Example sentences of "not [verb] [prep] the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Within hours of the closure of the polls , news of Aristide 's victory led to scenes of national euphoria not witnessed since the overthrow in 1986 of the notorious Duvalier family dictatorship . |
| 2 | The earliest steam-pumps of Thomas Newcomen and others in the eighteenth century were not erected from the kind of detailed and accurate drawings customary by the nineteenth . |
| 3 | She had other questions but Stan chose not to be sidetracked from the serious business of telling Oliver he could not stay on the premises after all . |
| 4 | Your talk will be the first item on the agenda you need not stay for the rest of the meeting unless you want to . |
| 5 | If the leverage was too high , the needle would not stay in the groove without the weight upon the point being increased . |
| 6 | She did not stay in the room for long ; it was too full of Bella . |
| 7 | This problem would not arise with the assumption of average cost pricing but other , potentially more intractable problems would then have to be tackled , in particular how such behaviour could be reconciled with the idea that firms are profit maximizing organizations . |
| 8 | If the person who caused the nuisance can not be found and it is clear that the nuisance did not arise as the result of the act , default or sufferance of the owner or occupier , the local authority itself may take steps to abate it and prevent a recurrence . |
| 9 | My surprise does not arise from the possibility of a Government defeat over the social chapter but from the fact that it is only now that such a story has found its way onto the front pages . |
| 10 | Authority descended from above : it did not arise from the will of the majority of the people below . |
| 11 | He wants no reform , for the end of his abominable book is to show that the sufferings of the people do not arise from the want of reform ; but from the ’ indiscreet breeding of women ’ . ’ |
| 12 | The idea that information about identifiable individuals must be handled with care is not new ; it does not arise from the use of computers to process such information , though the rapid development of computer technology in the 1950s and 1960s brought the issue into sharp relief . |
| 13 | Assuming there is a transfer of value and consequently a reduction in the value of the estate of Mr X which does not arise from the disposal of excluded property , and further assuming that the transfer is not an exempt transfer , one is left with a chargeable transfer on which inheritance tax is payable starting at nil per cent ( the nil rate band ) and 40 per cent . |
| 14 | The error of rationalism , in Oakeshott 's argument , does not arise from the application of scientific methods to non-scientific material , but rather results from a mistaken understanding of the nature of reason . |
| 15 | The first is that the obligation to make discovery does not arise until the close of pleadings . |
| 16 | If the defendant is successful in the RSC Ord 14 proceedings , the court may make various orders , including allowing the defendant to defend the claim , which means that the plaintiff 's next opportunity to obtain judgment against the defendant will not arise before the end of a full trial . |
| 17 | it 's the usual problem whe when the site is not aligned with the points of the compass . |
| 18 | They have ignored signs telling them not to swim in the lake in the hot weather . |
| 19 | Classes did not exist during the era of primitive communism when societies were based on a socialist mode of production . |
| 20 | ‘ The Federal Republic can not exist without the support of other states . |
| 21 | A contract for the sale of unascertained goods may or may not be void because of the fact that certain goods have perished or do not exist at the time of the contract . |
| 22 | In this case , if it turns out that the goods do not exist at the time of the contract , the seller will be liable in damages to the buyer for breach of his contractual undertaking . |
| 23 | There the Revenue argued that , at the time the tax payers subscribed their shares , Newco did not exist for the purpose of carrying on a trade ; its only identifiable purpose was to acquire a business . |
| 24 | Nietzsche wrote : " When I heard of the fires in Paris , I felt annihilated for some days and was overwhelmed by fears and doubts ; the whole academic ( wissenschaftlich ) , philosophical , artistic world seemed an absurdity , if a single day could wipe out the most glorious works of art , even whole periods of art ; I clung with earnest conviction to the metaphysical value of art , which can not exist for the sake of poor human beings , but has higher missions to fulfil . " |
| 25 | The defect did not exist in the product at the time it was supplied by the defendant ( i.e. the producer , own-brander or importer ) . |
| 26 | Section 4(1) ( d ) provides , " that the defect did not exist in the product at the relevant time " . |
| 27 | While in Germany ‘ there is much common ground between the Bundesbank and the government on economic objectives ’ , it is precisely because Pöhl knew that this national consensus did not exist in the Community at large that he and the German government insisted on means of enforcing German policies on the economies of the member states . |
| 28 | Carole Peacock 's Disney Special is an eye catcher of a Rokkaku , not flown in the melee of competition . |
| 29 | The proposed government centre ( not yet a palace ) was not situated at the end of converging boulevards , but occupied an already partially derelict and vacant site . |
| 30 | After all , exploitation had not stopped with the theft of the gold . |