Example sentences of "not [adv] [vb infin] [art] [noun sg] [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 | She did not altogether like the sound of this . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Cooking , particularly boiling , reduces but does not wholly remove the firmness of food . |
| 7 | The other major weakness of the proposals is that they do not properly identify the nature of the problem . |
| 8 | Record-breaking and the alleged mania for quantification can not properly explain the appeal of sport . |
| 9 | In our view this directive does not properly tackle the cruelty of the veal crate and we voted against it . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | It did not properly highlight the nature of the church or the church 's mission to the world . |
| 12 | 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 ? |
| 13 | 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 ’ . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | You can , of course , define Pacifism by a reference to force , but you can not thereby save the world from the use of force … . |
| 19 | 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 ) . |
| 20 | Formerly , this sub-sub-delegation of supervisory powers to SRO 's did not effectively establish a system of self-regulation , since the principle of equivalence operated to ensure that the SIB retained significant control . |
| 21 | Unfortunately , the introduction of the Merger Regulation does not entirely preclude the application of Articles 85 and 86 in merger situations under the doctrines developed in Continental Can and Philip Morris . |
| 22 | The beauty of these words can not entirely hide a sense of suggested differentness , of an essential something so far held back but pushing now to get out . |
| 23 | Apollinaire , on the other hand , although he did not entirely understand the nature of Braque 's new development and failed to realize that even though Braque was beginning to paint largely from memory , his work was still often related directly to his models , instinctively realized that Braque had accomplished something important and original . |
| 24 | The experiment of Roll , Krotkov , and Dicke does not entirely close the door on the possibility that gravitational and inertial mass are not equal . |
| 25 | He did not greatly mind the lack of light . |
| 26 | That might not greatly increase the number of youngsters who stayed on at school . |
| 27 | History shows that the long-term effect of altering the price of motorised travel does not necessarily affect the amount of money people and organisations spend on transport . |
| 28 | The fact that one of the parties is a public body does not necessarily affect the nature of the dispute or the law applicable to it . |
| 29 | In conclusion , the results of this study indicate that biliary tract calculi may complicate the course of otherwise typical primary sclerosing cholangitis and therefore their presence should not necessarily exclude the diagnosis of primary sclerosing cholangitis . |
| 30 | The question " Were you speaking Patois or English just then ? " will not necessarily make a lot of sense to a member of the London Caribbean community , any more than the questions " Why did you say that in Patois ? " or " How would the effect of that be different if you said it in ordinary English ? " . |