Example sentences of "[noun] [not/n't] [verb] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.

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1 INSTONIANS — The return of David Wilson from France and the availability of Tim Taylor , Johnny McBride and Mark Irwin strengthens the squad and prompts coach Denis Guiler not to feature as a stop-gap this season !
2 She gave the money for the words not used to a boy with ringworm throwing stones at a cat on a wall .
3 The pegs were plentiful , but F not needed for a pull , and as I swept my feet from left to right across the wall on little orange nubbins and small edges below good fingerlocks , in a thin , horizontal crack , I wished it could go on and on .
4 If a threat in the dark not amounting to a threat to kill within s.16 , OAPA , is not an assault the result in relation to unlawful act or constructive manslaughter is this .
5 Patients at risk are probably those with pre-existing QT prolongation , bradycardia not corrected by a pacemaker , hypokalaemia or hypomagnesaemia , a history of developing torsades de pointes with similar drugs ( because of cross-sensitivity ) , and genetic abnormalities in drug metabolism .
6 In 1972 , a strike picket held a placard in front of a vehicle on a highway , urging the driver not to work at a site nearby and preventing him from proceeding along the highway .
7 Okay , let's swap over , what I want you to remember is it 's not a conversation it 's not the try not to get into a conversation what we 're trying to do is we 're trying to stick to one person 's trying to stick to their point the other person 's trying to take them off it , okay ?
8 PC-Xremote Edition turns a personal computer into an X Window System server so that the user not connected to a LAN can access hosts supporting X via a modem or RS-232 serial connection .
9 People must have the right not to belong to a union , but where more than half the workforce demonstrate in a postal ballot that they want to belong , they should be allowed bargaining rights . ’
10 The axiom states that a population not represented in a parliament can not share a government which that parliament controls .
11 ( iii ) Any other equitable charge not secured by a deposit of documents not arising under a trust for sale or a settlement and not included in any other land charge ( " a general equitable charge " ) .
12 " Table meal " is defined by s.139(1) as meaning a meal eaten by a person sitting at a table or other structure which serves the purpose of a table and is not used for the service of refreshments for consumption by persons not seated at a table or structure serving the purpose of a table , which definition repeats the definition given by the 1962 Act .
13 In the case of summary proceedings for recovery of land , Ord 24 , r 4 , any person not named as a respondent may apply to be joined at any stage of the proceedings on the question whether an order for possession should be made .
14 Any person not named as a respondent may seek party status for himself or any other person by filing a written request at court ( FPCR , r7(2) ; FPR , r4.7(2) ) .
15 just by way of comparison for rough guidance that there is a regulation or or something like that which says , if I remember rightly , that erm er payments must not be made for either services or goods not supplied above a figure of two thousand pounds without er being taken to committee first .
16 Private cars are not permitted to use the access road and indeed can not cross via the pedestrian ferry , but in summer months a minibus takes visitors from the ferry to the lighthouse , a service not operating to a timetable and needing to be confirmed by advance enquiry .
17 On scrutinising the notes of the 80 patients not referred for a specialist opinion we concluded that a nephrological opinion might have helped management in 17 cases .
18 It further suggests that frail and confused elderly people not seen by a District Nurse need " a Health Visitor 's intervention and surveillance " .
19 Kurt and Wolfgang 's main worry was that large-scale unemployment among people not accustomed to a winners-and-losers system , which capitalism is , would create lasting resentments with dire social consequences .
20 Housing turnover has collapsed to levels not seen in a generation — and in just two months , September and October , house prices fell by 4% , enough to virtually wipe out the deposit the first-time buyer could normally expect to pay .
21 STATIC means not varying as a function of time .
22 ‘ Uncontrolled ’ means not controlled by a police officer or a traffic warden .
23 The very radical separation of the middle classes and aristocracy in the latter left the state ( and the state not conceived as a set of representative institutions along lines of the American model ) a large space in the creation of bourgeois identity .
24 Three million unemployed , homelessness and poverty on a scale not known for a generation .
25 It is , however , equally true that Parliament can not stop Frenchmen smoking on the streets of Paris ( or , for that matter , Englishmen smoking on the streets of London ) and that it can make it a crime for a man not to turn into a woman .
26 The undertaking by the Government not to agree to a proposal while either House maintains its ‘ parliamentary reserve ’ was embodied in a resolution of the House of Commons of 30 October 1980 .
27 ‘ The obligation not to profit from a position of trust , or , as it is sometimes relevant to put it , not to allow a conflict to arise between duty and interest , is one of strictness .
28 Pinay was at first reluctant to pursue the project , which in all probability would have died an administrative death , had de Gaulle not let off a series of explosions of impatience with the footdragging of the Finance Ministry .
29 Bowlby 's report was abridged and published as a paperback ( 1953 ) , thus becoming widely available to the lay public ; in the year of publication and the five years following , more than seventy-five thousand copies were sold , and nearly as many in the next five years : an exceptional sale in Britain for a book not intended as a baby book for parents .
30 There is no cover provided by the policy for theft of property not contained in a building i.e. theft from a motor vehicle is not covered .
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