Example sentences of "[not/n't] [vb pp] [to-vb] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The work can be at various levels from initial reconnaissance to diamond drilling but is not intended to go beyond the discovery stage of a mineral deposit . |
| 2 | Granada 's defence that the words were not intended to refer to the plaintiff and would not have been so regarded by reasonable viewers was rejected by the jury , after hearing that the officer had received " unpleasant and damaging " comments afterwards . |
| 3 | A contract of hire is a species of bailment and although it is readily distinguishable from sale in that general property is not intended to pass to the hirer , there are important public policy issues in a consumer hire context , which dictate that the owner be subject to similar liability to that visited upon the seller . |
| 4 | The decision by a court that a particular situation was not intended to come within the ambit of a statute , though within its words in what may be their most obvious meaning , does not deny the supremacy of Parliament , for if Parliament disagrees with the decision it can pass another Act dealing specifically with the type of case . |
| 5 | I had not intended to contribute to the debate but the hon. Member for Keighley ( Mr. Waller ) , who introduced the motion , was asked several questions during his introductory speech and he failed stoically to produce any answers . |
| 6 | I had not intended to speak on the motion , but I feel that I must bring to the attention of the House certain points made by the Select Committee on Procedure in two reports to the House on the passage of legislation . |
| 7 | Here , they are quiet as mice throughout Act 1 and are not heard to applaud at the end . |
| 8 | The windsurfing concept is not limited to use on the water and in recent years windsurfing sails have been seen on land , snow and ice . |
| 9 | The US Congress is considering legislation for limited tort reform , he added , but that is not expected to progress before the end of the year . |
| 10 | Mr Patten left his hospital bed for last week 's crucial Commons ' votes , but he is not expected to return to the Department of Education , until the end of next month . |
| 11 | On April 9 the then Minister of State for Cabinet Affairs Abdul Rahman Abdallah as Awadi said that elections were unlikely to be held before August or September 1992 due to the continued absence of an estimated 400,000 Kuwaitis ( including " second category " citizens ) who had left the country during the Iraqi occupation and who were not expected to return before the end of 1991 . |
| 12 | The first shipments were not expected to arrive in the country until the autumn . |
| 13 | It should be noted that although the total population over 65 is not expected to increase for the remainder of the twentieth century , this is due to a projected fall in the numbers aged 60/65–74 ( by 5 per cent between 1981 and 1991 ) combined with a rise in the numbers at older ages . |
| 14 | ( As of mid-March 1990 Clowes and six others faced charges relating to fraud , theft and deception in a trial which was not expected to begin until the spring of 1991 . ) |
| 15 | The ICL machine , not expected to appear on the market until 1994 , will utilise up to 128 pairs of superscalar Sparc RISC chips — one CPU for the application , the other to drive the network — each with 64Mb memory . |
| 16 | The children were allowed no breakfast , the younger two were not permitted to go to the bathroom , and none of them was allowed to take a single personal possession , not even a teddy bear or something to be a link with home . |
| 17 | As a result of US pressure Arafat , unlike the heads of other delegations , was not permitted to speak from the podium . |
| 18 | In fact , this was the only spectacle which Mrs Goreng had not had to contrive for the benefit of her guests . |
| 19 | Nearly a quarter of those in nursing homes had not had to pay towards the cost of living there compared with only 7 per cent of those in old people 's homes . |
| 20 | The door to his room had been closed and locked when she visited the mother , and she had not bothered to come to the house when Tatyana committed suicide . |
| 21 | That usage was not found in the classical texts , in which voluntas is not used to refer to the source of validity of a trust but as a criterion in assessing the content of a trust . |
| 22 | Why the NTSB was not invited to participate in the investigation by the Mexican authorities is not known . |
| 23 | Consulted : not invited to share in the decision whether redundancies are to be declared . |
| 24 | They are not invited to enquire into the process of their learning or how this is affected by what teachers require them to do . |
| 25 | The Home Secretary is not bound to act on the advice of the inspectorate of constabulary , but he must take into account a large number of other factors . |
| 26 | ‘ … the innocent party is not bound to go on the market and buy or sell at the date of the breach . |
| 27 | The competition for them was not bound to result in the use of force , but it kept force in view . |
| 28 | A statement of law based upon facts which either were not found to exist in the case or were found not to be material to the decision . |
| 29 | It is not proposed to deal with the law on these matters , save to outline the basics , but rather to dwell on whether or not it is in the insurers ' interest to make an interim payment in any given case . |
| 30 | One is that scepticism is not restricted to doubt about the possibility of knowledge ; most interesting sceptical arguments , as I suggest in chapter 1 , involve an equal doubt about the possibility of justified belief . |