Example sentences of "not give " in BNC.
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| 1 | Raconteur and raisonneur , in his art as in his personal life , he is a concealed author who is evident enough in his hotly opinionated fiction : he is not given to expounding his own passionate opinions there , but can be recognised without difficulty in almost every aspect of every one of his novels , including the speech assigned to his often disputatious characters . |
| 2 | KATAHDIN : Unplaced behind Triomphe Modest over 6 furlongs at Nottingham on Tuesday , but this colt was not given a punishing race when running on very well to finish only a few lengths off the winner . |
| 3 | Financial staff had not given councillors detailed information about the scope or extent of its involvement on the money market . |
| 4 | Cumani , unlike many of his counterparts in the vanguard of British trainers , has not given the Cheveley Park saturation coverage in the past . |
| 5 | Mr Berecz , on the other hand , has still not given up his seemingly futile struggle , and has been plaguing the congress with constant interruptions . |
| 6 | McKeown has not given up on the north 's hope for next year 's Classic , who was found to have a temperature after finishing last in the Somerville Tattersall Stakes . |
| 7 | Now I find that I am not given it . ’ |
| 8 | Entrepreneurs , by their nature , are relatively thin on the ground — and an ungrateful lot not given to remembering those who helped them on the first , shaky steps on the ladder . |
| 9 | Dennis Stewart , the Olympic light-heavyweight bronze medal-winner , lost his first fight against Jens Geisler and was not given an opportunity for the repechage . |
| 10 | Until yesterday morning , the Ministry had not given the nuns any information on the tests they had made or what these had revealed . |
| 11 | A biology of hierarchy grounded in a metaphysically prior ‘ great chain of being ’ gave way to a biology of incommensurability in which the relationship of men to women , like that of apples to oranges , was not given as one of equality or inequality but rather as a difference whose meaning required interpretation and struggle . |
| 12 | Was my freedom not given to me then in order to build the world of the You ? |
| 13 | The type of family and marriage which they operated was not given in the nature of man or in other supernatural and suprahistorical sources , but in the economic and political circumstances of their time , in this case by capitalism . |
| 14 | The most voiced reason for having a baby is that the parents can give what was not given in their own lives , to compensate for their own emptiness . |
| 15 | But it was clear that they had not given the subject much thought , nor did they feel there was any need to . |
| 16 | But a minister has not given evidence to the committee ‘ in living memory ’ . |
| 17 | At present , only France has not given its go-ahead for ERS-2 funding . |
| 18 | Bettinson is a man of considerable dignity , diplomatic and not given to emotional language . |
| 19 | He said he was not given any medicine , and no doctor saw him . |
| 20 | He said he was not given any medicine , and no doctor saw him . |
| 21 | I wanted an apology and I was not given one . |
| 22 | Bettinson is a man of considerable dignity , diplomatic and not given to emotional language . |
| 23 | After Chernobyl the public was not given adequate warnings , and radiation fallout was underestimated by 40 times . |
| 24 | The principal concern at the UNHCR is that Britain has not given voluntary repatriation time to work . |
| 25 | When Norwich and Arsenal appeared at Lancaster Gate the FA was concerned not only that neither club had condemned the incident immediately but that Norwich had not given any indication that they were going to punish some of their players , apart from fining them for making comments to newspapers . |
| 26 | As NASA 's recently launched Cosmic Background Explorer ( COBE ) confirmed , the background looks the same all over the sky , which implies that the cooling fireball which produced it was not given to clumpiness . |
| 27 | Yet this is a politician not given to balancing market forces against anything : as unreal an animal , implies rich socialist Mr Mortimer , as a green Tory party in real life . |
| 28 | This may be unfair on her , but it probably helps the Community to have Mrs Cresson threatening to block Japanese exports if ‘ reciprocal access ’ is not given to European goods in Japan . |
| 29 | There are things which God has not given us to know , and we must learn to accept this patiently . |
| 30 | But then the property was not given to her ; it was given on the face of it to the trustee . |