Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] the [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ People are just not seeing the value of breast milk , ’ says Alison Spiro , NCT milk-bank coordinator and Parents Family Health Adviser . |
| 2 | Hughes admitted that one reason for the slow growth of the movement in Wales was that the Church of Wales was in a minority ‘ and there did not exist the sense of peril which , he feared , must be admitted , had done so much in driving them together in England ’ . |
| 3 | They are divisive because they have a tendency to divide women into two camps ; those who have and those who have not shaken the dust of patriarchal conditioning from their feet . |
| 4 | Though Charles the Bald could not evade the type of political problems just outlined , he was predestined neither to success nor to failure . |
| 5 | Return to the bad old ways , elect separately a Chamber and a Senate , then bring them together at Versailles in a National Assembly which would or would not modify the Constitution of 1875 . |
| 6 | Children can appear not to like the taste of food and be not motivated to eat . |
| 7 | But many species appear not to like the sound of a motor or a throbbing propeller . |
| 8 | Additionally , carried away by enthusiasm that ought not to affect the judgement of experienced lawyers , they advised him , or agreed on his urging ( I do not know which ) , that he should issue writs for libel , which he did , with the disastrous effect that he actually accepted some damages from one publication before he was compelled to reveal the falsity of his assertions . |
| 9 | In moderate amounts , it is not troublesome , but for dyeing work it may be desirable to keep the concentration reasonably constant so as not to affect the rate of dyeing . |
| 10 | In the age of the life-support machine , we may sometimes look back wistfully to those days , when doctors and relatives of the moribund person were not faced with the agonising decision whether or not to preserve the existence of a human vegetable . |
| 11 | Would the end of the first-past-the-post system , with its unpredictable results , not make the business of politics boring ? |
| 12 | But do you not think the life of the Thirties , the daily life , was much more terrible ? |
| 13 | Television is a very evangelical medium and I do not think the Church of England can afford to or wants to compete with the evangelical churches . |
| 14 | Personally , I do not think the number of entries that are made at South African shows justify champion classes . |
| 15 | The Annan Committee disliked this arrangement , for even the local newspaper publishers ' association itself did not think the amount of advertising likely to go to ILR was great enough to be a threat . |
| 16 | Gedge does not think the absence of Solowka and Gregory was of real importance . |
| 17 | As Beatson has stated , ‘ a system that uses the pragmatic approach is not using the concept of error of law as an organizing principle ’ as such , but rather as a facade behind which to weigh the relative competence of court and agency . |
| 18 | The reasons people gave for not using the form of credit ( very few were actually refused it , by lenders ) were rarely concerned specifically with cost — they were generally things like ‘ changed my mind ’ or ‘ thought of a better method ’ . |
| 19 | She would have had to be blind not to see the mixture of desire and destruction in the getsure . |
| 20 | She pretended not to see the look of dismay on Martin 's face and continued with her explanation . |
| 21 | That is not to underplay the contribution of the other members of the quartet : all are heard here in ( mainly ) Jackson compositions and all make solidly individualistic contributions in advance of the more formal direction that Lewis would take up with the MJQ . |
| 22 | This period unfortunately does not cover the whole of the time during which the Lift was in operation . |
| 23 | These chartered towns did not cover the whole of the urban areas of the country and in the year 1848 the Public Health Act created Local Boards of Health . |
| 24 | The top rate of finance , giving the whole of your mobility supplement for five years will not cover the cost of most cars , so you will have to find a substantial deposit . |
| 25 | I left the team because the low pay would not cover the cost of my share in a mortgage to buy my own flat , and because I found it difficult to reconcile the separate roles of paid worker and friend , when Helen and Elizabeth recognised no such distinction . |
| 26 | To fill the seats you have to drop the fares , there 's a price war going on , especially in the markets that Virgin 's involved in , price wars mean very low fares , fares which in many cases will not cover the cost of flying the aeroplane . |
| 27 | The measure does not cover the consecration of women as bishops . |
| 28 | This , however , does not cover the case of the Director 's power to question the person under investigation about the offence with which he has been charged . |
| 29 | In a recent case in which the courts were called upon to construe the ambiguous expression ‘ land includes land covered by water ’ in the Rights of Way Act 1932 , the House of Lords , upholding the trial judge and reversing the Court of Appeal , held that the Act did not cover the creation of rights of navigation . |
| 30 | The Alvey scheme does not cover the business of developing products for sale . |