Example sentences of "[vb base] [not/n't] the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They celebrate not the facts of nature , but the transforming power of atmosphere and momentary effects of light . |
| 2 | Other well-known writers emphasize not the failures of servants , but the tyranny of masters . |
| 3 | Disabled people do not need to deny the individual psychological costs they pay ; rather , we need to identify them as a most directly experienced aspect of oppression , and dispute not the existence of psychological distress in disabled people but the kinds of causal account that are produced . |
| 4 | ii , ‘ o'erstep not the modesty of nature ’ , CS 20 . |
| 5 | Whatever ye do , let not the pretence of a different religion make it lawful to oppress any man in his just rights . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ You are so young , so tender — you know not the wickedness of the world , of devious and ambitious rascals . |
| 7 | ‘ I know not the answer to your question , my lady , ’ admitted Alianor . |
| 8 | ( Downward transposition was not at all uncommon when countertenor solos were issued in print : for instance , ‘ I envy not the pride of May , from Purcell 's 1693 birthday ode for Queen Mary , is in E major in the original and also goes to top b ’ B♭♯ , but it was published , in the treble clef , in D major . ) |
| 9 | Do not the Secretary of State 's earlier answers make it clear that his vision of Britain in the future is a low-wage economy with the worst employment conditions in Europe ? |
| 10 | Do not the members of the Government Front Bench think that my remarks are important ? |
| 11 | Do not the problems of the third world , which is still suffering economic deprivation , need to be addressed ? |
| 12 | Do not the upholders of law have daily experience of the fact that the greedy society so desired by Conservative Members must inevitably be a bad one ? |
| 13 | Why do not the Bishops of England and Wales sit down and ask themselves why there is a shortage of priests , why there are not many vocations , and why laity are lapsing in numbers , including many young people ? |
| 14 | Do not the ghosts of the drowned |
| 15 | ‘ Why do n't the engineers at Rolls-Royce boycott the engines ? ’ they asked . |
| 16 | you know , you do n't the apartments for three , you do n't travel in threes |
| 17 | Mr replied that is what Mr was asking the other to do , that is to hold their hand and to enter into negotiations , now I fully appreciate that erm doctor feels strongly that the defendants have not been negotiating in good faith and have been simply dragging matters out for his benefit , now when I say that I 'm simply saying what I understand to be doctor view , I 'm certainly not suggesting that I 'm finding as a fact , but that was the decision , indeed I could n't cos I 've not heard all the evidence on this matter not as Mr to address me on that one , it seems to me with all respect to doctor missions on this matter that if there has been any dragging of feet or other improper conduct of either the defendants in connection with er they remain on in the premises and not paying what doctor would consider to be a full and proper rent or if there has been problem about their not disclosing documents when they should have done , the position is that doctor has er by making an appropriate application to the court , for maybe the appropriate relief arising out of the facts which he can establish , but that is not in general a matter which erm the court should go into on the question of taxation , it 's not , th this particular taxation of costs is a taxation as I understand it that are formally to the debt of the order of Mr Justice and there is thus no question of the court having to consider the question when the those tax those costs have been swollen or increased in any way by reason of spinning out negotiations whether to run up costs or otherwise , that simply does n't arising it seems to me in this case that maybe a matter which may arise possibly at some future date , though I would hope it would not do so , but er so far as the costs down to the end of the trial of the twentieth of March nineteen ninety one are concerned , it seems to me the fact that the parties maybe negotiating subsequently to deter to rece to resolve the outstanding issue , it 's not a matter which really goes to the question of erm what is the proper amount to allow for taxation of costs which have already been incurred , before these negotiations erm we do n't the figure of the costs appears to have been effectively agreed between the solicitors at forty two thousand pounds , the plaintiff solicitors made it quite clear that they were seeking interest , this was clear in apparently of nineteen ninety two , but this held their hand , er it seems to me the reason they held their hand rather than indicate it was because the defendant through his solicitor was asking them to do so and it seems to me that Mr was acting very sensibly in the defendants interest , because if in fact they had gone ahead and taxed their costs there and then the position would simply be that there would of been an award for taxation , in order , there would be a taxation resulting in an order for payment of of some cost probably in the region of forty two thousand pounds and er that order would itself carry interest under the judgements act , it does n't seem to me it can be sensibly said that erm any interest has to be in any way increased by reason of this delay and it seems to me that erm if one looks at order sixty two and twenty eight er certainly under paragraph B two erm there 's a reference there to any additional interest payable under section seventeen because of the failure on the May , erm , it does n't seem to me that the effect of what has in fact incurred , in this case has been , caused any additional interest to be paid and er it seems to me the only best that I can see in the evidence before me to , which would enable the court to erm , conclude that there should be a disallowance of interest would be as I say because the plaintiffs appear not to have perfected the order for the payment of perfectively two years , just over two years , erm it seems to me however that , that on balance probably it simply a matter of oversight and even if it had been perfected it would n't of made as I guess the least bit of difference to the way the negotiations er proceeded and accordingly I take the view that erm there are no grounds for disallowing interest from either the plaintiffs bill of costs or the defendants bill of costs , accordingly erm to allow the defendants appeal in preparation to the disallowance of costs er interest and to dismiss the defendants appeal for application in relation to an additional period , P sixty of course disallowed , I also propose to dismiss the sum of , the appeal by the plaintiffs from the refusal of taxing master to disallow the interest on the defendants bill of costs . |
| 18 | I 'll put it this way so that you 've not the plaster on your your bruised bit . |
| 19 | We see not the balance of good and evil . |
| 20 | I can not bear even the most distant apprehension that I have not the preference with you of any man living . |
| 21 | Taliesin said , ‘ We have not the riches of the East , nor the wealth of the world , sir . |
| 22 | So ‘ if any man have not the Spirit of Christ he is no Christian ’ . |
| 23 | I shall argue in the next chapter that it is part of a teacher 's duties to attempt to redress the balance between children who have and those who have not the advantages of a supportive home . |
| 24 | ‘ new Invention of Raiseing of Water and occasioning Motion to all sorts of Mill Work by the Impellent Force of Fire , which will be of great Use and Advantage for Drayning Mines , Serveing Towns with water , and for the working of all Sorts of Mills where they have not the benefit of Water nor Constant Windes ’ . |
| 25 | Furthermore , many of these students " have not the degree of human sensibility needed for the complete assimilation of a poem … |
| 26 | The small percentage of jobs he speaks of being created are all highly skilled , whereas the majority of the unemployed are untrained , unskilled and have not the qualifications for further training . |
| 27 | The small percentage of jobs he speaks of being created are all highly skilled , whereas the majority of the unemployed are untrained , unskilled , and have not the qualifications for further training . |
| 28 | We have not the gift of combining , he thought bitterly . |
| 29 | I have not the sum to hand , and can not raise it even by loan . |
| 30 | Did he so outdo you , living , that you have not the generosity in you to let him rest even now ? ’ |