Example sentences of "not [verb] [art] [noun sg] as a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The voice , so accustomed to obedience , continued in courtesy , but its ring of conviction was sharpening , and Miranda sensed that Anthony Everard had reached the point when , if he could not phrase a command as a request , he would assert his authority undisguised . |
| 2 | When Hilton talks about meditation , therefore , he is not using the word as a Christian would use it today . |
| 3 | erm I think it 's important not to see the city as a sort of down-trodden , poor , hard-working , well , I 'm sure they were hard-working , but very poor people . |
| 4 | If they are fatally damaged when attacked , their deaths do not affect the population as a whole because they have already bred and are no longer doing so . |
| 5 | For the diminutive Andy — people often wonder how he hauls around the pro bags that stand as high as him — the triumphs he has shared with Nick Faldo are something of a fulfilment of his own ambition of winning the titles himself : he started as a tournament professional with dreams of a major championship before realizing he would not make the grade as a pro , and so took up the bag instead of the club . |
| 6 | In fact , the gurus of the East teach that the goldfish might well have been your great , great grandmother in a previous existence if she did not make the grade as a human being . |
| 7 | But he does not regard the charge as a serious objection to his theory . |
| 8 | In many of these cases and in other qualifying transactions ( such as take-overs ) , the firm is allowed not to treat the investor as a customer , if it makes it clear that that is the case ; SFA has suggested the wording for the disclaimer . |
| 9 | Organisers of visits are encouraged not to treat the exercise as a ‘ one–off ’ event , but to extend the programme to include awareness meetings for parents , visits by local engineers/technicians ( women where possible ) and to forge links between the school and local industries and other appropriate equal opportunity initiatives . |
| 10 | A qualified judgement was submitted by UNTCOK : the results were accepted as valid in those areas visited by members of the commission but UNTCOK did not recognise the assembly as a national assembly , which could lead to the formation of a national government . |
| 11 | Naturally he would stress the difference between phalanx and legion in a war between Macedonians and Romans ( 18.28 ) , but he would not present the war as a conflict between Macedonian monarchy and the Roman mixed constitution . |
| 12 | Marco 's devotion to Samavia , given his reflective nature , could easily have seemed priggish if he had not had the Rat as a foil , with his quick memory and his youthful ingenuity . |
| 13 | He did not see the failure as a consequence of the refusal to unite all opponents of Unionism , but of the NILP 's willingness to compromise in order to achieve such unity : |
| 14 | The first mate and the ship 's engineer took their meals at different times , and did not use the saloon as a sitting-room . |
| 15 | What is being said is that the recipient of confidential information can not use the information as a shortcut to side-step the work which other members of the public would have to do . |
| 16 | He did not use the car as a conveyance . |
| 17 | But , after considering the comments it received on the ED , the board has decided not to pursue the subject as a single project . |
| 18 | The newcomer , moreover , does not enter the village as a lone individual who has to win social recognition among the locals in order to make life tolerable-Instead , particularly during the 1950s and 1960s , the newcomers arrived in such large numbers — perhaps due to the building of a new housing estate by a local speculative builder — that the individual ‘ immigrant ’ found himself one of many others whose values , behaviour and life-styles were similarly based upon urban , middle-class patterns of sociability . |
| 19 | Just as companies must not overlook the market as a source of funds , so they should avoid getting locked into the idea that they must invest their own cash surpluses . |
| 20 | Like Wilkie , 50% is the magic proportion that Richet hopes see going to non-IBM sources in the medium term , but he frankly acknowledges that ‘ we have a credibility gap as a supplier to other companies , ’ that will only close once potential customers realise that IBM is serious about the business and is not entering the market as a temporary expedient to use over-capacity . |
| 21 | For example , you can not pass a colon as a literal string parameter in an ON … |
| 22 | Although the 1624 Act against letting an individual hold a monopoly meant that no businessman could take the place of a trading company , there was no reason why an individual should not hold a charter as a great landlord . |
| 23 | A possible explanation for this apparently delayed effect of the Black Death is that the first onset , despite its virulence , did not harm the economy as a whole as much as might have been expected , and that it was the continuing effect of later outbreaks which did the greater damage . |
| 24 | Brazil 's undertaking ( despite its decision not to join the ATPC as a full member ) to control wildcat mining at its Bom Futuro mine was expected to reduce production by cutting the mine 's output from 19,000 tonnes in 1990 to 14,000 tonnes in 1991 . |
| 25 | We behave in the ‘ here and now ’ and do not examine every move as a scientific investigation . |
| 26 | But he felt this was a minority reaction and warned : ‘ Given the increasing emphasis on the property and space audit I do n't think the profession as a whole is as geared up as it should be . ’ |
| 27 | You have to go back a very long way indeed to a more decorous age when politicians did n't use the memoir as a weapon for reopening old wounds . |
| 28 | I really do n't see a handicap as a handicap , I just enjoy Becky for who she is and what she is . ’ |
| 29 | Landowners do n't see the public as a problem . |
| 30 | However , Ambrose also found that these ‘ spiralists ’ did take part in community life , and did n't see the village as a transient bus stop as Pahl had forecast . |