Example sentences of "[vb -s] not [vb infin] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the Commons , Sir Thomas Clarges moved that " a standing Army is destructive to the Country " , whilst his fellow Tory , Edward Seymour , declared that " the safety of the Kingdom doth not consist with a standing force " , adding ( in a way which anticipated Tory arguments used after 1689 ) that " all the profit and security of this Nation is in our Ships , and had there been the least ship in the Channel " , Monmouth could never have landed . |
| 2 | Although the long tendon attaching to digit 3 will develop initially , even though it does not attach to a muscle , it will not persist unless it does attach . |
| 3 | Thus Jacobi 's method does not terminate in a finite , predictable number of steps ; indeed , the umber may be very large . |
| 4 | This work shows that gastric acid secretion does not decline as a result of healthy ageing , but rather as a consequence of the development of atrophic changes of the gastric mucosa . |
| 5 | One must distinguish from the cases of the imaginary form where price does not rest on a value correlation . |
| 6 | Equally , as will become apparent in the ensuing analysis , Nizan 's willingness to link literature and propaganda does not originate in a philistine effort to destroy culture but , on the contrary , in an attempt to show that literature , ideology and politics are intimately interconnected , and that the task of the revolutionary writer is to seek out artistically convincing ways of fusing revolutionary ideology within the matrix of literature . |
| 7 | As in the previous instances , this loss of the capacity to love does not originate in a process within the ego as it does in clinical depression but , in the case of the welfare state totalitarianisms , in an externalization of comparable phenomena . |
| 8 | More often than not a shoal of big bream , particularly a small shoal of very big bream , does not remain in a swim for long . |
| 9 | It is not , er this evidence does not go to a matter of law er er and the duty but it matter of practice and my Lord what this case is dealing with is about what if , what is or should be the practice of a solicitors engaged in commercial conveyancing as to the advice that is given to clients and er my Lord the er commercial conveyancing is obviously a matter which particularly concerns . |
| 10 | Right it is a hundred miles from King 's Lynn to London , the train takes two hours to do the journey the train does not go at a constant speed , it speeds up sometimes and slows down at other times it also stops at stations on the way and on once of course as it , as it 's stopping it 's going more and more slowly and as it 's er moving off again it starts slowly and starts to go quickly but because it takes two hours in all the train goes a hundred miles in two hours we say its average speed for the journey is fifty miles per hour . |
| 11 | In this case , Lord Denning distinguished Bartlett v Sidney Marcus ( 1965 ) by explaining that if a car does not go for a reasonable time and the engine breaks up , this is evidence to show that the car was not fit for its purpose when sold . |
| 12 | The fact is that all developed societies undergo processes in which professions and occupations proliferate and become more specialised and we then have to evolve means of ‘ getting it all together again' , in this case , ensuring that the patient or client does not suffer as a result of our separate functions and roles . |
| 13 | All in all , it is submitted that the claim that there is a risk of liability under section 2 of the Suicide Act does not serve as a valid justification for ignoring the request of the patient that treatment be discontinued . |
| 14 | When the house of childhood does not serve as a place of support and nurture , when there is intense conflict between different members of the household , then we may find that many memories of indoors have been suppressed . |
| 15 | Unlike still red wines , sparkling Champagne does not benefit from a detectable tannin content , although a little tannin will be added prior to the last racking to activate the fining agent . |
| 16 | I doubt if it is possible to hold the view of Margalef ( 1968 ) that ‘ Relevant evidence does not consist of a massive accumulation of trivia ’ and reconcile it with his ‘ Ecology … is the study of systems at a level at which individuals or whole organisms may be considered elements of interaction … ’ . |
| 17 | However , at a given landing site the sequence of layers in one core does not correspond to that in a neighbouring core , and therefore the subsurface material does not consist of a number of extensive thin sheets . |
| 18 | The Programmer unconditionally and irrevocably waives the rights conferred by Chapter IV of Part I of the Copyright , Designs and Patents Act 1988 on such ( if any ) of the Program as does not consist in a computer program or a computer-generated work : this waiver extends to the Publisher 's sub-licensees and successors in title : it relates only to the components and not the Programmer 's works generally or to works of a particular description . |
| 19 | The Programmer unconditionally and irrevocably waives the rights conferred by Chapter IV of Part I of the Copyright , Designs and Patents Act 1988 on such ( if any ) of the Program as does not consist in a computer program or a computergenerated work : this waiver extends to the Publisher 's sub-licensees and successors in title : it relates only to the components and not the Programmer 's works generally or to works of a particular description . |
| 20 | Furth 's ( 1966 ) view is that there is an experiential deficit which appears repeatedly in test situations , but this does not coincide with a cognitive deficit . |
| 21 | The price factors are calculated for the first day of the delivery month , and adjustments have to be made for accrued interest where the first day of the delivery month does not coincide with a coupon payment date . |
| 22 | This is because , as we have said , if a material does not fail in a ‘ brittle ’ manner because of a crack at right angles to a tension stress , then it may fail by ‘ sliding off ’ ( Figure 3 ) at 45° to it , and if this is the weaker mechanism this is what will happen . |
| 23 | The pollen tube requires a whole year to grow down and reach the egg , but once there , it contacts the egg cell directly and the male cell , after descending the tube , does not tarry in a drop of water but fuses directly with the egg . |
| 24 | But Pip , as a gentleman , does not move into a sparkling world of pleasure where he lives ‘ happily ever after ’ , instead he find himself in the corrupt , sordid London . |
| 25 | The sign in the utterance , therefore , does not function as a symbol but as an index : it indicates where we must look in the world we know or can perceive in order to discover meaning . |
| 26 | ‘ The defence does not arise on a plea of autrefois convict , but on the well-established rule at common law , that where a person has been convicted and punished for an offence by a court of competent jurisdiction , transit in rem judicatam , that is , the conviction shall be a bar to all further proceedings for the same offence , and he shall not be punished again for the same matter ; otherwise there might be two different punishments for the same offence . |
| 27 | This fear does not arise from a view of themselves as unskilled in formal police requirements , for no policemen or women would express that they suspect this of themselves , although some admit to suspecting it of others . |
| 28 | In approximately 30% of cases the epithelium does not change to a homogeneous phenotype and this is characterised by an ‘ incomplete ’ intestinal epithelium with both gastric foveolar and intestinal goblet cells and enterocytes . |
| 29 | The weather changes over the centuries , but it does not change in a specifically malevolent way . |
| 30 | The Germanic tribe is therefore based on shared locality rather than kinship , but it consists of a collection of kinship units each with access to a territory , thus ‘ individual landed property ( of the different families ) does not appear as a contradictory form of communal landed property , nor as mediated by the community but the other way round . |