Example sentences of "[adj] [vb mod] not [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The group , chaired by Judge Thomas Pigot , QC , a senior Old Bailey judge , recommends that the rule that children under seven or eight should not give evidence , laid down in a string of cases , should be abolished . |
| 2 | The Government has advised that women who are pregnant or may become pregnant should not eat liver , as very large doses of vitamin A taken over a long period may be associated with foetal abnormalities . |
| 3 | This may not do justice to the proper degree of personal and professional self-regard which is expected of a head . |
| 4 | Furthermore , although smoking habits can be modified , this may not affect ulcer healing since the healing rate in ex-smokers was comparable with that in patients who continued to smoke . |
| 5 | This should not include VAT , as this is only payable when the repairs are carried out by a contractor/repairer who is VAT registered . |
| 6 | Linguistically this might not make sense . |
| 7 | Modern research confirms that in the early stages of acquiring a complex competence , the learner benefits from close guidance from the instructor , but this could not take place overtly without disruption in the case of teaching . |
| 8 | But since ( Rabbit believes ) Pooh will in fact believe that Rabbit believes what he says , this need n't make Rabbit say ‘ I believe there 's honey ’ : it need only make him say ‘ There 's honey ’ . |
| 9 | This need not involve rejection of traditional Christianity ; Newman had written his famous essay on the development of doctrine in 1845 , long before the Origin of Species ; and the idea was reworked in the Darwinian light of 1889 in Lux Mundi , a collection of articles edited by the prominent high-churchman Charles Gore . |
| 10 | Honey had been the only sweetener ; sugar had been as expensive as cinnamon or cloves and it could be taxed as a luxury in the firm belief that this would not make life harder for the working classes who were not thought to be consumers of sugar , though this was clearly changing in the eighteenth century . |
| 11 | This would not involve disclosure of persons held out to be partners : if a party litigating against a firm is unaware of the identity of persons held out as partners , he can not by definition have acted in reliance upon the holding out , so liability under s14 of the Partnership Act can not arise . |
| 12 | This would not suit meadow cranesbill and red campion . |
| 13 | Similarly , an animal 's eye can be easily dissected , but this would not increase understanding or explain the complex nervous system related to vision . |
| 14 | Evidence showed that this would not reduce demand . |
| 15 | There is a great temptation to delete such a provision , but this would not find favour with the landlord and is therefore not worthwhile . |
| 16 | This would not abolish literature but would remove its exclusivity as a category ; the task of the English Department is to be redefined as ‘ studying texts ’ rather than ‘ teaching literature ’ . |
| 17 | If for example women were turned down more often than men because their employment history was shorter , they were not in a skilled job , and they did not have a bank account , this would not constitute discrimination against women — as the conditions , only part of an overall scoring system , would not be absolute . |
| 18 | This will not affect money supply since it involves no sterling transactions and hence will not affect banks ' sterling deposits . |
| 19 | A warning message will be displayed if the Package version has not been approved however this will not prevent registration . |
| 20 | I should stress that this will not pre-empt Government options on the form of privatisation . |
| 21 | Acceptance of the offer will constitute a disposal for capital gains tax purposes but this will not concern tax exempt institutions or funds ( eg pension funds ) . |
| 22 | Competition and purchaser pressure may have forced hospitals to give more attention to some of the easily measurable quality issues such as waiting times and patient information leaflets — and a good thing too — but this will not increase efficiency . |
| 23 | she said this wo n't help labour get in , these people were , page , five |
| 24 | I reject ( 1 ) because this can not take account of the vast range of human communication which does not take place within the canonical situation of utterance — i.e. face-to-face . |
| 25 | Does Patrick Jenkin really believe that microelectronics holds any hope for the unemployed ( The unemployed can not blame automation , 24 February , p 526 ) ? |
| 26 | ‘ The unemployed can not blame automation ’ |
| 27 | The arguments in Patrick Jenkin 's article ( ’ The unemployed can not blame automation ’ , 24 February , p 526 ) are identical to the way I saw things when first involved in computer-controlled machine tools over 20 years ago . |
| 28 | Does Patrick Jenkin ( The unemployed can not blame automation , 24 February , p 526 ) really believe that microelectronics holds any hope for the unemployed ? |
| 29 | The accused could not take advantage of a previous wrong , i.e. of the forgery by which the money came into his account . |
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