Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] the [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | It looks like they can not make the Queen pay tax so they are coming after us instead . |
| 32 | Having been reduced now to travelling on foot , he could not make the return journey to Bristol in a day , and Sara too often found herself left lonely and uneasy in a cottage whose attractions were not increased by the coming of winter , or by neighbours who were ‘ a little too tattling and inquisitive ’ . |
| 33 | Why not make the groove move at twenty inches per second throughout the whole disc ? |
| 34 | It can not make the machine work . |
| 35 | The growing do-it-yourself spirit does not make the fashion designer obsolete , but it does reject the instant ‘ good taste ’ acquired by the designer label . |
| 36 | And does it not make the time problem even worse ? |
| 37 | Instead of lawn … ruler-straight path … shrubs ( all of which can be taken in at a single glance , and are as individual as frozen pizzas ) , why not make the eye work ? |
| 38 | Oil companies do monitor conditions but do not make the information public . |
| 39 | Although it is not in itself part of the system which generates intensional structures , and we shall not make the term part of our fundamental descriptive apparatus , we may say that the property of an adjective applies to an entity when the language user takes the property which it designates to be valid ( in positive statements ) for some entity which he or she also recognizes ( even if the entity itself may be acknowledged as an imaginary one ) . |
| 40 | So God did not make the mother animal to lay her eggs . |
| 41 | ‘ Even with respect to the equality issue there will still only be a difference of degree ; the Conservatives might not want the income distribution to become far less equal than it is , and the Labour Party might not want complete equality of income distribution . ’ |
| 42 | Some have become prepared to forgo promotion if it means too much disruption of home and family and if they personally do not want the commuting life . |
| 43 | It remains the situation that if we had not altered the income tax regime that we inherited when we came to office , and if we had merely indexed the rates and allowances , the average family would be paying £1,200 more in income tax . |
| 44 | Then he 'd sent McGee to phone the police and the Dean back upstairs to inform the Bishop , who had not joined the kitchen party . |
| 45 | Their puzzlement was not caused by the timing of declarations , the captain 's decision not to bowl the left-arm spinner on a turning pitch , or by the fact that England started to win Test matches . |
| 46 | Fisher objected that an Archbishop of York ought not to encourage illegality by being present at the requiem ; and , painfully for himself , felt under a duty of conscience not to attend the memorial service . |
| 47 | Despite not enjoying the learning process , as such ( ‘ I hate learning languages ’ ) , she loved ‘ the feel and the sound of the words as they rolled around in the mouth . ’ |
| 48 | I have not checked the Division list closely but some Conservative Members present tonight were here then . |
| 49 | The man who kicks his car because it refuses to start ( and he has not checked the petrol gauge ) is not unlike the toddler who kicks the table for walking into him . |
| 50 | In the extreme cases , this type of foreign investment will not upgrade the host economy in any meaningful sense . |
| 51 | If an exogenously determined money stock can be taken for granted , then movements in money incomes and prices would not influence the money stock and so the causality must run in the direction presumed by monetarists . |
| 52 | The initial stone mass did not influence the recurrence rate , however , when the patients with recurrence were analysed with regard to the initial number of stones , the rate of recurrence was 4.8% ( eight of 166 ) in patients with solitary stones , 4.2% ( two of 48 ) in patients with two stones , and 6.4% ( seven of 110 ) in patients with more than three stones . |
| 53 | To our surprise , we did not observe any influence of age , sex , and body mass index upon the success rate and the recurrence rate ; even the initial number of stones apparently did not influence the recurrence rate , which is in contradiction with the postdissolution experience where the recurrence was higher in patients with multiple stones than with solitary stones . |
| 54 | Each college of education has its own particular theory and philosophy of education and may or may not influence the trainee teacher . |
| 55 | Peptic tryptic cotazym gliadin digest at concentrations ranging from 10 to 100 µg/ml did not influence the enzyme activity in any of the samples . |
| 56 | Unlike the Indian mystics they did not regard the material world as mere illusion , though they were not blind to its illusory aspects . |
| 57 | Not allowing the child independence for self-feeding or getting dirty can interfere with normal developmental learning . |
| 58 | Not allowing the family member to take any form of responsibility that : should rightly belong to the primary sufferer or to someone else . |
| 59 | Apparently this family was not given the information sheet about the programme , and they feel that , had they seen it , they would have refused the test . |
| 60 | Peter Preston , editor of The Guardian newspaper and a member of the watchdog Press Complaints Commission , said he believed The Sun had not broken the speech embargo but had simply published a story ahead of time . |