Example sentences of "do not [vb infin] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is not to suggest that life in a large mental handicap hospital is a fulfilling experience ; on the contrary , it has already been established that such places should not ideally exist and do not represent a suitable home for mentally handicapped people . |
| 2 | So when I said to Bob this morning was it Bob , I said do n't I do n't have a magic wand that 's gon na get rid of them but what I hope I 'm gon na give you over these two days is a system whereby you can use that and can support you so you 're able to effectively present despite having the nerves and be able to put over your point of view effectively , yeah ? |
| 3 | There was some nervousness that perhaps modular courses did not deliver a satisfactory educational experience from the viewpoint of the student . |
| 4 | In reality , from the study of the videotapes made of the language performance of most of the 150 people who took part , the language level actually being achieved did not bear a great similarity to the BSL as used by deaf people . |
| 5 | However , a report prepared over five years by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute ( SIPRI ) , released in August , concluded that the USA did not bear a disproportionate share of the NATO burden . |
| 6 | Although the House of Lords did not give a concluded opinion , the inclination of the judgments was that the court could not use the test to limit a plaintiff to a proportion of his losses . |
| 7 | Although he did not give a new date for the elections , Traore stressed that the postponement would not affect the timetable for the transition period which had been extended in December [ see p. 38563 ] . |
| 8 | The film is the story of decadent British aristocrats who did not give a damn for anything but their own pleasure . |
| 9 | During his opening speech , I asked the Secretary of State a question to which he did not give a full or satisfactory answer — why had not the Government sought to introduce those measures before they privatised monopolies , rather than wait until the customers had suffered the consequences of several years of high prices and not necessarily improved services ? |
| 10 | The Minister did not give a clear response to the question from my Hon. Friend the Member for Dundee , East . |
| 11 | It said that PW 's independence was compromised by BCCI loans to partnerships in Panama and Barbados , and that from 1987 onwards the firm had ‘ ample reason ’ to believe that BCCI 's accounts did not give a true and fair view of its financial situation . |
| 12 | The reader should realize that Einstein did not give a rigorous mathematical proof of GR and neither has anyone else . |
| 13 | Two-thirds of part-time workers surveyed in 1990 did not want a full-time job ( Dept. of Employment 1991 ) . |
| 14 | City sources indicated they did not want a wide-ranging Budget that would tackle much-needed reforms such as mortgage tax relief and that it would be better for the Chancellor to do as little as possible . |
| 15 | Lord John Russell , who at that time was not a member of Palmerston 's Government , said that he had heard that Panmure did not want a new building for the War Department , and he hoped that : |
| 16 | The SEA was a compromise between those countries such as France and Germany who wanted a new Treaty on European Union , and the UK and Denmark who did not want a new Treaty , but simply the implementation of the White Paper in order to create an SEM . |
| 17 | I did not want a post-modernist confusion . |
| 18 | She did not want a prolonged discussion , she wanted only that he should go away . |
| 19 | Winnie did not want a married couple , and such a minute flat would not be suitable for people with babies or pets . |
| 20 | She did not want a small army camping indefinitely among her flowerbeds and rose bushes . |
| 21 | In 1949 Beryl found that she was pregnant again , but did not want a second child . |
| 22 | Maybe he did not want a second game on their pitch . ’ |
| 23 | More than four out of ten men gave this as their reason for taking temporary work and only 16 per cent claimed they did not want a permanent job . |
| 24 | Of those temporary workers who did not want a permanent job , nearly half ( 47 per cent ) had been economically inactive one year previously , and less than two per cent had been unemployed . |
| 25 | Women ( particularly married women ) , those with part-time and those with seasonal , temporary or casual jobs , are more likely to have taken a temporary job because they did not want a permanent job and thus can be thought of as " voluntary " temporary workers . |
| 26 | Rather more than a quarter did not want a permanent job . |
| 27 | There were substantial differences between men and women , with four in ten of the former giving this as their principal reason and only 16 per cent claiming they did not want a permanent job . |
| 28 | For married women the tendency was even more pronounced , as it also was for part-time temporary workers ( 43 per cent did not want a permanent job against 8 per cent of full- timers ) and for those with seasonal , temporary or casual as opposed to fixed-term contract jobs ( 36 per cent against 10 per cent ) . |
| 29 | He did not want a classical house , but something cosy and as English as could be . |
| 30 | It was more likely that fitzAlan did not want a distraught woman on his hands . |