Example sentences of "[det] [noun] [verb] not [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seems that this passage led Barnett J. ( and indeed the Court of Appeal ) to conclude that the district judge should have approached the inquiry on the footing that ( i ) the burden of showing that the continuance of the prosecution would be a misuse of the process of the court rested upon the applicant , but ( ii ) this burden could prima facie be discharged by demonstrating an inexcusably long delay , unless the prosecution could in turn discharge the burden of showing that prejudice did not in fact follow from the delay . |
| 2 | The short answer is that we can not , and that structures of this kind do not in fact evolve . |
| 3 | The argument that is to be found most frequently in the writings of the philosophers who held this conception does not in fact relate to colours and sounds , though colours and sounds certainly received a good deal of attention . |
| 4 | This girl had not of course been told of the scandal of the boss 's daughter , and she willingly went to the tall cabinet , found the card , read it to Alice who memorised it and ran out . |
| 5 | This fellowship does not of course embrace Rome ; in Pilgrim 's Progress , Christian encounters Giant Pope , old and biting his nails because he can not get at the pilgrims , and mumbling to them , ‘ You will never mend till more of you be burned . ’ |
| 6 | The solution to this problem lies not in legislation but in effective screening of potential surrogate mothers . |
| 7 | The definition of price stickiness which we shall employ in this section does not in fact alter very much the policy implications of the model developed in the previous chapter , although it may have implications for the test of that model . |
| 8 | These alignment rules mean that such computers do not in fact operate as pure byte-oriented machines , and are a consequence of a way in which the architecture of the computers has been implemented . |
| 9 | Such figures do not of course reflect variation in household constitution : Bangladeshi households were typically extended either longitudinally ( over three generations ) or laterally ( two or more brothers living with their wives and children ) . |
| 10 | Such accusations lie not with counselling , but with a kind of primitive logic which associates pain with whatever is most closely at hand . |
| 11 | Although " this offer has been accepted by Marshal Tito " , it had " subsequently been discovered that these troops had not in fact entered Austria … it was possible to turn them over to Marshal Tito in complete formation , and prevention of infiltration into Austria was essential for operational reasons " . |
| 12 | Although unfortunate for the view that latent inhibition can be equated with conditioned inhibition , these results do not in fact constitute a death blow . |
| 13 | It would seem obvious that at least some of those practitioners had not in fact vanished at all , but still existed at the time of the Crusades . |
| 14 | Gershuny ( 1982 ) reported that these have saved time for working-class households and challenged the widespread contrary belief , instanced by Bowlby ( 1984 ) , that technology has not in fact cut domestic labour . |
| 15 | Most people do not in fact recognize the secularist bias precisely because it is ubiquitous and so forcefully put across . |
| 16 | So most people have n't in fact failed exams . |
| 17 | Most reports fail not through lack of facts but because they contain too many . |