Example sentences of "not [v-ing] [noun] [prep] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More importantly , he was a little wary of her father and not at all sure that Burkett was not using Sylvia as bait for a cast of his own . |
| 2 | Here the rhetorical approach is not drawing attention to arguments between cultures , or between ideologies , but the arguments which occur within cultures or ideologies . |
| 3 | ‘ You 're twenty-seven , you 're beautiful — oh , yes you are — ’ she 'd dismissed Shannon 's laughing denial with the airy wave of a hand — and you should be sharing your life with some gorgeous hunk by now , not returning night after night to a cold and empty flat . ’ |
| 4 | It is always possible to be kinder to the earth , but it is not saving clumps of trees from the bulldozers which will matter in the next century . |
| 5 | In particular that fireworks comply with the British Standard that people register that they are keeping fireworks retailers and wholesalers so that we can go and inspect the storage conditions er and that people obey the law by not selling fireworks to people under the age of sixteen . |
| 6 | Although the offence of having sexual intercourse with a girl under 16 has the advantage of not requiring proof of lack of consent , it carries a maximum penalty of just two years ’ imprisonment . |
| 7 | The defense of conventionalism we have now constructed has two parts : first , that wise adjudication consists in finding the right balance between predictability and flexibility and , second , that the right balance is secured by judges always respecting past explicit decisions of political institutions but not enforcing decisions by default in the way unilateralism does . |
| 8 | The Israeli government has a policy of not providing funds to hospitals for capital expenditure so that resources have to be sought elsewhere . |
| 9 | The Irish courts have held that a child which was born deformed in consequence of an injury to its mother , caused by the fault of a railway company on whose line she was travelling , could not recover damages ; but the decision turned on the view that the company , not having means of knowledge of its presence , owed no duty towards it . |
| 10 | I am not taking sides in respect of Croatia and Serbia . |
| 11 | The various explanations for communication failure that have been proposed — including not taking account of properties of the stimulus array , not asking questions , failing to perceive the role of the message , and having insufficient cognitive space to monitor the activity — seem to account for many of the experimental findings . |
| 12 | The member states are not deluging CERN with money for the LHC — in fact , its budget will drop slightly next year . |
| 13 | I would entreat your Honour to muster thirty men and send them to us and put shoes on board with them , for we have committed one great error in not putting shoes on board with the last , which was occasioned by means of a dispute we had with our cobblers about the price . |
| 14 | Will the Secretary of State specifically consider protecting the new body 's budget against the extraordinary awards made recently to landowners for not planting trees on sites of special scientific interest ? |
| 15 | According to the League Against Cruel Sports , most of the country 's huntsmen trade in animal skins and at least half contacted by undercover League Investigators , are said to have admitted not declaring income from skins to the Inland Revenue . |