Example sentences of "[vb past] [not/n't] [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.

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1 In addition to those covenants mentioned by Scott LJ above examples of those which have been deemed to touch and concern the land include : a covenant for quiet enjoyment ; a covenant by the landlord agreeing to supply a housekeeper to clean a block of flats ; a covenant in which a landlord agreed not to open a public house within half a mile of the tenanted premises ; a covenant placing an obligation on the tenant to repair ; and a covenant in which the tenant agreed not to carry on a particular trade at the premises .
2 He spoke after Bronson 's owner appeared before York magistrates and admitted not keeping a dangerous dog under proper control .
3 Because they have seen the future they can not or will not speak of what they know so the Phoenix Guard are a silent order , pledged not to allow a single word to pass their lips in all the time they spend as guardians of the shrine .
4 They are a silent order , pledged not to allow a single word to pass their lips in the time they spend as guardians of the shrine .
5 On March 19 the federal Cabinet decided not to implement a planned amnesty for former East German agents of the Ministry for State Security ( " Stasi " ) [ see p. 37828 ] .
6 The terrorists had made it known that tourists would be a target , but the Foreign Office decided not to issue a general warning to British travellers .
7 In the other case , where a wife killed her husband , there was widespread coverage when a judge decided not to jail a 25-year-old civil servant who had shot her husband through the heart just a week after their marriage .
8 Much as he desired to make cuts , Eisenhower in the end decided not to risk a general crisis in the Atlantic alliance by precipitate unilateral action .
9 As a result , the board decided not to propose a final dividend .
10 Caspar managed not to breathe a huge sigh of relief , because this sounding very promising indeed .
11 This teacher chose not to offer a tight structure to the class .
12 The panel apparently chose not to have a permanent chairman on two grounds : first because it was believed that subgroups would quickly emerge to focus on particular issues and events and that these would evolve their own arrangements , and secondly to avoid the possibility of particular individuals dominating proceedings .
13 There was some nervousness that perhaps modular courses did not deliver a satisfactory educational experience from the viewpoint of the student .
14 In reality , from the study of the videotapes made of the language performance of most of the 150 people who took part , the language level actually being achieved did not bear a great similarity to the BSL as used by deaf people .
15 However , a report prepared over five years by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute ( SIPRI ) , released in August , concluded that the USA did not bear a disproportionate share of the NATO burden .
16 Although the House of Lords did not give a concluded opinion , the inclination of the judgments was that the court could not use the test to limit a plaintiff to a proportion of his losses .
17 Although he did not give a new date for the elections , Traore stressed that the postponement would not affect the timetable for the transition period which had been extended in December [ see p. 38563 ] .
18 The film is the story of decadent British aristocrats who did not give a damn for anything but their own pleasure .
19 During his opening speech , I asked the Secretary of State a question to which he did not give a full or satisfactory answer — why had not the Government sought to introduce those measures before they privatised monopolies , rather than wait until the customers had suffered the consequences of several years of high prices and not necessarily improved services ?
20 The Minister did not give a clear response to the question from my Hon. Friend the Member for Dundee , East .
21 It said that PW 's independence was compromised by BCCI loans to partnerships in Panama and Barbados , and that from 1987 onwards the firm had ‘ ample reason ’ to believe that BCCI 's accounts did not give a true and fair view of its financial situation .
22 The reader should realize that Einstein did not give a rigorous mathematical proof of GR and neither has anyone else .
23 Two-thirds of part-time workers surveyed in 1990 did not want a full-time job ( Dept. of Employment 1991 ) .
24 City sources indicated they did not want a wide-ranging Budget that would tackle much-needed reforms such as mortgage tax relief and that it would be better for the Chancellor to do as little as possible .
25 Lord John Russell , who at that time was not a member of Palmerston 's Government , said that he had heard that Panmure did not want a new building for the War Department , and he hoped that :
26 The SEA was a compromise between those countries such as France and Germany who wanted a new Treaty on European Union , and the UK and Denmark who did not want a new Treaty , but simply the implementation of the White Paper in order to create an SEM .
27 I did not want a post-modernist confusion .
28 She did not want a prolonged discussion , she wanted only that he should go away .
29 Winnie did not want a married couple , and such a minute flat would not be suitable for people with babies or pets .
30 She did not want a small army camping indefinitely among her flowerbeds and rose bushes .
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