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

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1 Such a consideration did not arise in connection with Sainte-Agathe , however , and when Jean-Claude felt he needed to refresh his memory of details , we rode cross-country to the village .
2 Defective tiled roofs can produce problems identical to those posed by ageing slate roofs , but because clay plain tiles are necessarily hung on battens ( not every tile is nailed except on very steeply pitched roofs ) and it is not possible simply to apply tiles direct to a boarded surface as in the case of a slate covering , the problem of rotting roofing battens and sarking does not arise in connection with tiling .
3 Even the best examples of habitat types can not exist in isolation like islands of richness in a sea of poverty .
4 For these students , this was manifested by a decision not to continue with physics at postgraduate level .
5 The pathogenesis , diagnosis , treatment and control measures are as for the other ruminants , but care must be taken in choosing the anthelmintic since many of those recommended for sheep and cattle are not registered for use in goats .
6 The sheet explains what an NMT is ; what arrangements apply when supplying an NMT to a person not registered for VAT for removal to another EC country ; what happens if a new vehicle is to be used on UK roads before it is removed to another EC country ; and what to do if obtaining an NMT in the UK for removal to another EC country .
7 In direct financing , the ostensible supplier , the financier , is not treated as supplier for liability purposes ( s46(2) ) .
8 Our present findings are consistent with the generally accepted view that peak acid output reflects the parietal cell mass and is not altered by eradication of H pylori .
9 The search for a laterality index that is not biased with respect to accuracy recently led Bryden and Sprott ( 1981 ) to propose the adoption of a new index , lamda , based on the log odds ratios ( P/ ( l — P ) ; P/ ( l -P ) where PR and P , are the respective probabilities of a correct response at the left and right sides .
10 Contrary to left-wing and anti-fascist claims , the police at the highest levels were not biased in favour of fascism , even if there were problems of interpretation of the law in developing conflict situations at the street level amongst the junior ranks and local magistrates treated anti-fascists more harshly than fascists .
11 It is therefore important that the procedure used to produce a sample of visitors is not biased by size of group .
12 The boys ' attention did not spring from concern for Alec but concern for themselves if Alec was cut and needed to see the nurse .
13 Firstly , Worsley argues that overgeneralizations about the breakdown of the family unit are not justified by evidence on kinship networks .
14 Sun Microsystems Inc stoutly denies a report in ComputerWorld that the 40MHz Sparcstation 10 missed its September delivery date and will not ship in volume until December .
15 He realized that his own interests were not favoured at school by boys or masters :
16 Overall , little more than half of them were serious candidates put up by Fianna Fail , Fine Gael , Labour and the Progressive Democrats , and on the ballot paper they were not listed for convenience of identification in party groups ; the other candidates were outsiders .
17 As for the speed of the machine I can not comment as lack of time with the machine did not allow us to perform our usual tests .
18 A palace spokesman said : ‘ We do not comment on speculation in newspapers .
19 Pension funds must gain approval from the Superannuation Funds Office ( SFO ) — part of the Inland Revenue — to gain the tax advantages relevant to pension funds ( although this does not relate to protection for pension scheme members ) .
20 If he had not fallen in love with Linda his male genitals would have been sculpted to mimic those of a female by a surgeon in Middlesbrough General Hospital some time next year .
21 Not all such performances are inspiring , however , and a plenitude of decibels does not compensate for lack of quality .
22 ‘ We surprise clients by recommending them not to proceed from time to time , ’ he says .
23 The second stage of the field work involved contacting ‘ hidden ’ heroin users , that is , those who had not come into contact with Wirral agencies .
24 ( Private radio had been introduced by a law passed in August 1987 but which had not come into effect until Oct. 6 , 1989 . )
25 This is necessary because many overhead costs are not included in work in progress but are written off against current profits each year ( see Chapter 11 ) .
26 The endoscopic findings of ‘ erythema ’ , ‘ oedema ’ , ‘ friability ’ , ‘ hyperaemia ’ , ‘ dilated cardia ’ , ‘ endoscopic reflux ’ , which agree with Savary and Tytgat , were not considered as evidence of oesophagitis , because they are too subjective to be evaluated and were not reproducible from one observer to another .
27 Unlike most forms of home territory , however , Ends are not colonized in opposition to authority .
28 It is very much to the credit of my right hon. Friends the Prime Minister and the Secretary of State for the Environment that they have returned to basics and have not looked at finance in isolation .
29 Reluctantly , Johnson accepted their advice , and on 31 March 1968 he made a dramatic appearance on nationwide television to announce a fresh peace initiative , the reduction of bombing raids on North Vietnam , and his decision not to stand for re-election in November .
30 For instance , when a teacher is speaking or demonstrating it is better not to stand in front of windows .
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