Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb mod] not [vb infin] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The King was , however , also King of his Dominions and it had been provided by the Statute of Westminster 1931 , s.4 , that Parliament should not legislate for the Dominions ( defined as Australia , Canada , the Irish Free State , Newfoundland , New Zealand and the Union of South Africa ) except at the request of and with the consent of the Dominion concerned . |
| 2 | Environmental health experts say that increased reporting can not account for the total increase . |
| 3 | it was held that the Food Controller could not charge for the licence . |
| 4 | If similar figures were applied to man , then clearly an increase of only 43% in liver protein synthesis would not account for the reported increases in whole body protein synthesis . |
| 5 | Moreover , his proposal can not account for the close relationship between pairs of sentences such as : |
| 6 | But of course grammatical modification can not account for the particulars of meaning which are signalled on particular occasions , Grammar can only denote degrees of generality . |
| 7 | Taking up the points made in recent days by Mr Tony Blair , Labour 's employment spokesman , and the TUC , Mr Fowler said the dismantling of the closed shop need not wait for the passage of the bill . |
| 8 | Italian farmers claimed that some of its modern manifestations were inspired by pesticide , but pesticide would not account for the hue of those ravishing little sprigged seaweed trees on the Tuscan hillsides in the frescoes at Monte Oliveto . |
| 9 | Even if she was sitting next to him , complaining about his driving , her own imminent decease would not compensate for the depression generated by his own . |
| 10 | Accordingly , the draftsman should not provide for the usual disregard of tenant 's improvements in the valuation formula . |
| 11 | Cynthia could not speak for the sobs that now came from her throat . |
| 12 | They are undoubtedly right that it has now become clear that the Government will not pay for the expansion it desires at a level which will protect high quality . |
| 13 | An attentional model can not account for the statistically significant ear-by-stimulus type interaction . |
| 14 | Such a facility would normally apply to a physically discrete or contained site ( e.g. a single pasture , groups of pastures , a wetland separated from other land ) in order that livestock from another ownership or section of land could not substitute for the agreed reduction . |
| 15 | It therefore may be felt that the thesis can not serve for the analysis of political authority . |
| 16 | Some of Althusser 's critics have pointed out that this monolithic conception of the role of ideology can not account for the vast variety of ‘ ideological universes ’ found in modern capitalist states , some conformist and others overtly subversive . |