Example sentences of "not [verb] with [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is certain that bees are very responsive to different tones of the human voice , and this is probably the reason for the country belief that bees are peace-loving beings and will not stay with a quarrelsome family . |
| 2 | Having three or more moles greater than five millimetres in diameter ( ones you can not cover with the blunt end of a pencil ) ; |
| 3 | After the last exchange of prisoners in mid-September , Iran had refused to release an estimated 17,000 Iraqi prisoners , claiming that Iraq still held 20,000 Iranians not registered with the International Committee of the Red Cross ( ICRC ) . |
| 4 | As an exercise for the legs , Whernside excels but in immediate interest can not compare with the neighbouring Ingleborough and Penyghent . |
| 5 | On the basis of this strategy , the analysts produced a user requirement for the index system ; however , this did not compare with the idealised IPS that was originally anticipated as a result of the two extensive studies . |
| 6 | The Pharisees and Scribes would not eat with the ordinary people as they considered them to be irreligious . |
| 7 | It is sad that film sound-tracks are not treated with the same care that goes into the pictures . |
| 8 | The general fast was not regarded with the same favour everywhere ; in London it was dubbed ‘ General Farce ’ by the National Union of the Working Classes , which organised a demonstration . |
| 9 | Though so it serve our purpose , I would not quarrel with a little license . ’ |
| 10 | To say that Miranda on the island and Rosalind in the forest ‘ correspond to the soul of the ducal crown which can not remain with the illegal usurper , but must live in exile with the rightful ruler ’ uses queer and difficult language without helping matters one jot . |
| 11 | The Quai d'Orsay ( the French foreign ministry ) said that it did not consult with the French secret service before accepting the credentials of East European diplomats , and apparently had no intention of instituting such an undiplomatic practice . |
| 12 | If , however , no undertakings can be negotiated and the MMC investigates the merger and finds that it operates or may be expected to operate against the public interest , the Secretary of State has power to order the parties not to proceed with a proposed merger or to order divestment by the purchasing company if the merger has been completed . |
| 13 | The City Take-over Panel , which has to give its blessing to the ending of the contract , could take a dim view of the decision not to proceed with a formal bid . |
| 14 | If the Shareholders decide not to proceed with the proposed sale for any reason , the fees of KPMG and [ name ] will be calculated according to time spent and will not exceed £ [ x ] in the case of KPMG and £ [ y ] in the case of [ lawyer ] and all such fees will be payable by the Company . |
| 15 | The RC15K row counter is not included with the electronic KnitRadar either and has to be bought separately . |
| 16 | Final selection of the plates to be included in the test was determined by a number of criteria : the percentage of subjects getting an item correct had to increase with the age of the children ; the distractors at each age should attract responses , but not correlate with the total score ; and the final items needed to be evenly spread across the ability range . |
| 17 | The rank shown for Hopkins appears to be sergeant , but it is not understood why he is not grouped with the other three , Lochead , Mullen and Nicholl . |
| 18 | IT SEEMS that Pakistan cricket simply can not win with the English media . |
| 19 | But the question is not pursued with the same tenacity and intensity as when a child dies in tragic circumstances . |
| 20 | Elite theorists argue more generally than pluralists that where elites can not act with a considerable degree of autonomy in deeply divided societies , centrifugal tendencies are much more likely than centripetal ones ( Nordlinger , 1972 ) . |
| 21 | ‘ If you look at past efforts to launch soccer here in the States it has not met with a great deal of viewing support , ’ said Bill Sherman , a vice president with the McCann Ericson advertising agency . |
| 22 | But those changes were not met with the politicized and combative attitudes of the past . |
| 23 | French Prime Minister Michel Rocard conceded that the initiative had " not met with the least response from the Iraqi side " . |
| 24 | The parents did not have a policy of stressing racial pride or identity and these children did not identify with the black community . |
| 25 | Many families do not identify with the global ethnic terms sometimes used . |
| 26 | In brief , it would seem that Anselm , like many reformers , had not reckoned with the solid weight of inertia on most matters , and positive dissent on others . |
| 27 | ‘ We need money to eradicate this scourge from our society so that our children and our grandchildren are not presented with the awful statistics we are presented with today . ’ |
| 28 | It would be odd if they did , since feminists , like philosophers , do not speak with a single voice . |
| 29 | But at the moment , I can not speak with the same feeling of achievement about caring for er , elderly , the elderly relative , whereas I think I can say with conviction we 've done quite a lot for those with small children . |
| 30 | General seismic and other expenditures not connected with a specific exploration licence are written off to the profit and loss account immediately . |