Example sentences of "not [verb] in the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | The exclusion principle is crucial because it explains why matter particles do not collapse to a state of very high density under the influence of the forces produced by the particles of spin 0 , 1 , and 2 : if the matter particles have very nearly the same positions , they must have different velocities , which means that they will not stay in the same position for long . |
2 | Not that she could n't handle him , but it was so much better if the situation did not arise in the first place . |
3 | Such a problem would not arise in the perfect capital market scenario sketched out above ( although if the qualification provided new information about the distribution of cash flows , there might be an interdependence between the qualification and asset prices ) but if in the real world the qualification caused investors and creditors to withdraw funds , refuse lines of credit or otherwise alter their behaviour , then the qualification might indeed be a self-fulfilling prophecy . |
4 | This issue does not arise in the present case . |
5 | They may be unable to afford appropriate housing , or may live in an area where such housing does not exist in the private sector , and thus would look to the local housing authority to solve their housing problem . |
6 | However , there is no reported case in which this point has been taken by an employer in order to argue that the special approach is not always applicable ; it may be that the special approach is so entrenched in judicial thinking that even an employer who is able to demonstrate that the factual bases for the special approach do not exist in the instant case will not succeed in persuading the court to abandon it . |
7 | The objects in question , similarly , do not exist in the spatio-temporal way of ordinary things . |
8 | Beware of the trap of spending time on long explanations in English on what something is. it may not exist in the other culture . |
9 | Payment has never been demanded and it is possible that the provisions are not necessary because the liabilities they cover did not exist in the first place . |
10 | As with externalities , we can not expect markets to allocate resources efficiently if the markets do not exist in the first place . |
11 | Lorenzo Semple Jr came in to spend six weeks writing three quick drafts to create the character for Dustin — the wimpish , thickly bespectacled Louis Dega , ‘ the best counterfeiter in France ’ , who did not exist in the Charrière book . |
12 | Money did not exist in the Minoan scheme of things . |
13 | Time does not exist in the big glass , he wrote . |
14 | My conclusion is , though I have not reviewed here all the examples adduced for the phenomenon of " automatism " , that the phenomenon does not exist in the Hebrew Bible , and that some supposed examples of it really exhibit the parallelism of greater precision , while other examples contain other types of parallelistic relationships . |
15 | AS LONG AGO as the 19th century , Franz Brentano argued that mind is essentially intentional , and that conscious states always require cognitively-held objects , even though these may not exist in the physical world . |
16 | As R. H. Tawney remarked , homework did not exist in the northern textile towns where the largest percentages of married women were employed full-time in factories . |
17 | But if a total consciousness is an organic whole , then some or all of these parts could not exist in the same character in another different sort of whole . |
18 | Pauli 's exclusion principle says that two similar particles can not exist in the same state , that is , they can not have both the same position and the same velocity , within the limits given by the uncertainty principle . |
19 | We do not exist in the same world ! |
20 | Thus intelligent life could not exist in the contracting phase of the universe . |
21 | If the arms race is not stopped in the Middle East , any hope of the long-sought peace dividend will simply disappear , crippling even further the UK and US economies . |
22 | But , I told myself as I took a service elevator up to the roof , I should not think in the past tense . |
23 | ‘ Wearing a white beret in among Australians , New Zealanders and every type of nationality out there brought some great wolf whistles , which were naturally not received in the right manner . |
24 | Anne 's first words were not uttered in the encouraging tones Robyn had hoped for . |
25 | Until very recently professional sportsmen have been regarded by directors as skilled workmen ; footballers ' incomes were not calculated in the same way as transfer fees according to market value but in relation to what other working-class men could expect to earn . |
26 | If we look at management er procedures Could ask the question but I 'm , the mo more cynical of you will er not answer in the right way , what are management procedures ? |
27 | I can not answer in the unconstrained sense in which my hon. Friend asked the question , but , clearly , we are prepared to play our part — bilaterally through the provision of know-how and technical assistance in appropriate matters and , of course , through the European Community to which we are a substantial subscriber . |
28 | Mind you , she asks a lot of questions which tend to drive you insane when you want to get on with the job , and sometimes I used words not heard in the best society . |
29 | Rosa sylvestris pomifera nostras ( probably the old R. villosa and ‘ greater apple-bearing rose ’ of the Dictionary ) followed six years later and , finally in 1764 , R. pendulina , not listed in the 1768 Dictionary , although R. pendulis appeared in the 1770 Catalogue . |
30 | This belief , though not taught in the Old Testament , was widely held in the Jewish constituency among whom Paul worked : it is widely believed today that if only you try hard and do your best , God will accept you at the last . |