Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] to an [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | This many be because the rat model was not exposed to an intiating factor or that 18 months was still not long enough to allow cancer to develop . |
2 | In these instances it is not uncommon to find a government 's revenue ( as in Lesotho ) almost totally committed to paying its teacher force — hence nothing left over to equip the schools ; in which case it is worth asking whether the whole costly mechanism of providing school education has not come to an unprofitable full-stop just before the only point where it can be productive — enabling children to learn . |
3 | For many , ‘ law ’ and ‘ order ’ refer to the ideal of legality ( or ‘ the rule of law ’ ) — and while it is clear that this does not refer to an uncontroversial notion , it is arguable that most people would agree on certain core features of the rule of law : a congruence of official action with a previously declared rule so as to preserve individual autonomy and freedom from arbitrary state power , and a notion of equal treatment of individuals in the eye of the law . |
4 | Because by definition it is not related to an existing settlement , it is not in the greenbelt , it must be in the countryside . |
5 | This particular finding supports the finding , based on radiological studies , that the presence of backwash ileitis did not predispose to an increased incidence of pouchitis . |
6 | As the early church came to see that history was not coming to an immediate end , they also saw some permanent ministerial structure was needed . |
7 | Therefore , so far as the original shareholders were concerned , clause 3 of the shareholders ' agreement did not amount to an unlawful fetter on the company 's statutory power to increase its share capital ; it was simply a personal agreement outside the articles between the shareholders who executed it about how they would exercise their voting rights in relation to the creation or issue of shares , and did not purport to bind future shareholders . |
8 | The lower scores women might get because of such characteristics would not amount to an absolute condition or requirement which the women failed to meet [ for that , refusal would have to be automatic if , say , someone did not have a bank account ] . |
9 | They see the landscape as being formed by ‘ dreamings ’ , which came into the material world at so-called ‘ waterholes ’ , which may or may not correspond to an actual waterhole . |
10 | Consequently the palaeomagnetic evidence did not lead to an immediate resurrection of the continental drift hypothesis . |
11 | The introduction of railways did not lead to an immediate decline in the number of draught animals . |
12 | I bet it does n't relate to an actual operation in a general hospital because you 've got so many people wanting their rake off in a private one surely ? |
13 | He 'd then offered to come back with her , so that she was n't returning to an empty house alone , at which point — running out of soothing phrases and patience — she 'd told him that alone was exactly what she wanted to be . |
14 | He would n't object to an innocent lunch . ’ |
15 | But we passed again , later , and the hands had n't moved to an earlier time . |
16 | Birdie sometimes questioned the fairness of life , having spent overlong looking after an ailing mother and missing her chances with a very suitable man from Ballylee who married another , who was n't bound to an ailing parent . |
17 | Under attack on all sides , not least from the infant population which was itself unwittingly helping to spread disease through the narrow streets and alleys of the town , some Frome people found a temporary escape in one or other of the forty or more pubs which vied with each other for custom ; drunkenness was commonplace , and many of those who did n't go to an early grave with some infection or other departed this life with a putrid liver . |
18 | Most of you wo n't even know who the MCofS are ; you 're certainly not all members ( did you know you could be ? ) and you probably do n't belong to an affiliated club . |
19 | Consequently , nationalisation expressed their political wish , but just as that did n't extend to an alternative philosophy at the economic or political level , neither did it extend to a radical philosophy of personal life . |