Example sentences of "not [verb] with the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having three or more moles greater than five millimetres in diameter ( ones you can not cover with the blunt end of a pencil ) ; |
| 2 | 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 ) . |
| 3 | As an exercise for the legs , Whernside excels but in immediate interest can not compare with the neighbouring Ingleborough and Penyghent . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The Pharisees and Scribes would not eat with the ordinary people as they considered them to be irreligious . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The RC15K row counter is not included with the electronic KnitRadar either and has to be bought separately . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | IT SEEMS that Pakistan cricket simply can not win with the English media . |
| 13 | But those changes were not met with the politicized and combative attitudes of the past . |
| 14 | The parents did not have a policy of stressing racial pride or identity and these children did not identify with the black community . |
| 15 | Many families do not identify with the global ethnic terms sometimes used . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 18 | They also knew they were not connected with the humanitarian assistance programme ( NHAO ) that was eventually run for the contras by the State Department , since those aircraft were ‘ beautiful brand-new L-100s , the most beautifully painted things ’ . |
| 19 | The persistence of such complaints , which from time to time were endorsed by local persons not connected with the woollen trade , suggests that these " oppressions " were widespread and long-lasting . |
| 20 | The Labour Research Department — not connected with the Labour Party — has been investigating what happens to ministers when they lose office . |
| 21 | They resolved that , if the money was now obtainable , it should be applied to assist the funds of the journal designated at that time the Veterinary Record ( not connected with the present journal of that name ) which was edited by professors of the College . |
| 22 | Since control means some infringement of individual liberty , great care has to be taken to ensure that the control is not abused , and also that it does not clash with the other needs for care and treatment . |
| 23 | The brown carpet was cigarette-burned and none too clean , but at least it did not clash with the shabby beige of the walls . |
| 24 | Do you realise you can not rationalise with the irrational ! ’ |
| 25 | What is the point of having the ultra-powerful weapon if it is not armed with the correct ammunition ? |
| 26 | It is like using an elephant gun to fire air-rifle pellets ; inappropriate , inaccurate and completely point of having an ultra-powerful weapon if it is not armed with the correct ammunition ; it is like using an elephant gun to fire air-rifle pellets ; inappropriate , inaccurate and completely unbalanced . |
| 27 | Babies were not christened , marriages were not properly celebrated , the dead were not buried with the full rites of the Church . |
| 28 | If men who take advantage of their own daughters are simply choosing the object of least resistance , then we dare not tamper with the ancient , world-wide , multi-cultural taboo against such conduct . |
| 29 | As a one-way passage the model clearly does not square with the repeated movements between verse and prose that we find in Shakespeare . |
| 30 | Hilton 's mystical theology is not conveyed with the passionate poetry that characterises Rolle 's writing , it is not attended by the rigours of the Cloud-author 's sense of that transcendent God who can not be known in any recognisable sense of the word , the visionary experience of Julian of Norwich , or the endearingly unbalanced enthusiasm of Margery Kempe . |