Example sentences of "not [verb] [adj] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do not think much of the House of Lords anyhow , but it is essential for the proper performance of parliamentary government that the major Bills — this is one — are introduced first in this House . |
| 2 | Why not think first of the name of the shop and of the name of the bread , and then say : ‘ I went to Brown 's corner shop , and the wholemeal bread had sold out . ’ |
| 3 | However , we do not think any of the security documents in the present case should be so construed . |
| 4 | It 's to do with having a balanced overview of your strengths and weaknesses and not using these to the detriment of others or so that others are able to exploit you . |
| 5 | Putting it this simply does not make light of the doubt but takes it very seriously . |
| 6 | I did not sample any of the catering so I can not comment on quality and value , but the everything was ready on time , and the queues seemed to move reasonably well . |
| 7 | Everything about her flowed , particularly her long luxurious auburn hair — that is , when she was not obliged to roll it up in order not to fall foul of the army authorities . |
| 8 | Fenella had not heard all of the discussion . |
| 9 | Finally , try not to go wild with the amount of equipment you buy , because you can use money for other things . |
| 10 | Some of these patterns could undoubtedly be related to sexual activity ( for example , a male infection on the lower surface of a leg with a female infection on the upper surface of the corresponding leg ) , but sexual contact could not explain all of the distribution patterns . |
| 11 | ( If you are not eating all of the salad at once , do not dress the reserved vegetables until used . |
| 12 | He also wrote some incidental theatre music for a play by Gebler , Thamos , König in Ägypten ( Thamos , King of Egypt ) , which , however , did not remain long in the repertory . |
| 13 | The Christian and the caring humanist can not remain unconcerned for the plight of the people of the Third World who live so close to starvation . |
| 14 | Like her mother Jeanne was of a more sceptical frame of mind but she could not remain unaffected by the atmosphere of piety in the fifth-floor apartment . |
| 15 | The Government still have not come clean about the information revealed in a Select Committee appendix . |
| 16 | In the week before the race , she became embroiled in a controversy over the skill of her opponent , the American Leigh Weiss , who had also steered international women 's crews but who was deemed not to know enough of the Boat Race course on London 's tideway . |
| 17 | Tack , then machine in place , ensuring that the stitching lines are perfectly horizontal and parallel to each other , and make sure you have not caught any of the channel fabric in the stitching . |
| 18 | As long as expenditure can not be said to apply in support of specific candidates , national party campaigns do not fall foul of the election finance restrictions . |
| 19 | Peter Gibson J said , at p638 : An employee with experience in a particular industry who is intending to leave , whether to join a competitor as an employee or to set up in competition on his own account , commits no breach of contract in doing so unless either there is a specific term of his contract to that effect which does not fall foul of the doctrine against restraint of trade or he is intending to use the confidential information of his employer otherwise and for the benefit of his employer . |
| 20 | John did not fall foul of the law for some ten years until , 1814 , when he was accused of forging a £2,000 bond from a bank in Uxbridge . |
| 21 | If this is expressly provided for in the lease the parties will not fall foul of the Law of Property Act 1925 , s144 . |
| 22 | Being required to have recourse to one remedy rather than another would not fall foul of the principle unless the the latter gave significantly less effective protection to the aggrieved party than the former . |
| 23 | We will usually aim to ensure that any document containing financial and other information issued by the firm as agent to a small group of potential investors , which the firm will generally need to approve as an authorised person under the Financial Services Act , does not fall foul of the prospectus provisions of the companies Act 1985 . |
| 24 | Thus although news executives continued to value ‘ scoops ’ , Tunstall found in the 1970s that among journalists themselves , it was more important not to come last with the news than to be first with it ( Tunstall , 1971 ) . |
| 25 | This suggests that the likes of Playboy , Mayfair and so on are not considered indecent by the law ( or , at least , their covers are not , for only that part of the material which is ‘ exposed to view ’ is covered by this particular law ) . |
| 26 | The Commissioners enquired how and why would the pension be paid , and the Governors explained that Hamilton was now 67 , had been Headmaster for 27 years , and although not then in bad health had two or three years previously had a serious illness , and was not considered equal to the work . |
| 27 | Although the presence of the proctors was probably in order to assent to the lay taxes which fell upon the clergy 's temporalities , from 1341 at least they were no longer required to attend ; they were still summoned , but their absence from parliament was not deemed prejudicial to the king , no doubt because it could no longer delay or frustrate clerical taxation which was now in the hands of another body . |
| 28 | Bakhtin continually recognizes that the parodic force of popular-festive forms could not survive unqualified after the force of the sacred word which they parodied had itself been qualified by the dawning administrative rationality of the Renaissance : the dawning of exactly that rationality which provides the pre-history of Adorno and Horkheimer 's critique . |
| 29 | This account of how aircraft accident investigations are conducted , or should be conducted , in the field is necessarily only a brief outline of what can take place and does not include much of the work that goes on when the wreckage is examined in detail in a hangar , or in the case of AIB at their substantial facility at Farnborough . |
| 30 | simply just not noticing much on the screen really . |