Example sentences of "not [vb infin] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had other questions but Stan chose not to be sidetracked from the serious business of telling Oliver he could not stay on the premises after all . |
| 2 | Joseph Fraunhofer , an optical-glass maker of Munich , had mapped over five hundred dark lines in the solar spectrum by the early 1820s , and had shown that they did not arise in the prisms used to produce the spectra . |
| 3 | These do not exist in the hops and must be converted from precursor a acids which are present by an extended period of boiling . |
| 4 | John CW Symon ( Points of View , today ) writes : ‘ It would seem obvious that young hooligans do not think of the consequences of their actions … quite likely they do not think of what they are doing as ‘ crime ’ at all … |
| 5 | The children ; one dared not think of the children . |
| 6 | Pilots are most vulnerable to all of these problems when they are out of practice or when they become blasé and do not think about the procedures regularly . |
| 7 | This success before 1841 does not compare with the periods following 1846 and 1855 , mainly because of the differences in the international scene after that time . " |
| 8 | In Al Ain I could not eat in the men 's majlis . |
| 9 | The management usually have a ruling that receptionists do not socialise with the guests on a personal basis ; therefore staff should not make dates with guests or visit their rooms even if invited to do so . |
| 10 | We came here to Siena , where I have been before , though to a different house , to visit my husband who accompanied the Brownings last month , the doctor having ordered Mrs Browning to be taken out of this city or he would not answer for the consequences . |
| 11 | ‘ If you persist in clinging to me in that limpet-like way , Caroline , I will not answer for the consequences … ’ |
| 12 | We did not rule on the applications at the time , as they were opposed by Mr. Munby , for the foster mother , but he agreed that we should look at the evidence de bene esse and make our ruling as part of our judgment . |
| 13 | I can not comment on the devices available in other languages , but in Arabic , for instance , the particle qad may be used with the past tense of the verb to convey emphasis . |
| 14 | The senator 's Washington office said he would not comment on the claims . |
| 15 | I can not comment on the details , and I certainly can not promise a statement next week . |
| 16 | British Coal would not comment on the protests by Lancashire Women Against Pit Closures . |
| 17 | He did not comment upon the subjects the fathers were to discuss . |
| 18 | The rare books on this subject which make it to press do not remain in the shops . |
| 19 | The families can not remain within the confines of the white world without serious psychological damage to the black child : |
| 20 | Rates do not relate to the costs of providing services to different residents . |
| 21 | Because there are many types of surgery the examples used may not relate to the patients you encounter on your first surgical ward . |
| 22 | I do not leer at the advertisements along the underground escalators . |
| 23 | She did not consult with the children 's family doctors , or their class teachers at school . |
| 24 | The form used was complicated but could not compensate for the deficiencies of information about a population that was still highly mobile and still undergoing the stresses of war . |
| 25 | And some of the painful medicine required — like plant closures and unemployment — will not appeal to the workers either . |
| 26 | The National Olympic Council indicated that they do not object to the tours by New Zealand and Australia and neither would they do anything to prevent the Springboks from touring France and England later in the year . |
| 27 | The judge in determining those issues held , inter alia , that under the terms of the mortgage deeds and other securities the defendants were entitled to a full indemnity against their costs , charges and expenses and the plaintiffs could not object to the items in the accounts on the ground that they were unreasonable except where the items referred to costs in the litigation subject to an order for taxation . |
| 28 | Most local authorities do not recruit until the months immediately before the vacancy arises although some authorities are increasingly seeing the advantage of recruiting one to two years in advance . |
| 29 | In the wild , even ripe pods do not fall off the trees ; they are opened in situ by squirrels or monkeys which suck the sweet pulp off the seeds . |
| 30 | The minor planning applications do not fall into the Associations remit although Ruth Wilson keeps an eye on all that is going on . |