Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [vb mod] not [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alas , Mr Shevardnadze speaks almost no English or French and may not want the job . |
| 2 | The real picture is even worse , since 10% of contracted sales fall through , as buyers pull out because they are nervous or can not get the finance . |
| 3 | Indeed , they said the small congregation was in favour of demolition as many members were old and infirm and could not climb the steps up to the church . |
| 4 | Such an attitude can not be morally valuable and can not validate the consent . |
| 5 | We gazed long and hard but could not spot the unwelcoming creature , our first true upland species . |
| 6 | They confirmed that the death was being treated as suspicious but would not give the woman 's identity or say how she died . |
| 7 | National unity came late and could not conquer the sense of belonging to pre-national societies . |
| 8 | Passing sentence , Lord Justice MacDermott told Manning : ‘ All murders are foul and also futile and will not prevent the hard-working men and women of the province from carrying on their lives . |
| 9 | 6.1 As respects all information as is directly or indirectly communicated to it by another Party ( hereinafter called the supplying Party ) under the terms of this Agreement or otherwise in connection with the Project ( including technical information or otherwise relating in any manner to the business or affairs of such other Party ) the recipient Party hereby undertakes to the supplying Party that it will until five years after Completion or abandonment of the Project treat the same as ( and use all reasonable endeavours to procure that the same be kept ) confidential and will not disclose the same to any other person without prior written consent of such other Party in each case except to the extent that it is reasonably necessary in or for the purposes of the exercise of the rights and licences granted to it pursuant to this Agreement . |
| 10 | The subconscious mind is at all times fully protective and will not allow the patient to betray himself by his actions or his words . |
| 11 | Provided that the person putting the terms forward has taken reasonable steps to bring the terms to the attention of persons in general , it is irrelevant that those steps were insufficient to bring the terms to the attention of the particular contracting partner , for instance because he/she is illiterate , blind or can not speak the language in which the terms are printed ( Thompson v London Midland and Scottish Railway Co [ 1930 ] 1 KB 41 ) . |
| 12 | Contractors are either not interested because the job is too small or can not undertake the work for weeks . |
| 13 | It may be that the cold pipe to the hot water cylinder is too small and can not fill the cylinder fast enough when the bath tap is being run , with the result that the water level in the vent pipe falls and allows air into the system . |
| 14 | A related problem is that many empirical studies use closing prices and , if the closing times differ between the spot and futures markets , the closing prices from the spot and futures markets will not be directly comparable and need not obey the no-arbitrage condition . |
| 15 | There are also suggestions that the sale of WWG 's US Whitlock car accessories group will take longer than expected and will not realise the price Boots had hoped . |
| 16 | forms and are particularly useful when you are applying for jobs ‘ on spec. ’ as you can get all the relevant information on one neat form which looks efficient and will not overwhelm the recipient . |
| 17 | At a meeting of the Party 's Central Committee yesterday , a Politburo member , Leszek Miller , said that a nationwide plebiscite also showed that more than half of the Party 's two million members agreed that ‘ the present form of the party is outdated and can not face the new conditions ’ . |
| 18 | Such value judgements must , however , be controlled and at the level of functions : this might lead to precise descriptions of particular skills appropriate to one or the other but would not justify the grandiose claims for ‘ logic ’ , ‘ objectivity ’ and ‘ culture-free neutrality ’ which we have been examining . |
| 19 | Any form of religion which can be thus manipulated is basically unsound and will not meet the fundamental need for unassailable integrity . |