Example sentences of "[not/n't] [vb infin] 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | Lord Prosser decided that ‘ person ’ did not cover an unborn child . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Why not make an extra batch for a delectable Christmas present ? |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Secondly , why did Fr O'Dowd not make an official complaint against the Daily Telegraph . |
| 11 | In France the news was the main topic of conversation in cafes and restaurants but President Mitterrand did not make an official statement . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Even if you can not make an active contribution your support is of great value . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Mr Rurka said he found the council 's decision difficult to understand , but he stressed that he did not want an adversarial relationship . |
| 16 | He did not want an American invasion . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | But Galileo himself did not utilize an optical theory for that purpose . |
| 19 | ‘ Guidelines tell us we can not transmit an undue amount of bad language . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Mr Kilfedder says : ‘ You can not transplant an English party into Ulster and think it will solve the problems here . ’ |
| 22 | Indeed , staff often felt themselves to have failed if patients could not attain an independent life-style . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | It gave the Bank additional power by creating a board of banking supervision ; by making the provision of misleading information to this board a criminal offence ; by taking powers to consult with the auditors and accountants of individual banks ; by defining the circumstances in which it would not consider an individual a ‘ fit and proper person ’ to run a bank ; and by taking powers to limit individual shareholding in a bank . |
| 25 | A tribunal can not consider an unfair dismissal complaint unless it is presented during a three-month period beginning with the effective date of termination . |
| 26 | The Plant Commission on electoral reform did not stimulate an internal debate in the party , because its real function was to do precisely the opposite . |
| 27 | ‘ A very big ‘ oh ’ , ’ Ven murmured , and , seeming to take it favourably that she was not snatching her hands out of his clasp , ‘ What is happening to me , can I think , when I , who value my privacy and do not need an intrusive journalist in my home , find that I have done no less than invite you to my home for dinner ? ’ |
| 28 | The infrared region of the spectrum is used to determine molecular structures via their vibrational modes , and this is one of the few surface-sensitive techniques that does not need an ultra-high vacuum . |
| 29 | They did not need an extra hand until harvest , he had said , or even later when they could lay off the casual help and Richard and his father would be more than sufficient labour to see the small hill farm through the winter . |
| 30 | The changes do not preserve an existing set of economic structures ; they represent an aItogether different type of economy . |