Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb mod] not [vb infin] the " in BNC.

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1 On this basis the Council issued a statement the following year on Procedure for Validation of Courses of Study , the kernel of which was the CNAA 's wish to respond differently to institutions which themselves differed widely in range of work and in experience : ‘ an application from a college where the staff for the proposed course is of known academic quality and experience may not require the same scrutiny of detail by the Council as in other cases ’ .
2 NO ACCESS the current user may not access the package , as the package manager has not made the password known to the current user .
3 The algorithm may not find the ’ best ’ answer .
4 That majority may not have the political power to ensure this .
5 The acquirer may not have the time or be willing to make the inspections and will not want to accept the risk that some information may have been given to one of its employees or advisers who was unable at the time to appreciate its significance in relation to the transaction , or indeed may have been forgotten .
6 For any given solution of this equation , a function M can always be found satisfying the remaining equations ( 6.22b , c , f ) , although such a function may not satisfy the required boundary conditions .
7 In periods of rising profits a company which is geared at a low level may not have the growth potential to give ordinary shareholders the returns expected from a more highly-geared company .
8 Undoubtedly the river was navigable ; the separation of Sussex from much else of mainstream English experience should not hide the richness of Saxon trade with other parts of Europe and even further afield .
9 The cheque must not exceed the limit set by the banker 's card , i.e. £50 unless the management personally accept the responsibility of authorising cheques over this amount .
10 However , this progress should not disguise the fact that more than half the teaching staff in further education still lack a recognised teaching qualification , an unhappy state of affairs at a time when their task as teachers grows ever more complex and when the overlap with secondary schools becomes more and more marked .
11 A doubling of both the money-wage rate and the price level should not alter the supply of labour .
12 New Scientist should not allow the first weapons with terminal guidance to be installed before noting that the accuracy is needed to destroy missiles in hardened concrete silos : in other words for a first strike .
13 This recent reduction should not mask the fact that casualties in this age group still exceed the 1981–85 baseline .
14 The chairman must not allow the discussion to wander into other subjects unless there is a direct relevance .
15 There would seem to be no reason why the drafter should not recite the fact that the business 's insurance cover is limited in the standard terms , as an indication of the reason for the limitation .
16 To have committed the heresy of being uncommitted to the right political dogma — or worse still being a political atheist may not mean the death penalty , but it sure is a heinous crime in the times we live in .
17 There is an immediate paradox here though : attempted murder may not involve the infliction of any harm at all , since a person who shoots at another and misses may still be held guilty of attempted murder .
18 This might be an advantage for some , but as has been pointed out , the factor of isolation may not favour the extrovert student who prefers the companionship and competition of the classroom .
19 The administration may not own the means of production but it controls them through bureaucratic direction .
20 In a rapidly changing world , preoccupied by Eastern Europe , the American Administration may not have the time or patience to devote to Israelis and Palestinians .
21 In a rapidly changing world , preoccupied by Eastern Europe , the American Administration may not have the time or patience to devote to Israelis and Palestinians .
22 The so-called " success " rate of substitution therapy such as Antabuse for alcohol , Naltrexone for heroin and minor tranquillisers for almost anything whatever , is because the prescriber may not understand the concept of the Dry Drunk Syndrome or because of the fact that minor tranquillisers and many other psychotropic drugs are cross-addictive with all mood-altering chemicals .
23 But the officer/manager should not trust the ‘ man ’ unless it has been demonstrated , such as through promotion , that he is willing to take on responsibility .
24 Any benefit enjoyed by the donor or a ‘ connected person ’ as a consequence of making a gift under Gift Aid must not exceed the lower of £250 or 2½% of the value of the gift .
25 In the US Congress , Secretary of State James Baker recommended that the President should not submit the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe ( CFE ) , signed in Paris in November 1990 [ see p. 37838 ] , for Senate ratification .
26 If either party has the right to extend the period of an instrument , the term should not include the period of the extension if there is a genuine commercial possibility that the period will not be extended .
27 Similarly , where a product which contains a secret mechanism is supplied subject to a condition that the recipient should not examine the mechanism , this will establish confidence in the mechanism ( see Paul ( KS ) ( Printing Instruments ) Ltd v Southern Instruments ( Communications ) Ltd and EP Ellis ( Male ) ( Trading as Ellis and Sons ) [ 1964 ] RPC 118 ) .
28 Both the Department of Health and the Royal College of General Practitioners have signalled for years that good general practice should not ignore the microchip , but to little effect .
29 In these circumstances there is no reason at all why the defendant should not pay the fee .
30 Nothing wrong with that , in principle : a company that depended more on equity might not have the nerve to do things like founding Fox Television .
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