Example sentences of "not [vb infin] a [noun sg] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Digital techniques had initially been invented to cram more telephone conversations into a single cable , because ‘ crosstalk ’ does not affect a string of numbers . |
| 2 | Why not make a list of words and expressions which are recent . |
| 3 | Under normal conditions of peacetime democracy , when there was no longer any pressing national crisis , the General could not remain a composite of values , images , and emotions . |
| 4 | A settlement for these purposes does not include a transfer of assets . |
| 5 | We can note with interest that court records which list the instruments of the grand and petit choeur of the Opera orchestra ( Acadèmie Royale de Musique ) , of which Jacques was a member , do not include a number of instruments ( musettes and cromornes ) inventoried above . |
| 6 | they feel confident in using the term ‘ success ’ to describe the experiences of the majority of these families and children and there is little evidence that a group of similarly aged white children growing up with their natural parents would not include a number of children experiencing similar or greater difficulties'. ( pp. 132–3 ) |
| 7 | Am I right in erm my belief that in fact the the final version of policy H two erm need not and should not include a list of criteria other than those set out in P P G two paragraph thirty three . |
| 8 | Copyright does not give a monopoly in ideas ; what it does is to prevent a person from copying or otherwise capitalizing on tangible expressions of ideas made by others . |
| 9 | This situation where current pensions are paid for out of current income does not present a problem for governments , as they should always have the power to raise funds through taxation . |
| 10 | Incorporation certainly does not provide a shield against actions brought against surveyors for professional negligence . |
| 11 | The volume , at HK$2.12 billion ( £160m ) , was marginally higher than it was in trading on the market on Tuesday , but it did not suggest a rush of sellers . |
| 12 | Of note is that the study by Vijayaraghavan et al is consistent with this overall effect : the confidence interval of that study included this 30% reduction , and the test of homogeneity did not suggest a difference between studies . |
| 13 | The advertisement — as featured in New Scientist — said that the BBC wanted an experienced journalist , but that did not stop a flood of academics from applying . |
| 14 | ‘ We should take industrial action against any bidder who did not meet a number of conditions relating to employee practices . ’ |
| 15 | p. 167 ) puts it , ‘ building on the technological achievements of capitalism does not necessitate a defence of enterprises on the scale currently common in capitalist countries ’ . |
| 16 | Few towns can boast they do not have a problem with dogs being allowed to roam the streets and Darlington is no exception . |
| 17 | We do not have a monopoly in names — or very much else these days , ’ she added , almost as an aside . |
| 18 | But since , as Ekonomska politika ( 18 January 1988 ) points out , the National Bank does not have a source of funds to cover this , it will be obliged to pay this interest also out of new money . |
| 19 | Hence sentence 10 does not have a number of parses since it exhausted the storage of the LISP system , having already allocated 25 MBytes . |
| 20 | He was old enough to remember coffee that did not have a collection of bubbles on top . |
| 21 | Hartog and Hull stated that computed tomography of the pituitary does not have a role in cases of moderate hyperprolactinaemia because it is of little value in diagnosing a microadenoma . |
| 22 | ‘ We 'd been told that they might not have a lot of clothes , but they arrived with these huge suitcases , ’ Michelle recalls . |
| 23 | Hands up any knitter who does not have a lot of cones tucked away for use ‘ sometime ’ . |
| 24 | However , in mathematics , the pupil who does not have a meaning for vectors , say , will hardly be motivated by knowing that this is the ‘ next topic to be learned ’ . |
| 25 | ‘ I have to be here anyway , and it does n't need two of us to cover , so why not take a couple of hours or so ? ’ |
| 26 | Why not take a couple of days off work ? |
| 27 | We can not hear a break between sounds of less than one tenth of a second . |
| 28 | For anatomical reasons , chimps and gorillas can not produce a range of sounds sufficient for speech . |
| 29 | These and related observations have been interpreted to mean that " deep dyslexics ' are unable to employ a phonological code , that is , they can not decode a word in terms of its sound structure , and have to rely on a purely visual code in retrieving words from their internal dictionary or lexicon ( Warrington and Shallice , 1979 ; Coltheart , 1980a ) . |
| 30 | Thus , although he does not enumerate a catalogue of rights it seems clear that it is chiefly the conventional political and civil liberties , including a right to freedom of conscience , that are associated with the traditional doctrine of liberalism which would qualify as rights in the strong sense . |