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

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1 A default judgment must , however , not be recognised if the defendant was not duly served with the document which instituted the proceedings or with an equivalent document in sufficient time to enable him to arrange for his defence .
2 In some ways not altogether opposed to the hygienist school ( they did not very much approve of cuddling , although as early as 1932 Ian Suttie had protested against the ‘ taboo on tenderness ’ ) , nevertheless a basic interest in the child 's natural intellectual and social development , together with a less inhibited approach to sexual function , opened the door to greater permissiveness generally .
3 No body , no individual may exercise authority which does not expressly emanate from the Nation . ’
4 Covenants , though not expressly stated in the lease , may be implied from the fact of a lease being entered into .
5 The fact that it was not expressly mentioned in the Council of the European Communities ' general programme for the abolition of restrictions on freedom of establishment ( Official Journal , English Special Edition , Second Series , p. 7 ) makes no difference , since , useful as it is , the programme only contains guidelines and is not exhaustive .
6 The judge concluded that since rule 4.4(4) of the Family Proceedings Rules 1991did not expressly provide for the making of an application ex parte for a residence order and since section 9(5) of the Children Act 1989 prohibited him from making either a prohibited steps order or a specific issue order to achieve that result he had no jurisdiction to make the orders sought .
7 But these distinctions and considerations were not expressly addressed in the Convention 's negotiating process and so do not feature explicitly in its text .
8 Head almost buried in the keyboard , he worried at the chords , arpeggios and flourishes , producing a big yet unforced sound and a sense of re-creative excitement and scope , not wholly matched by the orchestra .
9 Thus the EC remains highly sensitive to the origins of garments made up within African countries when the woven fabric is imported from elsewhere , and may reject such imports on the grounds that they are not wholly manufactured within the exporting country .
10 The shift was not wholly imposed from the outside .
11 Although reduced feed consumption and diarrhoea affect liveweight gain they do not wholly account for the loss in production .
12 It was not wholly superseded until the publication of Richard Westfall 's Never at Rest in 1980 ( a condensed , updated version of this biography is soon to be published by Cambridge University Press as The Life of Isaac Newton ) .
13 ( I am not arguing that the Americans do not themselves engage in all manner of protectionist devices , but merely note that they do at least have an intrinsic belief in the benefits of Adam Smith 's hidden hand , a view which is not wholly shared on the Continent of Europe . )
14 Although I do not wholeheartedly agree with the view the author takes of the mechanical world of the train being somehow better than that of nature , I can still find it interesting and thought inducing from a philosophical angle .
15 It seems clear that the value of the whole state of consciousness is not properly regarded as the sum of the value of its parts .
16 Although the parties are free to agree what terms they choose , they will not be bound by any term which is not properly incorporated in the contract .
17 There will be unfortunate ( even disastrous ) consequences in the real world if the message is not properly understood by the recipient .
18 As a result our picture of the divisions , and of the resulting kingdoms , or Teilreiche , is not complete , and even the outline that we have was not properly understood until the middle of the twentieth century .
19 While the Roman law had perhaps never died out in the north Italian cities and was studied in the early eleventh century at Pavia , where the great lawyer , Lanfranc , archbishop of Canterbury under William the Conqueror , taught for a while , an interest in the texts of Justinian was not widely aroused until the discovery of a manuscript of the Digest in c. 1070 .
20 This use of HLCAs is , in fact , available but not widely publicised by the Agriculture Department with much discretion being left to individual officers , a situation which MAFF has stated will be rectified .
21 Small companies still tend to be inhibited by the cost of using such services and within larger firms the knowledge of their benefits still seems to be limited to a small number of individuals and not widely recognised within the company as a resource .
22 There is little doubt that the coalition was returned to power mainly on Unionist votes , although this was not widely recognized at the time ; the Unionists had never won so many votes before , and it was perhaps natural to attribute their success to their new asset .
23 Many of Gloucestershire 's smaller streams and rivers are not widely known beyond the county boundaries .
24 The purpose of the law , which was not widely practised by the time of Jesus , was to preserve both a family line and the inheritance of family possessions and property .
25 We all agree to the need for more rational use of insecticides than hitherto , especially in agriculture ; yet insecticides to control mosquitoes are normally applied to the inside walls and roofs of buildings so that , unlike agricultural pesticides , they are not widely dispersed over the landscape but confined within houses .
26 Most psychologists accept that cognitive processes , and therefore ‘ mind ’ — although this is a term not widely used in the brain sciences - encompass both conscious and unconscious activities .
27 Although social class is one of the census categories ( see Chapter 2 ) , it is not widely used in the publication of official statistics on education .
28 It was not until the pontificate of Pope John XIII , elected in 965 , that the Papacy began dating by the year of the Incarnation , but the practice was not uniformly adopted until the time of Pope Leo IX , elected in 1048 .
29 The driver of the Transit was not badly hurt in the accident .
30 But this is misleading in the sense that much of this expenditure did generate purchasing power in recipient countries , which led to demand for dollar goods , demand which was not effectively curtailed by the exchange controls .
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