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

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1 He finds the necessary justification for coercion in the justice or efficiency or some other contemporary virtue of the coercive decision itself , as and when it is made by judges , and he adds that consistency with any past legislative or judicial decision does not in principle contribute to the justice or virtue of any present one .
2 As the award is conventional in its nature and can not in fact compensate for the injury suffered there is no logical reason to take one figure rather than another .
3 It seems that this passage led Barnett J. ( and indeed the Court of Appeal ) to conclude that the district judge should have approached the inquiry on the footing that ( i ) the burden of showing that the continuance of the prosecution would be a misuse of the process of the court rested upon the applicant , but ( ii ) this burden could prima facie be discharged by demonstrating an inexcusably long delay , unless the prosecution could in turn discharge the burden of showing that prejudice did not in fact follow from the delay .
4 The more a theory claims , the more potential opportunities there will be for showing that the world does not in fact behave in the way laid down by the theory .
5 ‘ I thought he did n't in fact live in the Palace ? ’ objects Francis Fairlie .
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