Example sentences of "not [adv] [verb] [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That Sri Lankans were involved in much litigation and that the judicial system was based on alien principles can not be denied , but contemporaries did not successfully explain the link between these two facts . |
| 2 | Fortunately , tribunals do not altogether ignore the interests of the affected employee when adjudicating upon the fairness or otherwise of a company 's actions . |
| 3 | But while AT&T may be lunging into the Nineties , the corporate giant has not altogether abandoned the fashions of the previous decade . |
| 4 | She did not altogether like the sound of this . |
| 5 | Where the lease itself does not expressly fix the lessor with notice of the partnership 's interest , the individual named lessee may be liable as principal . |
| 6 | Even if the courts do not wholly embrace the theory of extensive review , the way is now open for review of the evidence supporting the decision-maker 's findings . |
| 7 | If Churchill , even at the end of 1951 , did not wholly discount the possibility of a pre-emptive attack by the USSR , he was beginning to see American impulsiveness as a more likely cause of conflict . |
| 8 | Cooking , particularly boiling , reduces but does not wholly remove the firmness of food . |
| 9 | The other major weakness of the proposals is that they do not properly identify the nature of the problem . |
| 10 | Although we can not properly analyse the fortunes of the interactive video industry here , we can at least summarise . |
| 11 | To return to the internal structure of Mosca 's elite , it must also be emphasised that this organised elite should not only share attitudes on significant issues but should also be aware of doing so , otherwise they can not properly manage the affairs of state in a responsible and decisive manner . |
| 12 | Record-breaking and the alleged mania for quantification can not properly explain the appeal of sport . |
| 13 | In our view this directive does not properly tackle the cruelty of the veal crate and we voted against it . |
| 14 | But even that can not properly equip the PLA for its modern role . |
| 15 | Were he to deflect the challenge by dissolving parliament , it would confirm he had not properly learnt the lessons of April 's disturbances . |
| 16 | This useful and sensible book is written in the belief that historians can not properly understand the dynamics of British imperial expansion without taking account of the sexual attitudes and expectations of the men who have administered British overseas possessions since the eighteenth century . |
| 17 | The problem arises where a debtor is required by a creditor to provide security for his indebtedness ; the debtor and creditor agree that the security will be provided by some third party ; the relationship between the debtor and the third party , typically husband and wife , makes it likely that the third party 's assistance will be forthcoming ; the debtor procures the third party 's consent by some material misrepresentation or by exerting undue pressure or influence of some kind ; the third party signs the necessary security documents without any independent advice and without any explanation from the creditor of the true effect of the documents ; the third party subsequently , as a defence to the creditor 's attempt to enforce the security documents , contends that he or she was induced to sign by the debtor 's material misrepresentation , or did not properly understand the import of the documents , or that his or her consent was not a true consent having regard to influence or pressure exerted by the debtor . |
| 18 | But yesterday three appeal judges headed by Lord Taylor , the Lord Chief Justice , ruled that the trial judge did not properly direct the jurors on how , when deciding between murder and manslaughter , they should view the lies initially told by Richens to the police . |
| 19 | It did not properly highlight the nature of the church or the church 's mission to the world . |
| 20 | ( Incidentally if the number 30 031 has no special significance for you , I think I can safely claim that you have not properly settled the conjecture following 1.3.10 . ) |
| 21 | Firstly , where are the political , legal , and material guarantees that German unity would not eventually create a threat to the national security of other states ? |
| 22 | Mr Shevardnadze told members of the European Parliament that while the German people had the right to self-determination there would have to be ‘ political , legal and material guarantees that German unity would not eventually create a threat to the national security of other states and to peace in Europe ’ . |
| 23 | Second , against the prevailing liberal optimism of their time , they argued that the transition to an industrialized society with a system of representative democracy could not fundamentally alter the stratification of society into a ruling elite and a mass . |
| 24 | This will have to be reviewed in the light of these new ‘ rules ’ but the advent of new rules does not fundamentally change the principles of effective decision-making : open decision-making has always been possible and will continue to be possible even under LMS . |
| 25 | To create new vehicles of communication in this context meant creating a system of broadcasting which could survive outside the duopoly yet one which would not fundamentally damage the ecology of the system . |
| 26 | Section 11(2) states : [ i ] t is immaterial … that the public access to a building is limited to a particular period or particular occasion , but where anything removed from a building or its grounds is there otherwise than as forming part of , or being on loan for exhibition with , a collection intended for permanent exhibition to the public , the person removing it does not thereby commit an offence under this section unless he removes it on a day when the public have access to the building as mentioned in sub-section ( 1 ) above . |
| 27 | But although humanist theory takes as its object all the elements of subjectivity which empirical psychology 's concept of the subject excludes , it does not thereby challenge the structure of this concept . |
| 28 | You can , of course , define Pacifism by a reference to force , but you can not thereby save the world from the use of force … . |
| 29 | When we take a belief , desire , or intention to have caused an action , as we commonly do , we are not thereby explaining the action by referring to other actions , let alone mere movements . |
| 30 | I might conceivably be interested merely in a hypothetical situation , trying to decide , say , what consequences would follow if p were true , without wishing to commit myself one way or the other ( although , as will be shown later on , one can not coherently posit the possibility of p being true except with regard to possible truth claims that might be made in respect of it ) . |