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

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1 It is certain that bees are very responsive to different tones of the human voice , and this is probably the reason for the country belief that bees are peace-loving beings and will not stay with a quarrelsome family .
2 For Oakeshott the authority of respublica does not arise from the mere existence of a rule of recognition .
3 It does not arise from the old style but in opposition to it .
4 Such a problem would not arise in the perfect capital market scenario sketched out above ( although if the qualification provided new information about the distribution of cash flows , there might be an interdependence between the qualification and asset prices ) but if in the real world the qualification caused investors and creditors to withdraw funds , refuse lines of credit or otherwise alter their behaviour , then the qualification might indeed be a self-fulfilling prophecy .
5 This issue does not arise in the present case .
6 However , I shall at least admit that that contradiction does not exist on the Liberal Democrat Bench .
7 Russia can not exist without the Ukrainian sugar industry , and the same can be said in regard to coal ( the Donbas ) , cereals ( the black earth belt ) , etc .
8 ( 2 ) The human being does not exist as a legal person until after birth .
9 Some of these plate boundary configurations and stages of development are largely conjectural since clear examples do not exist at the present day .
10 Sufficient funds did not exist for the fast rehabilitation of the railways , for the immediate implementation of mass education .
11 A warning message will be displayed if it is a development version , or if that version does not exist for the given Product package at this time .
12 Moreover , it needs to be recognized that a rational , ‘ value-free ’ analysis can not exist in a pluralistic society or that it would please no one if attempted ( Clapham , 1984 ) , unless an action could be shown to benefit all stakeholders .
13 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 .
14 No matter how ethereal they may seem , they do not exist in a timeless limbo but possess determinate antecedents in time and space .
15 Indeed , as the conventional dominant does not exist in a whole-tone scale ( perfect fifths are not available ) , there can not possibly be effects of resolution such as we find in dominant-tonic harmonic movements .
16 They may be unable to afford appropriate housing , or may live in an area where such housing does not exist in the private sector , and thus would look to the local housing authority to solve their housing problem .
17 However , there is no reported case in which this point has been taken by an employer in order to argue that the special approach is not always applicable ; it may be that the special approach is so entrenched in judicial thinking that even an employer who is able to demonstrate that the factual bases for the special approach do not exist in the instant case will not succeed in persuading the court to abandon it .
18 The objects in question , similarly , do not exist in the spatio-temporal way of ordinary things .
19 Beware of the trap of spending time on long explanations in English on what something is. it may not exist in the other culture .
20 Lorenzo Semple Jr came in to spend six weeks writing three quick drafts to create the character for Dustin — the wimpish , thickly bespectacled Louis Dega , ‘ the best counterfeiter in France ’ , who did not exist in the Charrière book .
21 Money did not exist in the Minoan scheme of things .
22 Time does not exist in the big glass , he wrote .
23 My conclusion is , though I have not reviewed here all the examples adduced for the phenomenon of " automatism " , that the phenomenon does not exist in the Hebrew Bible , and that some supposed examples of it really exhibit the parallelism of greater precision , while other examples contain other types of parallelistic relationships .
24 AS LONG AGO as the 19th century , Franz Brentano argued that mind is essentially intentional , and that conscious states always require cognitively-held objects , even though these may not exist in the physical world .
25 As R. H. Tawney remarked , homework did not exist in the northern textile towns where the largest percentages of married women were employed full-time in factories .
26 Thus intelligent life could not exist in the contracting phase of the universe .
27 But this intuitive classification does not exist in an analogous way .
28 Molecular hydrogen is rather fragile ( in interstellar terms ) , and is destroyed by shock waves with velocities greater than about 50 km s -1 and can not exist behind the leading shock .
29 These arguments apply just as much where there is a non-cumulative several liability , not annexed to a joint liability , as they do where it is so annexed .
30 Perhaps what has saved it is the fact that it is not situated on a major road .
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