Example sentences of "not [vb infin] [pers pn] in [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | compensation package for V A T for pensioners will not compensate them in full as was promised , and in view of the fact that we 've had extremely cold weather for the last week . |
2 | I could not tell her — I could not hurt her in this way . |
3 | For example , a social worker felt that clients could speak more openly to him because they knew he could not recognise them in other contexts , and a counsellor reported that her clients would sometimes say that they could speak more openly knowing that she could not see them . |
4 | Mention the most important points about the questionnaire you would use , but do not show it in full . |
5 | If they can not do it in that time they never will . |
6 | Freud believed that at the root of all neuroses lay repressed sexual desires , but even if one does not follow him in this , it would be hard to resist the conclusion that this was true of some of his patients . |
7 | Berger gives a good analysis of this latter process , even though he does not understand it in this way . |
8 | I moved round to the other windows , but I could not see her in any of the rooms . |
9 | She could not see him in any such clear moralistic light . |
10 | And you , A types can not see it in any other way . |
11 | As for your point that Mr O'Farrell does not see you in that light , that is surely up to you ? ’ |
12 | They could not use it in real life … |
13 | But I can not denounce them in other people 's words . |
14 | She started to count how many people , who might not confess it in simple language , were relieved MacQuillan had gone . |
15 | It appears to be that an agency which has an explicit power or duty to achieve a certain end , ( e.g. good race relations ) , can not exercise it in such a way as to disadvantage a person , unless that person has committed an independent breach of the common law or statute . |
16 | Mr Junejo was a conservative Muslim whose wife , following strict Islamic traditions , did not join him in public appearances . |
17 | The post-war trend in evening papers , then , was a clear-cut elimination of towns with more than one locally based paper ; the establishment of papers in perhaps 20 towns that did not have them in 1945 ; and the survival of all the existing papers that faced no home town competition as early as 1945 . |
18 | This is quite useful as it means there is a real point to damaging the Steam Tank even if you can not destroy it in one go . |
19 | Whereas Charles Dance did not resemble him in any way . |
20 | The Triumph company can continue marketing its flagship 125 bhp model in Britain but can not sell it in other EC countries . |
21 | Mr. J. praised the nurses who had looked after his mother , and did not blame them in any way for her death . |
22 | An ‘ only ’ dream has little effect on us ; we may remember it in the morning because it was funny or for some other reason , but it does not disturb us in any way ; most often , we recollect it only in the moments after waking and have forgotten it by the time we get out of bed . |
23 | They can not tell us in any detail what kinds of investigations might be prompted by such conceptions , or how they may be carried out , what concepts and theories are relevant , and so on . |
24 | I do not mean it in any ideological sense or historical sense or to be provocative but it 's very , it 's with very deep feelings that I speak to you today because you may not understand it but for me , after thirty three years in exile I was able to return to South Africa in nineteen ninety one and one of the first activities to which I was invited was the annual meeting of Cosatu And so when we say comrades in that sense , and thank you as comrades we mean it as comrades in arms . |
25 | I can not leave her in this bastille . |
26 | I know they do not hold me in high regard . |
27 | The completion of the questionnaire does not commit you in any way , but the information you provide will be used in the future planning of sport and recreation facilities . |
28 | This will not commit you in any way but you may find that your interest is aroused . |
29 | Some elite theorists believe that the masses have repressed interests even if they do not express them in observable forums . |
30 | So widely dispersed was industrial activity that there can have been few parts of the country that did not support it in one form or another . |