Example sentences of "[verb] not [verb] as a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , although the Cross Country route has not emerged as a high-speed line per se , it now features a number of useful long-distance trains mainly aimed at the leisure market . |
| 2 | Beyond this , it had little economic importance and did not function as a multilateral institution in any proper sense of the term . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The move to merge did not come as a great surprise to the shareholders of either company . |
| 5 | It did not come as a startling revelation — no blinding flash of illumination , only a possibility that he had not previously considered , something that was worth checking . |
| 6 | A person is guilty of contributory negligence if he ought reasonably to have foreseen that , if he did not act as a reasonable , prudent man , he might be hurt himself ; and in his reckonings he must take into account the possibility of others being careless ( Denning LJ in Jones v Livox Quarries Ltd [ 1952 ] 2 QB 608 ) . |
| 7 | In fact the new government did not develop as a British creature and , in the words of one historian , Nikki Keddie , it marked a " turning point in Iranian history " . |
| 8 | By themselves , these facts do not stand as a complete answer to the challenge : if the industrial co-operative form of organisation is more efficient than the conventional form , why is it that the first has not displaced the second but has remained until recently a negligible feature of the economy and , even now , can hardly be said to have become so far of more than marginal importance ? |
| 9 | In preparation for the final session , I designated a ‘ robot controller ’ room area , roped off , a large placard with ROBOT CONTROLLER in red ( I should have added PRIVATE , DO NOT ENTER as a nice re-inforcer of the point , but I did not think about it in time ) against a dais on which stood a table and a hand microphone ( a television control device which he had carried around with him on previous occasions ) . |
| 10 | They do not practise as a key worker straight away , but are attached to two or three units , to get used to working with different sets of residents with different problems . |
| 11 | It seems the attack did n't come as a total surprise . |
| 12 | What about the skills which are very important but do n't come as a formal part of any subject , the so-called communication skills ? |
| 13 | All in all , it is submitted that the claim that there is a risk of liability under section 2 of the Suicide Act does not serve as a valid justification for ignoring the request of the patient that treatment be discontinued . |
| 14 | The Germanic tribe is therefore based on shared locality rather than kinship , but it consists of a collection of kinship units each with access to a territory , thus ‘ individual landed property ( of the different families ) does not appear as a contradictory form of communal landed property , nor as mediated by the community but the other way round . |
| 15 | The final surprise is that in the Old Testament the Spirit does not appear as a divine being . |
| 16 | So this does not appear as a technical difference . |
| 17 | Transport does not appear as a separate item , but as part of the overall block grant to regional authorities . |
| 18 | ( 2 ) The human being does not exist as a legal person until after birth . |
| 19 | If it does not stand as a moral example to the followers of the Church , it counts for nothing . |
| 20 | It does not perform as a titrating dosimat or have the RS 232C interface for the attachment of a balance , printer or PC , like the 665 Dosimat , but the 725 is available for about half the price of the 665 . |
| 21 | Moreover , historically , the possibility of pregnancy does not emerge as a central consideration in the offence of rape . |
| 22 | Fatialofa is L'Aquila 's ‘ foreign player ’ but on the other side of the scrum there is a South African of Italian descent , Gerardo Lepera , who does not count as a foreign player and has the right to play as what the Italians call an oriundi . |
| 23 | Turning now to impertinent , we can readily see that although the im -is replaceable by zero , it does not qualify as a semantic constituent : |
| 24 | This is partly because it is hard to identify true costs in any health system , but also because the market for health care does not operate as a normal market — particularly with respect to the nature of demand . |
| 25 | In contrast , the portfolio-management analysis of corporate strategy may take some account of discounted cash flow ( DCF ) , but it does not figure as a central concept . |
| 26 | An unholy alliance with other minorities to preserve ideological positions otherwise unacceptable to the electorate does not appeal as a noble enterprise . |
| 27 | I hope that that does not come as a total surprise to him , as it appears to . |
| 28 | If Lamb 's sacking does not come as a major shock then Gower 's latest axing is mind-blowingly baffling following his much trumpeted recall for the third Cornhill Test match at Old Trafford . |
| 29 | Generally , infertility does not come as a sudden cut-off point ; rather it declines gradually , and when it is observed we have to look for the cause in the interdependence breakdown , and not just regard it as a shortage of one or other nutrients . |
| 30 | From the available evidence , it seems fair to conclude that the typical legal sanction against corporate crime does not act as a general deterrent — others are not put off merely because some corporations and their executives have been fined , particularly when the fines are comparatively small and tax-deductable — and the evidence , such as it is , suggests that a specific deterrent function may operate , but only to deter corporations from recommitting the same offence . |