Example sentences of "not [verb] the [noun pl] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You did not expound the words of scripture . |
| 2 | It is difficult not to see the seeds of authoritarianism in this thinking : Rougemont says , ‘ C'est pour obéir que nous sommes libres ’ : it is in order to be able to obey that we are free . |
| 3 | This would not affect the finances of Virgin Group at all . |
| 4 | Intragastric administration of indomethacin did not affect the activities of SOD in the gastric mucosa at three or six hours after indomethacin . |
| 5 | Sir Anthony says : ‘ The Department were at fault in failing to appreciate that the instructions given to Spicers to carry out an audit of the partnership 's client accounts would not , at least as regards some important Barlow Clowes portfolios , have enabled any reassurance to be gained on the score of the concern that the partnership could not make the payments of income they had guaranteed without eroding clients ’ capital . |
| 6 | Many of the lowest attainers have not distinguished the concepts of angle and space or length and so need tasks and concomitant criteria which attempt to clarify the distinction . |
| 7 | Iraq has not designated the wetlands for protection under the international Ramsar convention . |
| 8 | For , ‘ As Marx said , every child knows that a social formation which did not reproduce the conditions of production at the same time as it produced would not last a year ’ . |
| 9 | When late in 1972 Richard Leakey announced he had dug up the skull , thighbone , and parts of the lower leg of a human that were more than 2 ½ million years old , thus , if correct , disproving man 's direct descent from Australopithecus , many anthropologists seated in leather armchairs in universities not immediately adjacent to East Africa swiftly challenged Leakey 's conclusions , this despite the fact that they had not examined the bones in question , the strata in and near which they had been found , the animal bones found in the same strata , or indeed anything . |
| 10 | If this is so , the legal model of the company as so far described needs to be rejected in favour of one which does not explain the rules of company law exclusively in terms of the rights of owners , but which instead regards members and employees as joint stakeholders , each with legitimate demands that the company be run for their benefit . |
| 11 | Unfortunately , Lola could not deliver the cars in time for Indianapolis and Mr Rahal failed to qualify for the race . |
| 12 | The implication of this is that many mergers can be regarded as failures in the sense that they do not attain the gains in efficiency claimed as their justification . |
| 13 | As the Cloud-author might say , contemplative understanding comes from nowhere and is experienced as a gift : We must not be surprised if a man does not attain the heights of contemplation or experience its sweetness at the beginning of his Christian life . |
| 14 | They suggest that ‘ contemporary music is a means that God uses today to reach out to people who otherwise would not consider the truths of Christianity for themselves ’ . |
| 15 | If the Crown does not consider the particulars of claim give sufficient information as to the government department and officers concerned under Ord 42 , r 4 , it may , before the time for filing a defence has expired , file with the court two copies of a request for such information , one of which is sent to the plaintiff . |
| 16 | For example , a court might express regret about the law , as not representing the interests of commerce , and recommend urgent legislation . |
| 17 | For one thing , it could absorb a lot of expert resources and the policy gains might not outweigh the costs of investigation in many cases : it could also encourage rent-seeking behaviour . |
| 18 | Ramsey was still 18 and had not shed the spots of adolescence . |
| 19 | Henrietta 's frail constitution could not withstand the rigours of childbirth , however , and after seven years of marriage she died soon after giving birth to their son , John . |
| 20 | Champions are not allowed to compete in the Open Classes as they do not need the points on offer . |
| 21 | We need not discuss the results in detail except to note the following points . |
| 22 | You can not count the features of loveliness here , but I attach some pages from my notebook to discover to you the ingenious flora of this fair isle and their many productive and rich uses . |
| 23 | I did n't argue , but many died from exhaustion every year through not understanding the strengths of weakness . |
| 24 | When libraries have not addressed the demands of information users , other institutions have sprung up to do so . |
| 25 | ‘ That might not rob the thoughts of value . |
| 26 | This form of " guerrilla ethnography " has obvious advantages over larger , better-equipped crews with more limited time in the field , but it does not include the consolations of insurance , institutional funding or any guarantees of selling the films afterwards . |
| 27 | This specificity does not include the surfaces of blood cells , which are clearly non-thrombogenic . |
| 28 | The council observes that the estimated total cost , including preliminary expenses , has now risen to in excess of £63 million , and that that does not include the costs of disruption during the construction period . |
| 29 | Another man snatches bread from the table of hundreds of widows and orphans and similar credulous souls who do not know the ways of company promoters ; and , as likely as not , he is run into Parliament . ’ |
| 30 | Leapor insists that she has not exaggerated the perils of marriage : |