Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] not [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So take a tip from none other than Graham Greene : " A story has n't room for more than a limited number of created characters . " |
| 2 | Oakeshott recognizes a morality inherent in the rule of law and suggests that to deliberate the jus of lex involves not deduction but a particular kind of moral consideration ; that the prescriptions of law ‘ should not conflict with a prevailing educated moral sensibility ’ of a people . |
| 3 | Use this where your employee has not entitlement to SSP or where that entitlement has run out but he or she is still sick . |
| 4 | to the will of the people than participatory democracy or Russo All the individuals do is elect their governors , so this is the idea that Russo called not democracy but that to of aristocracy . |
| 5 | The voices did not acclaim his deeds with a loud rapture but became whispering voices , conspiratorially accusing , viciously sniggery . |
| 6 | It can not of course be the case that syntactic variables do not pattern socially or stylistically ; some of them plainly do , as the work of , for example , Cheshire has shown . |
| 7 | A more serious problem arises where the applicant does not rate highly in terms of either expertise or ability , that is where the content of the degree is irrelevant , and the quality of it uninspiring . |
| 8 | Stern appeals to principle might in time have closed the dollar gap in Britain 's trade with the United States had not cancer removed this economic dictator-by-consent , greatly weakening the Labour government 's authority in 1951 . |
| 9 | Do n't think that just because a shampoo does n't lather well it is n't doing its job . |
| 10 | The distinction is a very significant one , because all the great religions of the world have emphasized how important it is that religion and life are bound up together , that religion does not hive off into some remote corner unrelated to the real world ; all religions do bother about the secular in the first sense of the word — about how life is actually lived and what people are and do , and not just about what they say and believe . |
| 11 | The smoking data have not bee updated since recruitment . |
| 12 | Alpacas gave wool and meat and their feet do not impact and damage the soil as cows ' hooves do . |
| 13 | Even the casual Aranyos did not disdain to make the sign . |
| 14 | The recent difficulties faced by this sector do not impact on this year 's survey results but may well have an adverse effect on the 1991 figures . |
| 15 | Land Rovers do not self centre very much because in common with most beam axled four wheel drive vehicles they do not have much of a caster angle on the front axle . |
| 16 | Mere dared not silence , but neither could he see the value of , Emilia 's recurrent nostalgic reveries over their former life ; but he was deeply troubled when she drew his attention to the fact that the services of a curate could be acquired for as little as thirty pounds a year . |
| 17 | Yeah but Russia did n't case Russia intervened as a pro-liberal thing . |
| 18 | In addition , although Haig was reinforced with eight divisions , he was placed under Nivelle 's overall command ; matters did not auger well for harmonious Anglo-French cooperation . |
| 19 | Homosexuality does not birth new warriors for liberation … [ it ] is an accelerating threat to our survival as a people and as a nation . ’ |
| 20 | French susceptibilities over sovereignty had not vet developed to the extent that they were to do by 1294 . |
| 21 | Independence does not rate highly with them , whereas their health does . |
| 22 | Theories of hypothetical consent discuss not consent but cognitive agreement . |
| 23 | Others again have taken as the play 's essence the need to reconcile not truth and falsehood but competing truths . |
| 24 | His results showed that children below the age of seven years did not structure their stories or explanations coherently , nor did they keep in mind the extent of the listener 's ignorance . |
| 25 | But in Fiona 's case he stressed : ‘ Our understanding is that any relationship that might have taken place did not com-mence until he was not a client of the service . |
| 26 | Currency-option dealers quote not price but implied volatility — the market 's guess at how much the underlying asset will move over the life of the option . |
| 27 | Oh if you ca n't manage it Sid do n't sort of bear with it . |
| 28 | For example there were evident differences in lexical incidence between items which had been thought to belong to the same phonological set ; get and never in contemporary Belfast vernacular did not pattern in the same way as items such as wet and wedding , and so could not be considered as tokens of the variable ( Ε ) ( see further 6.7 ) . |
| 29 | They therefore tend to assume that after two years the firm ( if it is not a supernormal growth firm ) simply grows in line with GDP , on the grounds that , in the long run , the share of dividends or earnings in GDP does not trend in any significant way . |
| 30 | A conveyance to an infant does not vest the legal estate in him , but operates only as an agreement to execute a settlement in his favour . |