Example sentences of "not [vb infin] a [noun sg] in [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | President Milosevic of Serbia may not want a fight in Kosovo , since the current campaign of slow ethnic cleansing is doing quite well . |
| 2 | One does not need a council in order to prove the existence of well-established areas such as Lancashire or Somerset . |
| 3 | You do not need a degree in statistics to see what has happened to the firm 's trading profit over this six year period . |
| 4 | You do not need a wristwatch in East Africa . |
| 5 | Gilt edges , vellum , and morocco , and presentation copies to all the libraries will not preserve a book in circulation beyond its intrinsic dates … |
| 6 | We can not win a place in heaven by good deeds — neither did he . |
| 7 | There was nothing to suggest that that power to sue should be limited so as to exclude the proceedings before the court , save by the nature of the trade union itself , and that did not exclude a claim in respect of a libel ‘ calculated to arouse doubts and suspicions in the minds of members [ of the union itself ] , and so to destroy the cohesion and will to act of the union : ’ per Scott L.J . |
| 8 | In February , however , the local population took direct action to ensure that uranium prospecting would not contaminate a well in Glenleighan near Fintown . |
| 9 | The courts have held that if there is no evidence that the accused believed that he was not dishonest by the standards of ordinary people , the judge need not give a direction in Ghosh terms : Roberts ( 1987 ) 84 Cr App R 117 on handling ; Price ( 1989 ) 90 Cr App R 409 on deception ; and Squire [ 1990 ] Crim LR 341 on conspiracy to defraud . |
| 10 | Does my hon. Friend agree that the very people of whom Labour Members complain , saying that they do not give a service in Government Departments , almost always belong to unions who support the Labour party ? |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | An accurate scholar and an inspired teacher , he did not become a Professor in Bristol — yet his friends and pupils combined to give him that rarest of honours , a Festschrift , a book containing some of their best work , published to mark his 70th birthday . |
| 13 | ‘ You can not keep a Queen in prison , ’ she said . |
| 14 | Where a resident in country A grants in that country the right in country B to exercise intellectual property rights which he has therein acquired by registration or application he does not render a service in country B by the grant . |
| 15 | 15. ( 1 ) A member shall not tender a vote in breach of the Rules and any vote so tendered shall not be accepted . |
| 16 | 15. ( 1 ) A member shall not tender a vote in breach of the Rules and any vote so tendered shall not be accepted . |
| 17 | Some of those who did not possess a faith in God which was proof against all adversities now saw that the great hope of a relief force reaching them , which had so far buoyed them up , was an illusory one ; even if a relief now came , in many different ways it would be too late and not only because so many of the garrison were already dead ; India itself was now a different place ; the fiction of happy natives being led forward along the road to civilization could no longer be sustained . |
| 18 | Mirth can not move a soul in agony . |
| 19 | I do not want to disappoint the hon. Member for Eastbourne , but the chances of a local income tax are nil , because his party does not have a cat in hell 's chance of ever being returned to government . |
| 20 | Due to the way in which he handled its introduction , it did not have a cat in hell 's chance of succeeding . |
| 21 | Legality was important to the President because , although he had won the presidential election , he did not have a majority in Congress . |
| 22 | Unlike the government in Britain , the President 's party often does not have a majority in Congress . |
| 23 | We could not have a debate in Committee and the House deserves serious answers on this extremely important issue . |
| 24 | The late Ian Fleming did not have a monopoly in tongue-in-cheek , humorous adventures about secret agents , but a novelist might commit the tort of passing-off if he changes his name to Ian Fleming or uses the name James Bond or the 007 code in his novel . |
| 25 | The health service does not have a monopoly in cleaning , catering and laundry skills in the same way that it does in the skills required to treat sick people . |
| 26 | We do not have a monopoly in names — or very much else these days , ’ she added , almost as an aside . |
| 27 | Is there anyone who does not have a copy in front of them ? |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | This sort of tactic , or cheating , clearly does not have a place in rugby at any level , and I trust that linesmen and referees will be more vigilant and that the TV pundits accept the evidence of their eyes and expose the practitioners of dangerous tactics . |
| 30 | Hafez al-Assad , the President of Syria and the long-term adversary of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein , quickly let it be known that he would not attend a summit in Baghdad , and the ensuing efforts of some Arab leaders to persuade Assad to attend were of little use . |