Example sentences of "not [verb] with a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So long as people continued to live in their old houses , surrounded by their old friends and neighbours , and had not broken with a routine of life which perhaps dated back generations , then the re-moulding of mentalities was going to be a frustratingly slow process , particularly for an engineer of human souls who was no longer young . |
| 2 | They are not examined with a view to appraisal which might require adjustments to concepts of syllabus design to accommodate them . |
| 3 | But when the bridal pair returned home to Grantham , Lincs , from their Kenya honeymoon , they discovered that Angela 's parents had not parted with a penny . |
| 4 | The Grea it was the Greater York authorities ma'am who who as I understand determined not to proceed with a location within the third alteration , and that was endorsed by the County Council when they first considered the draft plan . |
| 5 | It should also be stressed that the decision whether or not to proceed with a deal at any stage rests with yourselves . |
| 6 | Banc One has a rule that it will not merge with an institution that is larger than one-third its own size . |
| 7 | Rockfall has been responsible for many of the accidents in the range this year , despite the predictable statement from the Chamonix Guides that most were due to incompetence — an inevitable trait of those not climbing with a guide ! |
| 8 | There are cases , however , in which the trustee is not addressed with a request , or in which no words purporting to constitute a trust are used at all . |
| 9 | This column is genuinely not written with a sense of criticism , but I believe it does demonstrate one of the problems that is at the very heart of British tennis — lack of a sense of vision , a sense of belief and a passionate desire to achieve at the very highest echelons of the world game and not to be content to make a comfortable living in a relatively small pond . |
| 10 | It needs a heart of stone not to sympathise with a figure in this predicament — a figure on whom it may rest finally to decide whether South Africa lives in peace or at war . |
| 11 | Where these problems are absent there appears to be little that a reasonably fit older person can not do with an efficiency equivalent to a high proportion of younger workers ( see Stones and Kozma , 1985 for a good survey of research findings in this field ) : ‘ It is clear that as a piece of anatomical and physiological machinery , the human organism becomes progressively impaired from the late twenties onwards . |
| 12 | In the Commons , Sir Thomas Clarges moved that " a standing Army is destructive to the Country " , whilst his fellow Tory , Edward Seymour , declared that " the safety of the Kingdom doth not consist with a standing force " , adding ( in a way which anticipated Tory arguments used after 1689 ) that " all the profit and security of this Nation is in our Ships , and had there been the least ship in the Channel " , Monmouth could never have landed . |
| 13 | Many , indeed the majority , of the page printers sold are not equipped with a PDL ; Hewlett Packard 's LaserJet , the biggest selling device in the market , does not support one other than as an optional extra . |
| 14 | If the distributor 's buyer opens them up and finds them not to comply with a condition in his contract he may reject them . |
| 15 | This was not done in the 1985 Act — with the result that it would be open to the Government not to comply with an order if it takes the view that the Tribunal 's decision clearly exceeds its powers under the statute . |
| 16 | He assumes that his family is not only as old as the hills , but rather more structural , and that nature , although on the whole a good idea — ‘ a little low , perhaps , when not enclosed with a park-fence ’ — is none the less ‘ dependent for its execution on your great county families ’ . |
| 17 | The first is of no value , and the second I would not touch with a barge pole . |
| 18 | Unlike the two preceding chapters we do not begin with a discussion of the labour law status of the workers concerned . |
| 19 | In short , they do not begin with a question and seek an answer ; they rather start with an answer and devise a corresponding question . |
| 20 | But if you are asked the history of the action of assumpsit , do not begin with a paragraph on the medieval precursors of assumpsit -debt , detinue and account . |
| 21 | Viewing of this train — for those people whose names did not begin with a W — was from the quadrangle , and the startled crowd of spotters wondered what on earth had happened . |
| 22 | This paradigm does not work with a radio talk in the morning . |
| 23 | " Nobility is not measured with a rule , " said Candida , quoting the dictum Leonora often used to defend her own small stature . |
| 24 | AT last , some soccer even those not blessed with a satellite dish can watch . |
| 25 | They can not compete with a handful of rice and 8d per day . |
| 26 | The larvae are not born with a paddle , which appears 2–3 weeks after hatching . |
| 27 | When these hatch , the maggots find that they are not provided with a meal of rotting meat but only an inedible petal . |
| 28 | The Crown Prosecution Service announced at Tower Bridge Magistrates ' Court that it was not continuing with a case against John Graham , 53 , a lift engineer . |
| 29 | We have not dealt with a report from the Advisory Centre for Education saying that the number of complaints from parents who had not got their first choice of school had doubled . |
| 30 | I do not disagree with a word of it . |