Example sentences of "not [verb] [adv prt] [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lord Owen and his new UN colleague , Thorvald Stoltenberg , Norway 's former foreign minister , have not given up hope for the Vance-Owen peace plan . |
| 2 | Similarly in Britain , a party can win several thousand votes in each constituency yet not come out top of the poll in any ; in consequence , it amasses a large popular vote but no seats in Parliament . |
| 3 | For the record , too , the Press spokesman said the president only had the haircut because he was assured that doing so would not tie up traffic at the airport . |
| 4 | The primary aim of the Convention is not to set up machinery for the chastisement of states which infringe human rights . |
| 5 | If we live in a free society we can not carry out experiments on the real world so it would not be possible to go ahead and build the road just to see what would happen . |
| 6 | This also means that the business can not claim back VAT on the purchases which it makes . |
| 7 | In general , Britain 's laws do not lay down limits to the noise that a factory makes outside its walls , although in some cases local councils have permitted factory developments only on the proviso that they do not exceed specific sound levels . |
| 8 | An example of the objectionable content of the draft was the call for relaxation of controls over private sector housing : ‘ local authorities should not lay down requirements on the mix of house types , provision of garages , internal standards , sizes of private gardens , location of houses on plots and in relation to each other , provision of private open space . ’ |
| 9 | erm It could be that erm with a different political regime , you might get a positive commitment not to run down things like the schools , the hospitals , British Leyland , erm British Airways , British Steel and the rest . |
| 10 | We 're not giving out mortgages at the moment |
| 11 | She obviously would not have travelled such a huge distance if she did not hold out hope for the relationship , and Charity wanted to respect that . |
| 12 | In contrast to non-enrollers , migrants did not stress financial or domestic factors as reasons for not taking up courses in the institutions studied . |
| 13 | But because his insurance brokers could not match up details from the other driver with her insurance company 's records , Michael lost his no-claims bonus . |
| 14 | ‘ I can not drive out Medoc without the Royal Houses who have been lost , but now are found . |
| 15 | Here , listeners were acting in a highly focused , not to say impulsive , fashion , and they were not carrying out analysis of the message at a level that would produce success . |
| 16 | Dr Kalim Siddiqui , who heads the self-styled Moslem parliament in Britain , said : ‘ We must not fight over issues in the sub-continent . ’ |