Example sentences of "not [vb infin] us [prep] " in BNC.

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1 The strong views expressed on both sides of the House — which in itself is unusual , divided as it is in its political structure — on the way that the right hon. Gentleman has carried out his job should send a clear message to the IRA : that it will not bomb its way to the conference table ; it will not affect us now ; it will not affect us during the general election ; and it will not affect us after the general election .
2 The strong views expressed on both sides of the House — which in itself is unusual , divided as it is in its political structure — on the way that the right hon. Gentleman has carried out his job should send a clear message to the IRA : that it will not bomb its way to the conference table ; it will not affect us now ; it will not affect us during the general election ; and it will not affect us after the general election .
3 I DO not want us to be a little England , impoverished , devoid of influence , sour in isolation , languishing either on the sidelines of Europe or of history .
4 This is undoubtedly correct but in our judgment it does not assist us in what we have to decide .
5 Or perhaps I should say she did not trust us with everything she knew .
6 The gospel does not direct us to our sin and the threat of judgement , but to reconciliation in the kingdom of Christ .
7 They do not repeat : ’ Do not bring us to the test , but save us from the evil one ’ , or , ’ Do not bring us to hard testing . ’
8 They do not repeat : ’ Do not bring us to the test , but save us from the evil one ’ , or , ’ Do not bring us to hard testing . ’
9 He does not misuse freedom , and he does not expect us to either .
10 We 're only meeting friends , they 'll not expect us to be sober . ’
11 There were twenty of us , other chaps in much the same boat as me , Nancy our tutor was cheerful , down to earth and did not expect us to be cordon bleu cooks .
12 By contrast the white hole originates in a space-time singularity and the horizon does not prevent us from viewing this strange event .
13 That , however , does not prevent us from drawing particular , limited conclusions from such ‘ isolation ’ experiments .
14 Secondly , although certainly important , the current preference by some writers to relate creativity to the affective forms of psychosis should not divert us from the fact that it is actually schizophrenia which has inspired most of the theorising — and generated a good deal of the empirical evidence — about how psychotic and creative traits might be related to each other .
15 Even so , these cautionary comments should not dislodge us from the main point .
16 The hon. Gentleman has changed his wording — at last , he did not accuse us of privatising HMI .
17 So being a Christian then does not isolate us from sorrow or from grief .
18 And our agreement does not provide us for time off with pay for an event such as this .
19 Thus even if we accept that the duty of directors to act in the best interests of shareholders can be equated with a duty to maximize profits this does not provide us with any real assurance that the wishes of the shareholders are being executed by the directors or that we have a satisfactory way of controlling the discretion accorded to directors in the name of the Rule of Law .
20 The agreements that we have will not provide us with time off with pay for this purpose .
21 Cramlington and North Shields provide examples of a core and outer locale respectively , but they do not provide us with an account of ‘ inner-ring ’ developments .
22 The two groups of cases discussed above reflect different answers to that question , and Lord Esher 's analysis simply reiterates ex post that divergence ; the analysis does not provide us with an ex ante tool with which to determine which group a case should fall into .
23 This issue has also been addressed by other researchers , but the results do not provide us with a comprehensive national picture based on systematic analysis of the performance of non-traditional students .
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25 The gospels do not furnish us with the materials for a modern-style biography , nor do they give us a window into Jesus ' mind by which we could peer into his inmost soul .
26 You can not tease us with a smidge of inside info on Jon , and not expect us to be hanging on every word .
27 ‘ Not so , ’ replies the university ; ‘ give if you will ; withhold if you must but understand if you can what nature of community we are and do not deprive us of our freedom , the freedom to pursue , and to teach others to pursue , knowledge for its own sake in whatever guise it presents itself to us ; for that is of our very essence. ,
28 Many of the topics they raise during this election campaign do not interest us at all .
29 Have to say the planets and do n't forget we 've got to think about other solar systems as well so we 're not let's not limit us to the number , the planets why not .
30 Now the angels will not bless us for another year . ’
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