Example sentences of "not [vb infin] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Finally Carol Jones , arriving in a great hurry , apologized but could not stay as she was doing the payroll . |
| 2 | THE North-South divide may not exist as we thought . |
| 3 | But the pot of gold simply does not exist as he has already discovered in trying to pay for Labour 's initial promises . |
| 4 | Even where religious textual condemnation does not exist as in some societies , there is a strong cross-cultural feeling that such acts are ‘ against nature ’ or God . |
| 5 | The basic problem was that the switch from autarchy to internationalism had not been fully effected : a free-market economy could not exist as long as its component parts — especially investment , supply of raw materials , and the purchasing power of the domestic market — were still closely controlled by the state . |
| 6 | Do not overtighten as this prevents expansion and contraction of the Thermoclear . |
| 7 | Is there any fish I could keep with my Red-tail Catfish in his 8′ × 4′ × 4′ tank that he would not eat as he grows ? |
| 8 | Does it matter if a person derives some kind of sexual satisfaction from an act which most people or ‘ right-minded persons ’ would not regard as indecent ? |
| 9 | That was an order with which it was probably impossible for the health authority to comply , because it has no power , contractual or otherwise , to require doctors to act in a way which they do not regard as medically appropriate . |
| 10 | Mr Righton would not comment as he left court . |
| 11 | Even cottagers were frequently obliged to sell up , and those who did not remain as labourers went off to swell the population of the new towns . |
| 12 | Dear Doctor After five years of reading your informative column , saving me immeasurable instances of possible musi-technical tension , a situation has newly presented itself to me that I can not recollect as being covered before . |
| 13 | Going by railroad I do not consider as travelling at all ; it ( s merely ‘ being sent ’ to a place , and Very little different from becoming a parcel . |
| 14 | Going by railroad I do not consider as travelling at all ; it is merely being ‘ sent ’ to a place , and very little different from becoming a parcel |
| 15 | Ancillary consents are those which technically require formal consent but which the purchaser does not consider as being significant to the business . |
| 16 | If an affluent investor had invested in a poor stock , he might not object as he would enjoy setting losses against capital gains for the year . |
| 17 | One particularly important example of such an interaction is where sickle cell anaemia is co-inherited with the benign condition hereditary persistence of fetal haemoglobin ( HPFH ) , in which levels of the fetal form of haemoglobin HbF do not fall as the patient grows . |
| 18 | Locally produced sales by American firms in Japan , however , do not count as exports , nor do their local purchases of inputs count as imports . |
| 19 | Before the Finance Act 1989 , switches within offshore umbrella funds did not count as realisations for either capital gains tax or income tax purposes , but they are now regarded as disposals and so chargeable to CGT and income tax . |
| 20 | There is , to put it crudely , a firm intuition that the self we can identify with our immediate consciousness is a unity , in that we would not count as being that self any part or module of ourselves which was put forward as a candidate for being a conscious entity . |
| 21 | In other words , they will not count as though they were adults in a household . |
| 22 | It is a disequilibrium situation which can not survive as it offers investors a profitable arbitrage opportunity . |
| 23 | She did not know as she smiled innocently at the flowers that behind the cigarette smoke was the cause of future sorrow in her life . |
| 24 | I do not know as yet what it is , but I know it is not that . |
| 25 | But for the life of her she could not behave as she ought when she stood among the rubble to which her life had been reduced . |
| 26 | However , this body of theory is now being questioned , partly because of growing evidence that people do not behave as the theory predicts , and partly because of the continuing discovery of cases in which the theory 's recommendations as to rational choice conflict with most people 's intuitions about what it would be reasonable to do . |
| 27 | Mr Hurd won Tory cheers as he said : ‘ Unless it is clear to people in Vietnam that those who do not qualify as refugees will be returned to Vietnam , Hong Kong faces the prospect of tens of thousands more arrivals in 1990 . |
| 28 | Anthropologists , following Evans-Pritchard 's lead , have reacted against this way of seeing primitive , or non-literate , peoples , and maintained that they do not act as they do for the same reasons that neurotics act in Western society . |
| 29 | Only half a dozen men and I were left , but almost at once a third plane arrived , and having been warned that they dared not wait as there were Jap planes about , we got on board and the plane took oft almost empty . |
| 30 | Servants from these houses regularly flushed out the sewers with the water they used to wash clothes so the streets did not reek as they did in Southwark . |