Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] them [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

  Previous page   Next page
No Sentence
31 Mere spatial separation does not divide them from each other .
32 I do not see them at all .
33 I certainly could not deprive them of that .
34 Some judges make extensive use of shoulder headings ; some do not use them at all .
35 Considering the Hay & Maddock results for human geography , where the authors found that 40% of social scientists rarely refer to theses , and 29% do not use them at all , it will be apparent that geological theses form a significant element in the communication process , since almost half of them are cited .
36 In the wartime agreement on pooling brains and resources for the original work on the atomic bomb , which was signed at Quebec in 1943 between the United States and Britain in association with Canada , there were five clauses : the signatories would not use atomic weapons against each other ; they would not use them against third parties without the others ' consent ; no information would be given to third parties without mutual consent ; Britain disclaimed any interest in commercial and industrial exploitation , because the heavy burden of production would fall on the United States ; and a Combined Policy Committee would be set up to ensure full and effective collaboration .
37 We do not remember them for all the facts which they rammed into our heads , nor for praise or punishment , but for the way that they seemed to recognize our inner selves , and spoke to our essence .
38 My parents had died when I was a baby , so I could not remember them at all , but quite often I used to visit the churchyard , about a mile from the village , to look at their names on their gravestones .
39 The young revolutionary , whom they had been trailing for sixteen hours a day , was proving less useful than Cowley had hoped , not leading them to any of his more dangerous colleagues .
40 The more recent stress has been on identifying values in the curriculum , and not limiting them to religious or moral education classes .
41 But I can not denounce them in other people 's words .
42 An observer at a distance from the black hole can measure only the outgoing particles , and he can not correlate them with those that fall into the hole because he can not observe them .
43 In fact , the event was even more profound than that , because it was also an explosion of the four dimensions ( as well as , it is thought , a number of others , which almost immediately ‘ rolled themselves up ’ so that we do not recognize them as such — the matter and energy involved being only a secondary consideration !
44 Some people prefer not to use them at all and remove them .
45 During the final edit the TV company 's commissioning editor for arts , Waldemar Januszczak decided not to use them at all .
46 Because she had never known her parents well , she did not miss them at all .
47 — to respect the non-aligned status chosen by the Persian Gulf countries ; not to draw them into military groupings to which nuclear powers are party ;
48 This can result in buyers waiting for months for the goods to arrive or not getting them at all and being fobbed off with a different machine .
49 The post-war trend in evening papers , then , was a clear-cut elimination of towns with more than one locally based paper ; the establishment of papers in perhaps 20 towns that did not have them in 1945 ; and the survival of all the existing papers that faced no home town competition as early as 1945 .
50 What it provides is that a company proposing to allot equity securities shall not allot them to any person unless it has first offered , on the same or more favourable terms , to each person who holds relevant shares or relevant employee shares , a proportion of those equity securities which is as nearly as practicable equal to his existing proportion in nominal value of his aggregate holdings of relevant shares and relevant employee shares .
51 I would not recommend them for submersed cultivation and I do not believe that a reputable aquarium dealer would sell you those plants as aquarium plants .
52 But they certainly should n't be encouraged to go into strangers ' houses and we 'd also ask er people who perhaps do have children knocking on their door not to invite them in either .
53 In a sense one can not blame them for that , but we in the SSPCA feel that it would be much better if some of those payments from the Government came in the form of food tokens which could be redeemed when farmers purchased feeding stocks . ’
54 Mr. J. praised the nurses who had looked after his mother , and did not blame them in any way for her death .
55 It has been known for caterers to come in at 8am , turn all the ovens on and not use them for three hours . ’
56 In spate it was a terrifying torrent which uprooted whole trees and smashed them to driftwood ; in drought it was an evil-tempered stream which grudged them water and tugged the pots from her hands if she did not hold them with all her strength .
57 Obviously there is a very delicate balance between erm demanding too much of people 's time in consulting and talking with you , and not involving them at all , and you have to be very sensitive to how much time people are prepared to give and how much they want to be involved in something .
58 It is important to recognise that the research itself , and its setting , inflicts its own contingencies on the choice of indicators : research using interviews will have to use indicators that are largely constructed out of respondents ' answers to questionnaire items whereas observational studies , and Lazarsfeld did not preclude them from variable analysis in principle , would have to use others .
59 Not chasing them at all !
60 The first comment may mean that the child has no experience of seeing rusted metal , or she may have seen rusty objects but not connected them in any way with exposure to air and moisture .
  Previous page   Next page