Example sentences of "[prep] [n mass] [verb] not [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In sum , therefore , an attendance rate of 90% does not mean that 10% of pupils are absent ; the missing 10% could come from a small number of pupils with lengthy absences or from a higher percentage of pupils with brief absences . |
| 2 | ( An even higher pension base may be applicable where the cash limit of £71,400 does not apply to old style retirement annuity contracts ) . |
| 3 | In the course of this discussion it has become apparent that the CMHT model is a varied animal , that teams have not fully resolved problems of integrating different professional and agency interests and approaches into streamlined service delivery systems , that a simple organisational re-shuffling of staff does not surmount tensions over professional relationships and responsibilities . |
| 4 | Does * mean necklaces may be worn if a member of staff does not work in high risk areas . |
| 5 | The Chiefs of Staff did not want to do this , and the Defence Committee was worried lest the Korean conflict should divert attention from other danger-spots in Asia and blind Britain to the risk to which it was exposed in Europe . |
| 6 | The circumstances are : where the adjudications authority failed to take into account specific evidence before it relating to a claim ; where a member of staff did not submit or record relevant evidence ; or where an adjudication officer overlooked and misconstrued a provision in legislation or case law . |
| 7 | Those kind of people did not drift through their days in a bored and aimless way , as she of ten did . |
| 8 | The basic nature of people did not change . |
| 9 | It had become ‘ painfully evident ’ that the majority of people did not possess the merits of ‘ Capable Citizens … |
| 10 | He said they were reacting to public pressure , and that the majority of people did not support Sunday opening . |
| 11 | ‘ The majority of people do not care to hear of the torture of elephants . |
| 12 | In my personal opinion , the new inflationary model is now dead as a scientific theory , although a lot of people do not seem to have heard of its demise and are still writing papers as if it were viable . |
| 13 | Few interviews , masses of people do not respond to letters and so on , usual dreary story . |
| 14 | Now I realise that millions of people do not read The Guardian , or missed that column on that day , or were not interested in the question . |
| 15 | The great majority of people do not live in traffic calmed layouts and would not be familiar with their design or purpose . |
| 16 | Which to be honest , a lot of people do not understand . |
| 17 | A third of the Membership claimed to be unemployed and their reduced subscriptions of £6 did not cover even mailing costs . |
| 18 | A book of ethics does not have to spell it out , any more than a book about mathematics or zoology has to include the reminder ‘ Read me attentively , intelligently ’ . |
| 19 | Apart from conodonts , unequivocal evidence for fish does not occur until the Ordovician . |
| 20 | Pretreatment with sucralfate ( 100 mg/kg ) significantly enhanced gastric blood flow but combination with bFGF did not influence this enhancement ( Table I ) . |
| 21 | While the others went on to further success he fought and eventually won a battle against alcoholism , but his writing partnership with Cleese did not survive it , and , at his own choice , he was not a member of the Python film company Prominent Features . |
| 22 | ‘ Dropping a book to £9.99 from £15 does not make the public run out and flood the bookstores ; the book has got to have some other handle to it . ’ |
| 23 | Addition of sucralfate to bFGF does not influence the gastroprotective properties but augments the ulcer healing action of this drug . |
| 24 | Early studies by Cooke showed that ethanol in concentrations of 1% to 20% did not stimulate gastric acid secretion . |