Example sentences of "[vb -s] not [vb infin] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus Jacobi 's method does not terminate in a finite , predictable number of steps ; indeed , the umber may be very large . |
| 2 | Right it is a hundred miles from King 's Lynn to London , the train takes two hours to do the journey the train does not go at a constant speed , it speeds up sometimes and slows down at other times it also stops at stations on the way and on once of course as it , as it 's stopping it 's going more and more slowly and as it 's er moving off again it starts slowly and starts to go quickly but because it takes two hours in all the train goes a hundred miles in two hours we say its average speed for the journey is fifty miles per hour . |
| 3 | In this case , Lord Denning distinguished Bartlett v Sidney Marcus ( 1965 ) by explaining that if a car does not go for a reasonable time and the engine breaks up , this is evidence to show that the car was not fit for its purpose when sold . |
| 4 | All in all , it is submitted that the claim that there is a risk of liability under section 2 of the Suicide Act does not serve as a valid justification for ignoring the request of the patient that treatment be discontinued . |
| 5 | Unlike still red wines , sparkling Champagne does not benefit from a detectable tannin content , although a little tannin will be added prior to the last racking to activate the fining agent . |
| 6 | I doubt if it is possible to hold the view of Margalef ( 1968 ) that ‘ Relevant evidence does not consist of a massive accumulation of trivia ’ and reconcile it with his ‘ Ecology … is the study of systems at a level at which individuals or whole organisms may be considered elements of interaction … ’ . |
| 7 | Furth 's ( 1966 ) view is that there is an experiential deficit which appears repeatedly in test situations , but this does not coincide with a cognitive deficit . |
| 8 | But Pip , as a gentleman , does not move into a sparkling world of pleasure where he lives ‘ happily ever after ’ , instead he find himself in the corrupt , sordid London . |
| 9 | In approximately 30% of cases the epithelium does not change to a homogeneous phenotype and this is characterised by an ‘ incomplete ’ intestinal epithelium with both gastric foveolar and intestinal goblet cells and enterocytes . |
| 10 | The Germanic tribe is therefore based on shared locality rather than kinship , but it consists of a collection of kinship units each with access to a territory , thus ‘ individual landed property ( of the different families ) does not appear as a contradictory form of communal landed property , nor as mediated by the community but the other way round . |
| 11 | The final surprise is that in the Old Testament the Spirit does not appear as a divine being . |
| 12 | So this does not appear as a technical difference . |
| 13 | Transport does not appear as a separate item , but as part of the overall block grant to regional authorities . |
| 14 | Eli himself for the most part does not appear in a bad light , but as the one responsible for the proper functioning of the sanctuary , he is implicated in his sons ' guilt , is at one point accused of sharing their greed , and is doomed to share in great disgrace about to befall his family . |
| 15 | Bukharin argued that armaments production ‘ has an altogether different significance : a gun is not transformed into an element of a new production cycle : gunpowder shot into the air does not appear in a different guise in the next cycle at all . |
| 16 | Military production has an altogether different significance : a gun is not transformed into an element of a new productive cycle : gun powder is shot into the air and does not appear in a different guise in the next cycle at all … |
| 17 | Attitudes on an issue which hardly ever figures in the popular press and does not fit into a ready-made political rut are bound to change slowly . |
| 18 | When a bequest fails through the death of the person for whom it was intended , and does not pass under a residuary bequest , as must necessarily be the case if the bequest which falls is itself residuary , the property will be dealt with as upon an intestacy . |
| 19 | This model has all the advantages of the earlier inflationary models , but it does not depend on a dubious phase transition , and it can moreover give a reasonable size for the fluctuations in the temperature of the microwave background that agrees with observation . |
| 20 | Establishing a positive self-image does not depend on a cheery morale boost , but on appropriating the promises of God and praying and planning expectantly for their outworking in the situations in which God has already placed us or challenged us to become involved . |
| 21 | Apart from contract law there may be liability in negligence which does not depend on a contractual relationship and may even extend to others involved in the development of the system such as the experts who provided the knowledge contained in the system . |
| 22 | It is helpful if the speaker has good articulation ( crisp consonants ) and is able to phrase sentences so that the key word or subject does not depend on a high frequency — for example , instead of saying ‘ Do you know Sussex ? ’ ( key word Sussex ) , they could say ‘ Have you been in this part of the world before ? ’ |
| 23 | Dame Sirith does not end with a brief moral in the way that so many of the French fabliaux do . |
| 24 | Strictly speaking , this second is not a proper rule because it does not end with a single well defined action . |
| 25 | But my tale does not end in a rosy sunset . |
| 26 | They can be translated into English either by using a similar ‘ dummy ’ subject , They speak English , where they does not refer to a specific agent , or by using the passive voice , English is spoken . |
| 27 | It has already been noted that a criterion statement such as " can add two whole numbers summing to between 100 and 1,000 " does not refer to a precise domain . |
| 28 | ( 2 ) The human being does not exist as a legal person until after birth . |
| 29 | It is typical of options that if a particular contract does not exist in a ready made form for trading directly on an exchange , it can be manufactured from existing tradeable instruments . |
| 30 | 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 . |