Example sentences of "[vb base] not [adv] [vb infin] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A favourite plant in the frescoes is the papyrus , treated in various decorative ways : but the papyrus did not , as far as we know , grow in Crete in the Minoan period , so the frescoes do not factually depict the Cretan landscape . |
| 2 | However , it is important to realise that they are used only if the main table numbers do not adequately classify the document . |
| 3 | ‘ Working class ’ , ‘ middle class ’ and ‘ upper class ’ are common terms , but they do not adequately express the complexities of social class in Britain . |
| 4 | The Revenue has become aware that some schemes have been registered which do not adequately observe the strict requirements of the legislation . |
| 5 | Traditional legal processes do not adequately serve the needs of the extended welfare state , hence the escalating growth of administrative law , where no pretence is even made to place state agencies on an equal footing with ordinary citizens . |
| 6 | They are artificial and do not adequately measure the students ' ability to use the complex information tools available and thereby gain the information that would be of use for their studies . |
| 7 | Even fish remains are rather local , and do not adequately reflect the abundance of a group that has occupied the seas for more than 400 million years . |
| 8 | Such estimates of unmet demand , the report points out , do not adequately incorporate the growing numbers of sexually active youths or those discouraged from family planning by poor quality of services . |
| 9 | The parents do not particularly choose the kind of games their children should play , they are left free to indulge in any games that appeal to them , providing , of course , that the game is not injurious to their health . |
| 10 | Fortunately , tribunals do not altogether ignore the interests of the affected employee when adjudicating upon the fairness or otherwise of a company 's actions . |
| 11 | Statutes do not altogether follow the former rule : ‘ rateable value ’ is an established statutory spelling . |
| 12 | It is not to be imagined that logic assumes whites do not also welcome the political changes in South Africa . |
| 13 | As the Wasp Junior is supercharged you do not just push the lever to the stop for fear of bursting it , so I relied on Tony to limit the movement of my left hand , revelling in the swelling thunder of the fifteen-litre engine and the surging acceleration as the nose reared under its power . |
| 14 | The reason for this is that you do not just calculate the length and breadth of the pool , but the various areas that are going to accommodate marginal shelves as well . |
| 15 | They do not just know the ropes : they make the ropes . |
| 16 | Do not even entertain the possibility that it will not . |
| 17 | They do not even reflect the cognitive side of learning ; they are about the ability to recall and express accurately in a pressurised situation . |
| 18 | In some countries a large majority of the electorate do not even exercise the right to vote . |
| 19 | On a theory of understanding which linked what we can understand with what we could come to recognise as true , the distinction collapses and all the relevant sceptical arguments will be of the strongest type ; that is , will claim that we do not even understand the propositions we claim to know . |
| 20 | Some patients do not even get the chance of surgery because they have waited too long . |
| 21 | How can we know the answers if we do not even ask the questions ? |
| 22 | Although the numbers have fallen in the last decade , a high proportion of the world 's children do not even have the opportunity of having protection from some of the major childhood killers , diseases for which vaccines are available — measles for example is a major cause of childhood mortality . |
| 23 | Scotland 's wilderness areas do not even have the advantages of the little protection afforded to the English parks . |
| 24 | Dental surgeons do not even have the cheap finance available to general medical practitioners . |
| 25 | Crowded together with no room to move ( the proverbial ‘ five laying hens ’ in today 's battery cage do not even have the space to stand up together — one or more must crouch ) , animals no longer wasted calories in non profit-making exercise . |
| 26 | It seems ludicrous that Scottish Back-Benchers do not even have the facility of a Select Committee on Scottish Affairs to which we could summon Ministers and ask them in detail about the problems that we face . |
| 27 | We do not demand a ban on all sterilisation just because some women are forced to be sterilised , we do not even attack the whole concept of a well are state just because of abuses like the cohabitation rule , so why oppose pay for childcare solely because it might be abused ? |
| 28 | Although there is no direct evidence on the subject of Richard 's upbringing and education — we do not even know the names of his tutors as we do in his father 's case — it is none the less possible , by using romances and treatises , to reconstruct the type of education which he must have undergone . |
| 29 | Our Father says in His Word ‘ Do not ill treat the stranger but to be kind to them ’ Exodus 22 v 21 , which is right . |
| 30 | Clean air , by and large , also serves as an example of nonrivalrous consumption : by breathing , you do not perceptibly reduce the supply of air for others . |