Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] [to-vb] the [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the SARU do not want to make the same mistake , they could organise a tour of South Africa by their proposed national team to prepare for the visits of New Zealand and Australia in August . |
| 2 | On a patch where the rough surface of brickwork was exposed , someone had vomited , probably a passing drunk whose sense of propriety , demanding privacy , had deterred him from being sick in the street ; or a returning resident who could not wait to climb the few steps to the communal toilet on the first half-landing . |
| 3 | Equally , do not expect to find the same fineness of knotting in a nomadic item as in a rug of workshop origin , although some nomadic rugs are surprisingly finely knotted and consistent in their designs . |
| 4 | Housewives simply do not expect to work the same hours in the home as they would in an office or factory . |
| 5 | It may be that the target reader of the German translation is not envisaged to have the same familiarity with or interest in the ceramics industry as the prospective readers of the English version . |
| 6 | Another criticism generally expressed was that headhunters , having approached a candidate and then been turned down , did not hesitate to make the most of the contact they had made despite the rejection and go on to ask , ‘ Well , can you recommend someone who would be interested ? ’ |
| 7 | To say that the other can remain absolutely other , that he enters only into the relationship of conversation , is to say that history itself , an identification of the same , can not claim to totalise the same and the other . |
| 8 | Briefing reporters at the control headquarters for the Zarb- e-Momin exercises near Sargodha , he said the army ‘ is not going to repeat the same history again ’ . |
| 9 | The big advantage we 've got over bands from the '60s and '70s is we can look back and see the exact point at which they all turned shit — and we 're not going to make the same mistake ! ’ |
| 10 | She is not going to make the same mistake Jimmy Carter 's First Lady Rosalyn did . |
| 11 | Tone generators and loudspeakers , however , have to cope with a multitude of frequencies and can not hope to move the same amount of air as the equivalent number of pipes . |
| 12 | Investors there would nevertheless be permitted to write off against tax 50 per cent of costs entailed in a one-year period , while employees there would have their tax allowances increased , and companies would not have to pay the same local property and capital taxes as in western Germany . |
| 13 | Although talking of the inevitability and necessity of crime , Durkheim did not mean to suggest the more crime the better . |
| 14 | By removing any temporal limitation on his own mandate , Franco showed that he did not intend to suffer the same fate as Primo . |
| 15 | And they did not seem to feel the same need to compete that men did , the urge to scatter names , achievements , possessions about , like so much status-defining dandruff . |
| 16 | While the construction of arenas bounds on — an enormous amount has been accomplished in the past month — the organisation side does not seem to show the same urgency . |
| 17 | Violence again propelled Northern Ireland into the national news headlines , but it did not seem to make the same impact at Stormont Castle , RUC headquarters at Brooklyn or Army headquarters in Lisburn . |
| 18 | Surely , such practices should be condemned , especially as many companies , such as EMI , do not seem to have the same problem . |
| 19 | But I have been quite fascinated to see that the youngsters today do not seem to have the same interest in reading the paper . |
| 20 | Are we not allowed to use the same things twice ? |
| 21 | Why am I not allowed to feel the same about something that means a great deal to me ? ’ she retorted fiercely . |
| 22 | It is recorded somewhat ruefully that , after years of struggle , when the Veterinarian had won its fight to get the course lengthened , students who had previously been apprenticed for three or four years to a practitioner claimed they at least ought to be able to leave the College after 12 months , and not have to stay the same period — two years — as the non-apprenticed . |
| 23 | In Cornwall in 1796 , 1801 and 1812 a noose and contract was taken around to farmers , who were threatened with the former if they did not agree to sign the latter . |
| 24 | However , industry is not required to do the same thing . |
| 25 | We do n't want to use the same cutlery an ’ that . ’ |
| 26 | You do n't want to use the same pen . |
| 27 | I rushed into my last contract and do n't want to do the same again . ’ |
| 28 | He did n't want to make the same mistakes again and was taking great care over every detail , researching the best possible way to lure the creature into his grasp . |
| 29 | If a road sweeper kills the king he ca n't expect to get the same gratuity as a general . |
| 30 | The advice from women who 've sought help is that others should n't hesitate to do the same . |