Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] [prep] a [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 | ( 2 ) The human being does not exist as a legal person until after birth . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | No matter how ethereal they may seem , they do not exist in a timeless limbo but possess determinate antecedents in time and space . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | But this intuitive classification does not exist in an analogous way . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Perhaps what has saved it is the fact that it is not situated on a major road . |
| 10 | I left the hotel early and in pleasant sunshine , wearing a light jacket and bow tie , but alas did not bargain for a sudden change in the weather . |
| 11 | It seemed a rather broad question , and one for which Lord John could not think of a specific answer . |
| 12 | Nutty could not think of a good answer and nor could Mr Sylvester , so Nails was allowed to come . |
| 13 | Any team which can not think of a new rhyme , or repeats one that has been chosen earlier , drops out until only one team is left . |
| 14 | On the way home , she found that she wanted to cry again and could not think of a possible reason why she should . |
| 15 | Now I can not think of a single occasion over the years , my adulthood when I have been going to theatre arts events of any kind when I 've actually gone out and bought anything as a result of sponsorship of a programme I 've been looking at . |
| 16 | Isabel could not think of a single thing to say . |
| 17 | I could not think of a single thing that Quigley had ever done for me . |
| 18 | The Gallup survey , commissioned by the Daily Telegraph , also found that more than a third could not think of a single thing about Britain of which to be proud . |
| 19 | He admired a point which Stead had made about Polynesians and Christianity , but worried that he could not think of a Christian anthropologist . |
| 20 | You do not think like a civilised man , although your behaviour has become civilised , and so he can not ascribe to your actions motives which are suspect — or not according to his understanding . ’ |
| 21 | As a result cooking skills were not registered as an unmet need . |
| 22 | Ideals are not formed in an aseptic vacuum , but in the chemical brew of interacting personal lives and events . |
| 23 | However , a person is not treated as a seasonal worker if his off-season , or off-seasons in aggregate , do not exceed seven weeks . |
| 24 | However , in Re Cadbury Schweppes Ltd 's Agreement [ 1975 ] 2 All ER 307 a parent company and a subsidiary were not treated as a single person where two companies agreed to accept restrictions on the supply of goods to a third which was a subsidiary of one of them . |
| 25 | Another feature of the new approach is that the software industry has been exempted from the licensing provision of the Industries Act : there are no constraints on the setting up of software houses , and programming is not treated as an industrial activity . |
| 26 | Do you tell me that my brother is not treated in a like manner ? ’ |
| 27 | I sincerely hope that Mrs. X 's complaint was not treated in a dismissive way because , as she readily admitted , she was drunk at the time of the assault . |
| 28 | Despite introducing some dynamic elements into the discussion , these are not treated in a formal way . |
| 29 | The objective is not to report on an individual teacher , but appraisals have highlighted teachers whose performance does leave a lot to be desired . |
| 30 | Needless to say , this attitude did not make for a good marriage . |