Example sentences of "[not/n't] [vb infin] [noun sg] with [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Vitrinite reflectance is a temperature ( and therefore depth ) dependent parameter which does not undergo retrogression with uplift . |
| 2 | In the 1970s the real price of cigarettes fell about 30% because cigarette taxation did not keep pace with inflation . |
| 3 | At the same time the quality of cattle was declining and any increase in their numbers did not keep pace with demand . |
| 4 | Unlike housing and education , health policies were remarkable for their continuity in the 1980s and the NHS finished the decade battered round the edges but largely intact : still the overwhelming supplier of health care in spite of the growth in the independent sector ; still tax-funded and for the most part free at the point of use ; still growing in real terms even though that did not keep pace with demand in the view of critics . |
| 5 | There is now widespread evidence that the transport infrastructure can not keep pace with growth , and the Confederation of British Industry argues that traffic congestion is now costing the country some £15bn a year . |
| 6 | But we must not confound motive with consideration . |
| 7 | Most hobbies cost some money , some a great deal , why not occupy time with machine knitting ? |
| 8 | One would not want to suggest that the academics who contribute to the New Accents series ( or who write similar texts ) can not read French with ease . |
| 9 | Men do not share support with child care simply because so few of them are responsible for the care of children , and so on . |
| 10 | It is doubtful whether Kierkegaard himself held this view , certainly by the time of his last and great work Concluding Unscientific Postscript , where he insisted that ‘ faith must not rest content with unintelligibility ’ . |
| 11 | To give more effective stripping , 3M has designed a special Stripping Tool which , unlike wire wool , will not stain wood with rust spots , while also speeding up stripping on flat surfaces . |
| 12 | Under the scheme proposed here , young people would gain the wage-packet , would not lose contact with education ( they would be in college or school , initially for two days a week ) and would have gained an employer interested in developing their skills . |
| 13 | As one of Rodin 's most celebrated works , The Kiss did not find favour with public opinion in the USA in the 1880s , which decided that the nude marble sculpture was far too hot for public viewing and had it confined to a special room . |
| 14 | I wonder who first decided that we should n't eat mustard with lamb ? |
| 15 | ‘ You ca n't mix business with friendship , ’ Jane–urged , ‘ and anyway the friendship is n't that close . |
| 16 | Still , learn from experience : and the moral of this story is : do n't mix business with pleasure . |
| 17 | ‘ Look , I know that one should n't mix business with pleasure , but if I asked you again , would you come out with me ? ’ |
| 18 | So you know there 's the , do n't link aggression with assertion , two difference . |
| 19 | I ca n't stand tea with sugar in it . |
| 20 | I suppose it 's because people do n't put canvas with paint daubed on it very high up on their list of personal needs , especially when there are bills to pay and food to buy … |
| 21 | So long as we do n't confuse faction with history , perhaps we should n't agonise too much over such matters . |
| 22 | And he added : ‘ I did n't lose contact with golf , preserving my Scratch handicap and playing in a combined Berks , Bucks and Oxford county team . |