Example sentences of "not [verb] their [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These are increasingly hard to get — a Coventry welfare rights centre had so many claimants complaining that they 'd not received their statutory entitlement to maternity grants that the centre has printed a special complaints form . |
| 2 | ( 2 ) They could agree not to make any political alliance with the East , although this would not affect their natural sympathies . |
| 3 | In addition , it is feared that methods of collecting the community charge by establishing a register of all residents over the age of 18 may result in those who can not afford the tax not completing their electoral registration forms , as this may alert the authorities to their liability for the community charge ( or Poll Tax as it has become known ) . |
| 4 | Fragmentation and excessive pace were also found to be important variables bearing on job satisfaction , with many workers , who did not find their work monotonous , stating that it did not absorb their full attention or that they found the pace of it too fast . |
| 5 | They do not want their small stores destroyed and put out of business . |
| 6 | So should the law allow mercy killing — ‘ euthanasia ’ — to be available to those patients suffering incurable diseases who do not want their painful lives to be prolonged ? |
| 7 | Elean : A theme that recurs in your Soweto Stories is the theme of keeping the families together , not allowing their innate sense of solidarity with each other to be smashed and replaced by rampant individualism — on the other hand you show very sharply the negative side in this tradition , for example how it impacts on women . |
| 8 | In practice though , as we saw , Beccaria thought that most people had not developed their rational insight sufficiently for this to be the case — full rational insight had only been achieved by ‘ some few thinking men in every nation in every age ’ . |
| 9 | The state , he claims , may sometimes fly in the face of the short-term economic interests of this class ; but it will not damage their political interests , and in this way political order is maintained . |
| 10 | The persons being processed into the speaker 's frame of reference may in so doing lose contact with their own , so that they can not relate their new knowledge to their life situation ; neither can they communicate it to others . |
| 11 | The conservative Cornish , who had not forgotten their previous grievances , had a deep affection for the Latin Liturgy . |
| 12 | Emboldened by their own good fortune , the Maronites even argued that they did not need their Syrian saviours in the streets of Christian east Beirut . |
| 13 | In addition , palmitic acid , a saturated fatty acid , was shown to be the main component of the protective lipid mixtures and indomethacin pretreatment did not abolish their beneficial effects . |
| 14 | Living in extremely dense colonies , often covering several acres of thorn bush , they simply posture on their nests in display and do not pursue their prospective mates . |
| 15 | Maclean and Donaldson are more experienced world circuit travellers , but that will not lessen their respective ambitions in the Spanish and Guernsey Opens . |
| 16 | The Army have not dropped their controversial access conditions as was reported , but have amended them following the representations they have received from the BMC and the views that were expressed at the Castlemartin meeting in March . |
| 17 | These two armed bandits do not steal their ill-gotten gains . |
| 18 | Their predecessors are still to be found , sometimes cheaply with those who do not know their true significance and worth . |
| 19 | Derek Douane was being cooed over by a pair of predatory women in their fifties , not minding their tanned fingers in his hair , on his face or twanging his braces . |
| 20 | The fact that their discoveries were either ignored or did not bring their just rewards was partially responsible for inducing a conspiracy mentality . |
| 21 | However , Rangers do not expect their stalling tactics to deter Rovers , and they will be unable to refuse a £4m offer unless they are poised to claim honours of their own . |
| 22 | Women 's move away from full-time housework does not improve their labour-market position in a manner consistent with the theory that their disadvantaged position in the labour market is due solely to their domestic responsibilities . |
| 23 | But they can not assume their final adult form and breed unless they reach land . |
| 24 | The sun had pierced through the mist , and they were not believing their good luck at being alive , and being cared for by the beautiful colleens . |
| 25 | If the wife and new husband wish to hold as tenants in common , then it must be remembered that the register will not show their respective shares and they should make a separate declaration ( which will be off the register ) as to these , and this will be evidence at a later date should their shares be in dispute ( for instance with the trustee in bankruptcy of either party ) . |
| 26 | Rupert Murdoch told the annual meeting in Adelaide : ‘ This may well be the first year in some years when our earnings do not show their customary increase . ’ |
| 27 | Mr Lang — who is coming into line with a decision already made by the Department of the Environment , for England and Wales — said that consultation on the proposed registers had shown they would not achieve their environmental objectives . |
| 28 | But until steam-power became generally used , these landscapes did not achieve their final horrific form . |
| 29 | Of the reasons why females so often fail to make it to the very top , two are basic : some of the best women managers do not achieve their full potential in business because they do not know how exceptional they are , and others fail to get a boardroom seat because they lack the confidence . |
| 30 | A firearm may be used when it is apparent that the police can not achieve their lawful purpose of preventing loss or further loss of life by any other means . |