Example sentences of "not [vb infin] people [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | yes , but is the insurance not , does it not cover people in the premises outside office time . |
2 | You can not influence people without talking to them , and that is why I saw President ( FW ) de Klerk and Mr ( Barend ) du Plessis . |
3 | However , the method by which a change in predictable monetary growth leads to a change in aggregate real output is not the familiar one — a higher rate of growth does not fool people into supplying more output . |
4 | I could give many other examples which would kill once and for all the idea so often propounded by the opponents of local income tax that such a tax would not benefit people on the lowest incomes . |
5 | ‘ I will now beg leave to make some observations on the distance of the Veterinary College from the Town — first — because the Society has no rival to dread in an establishment of this nature — secondly — whether the Infirmary is situated a Mile further or nearer it will not prevent people of sense from sending their Horses there — thirdly — the resident pupils being distant from places of dissipation , it will protect their morals and they will employ their time in study . |
6 | That may be so , but it does not prevent people in our field from continually falling into the error of supposing that a solution designed to match one problem must be applicable to quite a different problem as well . |
7 | It may have been clearly stated at the previous meeting that the date of the next meeting would be so-and-so , but this will not prevent people from forgetting all about it . |
8 | You do not mind people from France , I hope ? |
9 | ‘ The EC should have controls by which it does not to business with countries which do not keep people to a minimum standard , he said . |
10 | I do not want to be predictable , because the hon. Member for Oldham , West ( Mr. Meacher ) does not like people to be predictable . |
11 | Meanwhile the SERC will not employ people in universities : it will give them short-term contracts only . |
12 | It also proposed that legislation on political parties should include stipulations that all parties should be national organizations , embracing both sides of the union ( i.e. mainland Tanzania and Zanzibar ) , and that they should not divide people along tribal , religious or racial lines . |
13 | In the same way , many suicides jump from tall buildings , but removing all the tall buildings in the country would not stop people from killing themselves . |
14 | The resilience of the investor is critical to ensure that the deal will not disappoint people on both sides of the bargain . |
15 | All the advertising in the world will not draw people to your event if they believe they 're going to be there alone . |
16 | As a consequence , section 39 is useless because the council will not move people off its land . |
17 | We can not abandon people to the horrors of primitive siege warfare , so the ramshackle institutions of the United Nations will have to be drastically overhauled to cope with this crisis and others like it which are festering in an increasingly unstable world . |
18 | The lesson is that we should not judge people by their reputation , without knowing a great deal more about them . |
19 | Pasqua said that " one Frenchman out of every two rejected a Europe which does not take people into account " . |
20 | They can not take people to the outpatients ’ clinic … |
21 | In the early years of the regime it was necessary to rely on the ‘ retained cadres ’ from the Nationalist government because the working and peasant classes , though loyal politically , could not produce people of sufficient literacy to staff the bureaucracy . |
22 | It could be said that our present system does not invite people to be active ; does not foster participation . |
23 | You can not blame people for being defensive . |
24 | This criticism is forcefully made by Connolly , in the course of a discussion of structuralist theories , of which he takes Althusser s to be a prime example : One of the two complaints aired in this passage has already been discussed the incredulous observation that we can not view people as role-bearers who lead complicated lives in modern industrial societies and simultaneously regard them as determined . |
25 | On the whole , outpatient clinics catered for a less severely ill group of patients and did not reach people with severe mental disorder . |
26 | This does not mean that we can not be friends with an unbeliever — obviously , we can not reach people for Christ if we insulate ourselves from non-Christian company . |
27 | In some cases the psychiatric service did not admit people to hospital early enough . |
28 | Computer models are wonderful things but they do not put people on the ground , ’ said an angry Coun Messham . |
29 | The Department of Health 's rules for Community Health Council Membership state that ‘ appointing bodies should not appoint people over the age of 70 unless there is a special reason : for example , an appointment by an organisation concerned mainly with elderly people . ’ |
30 | The US European Command in Frankfurt said tests had shown that the new rations , falling slowly because of air pockets in the packaging , would not kill people on the ground and could be dropped directly over towns rather than nearby . |