Example sentences of "[noun sg] not [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This Policy will be used for craft not exceeding 16 feet 6 inches ( 5 metres ) in length with a maximum designed speed not exceeding 52 miles per hour ( 45 knots ) The cover is of a ‘ Comprehensive ’ or ‘ All Risks ’ type . |
| 2 | However the homoeopathic physician will also administer a remedy , as well as giving a prescription for the antibiotic , with instructions that should the remedy not have worked within an hour or two , the antibiotic should be obtained . |
| 3 | The pupil may be labelled genius or idiot , and the mathematical thinking not credited for what is is . |
| 4 | If the horse is tense ( the first stage is calmness , remember ) then everything is lost — suppleness , free forward movement and so on , until the whole issue is blown out of proportion … just for the sake of the horse not wishing to pass close to something trivial . |
| 5 | The Whip is an aid to reinforce the leg aid should the horse not respond . |
| 6 | But Hegel was a philosopher , and a philosopher who held that the responsibility of philosophy was to work out a universal and all-embracing system of understanding which would include literally everything — God and religion not excepted . |
| 7 | Ireland prepared to face Cuba today ( 11.00 BST ) with the unenviable record of being the only side not to have scored a goal in the 12-team tournament . |
| 8 | And Barnsley 's advantage could have been cut from five to two points had Keegan 's side not lacked the creative nous to topple them . |
| 9 | There is little worse than being a captain of a Yorkshire side not doing well . |
| 10 | In such cases the unlucky individual has taken the precaution of wearing a contraceptive sheath , but a sore on the vulva , say , of his sexual partner has come into contact with part of the penis not covered by the condom . |
| 11 | A similar horror sends back the chorus far from their supposedly civilized city into a desert past where April would be again the cruellest month , as they pray ‘ let the spring not come . |
| 12 | Course manager Ian Duff has put the starting time back from 2.30pm in the hope of boosting the attendance and he pointed out : ‘ With the televised football not starting until after 7.00pm there should be enough time for people to leave their offices , go racing and come home to watch the soccer . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ We are the biggest club in football not to have had any recent success , but right now the city is rocking . |
| 14 | Road Traffic — Blood specimen — Requirement — Breath testing device not working — Custody officer informing defendant of right to provide blood or urine and requiring blood specimen — Defendant not given opportunity to express preference — Whether requirement for blood specimen validly made — Road Traffic Act 1988 ( c. 52 ) , ss. 7(3) ( b ) ( 4 ) , 8(2) |
| 15 | The following are the principal cases where that leave would be forthcoming : ( 1 ) relief is sought against any person domiciled in England or Wales ; ( 2 ) an injunction is sought ordering the defendant to do an act or refrain from doing anything ( whether or not damages are also claimed in respect of a failure to do something or for the doing of that thing ) ; ( 3 ) the claim is brought against any person duly served within or out of England and Wales and a person out of England and Wales is a necessary or proper party thereto ; ( 4 ) the claim is founded on any breach or alleged breach of any contract wherever made , which : ( a ) according to its terms ought to be performed in England and Wales , or ( b ) is by its terms , or by implication , governed by English law , or ( c ) contains a term to the effect that a court in England or Wales shall have jurisdiction to hear and determine any action in respect of the contract ; ( 5 ) the claim is founded on a tort and the damage was sustained or resulted from an act committed , within England and Wales ; ( 6 ) the whole subject-matter of the proceedings is land ( with or without rent or profits ) or the perpetuation of testimony relating to land ; ( 7 ) the claim is brought to construe , rectify , set aside or enforce an act , deed , will , contract , obligation or liability affecting land ; ( 8 ) the claim is made for a debt secured on immovable property or is made to assert , declare or determine proprietary or possessory rights , or rights of security , in or over movable property , or to obtain authority to dispose of movable property ; ( 9 ) the claim is brought to execute the trusts of a written instrument , being trusts that ought to be executed according to English law and of which the person to be served with the originating process is a trustee , or for any relief or remedy which might be obtained when such a claim is brought ; ( 10 ) the claim is made for the administration of the estate of a person who died domiciled in England or Wales or for any relief or remedy which might be obtained when such a claim is made ; ( 11 ) the claim is brought in a probate action within the meaning of Ord 41 ; ( 12 ) the claim is brought to enforce any judgment or arbitral award ; ( 13 ) the claim is brought against a defendant not domiciled in Scotland or Northern Ireland in respect of a claim by the Commissioners of Inland Revenue for or in relation to any of the duties of taxes which have been , or are for the time being , placed under their care and management ; ( 14 ) the claim is brought in respect of contributions under the Social Security Act 1975 ; ( 15 ) the claim is made for a sum to which the Directive of the Council of the European Communities dated 15 March 1976 No 76/308/EEC applies , and service is to be effected in a country which is a member of the European Economic Community . |
| 16 | In a later case in which service had been attempted in Belgium , the Belgian Central Authority certified that service had proved impossible , the defendant not having been found at the address given . |
| 17 | Had the plaintiff been shot , then this would have been too remote a consequence and causation not established . |
| 18 | Why did these large pits near the coast not exist in the last century ? |
| 19 | In giving consent to another 's actions , however , our primary purpose is to authorise those actions and in so doing create for or accord to another a special right to act : the obligation generated on the consentor not to interfere with the exercise of this right takes , in this case , the secondary role . |
| 20 | The difference in cost between the cheapest scenario and the plan that produces least CO 2 is $102 for each tonne of carbon not released . |
| 21 | Morgan , who alleged that her ex-husband Eric Foretich had sexually abused the child — an allegation not sustained by any court — had been imprisoned in 1987 for contempt of court after refusing to reveal the whereabouts of her daughter [ see also p. 37407 ] . |
| 22 | Along with hope in a future not bound by the rough blankets rubbing at her chin , the cobwebbed ceiling above her head , the tiny window , the table in the corner , the hard wooden chair , the threadbare rug , the wax-choked candlestick , the bucket , the crucifix , the chain trailing from the bed-post to her wrist beneath the covers . |
| 23 | Ron Dennis , McLaren 's managing director , said : ‘ It was a disappointment not to finish . |
| 24 | It was a disappointment not having children , but there were millions of couples who did n't have children , and of course there were far worse things than that , as the war had just displayed . |
| 25 | overpower , you know , creep up on you , I , I 'd , it 'd just get the better of me Eric that 's why I got really the other one you see and that , I , I have n't come to any harm not having it , and erm I 've just got to get rid of this because it 's , I 'd do a lot more Eric if it were n't for the television , I know I 'll miss it when I get rid of it you see , it has been described as a plug-in drug |
| 26 | The speaker who uses it feels himself or herself to be stating , with an explicitness not found in the merely qualifying adjective , even when it is ascriptive , that the property expressed does hold of the entity identified by the whole noun phrase ; an inevitable concomitant is that the postnominal adjective must be to a certain extent salient in the situation where it is used . |
| 27 | A major change is one that we make to your holiday arrangements before departure , that involves changing your UK airport(s) , resort area or time of departure or return by more than twelve hours or a change of accommodation to a Club not featured in this brochure . |
| 28 | I do n't think they 've had a lot of trouble really speaking with Walsall supporters over the years because they seem to be er go to support the club not to fight and er |
| 29 | Other members of the club not mentioned before are John Cannovan , Dugald Ferguson , Stewart Fernie and Pat Meechan . |
| 30 | It is Philistine not to see that a fact and a theory , simple components of tenuous knowledge , are a way not necessarily of controlling nature , but of coming to terms with it , of playing homage ; science is less arrogant in many ways than the arts of landscape or of poetising , mainly because it is content to describe the world as it is . |