Example sentences of "not [verb] [adv] [noun] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The term does not cover only threats of violence but anything detrimental or unpleasant according to Lord Wright in the civil case of Thorne v MTA [ 1937 ] AC 797 . |
| 2 | This does not rule out evolution by mutation and selection . |
| 3 | Ford dismissed an immediate meeting with the unions but did not rule out talks after Christmas . |
| 4 | We can not simply appeal to ‘ reality ’ and ‘ truth , as Miller and Swift do ; we can not root out prejudice by fiat nor make sexism disappear just by exposing it ; we have even less power to control what people say or mean than the prescriptivist defenders of sexist convention . |
| 5 | It is terrible the number of people who do not keep even appointments for surgery . ’ |
| 6 | It is terrible the number of people who do not keep even appointments for surgery . ’ |
| 7 | Zuwaya style and etiquette required that people in polite company should not set out arguments of principle , arranged in a hierarchy of priorities , so that they might read off right courses of action from agreed schedules of value . |
| 8 | They therefore do not lay down requirements for length of time spent in training , number of years experience within the industry , the type of training that must be undertaken , and so on . |
| 9 | In the above I have assumed that we are dealing only in values , and that we are not considering how prices of production , average rate of profit , etc. , are formed by the introduction of ‘ Dept . |
| 10 | President Carlos Salinas de Gortari , responding to increasing domestic and international pressure , was reportedly instrumental in compelling Ramon Aguirre Velázquez , a PRI hardliner who had officially won 55 per cent of the vote in Guanajuato , to make the unprecedented announcement on Aug. 29 that he would not take up office as state governor . |
| 11 | When we speak of freedom , we … do not mean merely freedom from restraint or compulsion . |
| 12 | Paula said the reason she would not go back Turn to Page 10 From Page 1 was she was frightened of him because he used to beat her . |
| 13 | But the specific forms of hooliganism are new ; football crowds were not segregated by age before the 1960s ; youth did not congregate around parts of football clubs as their territory — they had a larger territory and community which they shared with their older male relatives . |
| 14 | But the specific forms of hooliganism are new ; football crowds were not segregated by age before the 1960s ; youth did not congregate around parts of football clubs as their territory — they had a larger territory and community which they shared with their older male relatives . |
| 15 | The document has been criticized by environmentalists for merely offering suggestions and not setting out proposals for action . |
| 16 | I regret that I can not spell out part by part and line by line exactly what I want to achieve . |
| 17 | The Committee was not laying down patterns of teacher education to be followed , but was contributing , at a time of considerable difficulty and change in the system , to debate about future directions . |