Example sentences of "not [adj] [verb] them [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To recognise where a reform is urgently required and must be effected at any cost , or where it may be postponed , or where it may be counted on to effect itself without outside influence , and , perhaps most important of all , to be able to recognise the fact that certain reforms would be beneficial could they be effected but that it is not possible to effect them at all ; to be able to arrive at a right decision on such points as these is what is chiefly required of a Resident . |
| 2 | They eventually got the message after about 30 minutes that we were not prepared to bribe them with anything and let us through to the Romanian side . |
| 3 | ‘ Nurses everywhere are working under intense and growing pressure and today 's announcement will be a heavy blow since it says clearly that the Government does not value their efforts and is not prepared to treat them with fairness or justice . ’ |
| 4 | The shadow Leader of the House can not ask me to hear a point of order from the Front Bench when I am not prepared to hear them from those on the Back Benches . |
| 5 | ‘ I see that whatever they were you 're not prepared to share them with anyone . ’ |
| 6 | It was not easy to relate them to any obvious scheme . |
| 7 | It is not easy to approach them in a situation like that , without being angry . |
| 8 | The lawyers turned to their law books to find a precedent , but there was not much to help them except perhaps Ramsey v Hartley ( 1977 ) 2 All ER 673 , described in The Journal of Business Law as ‘ an odd case ’ ( January 1978 at page 77 ) . |
| 9 | Erm simple as that if I give you a list of telephone numbers you 're not likely to remember them for long , you might be able |
| 10 | He did not enumerate them , but it is not hard to reconstruct them from the records of over half a century of Masai administration . |
| 11 | It is perhaps not inappropriate to compare them to the astronauts in our own day : they had broken into an uncharted region , blazed a new trail to God and to the depths of the self and had returned to earth like the heroes of antiquity , bringing news of a hitherto unimaginable realm which gave an entirely new perspective on the human condition . |
| 12 | As the comments run into hundreds of pages in total , it was not feasible to append them as a single annex to this report . |
| 13 | All languages have systems but they do not all use them for the same purposes ; what is an essential distinction in one language may be quite disregarded in another . |
| 14 | Five people who 've been nominated for awards are not available to receive them from her Royal Highness . |
| 15 | Apart from the last purpose set out in condition ( c ) he is not entitled to make them for any other purpose . |
| 16 | And having got under them , he ca n't half tear them to pieces . |