Example sentences of "[verb] not [verb] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The essence of both offences would be the intrinsic quality of the driving and its deviation from the proper standard , not the consequences which happen to result or happen not to result in a particular case . |
| 32 | While members were asked not to behave in a representative manner , the source of their nomination ( councils , fellow doctors , nurses and trade unionists ) made it very difficult for them not to consider ramifications on their constituencies . |
| 33 | Needless to say , this attitude did not make for a good marriage . |
| 34 | Externally , AWCC felt that its demands were highly specific and did not benefit from a wider articulation through the North Side Leadership Conference , which it joined in 1985 . |
| 35 | Most of them did not control for a possible confounding effect of H pylori infection . |
| 36 | You did not go through a religious ceremony with him . ’ |
| 37 | I did not go into a perfect situation . |
| 38 | His great virtue was that he did not rely on a single visit , but frequently returned after a period of years and was able to comment on progress — or lack of it — and the way in which new legislation was being implemented . |
| 39 | Until the 1988 Act , all a person had to do to gain copyright protection for a design was to make a drawing of the design in such a way that the design could be recognized from the drawing ( as long as the design did not relate to a spare part ) . |
| 40 | Upon his death in 1984 , his magnificent Cubist collection did not rest in a private museum , let alone in a wing named in his honour . |
| 41 | Susie did not reply for a long time . |
| 42 | This time , it did not dissolve into a coughing fit . |
| 43 | Wright it was established that a director did not stand in a fiduciary relationship with his shareholders . |
| 44 | The superb frescoes , concealed from sight by Muslim prejudice for nearly five hundred years , were again on view , but they did not compensate for a profound sense of desecration . |
| 45 | Beyond this , it had little economic importance and did not function as a multilateral institution in any proper sense of the term . |
| 46 | She heaved out a great sigh and did not move for a full fifteen seconds : the sergeant watched them tick past , marked by the flick of the thin red hand of the electric clock on the wall . |
| 47 | Sajudis did not compete as a political party , but backed candidates from several parties including the newly independent Communist Party of Lithuania ( CPL — see pp. 37128-29 ; 37168 ) , as well as independent candidates . |
| 48 | Sometimes it seemed as if Charley did not distinguish between a live body and a dead one . |
| 49 | Even the death of George I , in June 1727 , while en route to Hanover , did not lead to a new Jacobite invasion and he was succeeded , without any public disturbance , by his 43-year-old son . |
| 50 | But the disappointment of pacifist hopes of winning the Labour party to a genuine democratic diplomacy did not lead to a new rupture in the Party . |
| 51 | Furthermore , possession of HLA B8 DR3 did not correlate with a higher antibody titre ( p>0.05 ) . |
| 52 | The effect of the introduction of the 1987 expanded AIDS case definition was much less in England and Wales than elsewhere and did not result in a sharp rise in incidence among homosexual/bisexual men ( figure ) . |
| 53 | Lack of appropriate data systems , lack of involvement of clinicians and a basically top-down , finance-led approach , did not result in a great deal of success for this initiative . |
| 54 | Doubling the amount of protein present did not result in a higher level of crosslinking in the presence of NCp7 . |
| 55 | The 1857 Divorce Act , which removed divorce from church jurisdiction , did not result in a rapid increase in the divorce rate . |
| 56 | Preoperative radiation treatment did not result in a significant prolongation of survival ( surgery group 8.5 months ; radiation plus surgery group 10.5 months ) . |
| 57 | The preoperative radiotherapy did not result in a significant prolongation of survival time . |
| 58 | Even the establishment of the fascist regimes in Europe , while it involved the use of violence on a considerable scale , did not result from a massive armed confrontation or civil war . |
| 59 | I left the hotel early and in pleasant sunshine , wearing a light jacket and bow tie , but alas did not bargain for a sudden change in the weather . |
| 60 | He placed £10,000 which he did not possess on a 10 to 1 favourite , Bellevin , to win £1,000 . |