Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gramsci 's reading of Marx according to which " there does not exist an abstract fixed immutable human nature ; … human nature is the totality of historically determined social relations " is in line with this style of thinking ; so also is Rousseau 's earlier , portentous but shocking prediction that , because of human avarice , men would have to be " forced to be free " . |
| 2 | Hobbes is not using an inductive argument here ; the ‘ possibility apparent ’ is not an inductive argument from observations about past children but is meant to refer to some discernible feature of present ones . |
| 3 | In November , 1991 , Lord Prosser dismissed the actions raised by Mrs Hamilton and Mr Watson after holding that ‘ person ’ did not cover an unborn child . |
| 4 | Lord Prosser decided that ‘ person ’ did not cover an unborn child . |
| 5 | Before any evidence was heard at the Court of Session on the issue of negligence , Lord Prosser dismissed the action after holding that ‘ person ’ did not cover an unborn child . |
| 6 | Why not make an extra batch for a delectable Christmas present ? |
| 7 | For traditional criticism it did not make an especial difference whether the date of composition of Milton 's Samson Agonistes was assigned to 1647–53 during the Civil War or to the Restoration period of 1660–70 . |
| 8 | 2.10:ONE of the surprises of last season was that former runaway Cesarewitch winner TRAINGLOT did not make an immediate impression at the winter game . |
| 9 | This may be because by now she is find the spelling test hard and is getting anxious ; or it may be because she can not make an accurate guess at the way new words are pronounced . |
| 10 | As we have seen , defendants can protect themselves by making written offers when they can not make an effective payment into court because they are faced with a split trial . |
| 11 | Secondly , why did Fr O'Dowd not make an official complaint against the Daily Telegraph . |
| 12 | In France the news was the main topic of conversation in cafes and restaurants but President Mitterrand did not make an official statement . |
| 13 | Although South Korea did not make an official response to the preconditions — all of which it had rejected in the past — it did agreed to suspend its pursuit of membership of the UN until the two Korean states had discussed the issue further . |
| 14 | Even if you can not make an active contribution your support is of great value . |
| 15 | The teachers in the two departments are possessed of a missionary zeal to improve the quality of their pupils ' lives ; they do not want an English education to be useful or vocational , but to enable the pupils to think critically about themselves , about life , and about society . |
| 16 | Mr Rurka said he found the council 's decision difficult to understand , but he stressed that he did not want an adversarial relationship . |
| 17 | He did not want an American invasion . |
| 18 | Only after the war was it revealed that reports concerning the role of the task force had been an element of allied disinformation as it had already been decided not to conduct an amphibious assault . |
| 19 | Those commentators who blame Labour for not pursuing an alternative set of more socially just proposals in the conditions of August 1931 ought rather to blame the electorate for not giving Labour sufficient support to form a majority government in 1929 . |
| 20 | Not heard an American or Canadian say that . |
| 21 | Thus , there should be a sufficient threat if , in the circumstances known to the accused , the threat might ( 1 ) influence the mind of an ordinary person of normal stability and courage ( whether or not it in fact influences the person addressed ) , or ( 2 ) influence the mind of the person addressed , though it would not influence an ordinary person . |
| 22 | But Galileo himself did not utilize an optical theory for that purpose . |
| 23 | But whatever the reason , whether it was that everyone had been so busy reassuring everyone that no one had bothered to talk to the crematorium , whether they had got the time wrong , or whether the vicar had simply had a brainstorm , he now , you could tell , was dimly aware that he had not given an exemplary performance . |
| 24 | ‘ But we were not given an easy ride just because we are an in-house company . |
| 25 | ‘ Guidelines tell us we can not transmit an undue amount of bad language . |
| 26 | Since most university students work from books to hand and find it impracticable to wait for inter-library loan requests — and you can not browse an inter-library loan book before it arrives , any more than you can browse the contents of books in the memory of an ‘ on-line ’ catalogue and not on a shelf in front of you — the result is a major diminution of standards . |
| 27 | Mr Kilfedder says : ‘ You can not transplant an English party into Ulster and think it will solve the problems here . ’ |
| 28 | The cushion would have been even greater had they not squandered an early 19–10 lead and clocked up 14 team fouls before the break . |
| 29 | Indeed , staff often felt themselves to have failed if patients could not attain an independent life-style . |
| 30 | This could also be because women with unexplained lower abdominal pain are often referred in the first instance to gynaecologists , who may not consider an intestinal cause until they have removed the pelvic organs . |