Example sentences of "not [verb] the [noun] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With Hitchock in this mood it already looks a good signing and Porterfield said : ‘ We are not bringing the Russian to take Kevin 's place . |
| 2 | A survey of more than 1,000 employees found that 84 per cent do not think the need to look after a loved one will ever affect them . |
| 3 | I do not think the compulsion to write about foreign places can be very closely compared to a painter 's sensuous delight in new light , new forms , new colours , Monet seeing the Cap d'Antibes in blue and rose , Turner seeing the bright watery Venetian light in Venice , Gauguin in Tahiti . |
| 4 | It must also be borne in mind that article 13 does not oblige the court to decline to order the return of the child even if grave risk of an intolerable situation is established . |
| 5 | " Englishing " sets store by faithfulness to the content and general structure of the poem ; does not oblige the translator to reproduce the prosody of the original , but does require the choice of something considered to be a metrical equivalent ; allows the translator some licence in supplying figures , metaphors , etc. , in compensation for those too deeply rooted for transplantation from the original language ; relates the translation to current notions of poetic language and form ( as , for example , Dr Johnson chose to put Horace into rhymed couplets , but C.S. Calverley , a contemporary of Tennyson , considered the " In Memoriam " stanza the most effective equivalent ) ; offers , consequently , something to be considered both as a poem from the original and as an original poem ; and attempts , in the widest sense , to place the adopted poem in the nurturing environment of the adoptive culture . |
| 6 | All aquatic plants enjoy full uninterrupted sunlight and , although some will tolerate shade , these are usually the more sombre and less sophisticated subjects which the average gardener in the confines of a small artificial pool can not spare the room to grow anyway . |
| 7 | There are two dangers to be avoided , if you can avoid them , in the choice of chambers : reading with someone who is too busy , who can not spare the time to give you instruction , except possibly over a snack lunch , and reading with someone who has not enough work to give you proper experience . |
| 8 | As the traders often can not spare the time to come to the staff restaurant , they can place their breakfast and lunch orders in advance and CCG staff serve them at their desks . |
| 9 | The nominated approver must use this routine before being allowed to grant approval to a package but need not prepare the listings to deny approval . |
| 10 | If , on the other hand , I abandon my claim to have known yesterday , I can not make the claim to know today . |
| 11 | If the Home Secretary does not want the Bill to do serious damage to internal discipline in prisons , resulting in matters that should be dealt with by internal disciplinary procedures going to court and taking up the time of the criminal justice system — making it far more difficult for prison governors to run their prisons — he had better look again at that clause and amend it . |
| 12 | ‘ We do not want the gods to regard our deed as evil . ’ |
| 13 | Realism was not a primary concern , but I did not want the painting to look too flat . |
| 14 | If he was unfaithful , despite soaring divorce figures and growing evidence that most petitions are brought by women , the majority would not want the affair to wreck their marriage . |
| 15 | He did not , but she did not know whether he was silent about the assault on her because it would upset Barbara Coleman to hear of it , or because he did not want the Josephs to know . |
| 16 | He did not want the girls to know that Jeopardy interested him . |
| 17 | Like the other English mystics , Hilton does not want the contemplative to agonise and strain unduly . |
| 18 | What it did not want the public to know was that Blake had been authorised to do shady deals with Russian intelligence , including the betrayal of MI6 agents in East Germany , and the whole plan had backfired because he was a spy already . |
| 19 | We do not want the child to rely on guidance for all instructions indiscriminately . |
| 20 | She did not want the relationship to start up again . |
| 21 | The other person does not want the relationship to end , although this can be the outcome , but perhaps feels subjected to unreasonable demands or expectations , or is struggling with guilt or frustration , or feels neglected and unwanted . |
| 22 | But I remembered how cruel children can be to small animals , and I did not want the boy to take his revenge on me . |
| 23 | We did not want the ANL to claim credit for the march by swamping it with its placards ( as it has done in the past ) when it played no part in the march 's organisation . |
| 24 | Maj Abraham said the villagers did not want the convoy to leave because ‘ we offer them a chance of life . |
| 25 | The client did not want the teddy to have glass eyes . |
| 26 | Israel did not want the refugees to return because it desperately needed their land and villages to absorb Jewish immigrants . |
| 27 | It said that it did not want the Government to channel funds in the direction of strategically selected industries . |
| 28 | I did not want the man to see me until I had looked closely at him . |
| 29 | He does not want the army to feel that it is the subject of a witch-hunt . |
| 30 | For instance , if the parties do not want the expert to consider any evidence other than that contained in their submissions , and do not want him to make his own independent investigations , they could stipulate to that effect in the expert clause . |