Example sentences of "[noun pl] not [v-ing] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 But that is n't the reason for these kids not getting backing .
2 There was no significant difference between the birth weight of diabetic subjects not receiving insulin ( 3.39+-(0.58) kg , n=20 ) and the birth weight of those with impaired glucose tolerance and with normoglycaemia .
3 The diabetic subjects not receiving insulin had significantly lower β cell function ( median 69% ) than the subjects with impaired glucose tolerance ( median 96% , p<0.001 ) and the subjects with normoglycaemia ( median 98% , p<0.001 ) .
4 Since the abolition of direct imprisonment for debts not exceeding £20 , the Insolvent Debtors Court and , after its abolition , the Bankruptcy Court in London and the county courts in the provinces , had possessed the power of imprisonment for forty days or less upon proof of means to pay or fraud .
5 Once it is accepted that principles can be part of the law for reasons not reflecting convention but just because they are morally appealing , then a door is opened for the more threatening idea that some principles are part of the law because of their moral appeal , even though they contradict what convention has endorsed .
6 On Jan. 9 the Syrian-backed Lebanese government recently formed by Umar Karami [ see pp. 37928-29 ] won a vote of confidence in the National Assembly by 37 votes to three , with 27 deputies not taking part in the voting .
7 What we need , however , is not to stretch consent out of recognition but to examine whether the reasons that validate consent in general and consent to authority in particular can not also be applied to some cases not involving consent .
8 Sorry , to , I 'll say that again to fit front and rear lights during production thus cutting down the number of accidents involving cyclists not showing lights during the hours of darkness even farther .
9 One would have thought that the principle of people living in glass houses not throwing stones would have warned Ivan off a career as a journalist , gossip , and so-called satirist , but it did not seem to occur to him that he was asking for trouble of a kind that she knew would cause him the most intimate anguish : but in fact , so appalling were Ivan 's features and physique that comment on them was rare , even his worst enemies ( and he had hundreds ) not considering them fair game .
10 It followed that it would be sensible to locate elements not needing daylight — stairs , lifts and corridors — in the interior of the building .
11 ‘ Of the 65 per cent of companies not using credit insurance , half had no idea what it would cost as a percentage of total sales value , indicating that the industry has a real job to do explaining how little properly structured credit insurance can cost : often 0.5 per cent of turnover or less . ’
12 It states , ‘ … grassland accounting for more than 70% of the total utilised agricultural area , a stocking rate of less than 1 livestock unit ( 1 cow over two years old or 6.6 sheep ) per forage hectare and farm rents not exceeding 65% of the national average … and a labour income per man — work unit exceeding 80% of the national average ’ .
13 This effect may come partly through economic calculations not favouring risk-taking , and partly through the broader anti-entrepreneurial ethos of the upper class .
14 The purchase of externally-sourced catalogue records ( e.g. from OCLC or VTLS ) would not be cost-effective , since so many of our records are unique , or shared only with other specialist botanical libraries not contributing records to these services — we would have to do it all again ourselves , and we lack the manpower resources to do this .
15 No proteins of similar size are detected in bacterial extracts not containing CREB or ATF1 ( data not shown ) .
16 Dogs not wearing tags could mean a Control of Dogs order , a prosecution and a heavy fine .
17 Education — School — Parental preference — Duty to comply — Over-subscribed Roman Catholic girls ' school — Admission policy giving priority to Roman Catholic and other Christians — Hindu and Muslim applicants not fulfilling admission criteria — Refusal of admission by governors — Appeal committee dismissing appeal — Whether school bound by parental preference — Whether appeal committee 's decision correct in law — Education Act 1980 ( c. 20 ) , s. 6(3) ( a ) ( as amended by Education Reform Act 1988 ( c. 40 ) , s. 30 )
18 One approach would be to have first-degree sexual assault defined so as to include penetration involving the penis , vagina , or anus , together with the threat or infliction of grievous bodily harm ; then a second-degree offence of the same nature involving a threat or infliction of actual bodily harm ; and then a third-degree offence covering all other sexual assaults involving penetration , and a fourth offence to cover indecent assaults not involving penetration .
19 Category D , carrying a maximum penalty of five years ' imprisonment , would cover indecent assaults not involving penetration .
20 But , as she points out , a lot of childcare is in the black economy , with people handing over cash and carers not paying NIC and PAYE , so — assuming that people do n't declare their cash payments — the ‘ dead weight ’ cost would not be that high .
21 Most infants ( 92% ) excreting cotinine at three weeks were excreting it also at one year ; moreover , 61% of infants not excreting cotinine at three months were excreting it at one year .
22 If it does n't port to NT , how could it defend its position as an open systems company , the newsletter asks , anticipating that Sun may find itself in the ‘ embarrassing position of being one of the only significant RISC systems vendors not offering Windows NT on its systems . ’
23 At the same time , firms not taking part in takeovers took on more debt , either gradually or in so-called ‘ leveraged recapitalisations ’ — in effect self-takeovers in which firms ' existing shareholders swapped some of their equity into debt .
24 This group of professionals has not even bothered to ease the biggest problem facing entrepreneurs — apart from the unavailability of cheap finance — which is the lack of cash flow that results from customers not paying bills on time .
25 The stretching frequencies of bonds not involving hydrogen are generally lower .
26 In contrast , intestinal biopsy specimens of the coeliac disease patients not receiving treatment had grade II atrophy in two cases , grade III atrophy in five cases , and total atrophy ( grade IV ) in five children .
27 Pyloriset Latex had the lowest sensitivity and highest specificity in patients not taking NSAID .
28 It is also worth noting that the prevalence of H pylori in patients treated with NSAID was 34 of 64 ( 53% ) compated with 43 of 60 ( 72% ) ( p<0.05 ) in patients not taking NSAID , using the standard tests ( see Table III ) .
29 Threfore , accurate diagnosis of H pylori in these patients is at least as important as it is in patients not taking NSAID .
30 We conclude that in our experience annual colonoscopic surveillance for cancer has been unsuccessful ; eight of nine colonic cancers occurred in ulcerative colitis patients not having surveillance .
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