Example sentences of "[conj] this [verb] [not/n't] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Efforts are initially made to persuade the parents to bring up the child at home , but where this does not prove successful or is not considered a wise step , some form of full-time residential care is required . |
| 2 | Even where this does not happen , colleges can still make courses more accessible to unemployed people by experimenting with the timing and publicity for courses and supporting them with creches and easy access arrangements . |
| 3 | We will have a new procedure called Continuous and Non-Standard Surveys which says that they will follow the basic procedures , except where this does n't make sense , and if it does n't make sense the job will have in it 's Master Job File a statement of how , it does comply with whatever it has to deal with . |
| 4 | Where this did not happen it would be possible for part of the membership of the Exchange Advisory Committees ( provided for in section 2 , subsection v of the Act ) to be co-opted to assist with the local education employment bureaux which were being started in Scotland and in parts of England . |
| 5 | Marshall do provide , as an optional extra , the MPM 4E footswitch ; this will call up patches 1 to 4 , and although this does n't seem like many sounds , most guitarists would probably find that adequate . |
| 6 | Pension funds must gain approval from the Superannuation Funds Office ( SFO ) — part of the Inland Revenue — to gain the tax advantages relevant to pension funds ( although this does not relate to protection for pension scheme members ) . |
| 7 | Three other panels had bands of jagged sawtooth decoration ( which is irregular in places ) , and although this does not appear to have an exact parallel in any of the other mosaics , the geometrical shark's-tooth pattern of the Great Witcombe mosaic and the circular band of thorn pattern in the St. Nicholas Street mosaic indicate similar concerns . |
| 8 | Italian league football matches are not televised live , although this does not prevent RAI radio and television from broadcasting a pyrotechnic package of live audio reports from the grounds on a Sunday . |
| 9 | Although this does not eliminate the uncertainty , it reduces customers ' abilities to switch among suppliers . |
| 10 | Recently the Treasury has become very slow to approve in lieu deals , which has led to this useful fiscal provision being underused ; in 1991–92 , works of art worth £3.4 million were accepted in lieu of tax , when the provision ( although this does not represent a ceiling ) is for £11 million p.a . |
| 11 | But later , from the end of the Triassic onwards , certain species within the genus began to drop down on all fours , although this does not mean that the quadrupedal forms descended from bipedal forms — or merely got tired of walking on two legs . |
| 12 | Even so , the introduction of charges had the immediate response of reducing demands on the service , although this does not mean that all those who needed help were now able to get it , or that those withdrawing demand did not need help . |
| 13 | A range of disciplines and organizations ensures that all relevant points of view are considered , although this does not mean that every Tom , Dick and Harry has to sit on the planning committee ; rather , their insights and experience are gained through their active participation in informal discussions at the planning stage , and through consultation at all stages in the development process . |
| 14 | A C4 spokesman says : ‘ Whatever service we choose must be broadly self-financing , although this does not mean wall-to-wall cartoons . ’ |
| 15 | In the non-chronicle sources there are suggestions of rivalry over Calais , where Hastings had replaced Rivers as lieutenant in 1471 , and there may also have been some friction over the Ferrers inheritance , although this does not seem to have been a major issue . |
| 16 | In the non-chronicle sources there are suggestions of rivalry over Calais , where Hastings had replaced Rivers as lieutenant in 1471 , and there may also have been some friction over the Ferrers inheritance , although this does not seem to have been a major issue . |
| 17 | The realistic answer must be ‘ no ’ , although this does not defeat the argument of Richardson ( 1985 ) among others , that the drastic loss of civic rights suffered by prisoners puts a duty upon the state to compensate by giving them ‘ special rights ’ when incarcerated . |
| 18 | While the way in which sexual relations are conducted obviously varies considerably from individual to individual and from zone to zone , generally speaking , there is an attempt to maintain a fairly strict control in the military camps , although this does not apply for the civilian population , nor should it be regarded as an indication of future attitudes . |
| 19 | If the used space is significantly less than the allocated space for a particular file , the space may be reclaimed by use of the CONVERT utility although this does not apply to the DC transactions file and the QA transactions file ( DCSTAT.FIL and QAPACK.FIL in the example configuration ) . |
| 20 | On the other hand , the group of verbs which occur with predicate qualifiers will be expected to exhibit some degree of compatibility with the noun phrase element of the structure which they govern , although this does not imply that they have to make exactly the same sort of sense when they occur with that phrase alone as they do when the adjective is present , for the very reason that the adjective provides the syntactic-semantic condition under which the relation between the verb and its object holds ; compare leave the items and leave the items date-stamped . |
| 21 | The jackpot for the popular press comes when the defendant is both a teacher and a priest , although this does not come across in the headline ( e.g. SHAME OF KINKY HEAD , 55 ) Other professions also feature , which did not occur in the male assault cases ( e.g. DOCTOR JAILED FOR SEX ASSAULTS ; DENTIST FONDLES GIRLS ) . |
| 22 | Whereas church bells announced the times of the various religious offices , the communal clock was a secular instrument that struck the hours , and by the end of the fourteenth century some were made that struck the quarters , although this did not mean that they were any more accurate . |
| 23 | The cost of housing construction , and particularly the cost of the associated public utilities , was usually higher in rural areas , although this did not deter private developers whose houses usually needed the same facilities . |
| 24 | I was told that they receive three meals a day and a very small amount of payment , although this did not appear to be directly related to the amount of work they did . |
| 25 | Workers in other public enterprises were also prevented from striking although this did not stop strikes by postal and railway workers . |
| 26 | The following day was a total white-out , although this did not stop the intrepid skiers , as we headed to the top of Roc des 3 Marches and down into Meribel Mottaret . |
| 27 | He had dogged determination and was of undeviating rectitude , although this did not relate to any well-defined religious beliefs . |
| 28 | As anticipated , patients with untreated coeliac disease had an increased density of CD45+ intra epithelial lymphocytes compared with disease controls ( although this did not reach statistical significance ) , as did patients on a gluten free diet with abnormal histology ( Table ) . |
| 29 | In fact , there was a trend towards a greater likelihood of requiring hepatic transplantation , although this did not reach statistical significance . |
| 30 | The mean wave frequency was 2.36 c/min ( range 0.1–12.4 ) with the higher values occurring during the prandial periods ( Table I ) , although this did not reach statistical significance . |