Example sentences of "[vb mod] [not/n't] [verb] [that] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 So even if the new authorities are small in scale this must not mean that District Council staff are at any advantage in obtaining jobs in the new authorities — staff here must be able to compete on an equal basis ( 5.7 ) .
2 Therefore we could not confirm that airway growth is more vulnerable than peripheral lung growth in low birth-weight children as Chan et al showed .
3 But while many of the economic arguments favouring unrestricted insider dealing make interesting reading , they can not prove that insider dealing is desirable .
4 Equally , economics can not prove that insider dealing is undesirable .
5 In fact , I can not see that sound symbolism can be discussed in any safe and effective manner without a basic knowledge of the articulatory or acoustic features of sounds .
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