Example sentences of "not [verb] [vb infin] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The enduring point is that close links did not make finance the slave of industry . |
| 2 | The difficulty was this : he wanted to increase the elevation to creep forward over those last 300 yards ( he did not dare exceed the two-pound charge ) but , as every gunner knows , increasing the elevation beyond five degrees can be a risky business ; it is not the great number of rounds that destroys a cannon but the high elevation at which it is fired . |
| 3 | I do not dare open the blinds . |
| 4 | I was calling Sweetman 's bluff , confident he would not dare pull the trigger , and equally confident that my marine training would let me turn him into mincemeat . |
| 5 | I did not dare take the whole brandy bottle , so I poured some into a smaller bottle to take away with me . |
| 6 | They would not dare risk a shot at anyone within a sword 's reach of their prince and his guard . |
| 7 | Meanwhile , Rafsanjani criticized Germany 's decision announced on June 30 not to help rebuild a war-damaged nuclear plant at the Gulf port of Bushehr . |
| 8 | As Whately Cook Taylor put it in 1874 , ‘ Hitherto , whatever the laws have touched , they have not dared invade the sacred precinct ’ , and such reluctance dictated the hesitations over passing the incest law until 1908 . |
| 9 | The object is to steer a middle course by maintaining control over administrative institutions while not making review the same as appeal , which would be the result if the judiciary substituted their views on every contested issue . |
| 10 | That is not to say technological effort can not help maximise the value of assets . |
| 11 | In its ruling , however , the IWT also drew attention to the issue of energy use per se : " ( Environmental ) procedures and the generation of ever more information on impacts do not help avoid the essential issue that industrialized countries should reduce their wasteful energy consumption , rather than enlarging the capacity to create energy " . |
| 12 | More frequent medical examinations would not help reduce the risk ; the tests currently available that might indicate , for example , whether an increased coronary risk does or does not exist , themselves carry a risk that exceeds that which we are endeavouring to protect against . |
| 13 | But however welcome , such generosity did not help solve the central problem which was to find suitable homes for the children . |
| 14 | Workouts featured by stars like Hollywood tough guy Dolph Lundgren and TVam 's Lizzie Webb may not help fight the flab and could land you in bed for weeks , says BBC TV 's Watchdog . |
| 15 | At each stop they would take one side of the street each and he could not help notice the disappointment on people 's faces if they got him rather than her . |