Example sentences of "[verb] not [verb] in a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sir Kenneth Newman — then commandant — suggests that the book 's claim to attention is that its contents are contributed by insiders ; while in their introduction , the authors claim it goes some way to challenging Holdaway 's claim ( 1979 ) that ‘ research from the Police Staff College has not resulted in a major project on the police ’ . |
| 2 | The choice of Mr Bernerd ( who recently hit the headlines in connection with the case of ex-Heritage Minister David Mellor and Ms Antonia de Sancha ) as the company 's financial backer , seems to have been an uneasy choice and has not resulted in a long-term commitment to the gallery at a difficult time for the art market . |
| 3 | The matter has not resulted in a bitter enmity between us , you know . |
| 4 | The leading Spanish master , who has not shown in a commercial gallery in London since 1965 , was the subject of a study at the Hayward Gallery in 1990 . |
| 5 | This has not occurred in a simplistic or deterministic manner , as can be seen from the retention of the abolition of the death penalty . |
| 6 | Every practising barrister knows before which judges he would prefer not to appear in a political case because he believes , and his colleagues at the bar believe , that certain judges are much more likely than others to be biased against certain groups , like demonstrators or students , or certain kinds of action , like occupations of property by trade unionists or the homeless . |
| 7 | When you are made aware of this you can consciously choose not to react in a stressed way and you will therefore be able to maintain a calmness even when life becomes hectic . |
| 8 | What Gowie means probably is that he does n't expect anybody to like him and , because of that , he tends not to behave in a likable way . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Wright it was established that a director did not stand in a fiduciary relationship with his shareholders . |
| 13 | 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 ) . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Doubling the amount of protein present did not result in a higher level of crosslinking in the presence of NCp7 . |
| 16 | The 1857 Divorce Act , which removed divorce from church jurisdiction , did not result in a rapid increase in the divorce rate . |
| 17 | Preoperative radiation treatment did not result in a significant prolongation of survival ( surgery group 8.5 months ; radiation plus surgery group 10.5 months ) . |
| 18 | The preoperative radiotherapy did not result in a significant prolongation of survival time . |
| 19 | It did not expand in a big way until the late eighteenth century when population growth and parliamentary enclosure depressed the standard of living of the poorest sections of rural society . |
| 20 | The outrage eagerly orchestrated by the newspaper did not focus in a serious way on the needs and dangers facing rape survivors . |
| 21 | Of course , it is not always easy to pinpoint exactly why we do or do not engage in a particular action . |
| 22 | People do not negotiate in a direct and immediate way with material conditions ; the negotiation is structured through consciousness . |
| 23 | Many changes of government in Britain do not usher in a new set of policies in most departments . |
| 24 | No matter how ethereal they may seem , they do not exist in a timeless limbo but possess determinate antecedents in time and space . |
| 25 | The possibilities for integration , that do not exist in a segregated , all-age special school , are many — as students begin to mix , sometimes for the first time , in a community setting with other adult learners . |
| 26 | Current research assumes that crime and justice do not exist in a social vacuum , that they are at least partially political creations , and that they are inextricably involved in society . |
| 27 | Further , the need for averaging obviously favours repetitive responses to repetitive stimuli and neural events that do not correlate in a consistent time-locked way with external stimuli will necessarily be overlooked . |
| 28 | Whatever the rights and wrongs of this debate , the fact remains that we do not live in a perfect world and , like it or not , we have to rely on a large amount of data derived from animals . |
| 29 | For children in the late twentieth century there is the added difficulty that they do not live in a spiritually-secure environment , almost certainly lacking the supportive family and community that was Saint Teresa 's world . |
| 30 | Old people do not live in a social vacuum , pursuing their personal goals in ways which do not impinge on others . |