Example sentences of "not [vb infin] in [prep] [art] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The Committee took the view that lawyers are unapproachable because of the inaccessibility of premises and their unwelcoming nature , because the methods of work do not tie in with the needs of clients , and because of a lack of response to the needs of linguistic minorities . |
| 4 | Taxi boss Dave Blyth said Derek did not give in without a fight . |
| 5 | Whatever may have been threatened or done , do not give in to the bully and do not keep whatever has happened to yourself . |
| 6 | He drew her to him , so that her head was near his waist , in a stiff sort of way because she did not give in to the embrace . |
| 7 | Coun Arthur Taylor said there was no planning opposition so they should not give in to the vandals by refusing the application . |
| 8 | Why not keep in with the people who really run racing , the villains ? |
| 9 | Almost certainly the child will think of " heaven " as a funny idea which people believe in for some nonsensical reason which does not fit in with a scientific way of looking at life . |
| 10 | In many cases this has resulted in the introduction of faked features and the associated destruction of existing features which , though often of architectural and historic interest in their own right , do not fit in with the designer 's concept of the pub 's ideal form . |
| 11 | Where such arguments did not fit in with the overarching themes of race , violence and disorder , and social deprivation they were either sidelined or pushed into the sub-clauses of official reports . |
| 12 | A Muslim from a poor family in Hyderabad , he does not fit in with the Bombay set . |
| 13 | Fill it in yourself ; your manager , or your union health and safety representative will help you if the layout does not fit in with the incident you want to report . |
| 14 | CIBS ’ , its just the little matter of hairy legs that just might not fit in with the ra-ra skirts … ) |
| 15 | Sometimes this is desirable because the expression seems awkward or inadequate ; sometimes it signals that the expression does not fit in with the rest of the style ( e.g. because of its register ) . |
| 16 | When Mr Bernard Corker , who owns the business , applied for retrospective planning permission the council refused on the grounds that it was too noisy , conflicted with proposed parking standards and did not fit in with the character of the residential area . |
| 17 | This constant sweeping under the carpet of all information which does not fit in with the Tory vision of a new North does no-one in this region any favours . |
| 18 | A Scottish Office spokesman said changes have taken place in the health service since 1989 and the previous plan did not fit in with the present set-up of purchasers and providers . |
| 19 | Others who are familiar with intimate details of the case , such as Peter Hill , producer of two BBC Rough Justice programmes on the case in the mid-Eighties , believe Beattie is the victim of suppressed forensic reports which did not fit in with the police view , particularly that of the man leading the investigation , Chief Supt William Muncie . |
| 20 | ‘ Why not join in with the others , if you want to learn ? ’ |
| 21 | I very much regret that both the Syrians and the Lebanese stayed away from the multilaterals and that , although present , the Palestinians did not join in in a positive way . |
| 22 | Dear Harsnet , he wrote , the distance between London and Brighton is not very great , and you have even been seen in the vicinity of Brighton , so why not call in on an old friend ? |
| 23 | Even when I arrived back at Thornfield , I did not go in for a while . |
| 24 | While most , for example narcissi and scillas , should be planted as soon as they are bought , tulips should not go in to the garden until November . |
| 25 | I could not go in through the house because of the servants . |
| 26 | The theme of the fourth sentence , Some creators , relates to Rimbaud only indirectly on the basis that poets are some sort of creators , but it does not link in with the theme or rheme of the previous sentence . |
| 27 | At the present pace of progress in Brussels , similar changes throughout the EC may not come in for a dozen years or more , and British farmers fear that they will lose business while waiting for European competitors to catch up . |
| 28 | Although tankers did not come in for the attention they received in the 1980s , on 25 January Platt 's carried an account of an attack on an Iraqi tanker by US aircraft . |
| 29 | It is quite normal for the male to have to stay outside and drive his milt in with beats of his tail , because he can not get in through the reduced entrance . |
| 30 | The hold of the state and party ‘ did not extend in to every family ’ and some sections of society ‘ maintained a certain autonomy ’ . |