Example sentences of "not [vb infin] [noun sg] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The idea does not reap the success it deserves , however , since among other things Wulstan does not make allowance for the fact that even within the corpus of vocal music the performing medium was not uniform .
2 ( ii ) Changing house — Most court orders relate to a specific property and do not make provision for the wife moving house and occupying another property upon similar terms and conditions .
3 The sceptical argument therefore claims that you can not make sense of the idea of a subject of experience other than yourself .
4 If the Z88 can not make sense of the string or the day/date is impossible , a " Bad syntax " error will be reported .
5 The child can not make sense of the world without pattern , without events that repeat .
6 This was a very old set and did not always work ; as I did not make contact with the control tower I came round and I saw that it was all clear for me to land , so I put my wheels down and made my approach .
7 The benefit of this form of publicity is that it could reach those in the home ( women , unemployed , disabled ) and especially those who can not make use of the coverage in newspapers ( i.e. the blind ) .
8 I desire the reader to remember that I do not make use of the word people for the mere vulgar or mobile , but for the whole community , consisting of clergy , nobility and commons …
9 I will not make use of the ransom theory in my retelling of the drama , but I shall cling on to the primitive belief , which I believe to be the correct biblical one , that God 's atonement in incarnation and cross was the crucial victory in the Great Battle not only over sin but also over the Devil and the powers of darkness .
10 At present , many health workers do not make use of the information that can take up to 60 per cent of their time to record on forms and in registers .
11 ( We have taken care here to ensure that an unscrupulous user could not make use of the calculus of expressions to reason about the large scale structure of programs .
12 Of these , 102 episodes fitted the criteria described in the methods section , which were designed to ensure that the effects of swallowing or straining did not influence assessment of the effect of reflux on UOS pressures .
13 The published policy of the Secretary of State was that he would not grant consent for the total or substantial demolition of a listed building unless he was satisfied that every effort had been made to continue the present use or find an alternative use .
14 This does not convey authority over the specialist ; it is a co-ordinating role added to the specialist role .
15 The analysis is logically correct and often convenient for purposes of exposition , but it is only an analysis and should not eliminate consideration of the tort of negligence as a whole .
16 After consulting with other departmental Select Committees , however , the Public Accounts Committee ( PAC ) said in its Eighteenth Report for 1988–9 ( HC 354 ) that they did not consider deferral of the publication of departmental reports to March ( spring ) to be a satisfactory way of bringing the reports alongside the estimates and publication of both documents to January .
17 Sixth-form colleges did not arouse enthusiasm in the Department of Education and Science of 1965 .
18 They do not promise change in the sense of progress ; they promise change in the same way that the apparatchiks of yesteryear want the Communists back in the Kremlin .
19 The survey did not include work for the business client .
20 But even if treating our awareness of our own mental states as topic-neutral plausibly explains why we are not aware of our brains as such when we are aware of our mental states , it does not explain why knowing fully about the brain does not include knowledge of the nature of experience .
21 Cheryl Clarke cites from a leaflet distributed at a Black Liberation Movement meeting in 1981 : ‘ Revolutionary nationalists and genuine communists can not uphold homosexuality in the leadership of the Black Liberation Movement …
22 He did not seek re-election to the Parliament of 1685 and supported the Revolution of 1688 , subscribing money to the new regime .
23 This was also the result in the 1989 election but a number of new SDLP councillors will be replacing familiar faces including William McCorriston who split from the party and ran as Independent SDLP and Annie Gallagher who did not seek re-election despite the fact that she topped the poll in 1989 .
24 If the organisers feel that their event can cover the cost of the free voucher/ticket and do not seek reimbursement from the Society , please advise the office of the names of all those who have claimed free tickets , so that the overall success of this scheme can be monitored .
25 As a prince , you understand , one does not enjoy freedom in the sense that one of more humble origin may enjoy freedom .
26 Important though these duties were , they were fairly routine in character ; they did not bring Clanvow to the notice of a wider public .
27 Unlike its plainer cousin , it will not bring shame to the wearer by wilting or drooping on the crucial day .
28 You do not bring business into the house .
29 A landlord who retains control over common parts of a building such as the stairs and puts an exclusion clause in the lease , can not exclude liability to the tenant 's visitors by virtue of this clause .
30 MPs were taken by surprise when Labour managed to secure an emergency debate yesterday on last week 's announcement that a defeat on the social chapter would not prevent ratification of the treaty .
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