Example sentences of "not [vb infin] as [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( 2 ) The human being does not exist as a legal person until after birth . |
| 2 | The suggestion at the time that the Labour Party had been behind Profumo 's downfall was a little unfair to many members who repeatedly expressed their misgivings about the scandalous imputations , which several of them could not regard as a proper currency for a political difference . |
| 3 | An unholy alliance with other minorities to preserve ideological positions otherwise unacceptable to the electorate does not appeal as a noble enterprise . |
| 4 | But it would not count as a non-branching hierarchy ; branching can be regarded as a canonical feature of a taxonomic hierarchy . |
| 5 | Fatialofa is L'Aquila 's ‘ foreign player ’ but on the other side of the scrum there is a South African of Italian descent , Gerardo Lepera , who does not count as a foreign player and has the right to play as what the Italians call an oriundi . |
| 6 | PEACE envoy Lord Owen warned last night that Bosnia-Herzegovina would not survive as a single state if Moslems and Croats continued fighting . |
| 7 | Turning now to impertinent , we can readily see that although the im -is replaceable by zero , it does not qualify as a semantic constituent : |
| 8 | From the available evidence , it seems fair to conclude that the typical legal sanction against corporate crime does not act as a general deterrent — others are not put off merely because some corporations and their executives have been fined , particularly when the fines are comparatively small and tax-deductable — and the evidence , such as it is , suggests that a specific deterrent function may operate , but only to deter corporations from recommitting the same offence . |
| 9 | Under U.S. law , an ocean freight forwarder can not act as a common carrier or as an agent for such a carrier and thus can not be a NVOCC . |
| 10 | The administration itself is of course no monolith and does not act as a single bloc , pursuing its interests whatever they may be . |
| 11 | The bankruptcy order does not act as an automatic stay of all proceedings against the bankrupt . |
| 12 | Would they not act as an invaluable bridge extending to the Baltic states and other parts of central and eastern Europe ? |
| 13 | So this does not appear as a technical difference . |
| 14 | The Germanic tribe is therefore based on shared locality rather than kinship , but it consists of a collection of kinship units each with access to a territory , thus ‘ individual landed property ( of the different families ) does not appear as a contradictory form of communal landed property , nor as mediated by the community but the other way round . |
| 15 | Transport does not appear as a separate item , but as part of the overall block grant to regional authorities . |
| 16 | The final surprise is that in the Old Testament the Spirit does not appear as a divine being . |
| 17 | Indeed , gastrinoma growth did not appear as an essential factor and , as shown in Table IV , neither sex , level of hypergastrinaemia , duration of disease , nor the type and duration of antisecretory treatment can , independently , account for neoplastic changes . |
| 18 | Moreover , historically , the possibility of pregnancy does not emerge as a central consideration in the offence of rape . |
| 19 | ‘ Not being able to support myself financially when old ’ , and ‘ having to care for an elderly relative ’ are some of your other major worries ; ‘ losing my job ’ does not feature as a key worry for most . |
| 20 | The BCC can not function as a holding company , but can carry out auxiliary service activities for the group , which would include treasury functions . |
| 21 | Beyond this , it had little economic importance and did not function as a multilateral institution in any proper sense of the term . |
| 22 | Some builders , as we have seen , working later than Cristofori , put in their actions something resembling a check but which could not function as a true check . |
| 23 | During the Persian Empire Aramaic did not function as an international language in the same way in which Greek did in the period after Alexander . |
| 24 | There are two types of crime which will not suffice as the unlawful act : crimes of negligence and crimes of omission . |
| 25 | Sajudis did not compete as a political party , but backed candidates from several parties including the newly independent Communist Party of Lithuania ( CPL — see pp. 37128-29 ; 37168 ) , as well as independent candidates . |
| 26 | It does not perform as a titrating dosimat or have the RS 232C interface for the attachment of a balance , printer or PC , like the 665 Dosimat , but the 725 is available for about half the price of the 665 . |
| 27 | I have no evidence to support it , but I suspect that Ministers looking for private schools for their children will not take as a key selling point class sizes of more than 35 or 40 . |
| 28 | In fact the new government did not develop as a British creature and , in the words of one historian , Nikki Keddie , it marked a " turning point in Iranian history " . |
| 29 | I am sorry , Mr. Speaker , but I could not hear as an hon. Friend was standing up . |
| 30 | In preparation for the final session , I designated a ‘ robot controller ’ room area , roped off , a large placard with ROBOT CONTROLLER in red ( I should have added PRIVATE , DO NOT ENTER as a nice re-inforcer of the point , but I did not think about it in time ) against a dais on which stood a table and a hand microphone ( a television control device which he had carried around with him on previous occasions ) . |