Example sentences of "[vb base] [not/n't] [vb infin] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clearly therefore the clouds do not consist of water , at least not in their upper reaches . |
| 2 | I do not mean of course that there is no tradition of love in marriage . |
| 3 | He had just said , ‘ I have come to the point where I do not think of colour . |
| 4 | Do not think of lesson notes as finished products ; they are rough , interim reports . |
| 5 | I do not come of age until I am twenty-five and my father 's consent was needed for me to marry . |
| 6 | Whichever is the answer , one might protest that it is among the most self-evidently absurd generalisations to have been made since the ludicrous title of Saul Bellow 's last full-length novel , More Die of Heartbreak , to which one must answer : no , more do not die of heartbreak . |
| 7 | ‘ We have to make sure we do not starve of help clients with a lower level of need because people with a higher level of need are getting the resources ’ . |
| 8 | I do not approve of animal pets in my properties . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ I do n't think of Ianthe like that , ’ said John . |
| 10 | ‘ When you mention epilepsy people straight away think of the major fit grand-mal , they do n't think of absence seizures , ’ said Mrs McLeod , whose first fit happened when she had polio as a child . |
| 11 | Marthus did n't actually foresee this erm , this leap in from technology and as a result he was basing his predictions on past trends so if past trends had continued would have been , he w , he would been correct but because erm , agriculturalists started to erm , use technology and at that time it was a very sort of low technology , but nevertheless it would , would 've production dramatically you know , you do n't think of drainage as being particularly high tech but it can increase the , the yield on a crop sort of four or five times and so si simple drainage systems would be introduced erm ro rotations were being introduced , again rotations you think of being fairly straightforward but erm prior to the agricultural revolution rotations were n't used rotations can improve the fertility of the soil and er yields as well right okay , so agriculture produces a homogenous product , by and large and er as there is n't the scope , the product differentiation , and there is n't the scope for specialisation because we 'd need a farm the size of Europe to feed the world with , w with wheat . |
| 12 | ‘ Do n't speak of death , Cleg , ’ Beatie said , ‘ not now with me in this condition . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Marcus , do n't talk of death — ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Of course I do n't disapprove of cocaine . |
| 15 | You do n't smell of milk do you . |
| 16 | Anyway , most of the punk girls do n't smell of perfume and only a few wear skirts and even then they 're usually leather ones . |
| 17 | Now I do n't know of course who else may be er wishing to comment . |
| 18 | ‘ I do n't approve of romance that 's misguided and inappropriate . ’ |
| 19 | And there 's the controversy , which I do n't approve of controversy and they rather roll their tongues around and in and out of words and |
| 20 | I do n't approve of shipboard romances . |
| 21 | ‘ I do n't approve of shipboard romances . |