Example sentences of "not [verb] [pron] [noun] the " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | Nervous Tory candidate Tim Devlin admitted he did not know which way the vote would go . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Though the Act did not specify what form the consultation should take , Home Office guidelines were issued recommending the establishment of police consultative committees . |
| 6 | So why not give your curtains the treatment they deserve ? |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | She had not told her friend the truth . |
| 9 | He is not told what recommendation the judiciary have made . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The social worker decided that the only way forward was a family meeting as the sons individually could not tell their mother the situation . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 ) . |
| 15 | Beau Williford , a respected Louisiana-based manager who can not get his boys the fights he wants , has started the Universal Boxing Association . |
| 16 | As a monthly , the magazine can not offer its readers the overnight scores , nor preview the week 's to matches . |
| 17 | Yet Hunt could not say what station the broadcast came from nor upon which date it was transmitted . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | I do n't know which school the girl next door goes to but she 's doing her erm , A levels and er her term 's already finished . |
| 20 | You do n't know what illness the patient has ? |
| 21 | I do n't know what record the Adult Schools have of nominating |
| 22 | On Friday w would it be a good idea Cos I do n't know what time the generator 's but I mean it would be really best if we could set things up . |
| 23 | Then you can er come too soon , I do n't know what time the trains be in . |
| 24 | But you do n't know what time the |
| 25 | I do n't know what amount the Halifax is going to ask for the business , ’ said Stephen Brown yesterday . |
| 26 | Now , both my son and I are currently non-musicians who are keen to learn , but we do n't know what effect the three knobs and the sliding lever have on the front of the instrument . |
| 27 | I hear you did n't have er , you did n't enjoy your liver the other day ? |
| 28 | It does n't matter what size the company is , whether it 's in manufacturing or services . |
| 29 | But you will find particularly this size of ad , although it does n't matter what size the copy is |
| 30 | Spokesman David Reynolds said : ‘ Ireland is the only country in Europe that does n't give its emigrants the vote . |