Example sentences of "not [verb] [pron] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So you see you need not make your own designs although I think that you will certainly want to do so when you get going . |
| 2 | He prayed to build on his aversion and include Ariel herself in his disgust ; it was not as difficult as before to force himself to keep his distance , because he was angry at the child 's existence , the visible emblem and consequence of their unlawful coupling , and he wanted to punish Ariel for not using her clever arts to prevent the baby coming . |
| 3 | In a statement on Aug. 19 Yanayev informed heads of state that the emergency measures in the Soviet Union were temporary and would not affect her international obligations under existing treaties . |
| 4 | ( 2 ) They could agree not to make any political alliance with the East , although this would not affect their natural sympathies . |
| 5 | The duty of external non-intervention prohibits States from interfering with the valid performance of treaties that do not affect their own rights and obligations . |
| 6 | IBM 's announcement that it expects to slash its workforce this year by more than the 25,000 first planned will not affect its European operations , said a spokesman at the company 's Greenock plant . |
| 7 | This does not affect your statutory rights imposed by law , which will allow you to cancel your policy within 14 days . |
| 8 | ‘ This guarantee does not affect your statutory rights ’ : we 've all seen it written and , believe it or not , this statement must by law be on all guarantees , in order to explain and remind us that we also have rights against the supplier , as well as the issuer of the guarantee . |
| 9 | But if you do read the guarantee you will nearly always find a sentence that says this guarantee does not affect your statutory rights . |
| 10 | The most obvious sign of the Act 's influence is the presence of statements along the lines of " this guarantee does not affect your statutory rights " which are now added in close proximity to all consumer guarantees . |
| 11 | Here was a TV station which did not make its own programmes but , instead , contracted with independent producers — who did not operate from studios in the traditional sense . |
| 12 | But such theorising , however ‘ moral ’ , does not make us moral theorists . |
| 13 | I 'm a car owner who 's actually thinking of selling my car because I do n't use it much in Glasgow I do n't need to , I can actually walk to work and to come to somewhere like Edinburgh tonight I would much prefer to use the train , but I think we could have much more adequal plans to do with pedestrianizing city centres so that cars were banned from them altogether , they could bring back trams which are much less in terms of pollution , they might not make us big profits for the company 's but they are a very good way , we , a lot of European cities still use trams . |
| 14 | The undertaker was a coffin-maker and performer of funerals , whereas the funeral furnisher did not make his own coffins , but bought them in ready-made , dressed them and in addition performed the funeral . |
| 15 | They do not want their small stores destroyed and put out of business . |
| 16 | So should the law allow mercy killing — ‘ euthanasia ’ — to be available to those patients suffering incurable diseases who do not want their painful lives to be prolonged ? |
| 17 | I do not want my new friends to know I am connected to a boring man like you . |
| 18 | ‘ I do not want your middle names , you blister ! ’ the Gorgon bellowed . |
| 19 | This delay suggests that he had not intended his angry words to be taken literally , but at least one of his sons was clearly capable of making trouble , while claiming to be doing no more than carrying out his father 's wishes . |
| 20 | However the FBI-style agency will not conduct its own investigations or prosecutions , although many Whitehall insiders believe this could eventually happen . |
| 21 | It did not reassure his European allies as much as it did him that their continued existence , as sitting targets in any exchange of fire , depended on his skills as a bluffer . |
| 22 | The Department of Transport replied : ’ Turning to your letter to Mr. Freeman , I can not answer your detailed questions about the financing of the station , as we have yet to see a full , up-to-date , case on this from BR . ’ |
| 23 | You say all the parents I spoke to said they had tried not communicate their own fears to their children , but some felt unable to reassure them convincingly . |
| 24 | ‘ The DoT has not given us definite promises and has discouraged us from expecting too much . |
| 25 | Have I not given you sufficient proofs ? |
| 26 | The state , he claims , may sometimes fly in the face of the short-term economic interests of this class ; but it will not damage their political interests , and in this way political order is maintained . |
| 27 | The first is from outside concerning the State and the second from inside , in that the inhabitants can not adapt their own technologies fast or radically enough to maintain an increase in their incomes , nor can they find a solution elsewhere by migration and a secure source of income outside the region altogether . |
| 28 | The Danes said Yes to Maastricht only because other governments solemnly reassured them at Edinburgh last December that they need not consider themselves European citizens , or adopt a European money , or join a European army . |
| 29 | ‘ I would only consider using it in very particular circumstances , and for obvious reasons , I would not predict what those circumstances might be . ’ |
| 30 | The conservative Cornish , who had not forgotten their previous grievances , had a deep affection for the Latin Liturgy . |