Example sentences of "not [verb] [conj] [adj] [noun] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although this stream seems subsequently to have run into the sand , I find the approach attractive : money paid on the footing that there is a legal demand is paid for a reason that does not exist if that demand is a nullity . |
| 2 | I do not think that many people are fully aware of that . |
| 3 | I do not think that that point was in the mind of either Lord Greene or Scrutton L.J. , but the former in the words above quoted , expressed something with which I respectfully agree , and which seems plain , namely , that an absolute order for possession made against a tenant fundamentally alters the position . |
| 4 | I do not think that this question was resolved in Thomas by what was said by Lord Griffiths though Lord Ackner 's reference to judicial review is in general terms . |
| 5 | of CCA comments , ‘ I do not think that this experiment is going to substitute and take the place of several experiments going on in the Third World . |
| 6 | I do not think that this conclusion is correct . |
| 7 | It does not allege that any consideration was received by the company in respect of the child . |
| 8 | An instrument will not be executed before 20 August where it is not binding until certain conditions are fulfilled and these are not met until after 19 August . |
| 9 | ‘ Anyway , I 've promised not to go until this practice is flourishing , and I 'm sticking to that . ’ |
| 10 | Whilst not suggesting that more machinery is the answer , concentrating and adapting the farm to one enterprise was well worth consideration . |
| 11 | In Spain shareholdings are not disclosed and structural barriers are a serious inhibition for contested bids . |
| 12 | It is particularly suitable for table tops on account of its ability to withstand accidental spillages and does not blister when hot dishes are placed on it . |
| 13 | I have to say here that I honestly do not know whether such experiences are examples of genuine recall or figments of the dreamer 's imagination . |
| 14 | That same November , I escaped from Oxford life by securing permission — I do not know whether such authorization is needed these days — to go to a performance in London by the Group Theatre in Great Newport Street , under Rupert Doone , of Sweeney Agonistes . |
| 15 | They did not know that liberal humanism was powerless in the face of fascism . |
| 16 | The findings are strictly confidential and we do not know if these athletes were allowed to compete . |
| 17 | Moore is not denying that such elucidation is sometimes needed and possible , but bringing home to us that this is never what is going on when all things with a certain complex property are said to be good . |
| 18 | Furthermore , it is important to make sure that , in the heat of bargaining , significant points are not conceded while insignificant items are staunchly defended . |
| 19 | And the insects were not disturbed because organic farming was then all the rage and Keton-Etone-Methyl-Tri-Di-Meta-post-Oxy-Chlorane had been banned , with the result that the tree gave rise to more apples ; out of the downtrodden and digested came beauty and increase , and fruits of the earth , and all sorts of parable lessons which children are taught at their mothers ’ knee in sweet little story-books . |
| 20 | When the number of fixed-term contract or agency workers was expressed in relation to the size of the total labour force in the establishment , it did not appear that larger establishments were more likely to make use of temporary workers than smaller ones [ see Table 3.4 ] . |
| 21 | Most economists expect that the first real signs of an upturn will not appear until second-quarter figures are available . |
| 22 | We can not assume that such areas were unsettled , however , since areas of woodland often belonged to other places which are better documented . |
| 23 | In short , we can not assume that higher education is a site of pure reason . |
| 24 | In this case , however , Jane Austen does not assume that past values are irrecoverable . |
| 25 | And although Siegel 's results demonstrate convincingly that response strategies can indeed transfer from one discrimination to another , they can not show that such strategies are the sole source of the transfer effects seen in his experiment . |
| 26 | these figures do not show that black people are more prone crime , but they do suggest that black people who offend are more likely to go to prison . |
| 27 | However , there is irrefutable evidence that there will be a shortfall , and if we do not ensure that that gap is identified and ascertain where the resources to meet that gap will come from , not only will the people who are currently seeking community care be disadvantaged , but , more importantly , future generations who might seek care in the community will not receive the resources that at present they believe that they will get . |
| 28 | But I do not believe that financial rewards are themselves enough or are important except in the Herzberg terms . |
| 29 | I do not believe that that prescription is in the interests of Scotland or of the rest of the United Kingdom . |
| 30 | In the teeth of the evidence I do not believe that any suffering is ultimately absurd or pointless … the value of suffering does not lie in the pain of it but in what the sufferer makes of it . |