Example sentences of "not [vb infin] [noun sg] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The details of the story of this major theory change , a change that took place over one and a half centuries , do not lend support to the methodologies advocated by the inductivists and falsificationists , and indicate a need for a different , more complexly structured account of science and its growth . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ( 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 . |
| 4 | The sceptical argument therefore claims that you can not make sense of the idea of a subject of experience other than yourself . |
| 5 | If the Z88 can not make sense of the string or the day/date is impossible , a " Bad syntax " error will be reported . |
| 6 | The child can not make sense of the world without pattern , without events that repeat . |
| 7 | Thus many techniques for analysis and reaction presented through in-service training as ‘ cut flowers ’ , have failed to grow in schools because they do not make sense to the teachers once back in their schools . |
| 8 | They agree that theological discourse does not make sense in the terms of ordinary language , but whereas for one this effectively consigns theology to the dustbin , for the other it gives it the same sort of status as speaking in tongues . |
| 9 | So long as the animals can not make contact with the nets there is no problem . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 ) . |
| 12 | 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 … |
| 13 | As hard as I tried , I could not make use of the staff , so I carried it , hobbling like a stage imbecile . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | ( 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 . |
| 17 | ‘ While I am pursuing the offender I do not want blood on the streets . ’ |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | This does not convey authority over the specialist ; it is a co-ordinating role added to the specialist role . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Sixth-form colleges did not arouse enthusiasm in the Department of Education and Science of 1965 . |
| 24 | So far as the whole personality does not fall victim to the pressures either of the external environment or what one might call the internal environment of its own parts — in the form of various lusts and obsessions — it achieves its only conceivable goal , that of prosperous possession , in the fullest manner , of its own nature . |
| 25 | The attached flowchart ( Appendix 3 ) shows three instances where an Information memorandum or investment overview does not need approval under the FSA as an investment advertisement . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | The survey did not include work for the business client . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 … |
| 30 | He did not seek re-election to the Parliament of 1685 and supported the Revolution of 1688 , subscribing money to the new regime . |