Example sentences of "not [verb] the [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Obviously one has to bear in mind the general sizes ( and cost ! ) of boxes that are available , and not make the p.c.b . |
| 2 | I do not think the people of Scotland are going to put up with such a tepid state of politics for that long . |
| 3 | We all knew it would be disastrous ; we foretold that her husband would walk out , that her other children would suffer : we saw she was the only one of the family unit who could n't bear not to see the fruit of her womb , however sour , ripen , drop and live . |
| 4 | We 're objecting to the fact they have 28 hours of airspace that they 're devoting to people in need and yet they 're not allowing the people who are in need to say what their needs are . |
| 5 | He had to be careful not to hit the sheep . |
| 6 | Hailed as the first ‘ work groupware ’ application , Notes has unfortunately not targeted the sales it was expected to since its launch in 1989 , and its alliance with SCO was described by the company as ‘ a timely decision ’ . |
| 7 | Care has to be taken not to frighten the fish when first approaching and when the fish are accustomed to you and the camera , they generally take no notice of the flash . |
| 8 | Mere are many ways in which governments and their supporters can prevent these methods from being effective , but they can not work at all if the opposition has no real procedural opportunity to apply real scrutiny , nor if its efforts do not arouse the media of information and public opinion . |
| 9 | I took the advice of my lawyers not to accept the £10,000 offered by the Mirror . |
| 10 | Blair crept down to the bank whilst I rehearsed various reasons to explain why he had not caught the trout : lack of experience , bad casting technique . |
| 11 | I was reminded of the Brecht poem in which the politicians decide that they can not trust the people and that they had better elect a new one . |
| 12 | It will be compliant with the OSF/1 operating system , but does not include the Mach microkernel , a point Apple is adamant about , as it has yet to make up its mind on the issue of microkernel strategy . |
| 13 | In addition , to avoid seriously misleading Parliament , when we table the revised estimate for the cash injection on the day of the statement , we can not include the £150 million as a receipt due this year . |
| 14 | This does not include the sales back-up staff but only refers to those who are active in the field , meeting customers fact to face on an organised and planned basis . |
| 15 | Boss Graeme Souness spent nearly £10m on new players , wiping out a trading profit of £3.4m — and the balance sheet does not include the £3.2m outlay on Paul Stewart and David James . |
| 16 | He did not know the people on it and they did not seem as keen to join as he had expected . |
| 17 | I do not know the facts and the background and have not met the people at other firms , but I am impressed by the quality of the management and the attitude of the employees at Strathtay . |
| 18 | UK Fire Certificates might say hotels must have a warning system but might not specify the means , Mr Kidd said . |
| 19 | It has also scaled down payouts for redundancies , so as not to exceed the $1.5bn restructuring charge it was hit with two months ago . |
| 20 | There were as many as twenty-four vessels in Table Bay , all anxiously waiting to put out to sea ; boats loaded with African fruits for the London Market were in a sad plight , as the extra time on board would not improve the fruit . |
| 21 | EDITOR : As we have always said it is YOUR newspaper , although not being prepared to put a name to letters [ even if the name is not for inclusion ] means authors can not collect the £25 Star Letter prize . |
| 22 | Britain decided not to screen the series , and was widely condemned by the European media for her typically non-communautaire attitude . |
| 23 | And if he did not give the people , the sherpas who guided him through the terrain of industrial England , their own voice , the journey gave him a voice of his own . |
| 24 | Logic does not provide the means of distinguishing the true from the false . |
| 25 | Above all , I do not believe the people of Britain want to see our constitutional monarchy , the ‘ eternal jewel ’ with which our political liberties are bound up , brought into danger or contention by the deceptive device once adopted so ill-advisedly so many years ago for a purpose that is past . |
| 26 | However , one farm which has only young 1992 fish has been told by its bankers that they do not believe the fish will ever be accepted for sale , even if tested clean , because of the public perception of the oil spill . |
| 27 | I am afraid that I have to confess that we allow a substantial number of people to remain simply because we have not had the staff to pursue their claims to remain through the various hoops available to them . |
| 28 | Palafox was a great aristocrat , known to be a friend of the deposed Ferdinand and anything but a democrat ; but , as his brother made clear , the future hero of the siege of Saragossa could not master the people on any other terms . |
| 29 | Is it because the Labour party feels that it could not convince the people but could achieve its objectives through a centralist bureaucracy in Europe — rather than through argument and persuading its own people ? |
| 30 | They are taking responsibility , either they agree with their government or they do not agree with their government , but to pretend that somehow we can not at all , some of the cuts that are made , that the f the other , does not convince us , I 'm sure it does not convince the people on our right and even less more convincing than the people who are listening to us today . |