Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] their [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Recognizing that authoritarians did not phrase their bigotry in unqualified statements , Adorno et al . |
| 2 | Men blend their behaviour less than women , but their androgyny and blending do not affect their susceptibility to traditional gender schemas ( Heilbrun 1984 ) . |
| 3 | When Val was gone , Roland realised , with a shock like a religious conversion , that he did not want their way of life to go on . |
| 4 | Similarly , parents of children who have been victims of sexual offences may not want their child to be interrogated and to go through the trauma of reliving the experience in court . |
| 5 | They did not want their gesture to be viewed as part of that historical movement but as a genuine protest with genuine grievances . |
| 6 | This is an interesting monument because the architect , Rodolfo Vantini , who completed the work in 1828 , wanted to get away from the conventional Roman triumphal arch , ( a decision said to have been as much due to the local inhabitants complaining that they did not want their view of the Lombardian Pre-Alps blocked as to any creative urge ) . |
| 7 | In the event the justices had not completed their task by 12 noon and it was at 12.45 p.m. that they returned to court to state their reasons . |
| 8 | Explanatory leaflets and posters in several languages offer people the option of not allowing their blood to be tested . |
| 9 | Some of these recordings are now being used by the YCCC as evidence in the legal actions which they are taking out against the city and tannery , and some of the recordings have been played back to other community groups in similar situations but who have not developed their thinking to the extent of the YCCC . |
| 10 | Similarly , having chosen to use a large Chorus , John Doyle has not developed their ritual of voice and movement far enough . |
| 11 | The participants warned that by their next summit , scheduled for Sept. 25 in Bishkek ( Kirgizstan ) , states which had not ratified their membership of the CIS ( Azerbaijan and Moldova ) should do so . |
| 12 | Arrangements such as joint market research , and the joint execution of research work up to the stage of industrial application , were stated to be compatible with Article 85(1) , provided that participating companies did not restrict their freedom of action . |
| 13 | Users looking for information on a particular subject did not restrict their consultation to the subject portion of the catalogue . |
| 14 | The SEC , however , have not limited their zeal to specific individual targets . |
| 15 | Landlord Dadley had begged the Birmingham committee of the ‘ Friends of Freedom ’ — the group for ‘ revolutionary ’ political change — not to cancel their dinner at his hotel . |
| 16 | It was hard for the men not to lose their footing on jagged or slippery stones : harder still , leaning right back on the ropes , to counteract the relentless downward pull of the current and keep the tree on course for the opposite bank . |
| 17 | As the statement makes clear : ‘ Students who are involved in sexual/romantic relationships with staff and who do not consider their involvement to be truly consensual should have the right of complaint under a sexual harassment policy . ’ |
| 18 | That construction is intended to ensure that the courts do not substitute their view for that of the administrator just because they believe that a different conclusion would be more reasonable . |
| 19 | Christians gravitated to Ireland not to impose their creed on others , but to immerse themselves in the teachings of the past — and to discover , in the seclusion and peace of the island , their own inner communion with their God , independent of hierarchical priesthoods . |
| 20 | Administration officials also cast doubt on the environmental statements of other Northern governments , claiming that the French , German and Japanese , among others , were not matching their rhetoric with action . |
| 21 | ‘ While certain highly specialist services are only available at specific locations , this does not lessen their accessibility to those patients in need of them , ’ he said . |
| 22 | In the end , the WICBC 's attitude that they could not accept any individual who did not uphold their tradition of sportsmanship prevailed , and Gilchrist played no more Tests . |
| 23 | But Welshman Davies and Oxford-based Saxton , both 25 , have not dropped their bid for compensation . |
| 24 | He complained that health authority officials sitting on the Ling Trust board , including unit general manager Murray Duncanson , would not surrender their control over staff at the homes . |
| 25 | They had not confined their work to the schemes the judges selected , but looked at the remainder of the exhibition , and added eight of their own choice . |
| 26 | We can certainly agree that political sociologists have not confined their attention to the narrower governmental sphere or believed that this constitutes a part ( albeit an important part ) of the world of politics . |
| 27 | Army personnel did not know their way around London and would need police escorts . |
| 28 | COMPANIES can not buy their way into these pages by sending free gifts to the editor . |
| 29 | Although people were allowed to eat other foods freely , in fact when they were deprived of their refined carbohydrates they tended not to increase their intake of these alternative foods very much — not enough to make up for the calories they were saving . |
| 30 | Everton always looked the more competent side and were unlucky not to increase their lead in the 50th minute . |