Example sentences of "[vb base] not [vb infin] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would be odd if they did , since feminists , like philosophers , do not speak with a single voice . |
| 2 | Do not start for a strange city or town , even for a night , without previous information of a safe place to stay . |
| 3 | Individuals do not move through a smooth physical vacuum ; they negotiate structured social contexts in company with other individuals . |
| 4 | The prices of alarms , as well , you 'd be quite surprised they do not range from a thousand . |
| 5 | By themselves , these facts do not stand as a complete answer to the challenge : if the industrial co-operative form of organisation is more efficient than the conventional form , why is it that the first has not displaced the second but has remained until recently a negligible feature of the economy and , even now , can hardly be said to have become so far of more than marginal importance ? |
| 6 | or telephone when vehicles moving except in emergencies , you should only stick your fix or clip on microphone where it will not distract your attention from road , do not stop on a hard shoul shoulder of a motorway to answer or make a call however urgent . |
| 7 | Of course , it is not always easy to pinpoint exactly why we do or do not engage in a particular action . |
| 8 | There are those who feel , for instance , that a revolution did take place but not one which achieved positive effects ; or others who dispute the existence of an English revolution but who do not adhere to a neo-conservative interpretation of English history . |
| 9 | People do not negotiate in a direct and immediate way with material conditions ; the negotiation is structured through consciousness . |
| 10 | Many changes of government in Britain do not usher in a new set of policies in most departments . |
| 11 | No matter how ethereal they may seem , they do not exist in a timeless limbo but possess determinate antecedents in time and space . |
| 12 | The possibilities for integration , that do not exist in a segregated , all-age special school , are many — as students begin to mix , sometimes for the first time , in a community setting with other adult learners . |
| 13 | Current research assumes that crime and justice do not exist in a social vacuum , that they are at least partially political creations , and that they are inextricably involved in society . |
| 14 | As with mangrove forests , they do not consist of a single species that happens to have exploited a particular niche , but of a whole group of species , not necessarily related to each other , each of which is adapted to the rich pickings . |
| 15 | Postgraduate Bursaries are available for certain full-time courses which do not lead to a higher degree . |
| 16 | You do not think like a civilised man , although your behaviour has become civilised , and so he can not ascribe to your actions motives which are suspect — or not according to his understanding . ’ |
| 17 | Conservatives thus hold what must appear , to those who do not hold to a conservative position , to be a distorted conception of what he was about . |
| 18 | This division between planning conditions and site licence conditions highlights the need for co-operation between planners , waste disposal officers and other pollution control agencies , at a pre-planning stage wherever possible , in order to reach agreement on those conditions which are to be attached to the planning consent , and those to be attached to the site licence , thus ensuring that problems of control do not arise at a later stage . |
| 19 | By their very characters father and daughter must fight , just as all the people in a family do not converge into a mythical single unit but remain a set of conflicting personalities . |
| 20 | Further , the need for averaging obviously favours repetitive responses to repetitive stimuli and neural events that do not correlate in a consistent time-locked way with external stimuli will necessarily be overlooked . |
| 21 | Loose coupling relations do not refer to a specific version of a module — only to its name . |
| 22 | Loose coupling relations do not refer to a specific version of a module — only to its name . |
| 23 | ‘ Lifetime ’ partners do not refer to a finite time period but to partners since first sexual intercourse ‘ so far ’ ; this may be the most inaccurate measure because of difficulties of recall , whereas discrepancies over shorter time intervals are much smaller . |
| 24 | Whatever the rights and wrongs of this debate , the fact remains that we do not live in a perfect world and , like it or not , we have to rely on a large amount of data derived from animals . |
| 25 | For children in the late twentieth century there is the added difficulty that they do not live in a spiritually-secure environment , almost certainly lacking the supportive family and community that was Saint Teresa 's world . |
| 26 | Old people do not live in a social vacuum , pursuing their personal goals in ways which do not impinge on others . |
| 27 | I do not wish in a paranoid fashion to make too much of any one of these facts taken in isolation . |
| 28 | One , the non-contributory invalidity pension , is paid for those who are incapable of work and do not qualify for a contributory pension . |
| 29 | Married women and widows who do not qualify for a basic pension in their own right may be entitled to a basic pension on their husband 's contributions at about 60 per cent of the level to which he is entitled ( see ‘ Pensions for women ’ at the end of the chapter ) . |
| 30 | There are very particular financial strains for those who are divorced or separated who do not qualify for a special pension like a widow . |