Example sentences of "[vb -s] not [verb] [pers pn] the " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ The arrival of another SeaCat vessel in May certainly has not hit us the way some people expected . |
2 | ‘ Do n't you know God has not given you the spirit of fear but of love and a sound mind ? ’ |
3 | This need for careful definition is ignored completely when one simply asks a panel of experts to name people with political power — one has not told them the criteria that they should use for judging whether an individual has power , and neither does one know whether the individuals have used even similar criteria for ascribing power to the individuals whose names they submit . |
4 | The hon. Member for Sedgefield ( Mr. Blair ) has huffed and puffed , but he has not told us the Labour party 's position on a single proposal contained in the Green Paper . |
5 | This afternoon , he has treated the House to an extraordinary collection of half-truths and inaccuracies , but he has not told us the Labour party 's attitude to the proposals that I identified in the statement . |
6 | I also know that your informant there has not told you the truth . |
7 | Another of the smaller outfits is Blue Peter Sailing , which runs a 29-footer with seven berths and promises not to give you the ‘ sail-it-on-its-ear-and-hard-luck-if-you're-seasick ’ routine . |
8 | Lord Salmon gave as an example two instances of the valuation of a picture , the first for a client who does not tell him the reason for the valuation , and the second where the client tells him the valuation is needed because he is about to sell the picture to a friend . |
9 | This gives us , if we know the date of the award ( which is easy to discover ) , the exact date of all the external fences or hedges , but it does not tell us the date of the internal fences on the bigger allotments . |
10 | In these stories the young characters learn that their greater physical power does not give them the right to treat the little people as playthings or inferiors . |
11 | The council tax will treat widows unfairly in the same way , because it does not give them the discount that they deserve . |
12 | When Michel Rocard was replaced by Edith Cresson on 15 May 1991 , his official letter of resignation made it clear that President Mitterrand had asked him to resign , even though the constitution does not give him the right ( the President is responsible for ‘ nominating ’ the Prime Minister and for approving the Cabinet , but not for dismissing him ) . |
13 | As fighting on board goes first one way and then the other , the captain strikes Thomas Fox to death with a belaying pin in an access of rage because the boy , genuinely unaware of the seamen 's plotting and almost insensible after hours at the masthead in icy weather , does not give him the names of the conspirators . |
14 | An order for specific performance is one which requires the seller actually to deliver the goods and does not give him the option of paying damages instead . |
15 | However , although we can keep this association in mind , it does not give us the whole picture . |
16 | But despite the undeniable tendency in financial markets towards a more laissez-faire environment , the term deregulation does not give us the full flavour of events . |
17 | The mixture of an SD1 engine , Range Rover flywheel and exhaust in a Range Rover does not give you the power that you might expect , so be careful when mixing engine components such as flywheels , camshafts , distributor and carbs from different engine applications . |
18 | ‘ Her Majesty is paying your bills now , not the State , but that does not give you the right to behave any way you like . ’ |
19 | However , this does not give you the automatic right to go overdrawn . |
20 | Your card does not give you the right to overdraw your account . |
21 | While the house in the wife 's sole name with a fixed charge in favour of the husband facilitates the wife 's control of the property , this does not offer her the flexibility to move house that might be incorporated when the house is held by trustees until a specified event ( see Chapter 6 ) . |
22 | The approach taken here does not afford us the luxury of such explanations : we must seek the reason for the peculiar distribution of the infinitive with perception verbs in the passive voice in the meaning expressed by the sentence . |