Example sentences of "not [verb] [conj] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Adverse meteorological conditions should not be considered the fundamental cause of smogs since high concentrations of pollution would not arise unless the general level or baseline of pollution in the urban atmosphere was relatively high anyway : there is a limit to the peak pollution value that the atmosphere can produce . |
| 2 | If the contract is voidable , there is no " obligation to make restoration " because the obligation does not arise until the innocent party elects to avoid the contract . |
| 3 | This would not arise if the universal conception were to be theoretically dominant in a social psychology which resembled a universal anthropology more than it did a historical social science . |
| 4 | Society can not exist unless a controlling appetite upon will and power be placed somewhere , and the less of it there is within , the more there is without . |
| 5 | But these conditions do not exist where the original parties have invested in transaction-specific assets . |
| 6 | The blue tits in any area may vary , but they can not be divided into two or more discrete groups ( except by sex , or by age ) , and the distinction between blue tits and great tits in any area is absolute ; intermediates do not exist because the two species do not interbreed . |
| 7 | The manor did not disappear when the Middle Ages drew to a close , nor when the Tudors made the parish the administrative unit that was responsible for maintaining the poor and the highways and for petty law and order . |
| 8 | The faculty could not think that a young man of 35 years , who had written one book which not everyone thought wonderful , could hold a candle to his predecessor . |
| 9 | I do not think that a defined solution can be provided for all cases . |
| 10 | In addition the learned judge did not think that a nationalised industry can be said to accumulate a substance for its own purposes . |
| 11 | ‘ I do not think that a single relative should ever have the sole care of senile dependent . |
| 12 | I do not think that a single critic noticed that it was any different from the customary ‘ rum-te-tum ’ , but if one of them did he evidently did n't think it was worth a comment . |
| 13 | She regards these sessions away from the routine work as some of the most interesting aspects of the job and does not think that the mundane elements of a house officer 's post could be ‘ dumped ’ on another person without some such perks to ‘ relieve the boredom . ’ |
| 14 | I do not think that the 23,000 people presently involved in the Trident programme think that their efforts are wasted . |
| 15 | ‘ I do not think that the mere fact of a payment under protest would be sufficient to entitle the plaintiff to succeed ; but I think that it affords some evidence , when accompanied by other circumstances , that the payment was not voluntarily made to end the matter . |
| 16 | The gravamen of the charge is the demand without reasonable or probable cause : and I can not think that the mere fact that the threat is to do something a person is entitled to do either causes the threat not to be a ‘ menace ’ within the Act or in itself provides a reasonable or probable cause for the demand … |
| 17 | In sum , I do not think that the practical difficulties arising from a limited relaxation of the rule are sufficient to outweigh the basic need for the courts to give effect to the words enacted by Parliament in the sense that they were intended by Parliament to bear . |
| 18 | He did not think that the then bench in the Church were all well qualified to this end . |
| 19 | I do not think that the Labour party could possibly repay the debt that it owes to the late Captain Maxwell . |
| 20 | I do not think that the Labour party has anything to crow about , because Labour-controlled local authorities have the most empty homes available and have the highest community charges . |
| 21 | I do not think that the hon. Gentleman 's figures are right . |
| 22 | As to winning the argument , I do not think that the hon. Gentleman has grasped the difference in structure between the Scottish Bill and the English Bill . |
| 23 | I do not think that the hon. Member for Edinburgh , Central , his hon. Friends or the majority of my hon. Friends would say that the Government were wrong , rather than giving no status to people who have been in this country for a number of years , to have given them exceptional leave to remain . |
| 24 | I do not think that the hon. Member for Eastbourne ( Mr. Bellotti ) meant it that way . |
| 25 | I do not think that the hon. Lady really believes all that . |
| 26 | He did not think that the True People were the result of some genetic accident . |
| 27 | But with most of the enemy leaders undoubtedly caught in the castle , he did not think that the surprised army would be in a position to counter-attack swiftly . |
| 28 | The hon. Member for Derbyshire , South ( Mrs. Currie ) , who is making expansive gestures , may be in favour of the consequences that I have described , but I do not think that the British people share her view . |
| 29 | do you not laugh when a squeezy bottle does it ? |
| 30 | He had a pond dug for them , so pretty and sweet , surrounded by bullrushes with a delicate arched bridge and floating with water lilies — Not realising that a real dragon needs a whole ocean to sport in , needs the spume of the white capped waves , needs the great storms and clanging icebergs , needs the coral islands of the southern seas , needs the dark rains and winds and currents to make its blood flow green and its whiskers curl ferociously . |