at the end of the plan period in two thousand and six , er they are areas which could be considered development . |
| 22 | Each byte that is printed in bit-image mode can be thought of as an eight-bit binary number with the digit 1 meaning ‘ print a dot here ’ and the digit 0 meaning ‘ do not print a dot here ’ . |
| 23 | Although most people with IBS in the community do not consult a physician for their symptoms ; the treatment of those who do is time-consuming and expensive . |
| 24 | When you are pulling yourself out of a swamp you do not consult a road map . |
| 25 | These also can not occur in postnominal attributive position ; we have cited the unacceptability of postnominal sheer in ( 34 ) , and of course ( 39 ) is equally unsatisfactory : ( 39 ) a team-manager former was brought out of retirement We can also observe that , for the same reason , qualifying nouns , which do not instantiate a property of the head noun , are excluded as a class from postnominal position except , again , for phrases borrowed from French , such as Tournedos Rossini . |
| 26 | Self-assured enough to make decisions , clarify your goals and take risks , other people 's definitions , needs and opinions do not represent a threat to you . |
| 27 | Fortunately , most are benign by nature and do not represent a threat in terms of predation . |
| 28 | Thus if all cancers discovered at necropsy were identified clinically and treated then 26 out of 27 patients would be treated unnecessarily because these tumours do not represent a threat to their lives . |
| 29 | Unfortunately those clause do not represent a commitment by the Government to make that system work . |
| 30 | A US State Department spokesperson , as quoted on May 18 , welcomed " public and private assurances by the Iraqi Kurdish leadership that these elections will deal only with local administrative issues and do not represent a move towards separatism " . |