Example sentences of "not [verb] [art] [noun sg] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ People are just not seeing the value of breast milk , ’ says Alison Spiro , NCT milk-bank coordinator and Parents Family Health Adviser .
2 Hughes admitted that one reason for the slow growth of the movement in Wales was that the Church of Wales was in a minority ‘ and there did not exist the sense of peril which , he feared , must be admitted , had done so much in driving them together in England ’ .
3 Children can appear not to like the taste of food and be not motivated to eat .
4 In moderate amounts , it is not troublesome , but for dyeing work it may be desirable to keep the concentration reasonably constant so as not to affect the rate of dyeing .
5 ‘ That 's not stopped a lot of men . ’
6 Would the end of the first-past-the-post system , with its unpredictable results , not make the business of politics boring ?
7 Television is a very evangelical medium and I do not think the Church of England can afford to or wants to compete with the evangelical churches .
8 For the reasons which I have given above I do not think the court in Reg. v. Philippou were justified in reconciling Morris with Lawrence , but they were correct in following Attorney-General 's Reference ( No. 2 of 1982 ) and could have reached their conclusion without relying on Lawrence .
9 Personally , I do not think the number of entries that are made at South African shows justify champion classes .
10 Gedge does not think the absence of Solowka and Gregory was of real importance .
11 As Beatson has stated , ‘ a system that uses the pragmatic approach is not using the concept of error of law as an organizing principle ’ as such , but rather as a facade behind which to weigh the relative competence of court and agency .
12 The reasons people gave for not using the form of credit ( very few were actually refused it , by lenders ) were rarely concerned specifically with cost — they were generally things like ‘ changed my mind ’ or ‘ thought of a better method ’ .
13 She would have had to be blind not to see the mixture of desire and destruction in the getsure .
14 She pretended not to see the look of dismay on Martin 's face and continued with her explanation .
15 The measure does not cover the consecration of women as bishops .
16 You should not cover the paint with water , as is commonly recommended , because water particles deposited in the paint film will result in it being unstable on the canvas .
17 You should not cover the paint with water , as is commonly recommended , because water particles deposited in the paint film will result in it being unstable on the canvas .
18 In a recent case in which the courts were called upon to construe the ambiguous expression ‘ land includes land covered by water ’ in the Rights of Way Act 1932 , the House of Lords , upholding the trial judge and reversing the Court of Appeal , held that the Act did not cover the creation of rights of navigation .
19 Denplan does not cover the fitting of crowns or laboratory charges .
20 The United States argued that Nicaragua had not made a valid declaration under Article 36 ( 2 ) , since the Registry of the Permanent Court had not received a notification of deposit of its ratification of the Protocol of Signature of the Statute .
21 The shop certainly had not received a coat of paint in a long time and , though looking decrepit , in earlier years the well proportioned double-fronted premises must have been quite smart .
22 The British ambassador to Vienna complained in the 1780s that he had not received a line in reply to fifty despatches he had sent home ; and when he returned to London he " was under the utmost Astonishment at having been twice to the Secretary of State 's Office without finding a single Soul there " .
23 Under Reg 20 , an employer was to deduct tax at source at the basic rate where he had made a payment to an employee in respect of whom he had not received a code of authorisation , subject to certain conditions .
24 If any teacher has not received a card of thanks to take to her class , please let me know .
25 To those in Rome who had trusted Christ alone for salvation the Apostle Paul wrote ‘ Ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear ; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption whereby we cry Abba , Father .
26 Digital techniques had initially been invented to cram more telephone conversations into a single cable , because ‘ crosstalk ’ does not affect a string of numbers .
27 All the evidence available suggests that the rate of fall of the glucose concentration does not affect the response to hypoglycaemia in a clamp .
28 The traditional view was challenged by Modigliani and Miller in 1958 They argued that the level of gearing used by the firm should not affect the cost of capital or alter the value of the firm as the risk borne by shareholders and debenture holders was dependent on how the firm used the capital not on how the firm raised the capital .
29 But crucially , although oppressive confessions may be ruled out , the Act goes on to provide that the fact ‘ that a confession is wholly or partly excluded … shall not affect the admissibility in evidence of any facts discovered as a result of the confession ’ .
30 But this will not affect the pace of product development work .
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