Example sentences of "not [verb] [noun] [prep] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The person who prescribed the medicine may have had homoeopathic experience but was not using homoeopathy in this case . |
| 2 | I can not make sense of that rhyme . |
| 3 | ‘ We must not make assumptions about that child watching . |
| 4 | We have already seen ( paragraph 7–05 ) that the time of delivery is normally ‘ of the essence , ’ i.e. if a delivery date is stipulated and the seller can not make delivery by that date , that is a breach of condition and the buyer is entitled to repudiate the contract and sue for non-delivery . |
| 5 | You do not make arrests in this city . |
| 6 | Freud did this , even though his explicit view of science led him to think the scientist should not make judgements of this kind . |
| 7 | Unfortunately , the partner does not make use of this opportunity , because he , too ( and for the same reason ) , pretends to be asleep and fears to budge . |
| 8 | ‘ Let's face it — he may not want help of any sort . |
| 9 | Western intelligence sources in Cambodia have claimed that Pol Pot , de facto leader of the Khmer Rouge , has issued a directive telling Cambodians not to kill animals for any reason . |
| 10 | NeWS had 33% , and others — not Display PostScript of any form — had 42% . |
| 11 | Not , no , I , I 've really not given thought to that subject . |
| 12 | English Electric were not building trams by this time , and the new cars had to be ordered from a railway wagon builder , Roberts of Wakefield . |
| 13 | He therefore sees no point in trying to enforce statutory instructions that are so unclear that any reliance on them would be speculative , so vague that they can not aid coordination in any case . |
| 14 | ‘ The people of the GDR do not need lectures on this subject from outsiders , ’ commented Dr Kohl , adding that Mr Gorbachev 's survival was vital for the wider movement to democracy and reform in eastern Europe . |
| 15 | self-contained — it must not need information from another part of the problem . |
| 16 | For those who are knowledgeable and have thought about the subject , ( I do not include politicians of any party in this category , unless they are foxhunters ) foxhunting is not a cruel way of killing foxes ; long may it flourish , for the sake of the fox . |
| 17 | Cash flow statements do not include accruals of any kind . |
| 18 | ‘ Repetition in the face of failure has not added credibility to this forecast , ’ the report noted drily . |
| 19 | Timber trade world-wide is doing an enormous amount of work already to make sure that sustainable timber is supplied , and the horror stories are slowly going away , and a lot of people now do not buy timber in this country , from those countries who 've got a bad track record , but are buying from countries like Denmark and Sweden , where it 's a national law on their forestry policy . |
| 20 | Clearly we can not normalise X in this case to make both unc and unc unit matrices ; we say therefore that in this case X is bi-orthogonal or has a generalised orthogonal form . |
| 21 | However , the random biopsy specimens in the patients with early gastric cancer did not show dysplasia at either investigation . |
| 22 | Christabel does not achieve enlightenment through this union because she becomes a slave to Geraldine , instead of her equal . |
| 23 | The office is not highly institutionalized and she has not made changes in this respect . |
| 24 | Tallis had not made Moondream at that time — the mask to allow her to see the woman in the land — but she intuitively knew who she had seen , how she had reached through her vision to this very day , perhaps , in her own future . |
| 25 | Labour has not made headway with that point . |
| 26 | The Court of Appeal held that Coopers had not made mistakes of this type . |
| 27 | Delegations from Senegal and Guinea-Bissau met in Sao Domingo , Guinea-Bissau , on May 29 , 1990 , where they reaffirmed their commitment not to harbour members of each other 's subversive movements and undertook to strengthen military co-operation . |
| 28 | Amongst those who did not do duty in this year 's championship are Phil Davies ( standing down as Llanelli skipper after a highly successful five year run ; reverting to the second row and declaring his intention to challenge for a place in the Lions party in that position — remember the trouble he gave Paul Ackford when Wales last beat England in 1989 ) ; David Bryant ( controversially appointed a youthful pack leader in his first season in international rugby under the John Ryan regime , now recovered from a debilitating period of illness ) ; Andy Allen ( the front jumper was capped out of Newbridge in 1990 , subsequently becoming yet another moving down the valley to Newport ) ; Aled Williams ( one cap as a replacement wing in Namibia in 1990 , when a Bridgend player , but increasingly favoured by many to join Robert Jones in forming a club halfback partnership ) . |
| 29 | I had not seen Otley for some time and climbed up on the wall for a better view . |
| 30 | The Funding Council shall not borrow money from any source , give any guarantee or indemnity or create any trust or security over or in respect of any of their property which was acquired , improved or maintained wholly or partly , directly or indirectly out of funds provided by the Secretary of State under section Payment of grants , etc. to Funding Council of this Act or from the proceeds of or any consideration for the disposal of any property so acquired , improved or maintained . |