Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] in [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | • If you feel tired when it is time to get up — indeed , you might just be getting off to sleep ! — do not stay in bed , but get up . |
| 2 | The patient should not stay in bed without a special reason , such as feeling ill or exceptionally fatigued , or having a headache . |
| 3 | Many of the animals swim so quickly that they do not stay in sight for long . |
| 4 | Old-fashioned or external sanitary towels , as anyone who has had the misfortune to make use of them will know , are dreadfully uncomfortable : they will not stay in place , they leak , and they chafe . |
| 5 | A more realistic approach would recognize that new DNA does not arise in evolution as a random set of sequences , but as a duplicate of some pre-existing and functional sequence . |
| 6 | Defective tiled roofs can produce problems identical to those posed by ageing slate roofs , but because clay plain tiles are necessarily hung on battens ( not every tile is nailed except on very steeply pitched roofs ) and it is not possible simply to apply tiles direct to a boarded surface as in the case of a slate covering , the problem of rotting roofing battens and sarking does not arise in connection with tiling . |
| 7 | Such a consideration did not arise in connection with Sainte-Agathe , however , and when Jean-Claude felt he needed to refresh his memory of details , we rode cross-country to the village . |
| 8 | They may exist in favour of individuals , and in some cases in favour of a limited class , but , with the exception of the public right of fishing in tidal water , they can not exist in favour of the public at large . |
| 9 | Patriotism did not exist in spite of the inconveniences caused by the war , but because of them . |
| 10 | Such words do not exist in Russian . |
| 11 | A ‘ universal ’ old age pension did not exist in principle until 1956 , and not until 1965 was it extended to the peasantry and made universal in practice . |
| 12 | It is true that in such discussions the judgemental element does not exist in isolation , since it is interwoven with description , technical assessment of moves in play , and so forth , in ways suggested in Wittgenstein 's lectures on aesthetics . |
| 13 | A procedure does not exist in isolation from its surroundings , and Procedure Audit requires this to be acknowledged explicitly . |
| 14 | Furthermore , the analyst must realise that problems do not exist in isolation , but are interrelated with other problems affecting the same situation . |
| 15 | Firstly , to explore the idea that procedures do not exist in isolation , the relationships between the internal procedure , the wider system and the environment can be considered ( Fig 13.7 ) . |
| 16 | However , the Solar System does not exist in isolation : the gravitational effects of nearby stars are , it is thought , sufficient to deflect some of the comets inwards to swing once — or more often — through the inner Solar System . |
| 17 | Clearly , bits of the brain do not exist in isolation . |
| 18 | For just as the properties of individuals are dependent on their social context , the set of social relations which constitutes a practice does not exist in isolation . |
| 19 | Though training it is important , the guidelines stress it can not exist in isolation and has to be backed up by team management . |
| 20 | The day hospital does not exist in isolation . |
| 21 | Even the best examples of habitat types can not exist in isolation like islands of richness in a sea of poverty . |
| 22 | Systems do not exist in isolation . |
| 23 | The user has specified a preferred issue of a module but this issue does not exist in LIFESPAN . |
| 24 | The module , NOMODULE , supplied in the LIST_OF_CONTENTS , does not exist in LIFESPAN . |
| 25 | Action : The specified issue of the module does not exist in LIFESPAN — check in LIFESPAN |
| 26 | Since perfect competition does not exist in practice — at best it is approximated in some markets — the stringent conditions for efficient resource allocation by the market are not met . |
| 27 | This ancient puzzle has prompted some philosophers to draw a distinction between " being " and actual existence , and to claim that what is being talked about in such cases has being , even though it does not exist in reality . |
| 28 | An ideal gas does not exist in reality . |
| 29 | Where , by contrast , the relationship between subject and type of work is more pluralistic , that possibility does not exist ; or rather does not exist in theory . |
| 30 | These include sincerity , honesty ( not to indulge in plagiarism or cheating ) , truthfulness , the avoidance of self-contradiction , a determination to be comprehensible , the intellectual courage to develop and hold a position of one 's own , a willingness to be subject to the demands of reason and evidence , an openness to other viewpoints or ways of going on , and according due ( but not undue ) respect to teaching and other staff . |