Example sentences of "not [verb] [adv] with the " in BNC.
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| 1 | " Still , I 'd better not stay long with the sepoys attacking … |
| 2 | There has been an encouraging 23% increase in general manufacturing R&D expenditure , but yet again , as a percentage of profits , the UK 's 11.7% does not compare healthily with the global 95.4% . |
| 3 | Their chaos and squalor did not compare well with the pristine beauty of Jerba and , as a lone male out of season , I was prey to a horde of street hustlers . |
| 4 | Statistics like these do not compare well with the animal world where the male rattlesnake apparently lasts twenty-four hours before letting himself go . |
| 5 | They might not compare favourably with the discovery of penicillin or the invention of the wheel but , at least for me , they have made the year more palatable : |
| 6 | Incentive schemes do not compare favourably with the ’ piece-work ’ system most commonly used in the payment of labour-only sub contractors . |
| 7 | Their parents spent three years contemplating whether or not to go through with the separation , which was at first thought impossible because of the degree to which the girls were joined . |
| 8 | I did not like the prospect of playing in front of all these people who were all older than me and would see my violin playing from a critical view , but I had come this far , and it would be stupid not to go through with the audition . |
| 9 | Then the buyer lost money because of the Gulf crisis , and the price of land was falling so he chose not to go through with the contract . |
| 10 | But Teesside Crown Court was told both brothers changed their minds and tried to persuade McEvoy not to go through with the burglary . |
| 11 | However , she finally decided not to go ahead with the lawsuit . |
| 12 | Further , the defendant does not have the option of minimising the cost by deciding not to go ahead with the case ! |
| 13 | Would not it be legally wise and politically sensible not to go ahead with the compulsory order to bring in bulldozers until difficulties with the European Commission and local people have been resolved ? |
| 14 | Now supporters are trying to persuade the council not to go ahead with the plans . |
| 15 | Prosecutors agreed not to go ahead with the case , in return for Chieke pleading guilty to separate , less serious matters , for which he is now serving 12 years in prison . |
| 16 | The petition calls on the secretary of state to ask BS not to go ahead with the planned transport switch and to urge BR to promote the Red-mire branch for freight and passenger traffic . |
| 17 | ‘ I said you were crazy not to go along with the Corporation 's proposals , did n't I ? |
| 18 | Time to Declare by David Owen ( Penguin , £7.99 ) — Had he not fallen out with the Alliance , this passionate rebel male might well have been a key figure in this the general election . |
| 19 | American unionism has had the inestimable advantage of being born in a land whose social landscape was not cluttered up with the debris of a feudal age . |
| 20 | One can speculate that if Mezey had not come up with the idea of dispensing with two hospitals , and of the remaining four being given a quadrant of the region to serve each , the idea that it was an RHA rather than local management responsibility to deal with the issue , might never have stuck in the minds of senior regional officers . |
| 21 | Even then , major subscribers like the US and the USSR had not come up with the necessary money . |
| 22 | and what you 've got to be very careful , cos you ca n't offer them and not come up with the goods |
| 23 | Clearly Balliol had not caught up with the decimated decoy party . |
| 24 | ‘ New linguistics ’ , for us , included books on English by , , and ; but at that time we had not caught up with the new developments associated with . |
| 25 | And he denied Mr Major would lose all credibility by not pressing ahead with the treaty . |
| 26 | Comment : Indirect questions are used all the time by people who need their status boosting through being given buckets of approval , or who are looking for a reason for punishing other people should they not fall in with the anticipated scenario . |
| 27 | Salaries were not keeping up with the rate of inflation , which in the cities was estimated to be running at 20 per cent . |
| 28 | For I could tell that he was a little rusty , and I wondered if sometimes this affable and agreeable companion was worried because he knew that he was not keeping up with the strides that modern medicine was taking . |
| 29 | The first is anyone who is in any way mentally deficient , as such people can not cooperate sufficiently with the therapist to achieve the desired result . |
| 30 | The hospital management team for Claybury rejected the idea of the quadrant hospital concept , since this could not tie in with the principle of community care . |