Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] the [noun] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even the most committed opponents of capital punishment will find it hard not to see the Norwegians ' point of view . |
| 2 | Not really ; the time period over which the returns are expected to arrive should not affect the investors ' overall requirements . |
| 3 | Matlock 's action will not affect the Pistols ' reunion . |
| 4 | At first I thought I would die of hunger , as I could not eat the Yahoos ' dirty meat or the Houys ' grass and corn . |
| 5 | Improving doctors ' premises , which is essential , will undoubtedly lead to better care and promote the development of primary care teams but may not influence the doctors ' referral behaviour and the need for acute beds in London . |
| 6 | A further concern is that some journals do not transmit the referees ' comments to the authors ; this wastes the referees ' time and fails to appreciate that they want to improve published articles not just act as gatekeepers . |
| 7 | Henry J. held that the intention of strikers was to put pressure on their employers to improve their conditions of service and not to disrupt the plaintiffs ' contracts , even though that was an unavoidable by-product of the strike . |
| 8 | There had , however , been ‘ extensive contact ’ with the Law Society , which had decided that the system did not contravene the solicitors ' code of practice . |
| 9 | Mrs Quinton closed her eyes for a moment as if recalling her cousin relating this girl 's history , which had not included the scissors ' business with Sister Mary as being the reason for her leaving because that might have put any caring mother off from engaging such a virago . |
| 10 | In addition the notes to the accounts need not include the directors ' emoluments . |
| 11 | It would seem reasonable for the seller to stipulate that he will not guarantee the goods ' suitability for that purpose . |
| 12 | I simply could not understand the boys ' sense of humour . |
| 13 | But the settlers who had come to America to look for land did not like the proprietors ' form of ownership . |
| 14 | It had not escaped the Brownies ' sharp eyes that Mr. Gordon turned up near the close of each Pack Meeting and made himself very charming to Brown Owl . |
| 15 | The court investigated the technology in some detail , but stressed that it was not evaluating the experts ' decision , just construing the words of the agreement . |
| 16 | These variations do not jeopardise the animals ' ability to do their work well , provided the strain is a good one . |
| 17 | It will be appreciated that a single developmental problem , such as defective vision , need not dominate the pupils ' classroom activities , nor differentiate them unduly from the classmates with whom they work and play . |
| 18 | They did not share the critics ' dismay that bumptious Mr Spielberg should have borrowed that nice Mr Barrie 's little boy , allowed him to grow up as an awful Dad , and then sent him back to learn a few lessons in Captain Hook 's theme-park paradise . |
| 19 | Furthermore , it is almost certainly true that the great majority of the English laity did not share the intellectuals ' and higher clergy 's attachment to the doctrine of predestination , but retained instead a residual loyalty to the idea that all could potentially achieve salvation . |
| 20 | But the report — for an inquiry into the 1974 Guildford and Woolwich pub bombings — makes clear that new tests had not proved the Maguires ' guilt . |
| 21 | A claim against an expert may be that : ( 1 ) he has failed to carry out the reference properly ; or ( 2 ) he has failed to deliver a timely decision ; or ( 3 ) he has not followed the parties ' instructions : or ( 4 ) he has not kept to the standard of skill and care of his profession . |
| 22 | ‘ The recession has not dimmed the banks ' high-handed , bungling attitude to customer relations , ’ said Dr John Beishon , of the Consumers ' Association . |
| 23 | Although Larsen 's agent Rune Hauge has made contact with Arsenal boss George Graham , he was left with the impression that the player did not fulfil the Gunners ' requirements . |
| 24 | If this decoy assault should fail to draw the English troops from the camp at Belmont , he knew the islanders could not match the outsiders ' firepower in open battle . |
| 25 | Too many Cooks did not spoil the travellers ' broth and by the end of the nineteenth century Cooks had offices across Europe and America , Australia and New Zealand , Canada , the Middle East and India . |
| 26 | Not only does one wonder what embarrassment might have occurred to warrant it but the propriety in not claiming the Ladies ' door and leading to a lavatory in the way the men 's clearly does , is a reminder of the delicacy of those times . |
| 27 | Contemporary accounts do not support the evolutionists ' claim that Huxley demolished Wilberforce 's arguments at the British Association meeting . |
| 28 | But Mr Bush 's remarks yesterday clearly indicated that the unfreezing of some of the assets was a gesture which certainly would not harm the hostages ' prospects . |
| 29 | There were still plenty , although some had not survived the Nazis ' ferocity and others had died in the orgy of vengeance that had been unleashed after the liberation . |
| 30 | The court found that as practice by the defendant as a consultant could not injure the plaintiffs ' professional business , the clause was too wide in that it sought to encompass activities in which the plaintiffs did not have a legitimate interest . |