Example sentences of "[not/n't] [vb infin] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some will give the personal aspects the highest priority because of accumulated experience which shows that a client who is not emotionally ready for the severe belt-tightening and discipline involved in emerging from serious debt , will not stay the course . |
| 2 | I was working for a yarn firm who had just gone into the marketing of coned yarns — unfortunately they did not stay the course . |
| 3 | He can not stay the distance and his breathing is now difficult . ’ |
| 4 | People did not stay the same . |
| 5 | Garrison Savannah who almost won the National two years ago appears to have returned to his old form if you take his Gold Cup run on board for he was always in touch before blundering and losing his chance late in the race , but he may not stay the trip as happened two years ago when he was beaten by Seagram . |
| 6 | Certainly he did not stay the full course which was seven years for the qualification of a Master 's degree , the necessary precondition for further study of law , theology and medicine . |
| 7 | The trio kept the 3.5 litre Peugeot 905 ahead f or most of the rain-hit race to delight the flag-waving local and British fans and confound the critics who predicted the car could not stay the distance . |
| 8 | Hughes admitted that one reason for the slow growth of the movement in Wales was that the Church of Wales was in a minority ‘ and there did not exist the sense of peril which , he feared , must be admitted , had done so much in driving them together in England ’ . |
| 9 | This seems to be because of the small size of the owl in relation to its prey , so that it can not swallow the prey whole but tears it up as do the diurnal raptors ( see Appendix for details of little owl biology ) . |
| 10 | Either way , Churchill 's response to Franco 's October missive made very clear that the British government would not swallow the Caudillo 's attempt to rewrite history in his own favour . |
| 11 | Do not overtighten the screws or you could crack the mirror . |
| 12 | Do not overtighten the screws — you want to be able to remove them whenever any yarn gets caught in them , to keep them always in a ‘ spinning ’ condition . |
| 13 | Deng Xiaoping is 85 , and while apparently in reasonably good health , will not outlive the instigators of the ‘ counter-revolutionary rebellion ’ . |
| 14 | Nor does a term cease to be a leasehold because it is determinable by an event which may happen , or which is certain to happen , within the term — e.g. if A holds land for 99 years or for 999 years , ‘ if he shall so long live ’ , he is still a leaseholder , though it is nearly or quite certain that he will not outlive the term . |
| 15 | You can not evade the fact that we are cultural Americans , dreaming American dreams . ’ |
| 16 | There is thus a rule of construction that if a provision in an Act of Parliament of the United Kingdom is ambiguous , it should be given that interpretation which is consistent with international obligations rather than one which conflicts ( Inland Revenue Commissioners v Collco Dealings Ltd [ 1962 ] AC 11 ; similarly , there is some authority for seeking to protect fundamental constitutional statutes from unintentional repeals ( see , e.g. , per Lord Wilberforce in The Earl of Antrim 's Petition [ 1967 ] 1 AC 691 ) If , however , such devices do not evade the problem , then traditional notions of the sovereignty of the United Kingdom Parliament require that any provision in any later statute which is inconsistent with any earlier provision repeals the latter to the extent of any inconsistency , whether declared or intended to have this effect or not ( Vauxhall Estates Ltd v Liverpool Corporation [ 1932 ] 1 KB 733 ; Ellen Street Estates Ltd v Minister of Health [ 1934 ] 1 KB 590 ) . |
| 17 | Its concern with adolescent love , and the way in which its idealism and purity can not evade the sullying effects of adult realities , paralleled Minton 's own fear of lost youth , his obsession with adolescence and desire for a love that could only exist in a state untrammelled by adult responsibilities . |
| 18 | Though Charles the Bald could not evade the type of political problems just outlined , he was predestined neither to success nor to failure . |
| 19 | The only possible answers are that they wanted to ensure that Lothar would not evade the battle , and that the battle would be decisive . |
| 20 | However , a party can not evade the Act by a choice of law clause providing for the contract to be governed by the law of some state other than the UK . |
| 21 | In addition maternal and paternal asthma were included in the regression analyses and did not modify the association between independent and dependent variables . |
| 22 | However , the Interior Minister , Julio Mera Figueroa , insisted at a press conference on March 7 that the decree did not modify the March 1989 decree but merely changed the composition of the National Security Council . |
| 23 | Although these drugs are effective , they do not reduce the reflux of other gastric contents ( pepsin , bile ) and they do not modify the underlying causes of the disease by restoring lower oesophageal sphincter pressure or improving oesophageal clearance and gastric emptying . |
| 24 | Return to the bad old ways , elect separately a Chamber and a Senate , then bring them together at Versailles in a National Assembly which would or would not modify the Constitution of 1875 . |
| 25 | In artificial selection , the chosen end , for which the race is being fitted , does not elicit the variation being selected . |
| 26 | ‘ You did not expound the words of scripture . |
| 27 | Mr Kidd said that he did not think the UK Government would follow suit , but believed pressure from a more demanding American market could encourage British hotels to upgrade their precautions beyond the legal minimum . |
| 28 | Pannell Kerr Forster senior management consultant Nick van Marken said he did not think the changes would result in a dramatic increase in hotels . |
| 29 | Ogrizovic came out , checked back , but in retreat still did not think the chip would float in . |
| 30 | But police do not think the arson attack was a deliberate attempt to put out lights in the town so that the looting could take place . |