Example sentences of "not [verb] [noun] with [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Li Peng told Anan that the progress in China 's relations with Vietnam would not affect relations with Thailand or other South-East Asian nations . |
| 2 | In the I970s the fuel boards were pressured by the Labour government not to disconnect households with children providing they would cooperate in paying off their arrears . |
| 3 | ‘ You can not make peace with dictators , you have to destroy them , ’ Nelson asserts at one point for the benefit of inattentive members of the audience . |
| 4 | The management usually have a ruling that receptionists do not socialise with the guests on a personal basis ; therefore staff should not make dates with guests or visit their rooms even if invited to do so . |
| 5 | That most German people did not want war with England was true by almost every account of neutral witnesses . |
| 6 | In a separate move the Chinese premier , Li Peng , who attacked Mr Patten earlier , returned to the fray , saying China did not want confrontation with Britain but the UK was putting ‘ obstacles ’ in the way of talks to try and defuse the row . |
| 7 | Those persistent but slightly fattening habits which are the key to your weight problem could be : having ‘ densely packed ’ calories at meals ( that means having a lot of fat , either visible such as butter on your bread or invisible like butter in a cake ) ; snacking in between meals , especially if those snacks include cream , alcohol and sugar ; and not expending energy with exercise to use up the calories . |
| 8 | TEACHERS were urged by John MacGregor , the Secretary of State for Education , yesterday not to disrupt classes with strikes next year in their pay campaign . |
| 9 | We will not consider words with stems of more than two syllables . |
| 10 | People whose parents or early carers have not enjoyed contact with infant bodies nor valued their bodily functions may find it difficult to enjoy either their own body and its sensations or the body of another . |
| 11 | ‘ Such a strange-looking man , I 've always thought … khikhikhi … my father always told me not to trust men with beards . |
| 12 | It had to succeed in selling , against Japanese competition , the product left to it by a conventionally organised British motor cycle industry which had already admitted defeat ; and sales were not keeping pace with production . |
| 13 | She urged nurses to question authors of all material on child protection that did not include children with disabilities . |
| 14 | Vitrinite reflectance is a temperature ( and therefore depth ) dependent parameter which does not undergo retrogression with uplift . |
| 15 | In practice , the Director of Public Prosecutions does not prosecute films with BBFC certificates for cinema showing , so distributors prepared to pay the certification fee and to carry out the " cuts " insisted upon by the Board are in effect guaranteed freedom from police harassment . |
| 16 | Lee , speaking at a news conference at an hotel near his Wilmslow home , said that so far he had not made contact with Swales . |
| 17 | Attractive as this option may seem , protective authorisation does not provide firms with exemption from the regulations . |
| 18 | Thus the silk industry of Valencia , frequently noted by travellers as one of the most promising features of the economy , apart from a period of prosperity between 1835 and 1852 , remained relatively stagnant throughout the nineteenth century ; in the late eighteenth century a technically advanced industry , in the nineteenth it could not keep pace with Lyons . |
| 19 | In the 1970s the real price of cigarettes fell about 30% because cigarette taxation did not keep pace with inflation . |
| 20 | At the same time the quality of cattle was declining and any increase in their numbers did not keep pace with demand . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The boys with whom I associated would not keep company with Journeymen excepting in their workshops , nor with lads whose fathers were not housekeepers . " |
| 24 | This is not to identify computation with consciousness . |
| 25 | I asked the College if they could help , but was told by the then-bursar : It is College policy not to help fellows with housing . |
| 26 | But we must not confound motive with consideration . |
| 27 | Most hobbies cost some money , some a great deal , why not occupy time with machine knitting ? |
| 28 | ‘ The smile 's so as not to infect others with sorrow . |
| 29 | Remember not to confuse reliability with value . |
| 30 | I learned not to confuse sentiment with sentimentality — one is in fact a negation of the other . ’ |