Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb mod] not [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , a surgeon may justifiably run the risk of killing the patient if the operation is necessary to save life , whereas employers may not take a substantial risk with the lives of their workers in order to increase profits . |
| 2 | Moreton councillor Ken Hemsley said : ‘ I am just concerned that people answering 999 calls may not understand a local dialect and they may be talking about a place which the person they are speaking to will never have heard of . |
| 3 | Implied terms underpin the law of challenge to experts ' decisions , because some basic terms are not spelled out : namely , that the parties would not accept a final decision intended to have binding effect when that decision was vitiated by dishonesty , partiality or mistake . |
| 4 | After all , the chairman of a transport conglomerate which had tipped hundreds of thousands into party funds would not thank a prime minister who gave him the same reward as a Blackpool entertainer . |
| 5 | The drivers wo n't take a huge amount of memory and they wo n't slow things down too much , but it all adds up . |
| 6 | Schools can not achieve a major change on this and the ‘ basics ’ unaided by the rest of us . |
| 7 | Schools can not have a real effect on children 's basic values because these have been instilled earlier by the process of primary socialization in the home and in the wider social community . |
| 8 | New staff recruited locally who are not trained in the company 's methods can not make a full and effective contribution to the running of the business straight away . |
| 9 | Waves can not exceed a seventh of their length in height without breaking ; but they can stretch to as much as a thousand feet . |
| 10 | Second , a large reduction in UK emissions might not create a large reduction in the pollution deposited in foreign countries . |
| 11 | ( Smaller companies may not have a special book , but instead keep the advice/delivery note on file ) |
| 12 | The obligation of directors to account for profits made as a result of abusing ( in the sense of taking advantage of ) their position as directors is often described as the principle that directors must not make a secret profit . |
| 13 | Swimming in the lake is a joy in summer , and with water temperatures often reaching 20C ( 68F ) , windsurfers should n't need a wet suit ! |
| 14 | Such posts might not carry a large salary , for although Henry VIII had evidently raised the wages of household officials , Elizabeth held them down in a period of rising prices . |
| 15 | She stood up suddenly , so that she could stamp the floor , annoyed because tennis shoes could n't make a big enough noise to suit her fury . |
| 16 | The Foreign Office officials knew that fundamentally improved terms were not possible because the other member countries could not concede a privileged position to one member only . |
| 17 | These uncertainties need not inhibit a broad comparison of lay and clerical wealth ( see Table 2.19 ) . |
| 18 | Such chaotic attractors need not have a fractal structure , and attractors with a fractal structure need not be chaotic [ 10 ] . |
| 19 | How can you be sure that any future development of these sites would not have a deleterious effect on the conservation area , the listed buildings , the archaeology and the natural history ? |
| 20 | They had been accepted for admission before the onset of dementia ( most sheltered housing associations would not accept a new tenant who was already showing evidence of dementia ) , but with increasing age in the sheltered housing population cases are likely to occur more frequently . |
| 21 | Superintendent Don Randall of the City police said the road blocks would not become a permanent feature on city streets . |
| 22 | Much of the anxiety among Members , particularly the opponents of televising , arose from fears that the broadcasters would not preserve a proper balance in their selection of matter to be covered and that they would , in their desire to present newsworthy stories , distort the public presentation of the House . |
| 23 | In adults , a test for HIV antibodies will not produce a positive result until at least 3 months after infection and this is called the ‘ window ’ period . |
| 24 | In a similar way many economic models can not show a positive return to soil conservation measures except on very productive land with high susceptibility to erosion ( Harmon , Knutson & Rosenberg 1979 : Ervin & Washbourn 1981 , for examples in the USA ) . |
| 25 | As the Commission has pointed out , it is settled law that the mere fact that the competent authority is empowered to grant exemptions or derogations can not justify a national measure which is contrary to the E.E.C . |
| 26 | Moreover , there is no reason to believe that , with improvements , particularly in relation to housing , labour mobility programmes could not affect a larger number of workers . |
| 27 | Although linking pensions to prices rather than incomes may not produce a great difference in one year , after twenty-five years , assuming incomes rise by 2 per cent per annum faster than prices , the price-linked pension will be worth only approximately 60 per cent of the earnings-linked pension . |
| 28 | However , many carers may not have a great deal of energy left over for campaigning , and may simply want to go along to the group for support , advice and a break from usual responsibilities . |
| 29 | Banks may not operate a simple liquidity ratio |
| 30 | Casteleyn observed that ‘ Smaller libraries may not need a full-time training officer but may be able to benefit from the advice of a training officer employed to develop training centrally for the whole organisation ’ , and suggested that ‘ smaller authorities who were unlikely to have their own training officers should look to their authority 's training department for support ’ but it seems that in practice , smaller libraries are least likely to have an existing strong centre of training expertise to turn to . |