Example sentences of "not [vb infin] the [noun pl] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ You did not expound the words of scripture .
2 This would not affect the finances of Virgin Group at all .
3 Intragastric administration of indomethacin did not affect the activities of SOD in the gastric mucosa at three or six hours after indomethacin .
4 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 .
5 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 ’ .
6 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 .
7 Unfortunately , Lola could not deliver the cars in time for Indianapolis and Mr Rahal failed to qualify for the race .
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 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 ’ .
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 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 .
14 Champions are not allowed to compete in the Open Classes as they do not need the points on offer .
15 We need not discuss the results in detail except to note the following points .
16 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 .
17 ‘ That might not rob the thoughts of value .
18 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 .
19 This specificity does not include the surfaces of blood cells , which are clearly non-thrombogenic .
20 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 .
21 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 . ’
22 Importantly , the Foundation does not enjoy the privileges of immunity of the Sovereign State .
23 and Thorpe J. No complaint was made by the appellant that Form N79 did not specify the findings of fact , the appellant having been in court and well aware of the position .
24 However , Sutcliffe does not specify the details of language choice within the home , saying only that " complicated factors " are involved .
25 Why did the learner not identify the signs of anxiety expressed through non-verbal behaviour ?
26 Others have shown that surgery does not improve the results of chemotherapy or radiotherapy .
27 Workers could not clear the tunnels of smoke while waiting for the rescue teams to arrive .
28 This is true of well-maintained houses in St Ann 's as well as decrepit ones , but openness to the wind and rain do not mitigate the difficulties of life under such conditions .
29 Even when the sources of external information are straightforward , we must not underestimate the problems of analysis of that data .
30 However , although such a study might permit some comparison of different schemes , this pragmatic approach would not provide the parameters for comparison ; nor , indeed , would it identify any criteria that classification schemes should meet .
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