Example sentences of "[not/n't] [vb infin] [noun] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Loughlin , out until Christmas , broke his arm playing for Great Britain against New South Wales Country , and Saints have been told that insurance does not cover players on international duty . |
| 2 | This section does not cover failure of public transport services caused by strike , riot or civil commotion in respect of which warning has been given prior to the commencement of departure from home . |
| 3 | Does not affect survival in intensive care units |
| 4 | Unless sites are discovered by accident ( when a new road cuts through a prehistoric cemetery , for example ) most methods of discovery do not locate sites with sufficient accuracy for excavation to take place with confidence . |
| 5 | Any change data are thus inevitably incomplete and do not make allowance for potential voting patterns in the many very safe Labour wards where councillors were returned unopposed . |
| 6 | I can not make sense of that rhyme . |
| 7 | Mr Whitelaw dealt with the question normally by saying that it was no doubt a suitable kind of punishment for schoolboys , but it did not make sense for judicial use , especially because of the delay between offence and punishment . |
| 8 | ‘ We must not make assumptions about that child watching . |
| 9 | So far chemical methods had failed to produce purification , and it had also turned out that matter precipitated from dirty water would not make fertilizer of great value . |
| 10 | We have already seen ( paragraph 7–05 ) that the time of delivery is normally ‘ of the essence , ’ i.e. if a delivery date is stipulated and the seller can not make delivery by that date , that is a breach of condition and the buyer is entitled to repudiate the contract and sue for non-delivery . |
| 11 | * Do not make coffee with boiling water . |
| 12 | You do not make arrests in this city . |
| 13 | Freud did this , even though his explicit view of science led him to think the scientist should not make judgements of this kind . |
| 14 | Unfortunately , the partner does not make use of this opportunity , because he , too ( and for the same reason ) , pretends to be asleep and fears to budge . |
| 15 | ‘ Let's face it — he may not want help of any sort . |
| 16 | He therefore sees no point in trying to enforce statutory instructions that are so unclear that any reliance on them would be speculative , so vague that they can not aid coordination in any case . |
| 17 | Bush rejected the campaign finance bill , the first such measure to have been approved by Congress in more than a decade of partisan dispute over the issue , on the grounds that it offered public subsidies to House and Senate candidates and because it did not eliminate donations from political action committees ( PACs ) . |
| 18 | we can not predict outcomes with absolute certainty since individuals can take remedial action in the light of our forecasts . |
| 19 | This is an important change and I am glad that we have got away from the odious and patronising attitude of so many local education authorities — particularly Labour local education authorities — that say that one can not trust parents with objective information about how their children 's schools are doing . |
| 20 | ‘ The people of the GDR do not need lectures on this subject from outsiders , ’ commented Dr Kohl , adding that Mr Gorbachev 's survival was vital for the wider movement to democracy and reform in eastern Europe . |
| 21 | self-contained — it must not need information from another part of the problem . |
| 22 | For those who are knowledgeable and have thought about the subject , ( I do not include politicians of any party in this category , unless they are foxhunters ) foxhunting is not a cruel way of killing foxes ; long may it flourish , for the sake of the fox . |
| 23 | Cash flow statements do not include accruals of any kind . |
| 24 | The underlying epidemiology is unknown , but is perhaps associated with pasture contamination by that proportion of ingested larvae which did not undergo hypobiosis in early summer . |
| 25 | They found this unsatisfactory because ‘ it did not direct attention to governmental manipulation of transnational relations … [ and they have ] grown progressively more interested in the interaction between governments and transnational society and in transnational coalitions among subunits of governments ’ ( Keohane and Nye , 1973 , p vjj ) .2 |
| 26 | While it is not possible to be completely up to date , the user should not buy models with in-built obsolescence . |
| 27 | Timber trade world-wide is doing an enormous amount of work already to make sure that sustainable timber is supplied , and the horror stories are slowly going away , and a lot of people now do not buy timber in this country , from those countries who 've got a bad track record , but are buying from countries like Denmark and Sweden , where it 's a national law on their forestry policy . |
| 28 | Clearly we can not normalise X in this case to make both unc and unc unit matrices ; we say therefore that in this case X is bi-orthogonal or has a generalised orthogonal form . |
| 29 | the company does not commence business within one year from incorporation or suspends business for a whole year ; |
| 30 | Glowing report may not avert closure of Dutch primate centre |