Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The health authority does not exist to service nursing homes , so there must be a charge for these services . |
| 2 | Besides , advanced treatment — a process of extra filtration , biological decomposition and chemical treatment — squeezes out more phosphorus but is not proven to reduce large amounts of nitrogen . |
| 3 | Dexter sat with the superintendent while she dialled the head of the Press Bureau , who told her his phone had not stopped ringing all day : press and television news editors were demanding to know why Scotland Yard was keeping such a low profile on the Nicola Sharpe story . |
| 4 | I do not think come this weekend either that we will have any worries about being able to last the pace , ’ he asserted . |
| 5 | As my right hon. Friend pointed out from the Dispatch Box yesterday , only £1 in £3 of agricultural support goes to farmers , which we do not think makes much sense . |
| 6 | NEWCASTLE did not rush to reinstate experienced Brian Kilcline recently — and no wonder with young Steve Howey blossoming at the back . |
| 7 | It does not cover using stolen property left in one 's father 's garage : Sanders ( 1982 ) 75 Cr App R 84 . |
| 8 | Under a similar provision in the Bankruptcy Act 1914 it had been held that a defect in a bankruptcy notice of a kind such as could reasonably mislead the debtor was not a mere formal defect or irregularity within the meaning of that provision , and therefore rendered the notice a nullity even though it was not calculated to cause substantial injustice . |
| 9 | He opposed the Criminal Law Amendment Bill on the grounds that ‘ repressive legislation of this kind is not calculated to improve public morals ’ . |
| 10 | It is not scaremongering to raise these spectres . |
| 11 | What is the smallest amount she can not make using these coins ? |
| 12 | As Institute president Ian Plaistowe said very wisely in his letter to the Financial Times , we should work towards recording similar events in similar ways ; my point was simply that we do not want to record different things in similar ways , and that is where judgment will come in : for example , some securitisations are valid , others not . |
| 13 | At Westminster they disembarked at King 's Steps , Corbett pulling the hood of his cloak over his head to avoid recognition by any of his colleagues in the Chancery or the Exchequer for he did not want to waste valuable time in idle chatter . |
| 14 | If we do not want to reset entire articles ( impossible in the rush of printing schedules ) , the only place we can make cuts or additions is at the end of paragraphs . |
| 15 | Something similar to this can happen in discussion if a speaker does not want to let another interrupt . |
| 16 | Despite his well known views on EC federalism , de Gaulle 's first concern was with Germany , although , unlike his successors , he did not want to employ supranational structures to contain Germany . |
| 17 | Obviously one would not want to see that scene again . ’ |
| 18 | Redmond , Washington-based Microsoft Corp does not want to see any part of the digital automation process that is not touched by Windows , and the company has developed a specification for computer integrated telephony for the MS-DOS personal computer , with which , needless to say , it is aiming to set the industry-standard . |
| 19 | erm One of our buyers , Spain , er was not in favour of that solution because they were not a member of the tornado team and they did not want to see some kind of old boys club er running this project which was very important to them . |
| 20 | We do not want to see more knife carrying by people who are mentally ill , although that clearly affects a minority of community care cases . |
| 21 | Coun Philip Stamford Bewlay ( Con ) said he did not want to see another pub in the town centre but officers said that was not an issue the planning committee is entitled to discuss . |
| 22 | We do not want to see those jobs destroyed . |
| 23 | Migrants who said they did not want to do another course or were unsure , generally said that they wanted to finish the current course before considering anything else . |
| 24 | One does not want to occasion unnecessary delay in exercising those controls , but they must be sufficiently firm and rigorous to ensure that criminals who try to get into the country are detected and that illegal immigrants are similarly detected and prevented from entering the country . |
| 25 | Scotland have hardly used any back-row moves in their games to date , maybe because they do not want to put extra pressure on Weir in his first season at No 8 , but also because they do not have the same penetration from the base of the scrum as they have done in previous seasons . |
| 26 | He did not want to spend another night on his seat in Madison Square . |
| 27 | We do not want to lose any explorers of the quantum world on the way so I think I had better issue a survival kit before we start . |
| 28 | I did not want to reinforce these characteristics . |
| 29 | If the user does not want to generate another report of this type , he should leave the default of N ( No ) and press RETURN . |
| 30 | State if you do not want to receive other material linked to any of the offers . |