Example sentences of "not [verb] [noun] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Loughlin , out until Christmas , broke his arm playing for Great Britain against New South Wales Country , and Saints have been told that insurance does not cover players on international duty . |
| 2 | This section does not cover failure of public transport services caused by strike , riot or civil commotion in respect of which warning has been given prior to the commencement of departure from home . |
| 3 | Brazil , a significant trading partner of Iraq , joined the embargo but emphasised that this did not cover food for humanitarian uses . |
| 4 | Does not affect survival in intensive care units |
| 5 | There are two magnetic conditions , which do not affect orientation on sunny days ( left ) but do on overcast days ( right ) . |
| 6 | Unless sites are discovered by accident ( when a new road cuts through a prehistoric cemetery , for example ) most methods of discovery do not locate sites with sufficient accuracy for excavation to take place with confidence . |
| 7 | The main conclusion about education and employment was that purely educational aims came first : schools should not prepare pupils for particular types of employment ; industry itself benefited from the teaching and learning of basic educational skills . |
| 8 | Any change data are thus inevitably incomplete and do not make allowance for potential voting patterns in the many very safe Labour wards where councillors were returned unopposed . |
| 9 | Mr Whitelaw dealt with the question normally by saying that it was no doubt a suitable kind of punishment for schoolboys , but it did not make sense for judicial use , especially because of the delay between offence and punishment . |
| 10 | Do not make favourites of certain remedies as the smaller lesser used remedies which might be more helpful will be overlooked . |
| 11 | So far chemical methods had failed to produce purification , and it had also turned out that matter precipitated from dirty water would not make fertilizer of great value . |
| 12 | Its calculations are all relatively local ones : neurones do not make contact with other neurones at any great distance in the same cortical region . |
| 13 | * Do not make coffee with boiling water . |
| 14 | Although most DNA is in the B form , whose structure was originally determined by Watson and Crick , there is no reason why the cell should not make use of other forms as well , and indeed Alex Rich ( MIT ) described a protein binding with high affinity to the left-handed helix of Z-DNA that he first described . |
| 15 | I enjoyed reading your material , but after consideration I 'm afraid to say that I can not make use of short stories . |
| 16 | Japan did not want war against Tsarist Russia but was determined to fight unless positive assurances were forthcoming that Russia would cease to meddle in Korean affairs . |
| 17 | For practical reasons , the Commission decided not to include suitability for immediate use , spare parts and servicing facilities in the list . |
| 18 | Because the Company was intended to provide an opportunity for all English merchants interested in the Indian trade to take part , it did not treat shareholdings as permanent commitments . |
| 19 | Later emperors did not regard suzerainty in central Italy as having passed to the popes by these donations . |
| 20 | The specific reasons for this are not known but are connected with the wider trend of not allowing claims for economic loss in negligence actions . |
| 21 | From this viewpoint cultural rules are not given determinants of individual action but are continually built up and broken down as the result of individual choices and decisions . |
| 22 | The remaining techniques have not given rise to general-purpose instruments but have proved useful in particular experiments . |
| 23 | In conclusion , a smog alert system should be developed and considered very carefully before being introduced , to ensure that advice to the public is appropriate and does not cause unnecessary anxiety , that any measures proposed to reduce emissions temporarily are directed towards the most relevant sources , and that it does not weaken efforts towards longer-term reductions in air pollution . |
| 24 | Policy-makers and commentators in many countries of the world have often assumed that small farmers and peasants in mountainous and/or environmentally degraded areas will abandon their hillside plots if given other opportunities elsewhere , so that the state by various means can ease population pressure on steep slopes by encouraging or at least not inhibiting colonisation of new areas . |
| 25 | Bush rejected the campaign finance bill , the first such measure to have been approved by Congress in more than a decade of partisan dispute over the issue , on the grounds that it offered public subsidies to House and Senate candidates and because it did not eliminate donations from political action committees ( PACs ) . |
| 26 | we can not predict outcomes with absolute certainty since individuals can take remedial action in the light of our forecasts . |
| 27 | This animal does not strip bark like other squirrels , but merely removes flakes of the large smooth-barked trees with low levels of hydrolysable tannins . |
| 28 | This is an important change and I am glad that we have got away from the odious and patronising attitude of so many local education authorities — particularly Labour local education authorities — that say that one can not trust parents with objective information about how their children 's schools are doing . |
| 29 | Many statutory services are not keeping pace with demographic change . |
| 30 | The liberals wanted to promote a modern secular understanding of religion as a largely private matter which should be pursued in such a manner as not to offend people of other religions . |