Example sentences of "not [verb] [pron] [noun] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We all know that the common agricultural policy has not given our farmers the return that their efficiency deserves or our housewives the food prices that they should be able to expect . |
| 2 | But Nails did not consider his lack an impediment to his plans . |
| 3 | The reason that we can not calculate the necessary correction is that we do not know which way the photon went when it bounced into the microscope . |
| 4 | Nervous Tory candidate Tim Devlin admitted he did not know which way the vote would go . |
| 5 | I do not know what purpose the meeting served in persuading Wapping of the merits of our plan , but it did enable me for the first and only time to see the terrain on which we were working and reinforced my enthusiasm to kill the committee at the earliest possible moment . |
| 6 | The Sunday Citizen withdrew the allegations , apologised and paid Wigg 's costs in the matter — the settlement was on my advice to Wigg that he could not know what view a jury would take of his actions in relation to Profumo . |
| 7 | Though the Act did not specify what form the consultation should take , Home Office guidelines were issued recommending the establishment of police consultative committees . |
| 8 | He wondered if he should not give his Ka a name , and call it Taheb . |
| 9 | So why not give your curtains the treatment they deserve ? |
| 10 | So why not give your legs a golden glow with a little fake tan ? |
| 11 | I have read the report of the guardian ad litem and such information as I have which would indicate her view of the local authority 's actions now on several occasions and I have to say that I do not understand what findings the justices believed that they were making or what reasons they were giving for their decision in that brief statement , which I have just quoted in full . |
| 12 | She had not told her friend the truth . |
| 13 | He is not told what recommendation the judiciary have made . |
| 14 | He did not move his fingers a millimetre . |
| 15 | Communication will have failed if the listener does not discover which platform the train leaves from or how to load the program into the computer . |
| 16 | Millions of babies have grown up happy and healthy on formula milks and your baby will thrive if he has a mum who 's relaxed at feeds , not anxious that she 's not giving her baby the best start in life . |
| 17 | As I represent 25% of the total population of women presidents to date , if my predecessors did not share my feelings a 25% opinion still deserves to be heard , and I believe that some of my successors may well be of the same mind as I am . |
| 18 | The social worker decided that the only way forward was a family meeting as the sons individually could not tell their mother the situation . |
| 19 | The fact that we have a Scottish President combined with the fact that this Division do not hold their dinners every year should guarantee an evening to remember ! |
| 20 | He said after the meeting : ‘ If the Government does not change its mind a strike looks inevitable , which would be terrible for the people of Britain . |
| 21 | The system will suspend the access rights of lexicographers who do not change their passwords every month . |
| 22 | He therefore had the choice of making a new home somewhere or making his way back to a town about whose public feelings he could have no doubt , but knowing that if he did not change his ways the whole thing might happen again . |
| 23 | The inquiry says he did not raise his flag an assertion he strongly denies . |
| 24 | If C was struck by only one bullet but could not prove whose gun the bullet came from , a Canadian case has held that both A and B were liable ( Cook v Lewis [ 1952 ] 1 DLR 1 ) . |
| 25 | Beau Williford , a respected Louisiana-based manager who can not get his boys the fights he wants , has started the Universal Boxing Association . |
| 26 | Good words will not get my people a home where they can live in peace , and take care of themselves . |
| 27 | As a monthly , the magazine can not offer its readers the overnight scores , nor preview the week 's to matches . |
| 28 | Yet Hunt could not say what station the broadcast came from nor upon which date it was transmitted . |
| 29 | Russell does not say what form the ‘ complicated arguments ’ about the validity of this argument might take , but the chapter in which it occurs is entitled ‘ Knowledge by Acquaintance and Knowledge by Description ’ , so it is reasonable to suppose that one thing that was bothering Russell was the possibility that a person who meaningfully uses the word ‘ I ’ does so in virtue of knowing something which he calls ‘ I ’ not by acquaintance , but by description . |
| 30 | They affected to despise her , but they did not find their contempt a strain , whereas the other really bad disciplinarian in the school , a Geography mistress , one Miss Riley , inflicted on them an intolerable suffering , for they felt themselves compelled to torment her , and she would sit before them , thin and pretty and anguished , making vain attempts to restore order , miserably transparent in her misery , and unable to conceal the depths of her humiliation — depths which frightened them , but which they could not leave unplumbed . |