Example sentences of "not [vb infin] [adv] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | But we have nothing against foreign investment in British companies , and I can not think why the Hon. Gentleman should take that line . |
| 2 | I WAS delighted that Newcastle City Council leader Jeremy Beecham will not bail out the ailing Newcastle United FC ( Echo Jan 15 ) . |
| 3 | Reports in mid-October suggested , however , that US and United Kingdom investigators still believed that the new evidence did not rule out the original assumption that the attack had been ordered by Iran and Syria in revenge for the accidental shooting down in July 1988 in the Gulf of an Iranian airbus by the USS Vincennes , when 290 people were killed [ see pp. 36169-70 ; 37898 ] . |
| 4 | Government policy does not explain why the organized networks only covered certain areas , or why the illicit trade declined in Kurunagala at the end of the nineteenth century , but continued to thrive for another fifteen years in the Low Country before suffering a similar decline . |
| 5 | He can do no better than argue that it involves apprehending things simultaneously rather than in succession though he does not explain how the successful mystic can transcend the limits of the magic number seven , which most psychologists agree is the maximum number of entities that can simultaneously be held before the mind . |
| 6 | But it has to be reiterated that the CTP does not explain these observations : it does not explain how the impinging events give rise to awareness of those events . |
| 7 | The woman is looking me straight in the eyes , Alida thought , she does not know even the basic elements of courtesy , she has paid no attention at all to the very relevant account of my condition . |
| 8 | So my answer to the question A is , I am not against a new settlement , of the right scale in the right location , but it is not a panacea , it is not an answer to all the questions , now it 's being offered in terms of a balanced strategy , I say that balanced strategy as put forward does not work , certainly beyond two thousand and six , and may grind to a halt well before two thousand and six if rates of development proceed er as they have done in certain years in the past , so it 's very important to look at that , can we just revisit the public acceptance of the new settlement , of course the public have accepted it and welcomed it , it has certain attractions , I support those attractions , however it 's easy for the public to accept that when measured against certain sites specific proposals that were put to them when they did not know where the new settlement would be , and still do not know , when new settlement locations are put forward it will be quite a different scenario . |
| 9 | But she did not know where the young men slept , either . |
| 10 | I really do not know where the hon. Gentleman found the ’ 44 ’ figure . |
| 11 | ‘ No stock-taking ’ policies are adopted partly because of staffing shortages , but also on the premise that stock-taking is a waste of time because it does not bring back the missing books , and any item which is really important will be requested on reservation ( though a central reservation system , if employed , may mean that missing titles go unnoticed ) . |
| 12 | As James says , anger that is left unresolved ‘ does not bring about the righteous life that God desires ’ ( Jas. 1:20 ) . |
| 13 | The danger , clearly , is that a tight budget will not bring about the desired response from the financial markets , and business will get the worst of both worlds — continued high interest rates and no help from the budget . |
| 14 | Nevertheless , it was a defiant stand which was to be admired even if the final outcome did not bring about the desired result . |
| 15 | ‘ I suppose it does not matter now the French bitch is leaving . |
| 16 | Sadly many of them did not show quite the high standard of dress they expect of their pupils . |
| 17 | Is it not time that the Government stood up and were counted by telling the Turkish Government to remove their troops from occupied Cyprus and saying that if they do not do so the British Government will veto any attempt by Turkey to join the EC ? |
| 18 | and we will not give up the good things in life for Greenpeace and for a clean environment |
| 19 | For all their talk about the wisdom of the marketplace , the Thatcher government could not give up the paternalistic idea that they had to regulate the independent television companies , with the continuation of the Independent Broadcasting Authority in the guise of an Independent Television Commission . |
| 20 | Zuccarelli Labs also says that the patent does not give away the real secret of the invention . |
| 21 | Even if — which in some cases is a big ‘ if ’ — the patent system does not give away the vital clue to an innovative product of process , innovating enterprises now increasingly prefer to keep their knowledge to themselves in order to preserve their options on when , where and how to market it . |
| 22 | [ Guevara then went on to mention ] some things he had in mind : — ( 1 ) That they could not give back the expropriated properties … but they could pay for them in trade . |
| 23 | The local newspapers in Ulster printed our press statements , but did not follow up the Black story on their own despite the clear indications of sinister and dramatic happenings . |
| 24 | In fairness , the bank manager would concede , he could not see where the poor fellow could make another economy and continue to live a half-way acceptable life . |
| 25 | We do not see here the great wealth and immense development of twelfth- or thirteenth-century Italy — we are , after all , still in the tenth and eleventh centuries ; and English towns never achieved the wealth or sophistication of the Italian . |
| 26 | Many Frenchmen remained suspicious even of arming Germans within a European force , and many did not see why the French army should lose its own military independence by joining EDC . |
| 27 | But the fact remains that while local authorities demonstrate their continued inability to use the resources that are already at their disposal , when so many Labour-controlled authorities can not even be bothered to collect the huge sums in uncollected rent , I can not see why the hon. Gentleman should be concerned about the level of rents . |
| 28 | But I still do not see why the little houses . ’ |
| 29 | We can not see how the continued use of inappropriate information can enhance equity of health care . |
| 30 | Obviously they can not weigh up the comparative cost of some type of credit which is beyond their ken . |