Example sentences of "not [verb] [pron] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ May we not lend you a mount , Miss Abbott ? ’ |
| 2 | They should not think her a woman who had let herself go . |
| 3 | Making passing references to the poor , the black and to women does not make one a radical or even a liberal . |
| 4 | But that support , which the Nobel committee acknowledges , does not make her a guerrilla . |
| 5 | But Mrs Gandhi never forgave Khan 's opposition to her scrapping the privy purses , and to his regret she did not make him a minister . |
| 6 | That did not make him a criminal under section 14 . |
| 7 | It is often said that unfettered insider dealing does not hurt shareholders ; that insiders ' profits are not outsiders ' losses , but rather evidence of a more efficient allocation of resources ; Just because an investor does not make as much money on the sale of his shares as he would otherwise have done , does not make him a victim in the true sense , as nothing has been stolen from him . |
| 8 | ( I may believe Jesus ' teaching to have been exemplary , or that he was a man singularly in tune with God ; but this , as I would argue , does not make me a Christian . ) |
| 9 | But again this does not make me a Christian . |
| 10 | ( This is obviously correct ; one does not make something a business secret by simply describing it as such . |
| 11 | Student union leaders at both Liverpool and Liverpool John Moores Universities stressed that students should not make themselves a target by going out alone . |
| 12 | ‘ These will not make you a courtier , Roger , but at least you wo n't be a beggar ! ’ |
| 13 | You may enjoy talking but this does not make you a wizard at verbal presentations . |
| 14 | This may sound impossible , but if there is a distinct possibility that this will eventually be needed , why not make it a goal to begin establishing such a fund now ? |
| 15 | The condition may be upheld if the plaintiff had previously disclosed his reports or offered to disclose them in exchange for the defendant 's reports ( Clarke v Martlew [ 1973 ] QB 58 ) but even that is in doubt since Megarity v DJ Ryan & Sons Ltd [ 1980 ] 2 All ER 832 in which it was said that the plaintiff can not make it a condition precedent to granting a medical examination that the defendant must produce the ensuing report , since to do so would pre-empt the court 's power to give directions as to expert evidence . |
| 16 | Merely exhibiting a sample during the negotiations will not make it a sale by sample unless the parties agree that it is a sale by sample . |
| 17 | Although he was wary of commenting on a specific meeting , Mr Hyde said the company ‘ would not make it a matter of policy to say we have been in contact or received authorisation , if that had n't been the case ’ . |
| 18 | A " customer " is a person with or for whom a firm carries on , or merely intends to carry on , " regulated business " or other business carried on in connection with that regulated business ; the reference to " other business " does not make someone a customer if he would not otherwise be but seems merely to extend the scope of the activities covered by the COB Rules . |
| 19 | Theseus would still be blundering around in the labyrinth where he went to slay the Minotaur , if Ariadne had not given him a ball of thread so that he could retrace his steps when the deed was done . |
| 20 | Now I 've not given you a lot of chance to speak because you said you do n't want to go and to , but I want |
| 21 | If your lecturer has not given you a book list , get one of your larger colleagues to persuade him to do so . |
| 22 | Such awareness does not govern everything a Home Secretary does or says in public , but it will never be far from his thoughts . |
| 23 | Since dancing can not earn them a living , Chela and Urna are into self-help , and it is as humiliating in personal terms as any perceived national , cultural subservience to the US . |
| 24 | Since dancing can not earn them a living , Chela and Urna are into self-help , and it is as humiliating in personal terms as any perceived national , cultural subservience to the US . |
| 25 | Since dancing can not earn them a living , Chela and Urna are into self-help , and it is as humiliating in personal terms as any perceived national , cultural subservience to the US . |
| 26 | In verse and prose he was hell-bent on facing himself when things were out of joint ; the scalpel-probe is counterbalanced by the unlearned , incurious manner in which he found deepest ease and joy out of doors — a way of healing he had discovered early in life , although he did not consider himself a naturalist . |
| 27 | Other women in the narrative may not be friends , but are always constructed as rivals for male attention : ‘ She does not consider herself a beauty and this element is used to play off against the beauty of the other woman ( women ) … . ’ |
| 28 | We did lose four equity partners along the way and had to borrow £300,000 to repay their capital accounts , but , with a turnover of around £2m , we did not consider it a problem . ’ |
| 29 | Wilkinson said yesterday : ‘ I can not guarantee anyone a place here . |
| 30 | He was our college barber ; and at a time when most of us were penniless he cut hair for a shilling ( = 5p , to those who do not know what a shilling was ) . |