Example sentences of "not [vb infin] [adv] of the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However should the United States be able to demonstrate the necessary state practice and opinio juris to substantiate a claim of customary international law , there is no reason why such general principles of law should not exist independently of the Convention . |
| 2 | What I have tried to say — namely that writing is not governed by the subjective intentions of its author , that ideas do not exist independently of the language which ‘ expresses ’ them — has ( inevitably ) been partially contradicted by the manner in which it has been said . |
| 3 | Let us be clear that we should not think merely of the Europe of the Twelve . |
| 4 | Ranulf was now fast asleep and the clerk breathed a prayer that his servant would not fall out of the saddle and break his neck . |
| 5 | The tawny owl sample contains a lot of murids compared with other owls , and for this species the percentage molar loss is unexpectedly low because the murid teeth do not fall out of the maxilla so easily . |
| 6 | I was certainly happy to make this find as the larger hammered silver coins of this period are not common and certainly do not pour out of the ground no matter where you live . |
| 7 | No doubt if I can not break out of the convention of thinking as though I were a detached Ego contemplating unmoved both the possible consequences and my fear of them , it will seem that I can have no reason to stop smoking unless I recognize some further imperative such as ‘ Take care of your health ’ . |
| 8 | ‘ If man can not create anything or move anybody , if he can not break out of the prison of his total narcissism and isolation , he can escape the unbearable sense of vital impotence and nothingness only by affirming himself in the act of destruction of the life that he is unable to create . |
| 9 | Alice purposely did not look out of the window . |
| 10 | Many , if not most , events implicated in depression do not occur out of the blue . |
| 11 | The duty of the court is to enforce the Acts and in so doing to observe one principle which is inherent in the Acts and has been long recognised , the principle that parties can not contract out of the Acts … |
| 12 | They will not move out of the tradition in manner or moral , but will only marry higher education and will search for some way to use it . |
| 13 | Indeed , in a sense , behaviour can not develop independently of the environment , and can not , in a developmental sense be called ‘ inherited ’ at all . |
| 14 | Officers did not go out of the camp to work and they had no contact with women . |
| 15 | Older members of a family did not go out of the house in search of music but to get away from it . |
| 16 | His assailant did not come out of the affair unscathed . |
| 17 | Well we did take some er legal advice on it and we were told that it was not illegal , erm I mean we think it 's highly immoral erm , but we were told it was not illegal , because they did not actually use the er the redundancy money did not come out of the fund , only this enhanced pension etcetera which was using up the , the surplus and we were told |
| 18 | His offer did not come out of the blue . |
| 19 | TV time is bought well in advance , and is subject to a standard cancellation date — of eight weeks — beyond which the advertiser and agency can not back out of the commitment to advertise ( though in practice an agency may , in an emergency , transfer the time to another client or a different brand ) . |
| 20 | If he is that much of a wimp , why does he not get out of the road and let us take over ? |
| 21 | I was never happy all the time , but i could get no character and could not get out of the life . |
| 22 | Grasshoppers , scorpions , lizards , young birds in their nests , anything that can not get out of the way is attacked . |
| 23 | However it was , the one he had aimed at did not get out of the way in time and a last-minute attempt to slink off in the wind failed . |
| 24 | It was then he found he could not get out of the finance deal . |
| 25 | He would not put out of the power of his creditors the mental and literary resources which yet remained to him . |
| 26 | You also need plenty of room , since the iron does not operate independently of the vapour tank . |
| 27 | I can not find out of the evidence any facts which support the view or which justify the inference . |