Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | He clenched shut his eyes so as not to see the pale oval of her face through the shadows . |
| 32 | The early pre-emptive presence of the blue helmets is an earnest of the world 's desire not to see the Bosnian war repeated in Macedonia . |
| 33 | On the other hand , we tend not to see the intense depression in a motionless and unresponsive horse , or the annoyance in one that has turned its back on the horse or person offending it , or the anxiety in the tightened abdominal muscles of the showpony expecting the pain of the spur . |
| 34 | For a moment he seemed almost not to see the bright silver circle that lay in her palm . |
| 35 | The Foreign Office request puzzled him , for it was not to see the Foreign Secretary with whom he normally dealt , but the Home Secretary , Sir Harry Marriott . |
| 36 | It is important , however , not to underplay the political dimension of patronage ; it offers a means of securing the co-operation of key pressure groups and ensuring party discipline-hence ministerial ‘ resistance ’ to drastic pruning . |
| 37 | v. Henn and Darby , where the Court of Appeal held that the term ‘ quantitative restrictions ’ in Article 30 of the EEC Treaty did not cover a total prohibition on imports on the grounds that such a restriction was not related to a quantitative measure , whereas the case law of the European Court had clearly established that the term in question covered both outright bans and quotas on imports . |
| 38 | In such situations , Peter Shilton 's frame can not cover a whole multitude of sins . |
| 39 | In November , 1991 , Lord Prosser dismissed the actions raised by Mrs Hamilton and Mr Watson after holding that ‘ person ’ did not cover an unborn child . |
| 40 | Lord Prosser decided that ‘ person ’ did not cover an unborn child . |
| 41 | Before any evidence was heard at the Court of Session on the issue of negligence , Lord Prosser dismissed the action after holding that ‘ person ’ did not cover an unborn child . |
| 42 | ( g ) Section 3 does not cover the moonlighting tenant . |
| 43 | But there will come a point where productivity gains alone will not cover the necessary wage increases . |
| 44 | Von Frisch ( 1967 ) is the classic account of the dance language of the honeybee ; but does not cover the recent controversy : Gould ( 1976 ) is the best source for that . |
| 45 | Their relative goodness of fit can not properly be judged because the hypotheses do not cover the same input . |
| 46 | In the general theory of relativity the natural frame anywhere is chosen to be a frame in free fall , but we can not cover the whole Universe with one frame . |
| 47 | A pattern need not cover the whole board ; thus in Os & Xs , a pattern may cover just a row , or just a diagonal . |
| 48 | The chantry certificates of 1545 , even if one accepts their record of communicants in the parishes as accurate , do not cover the whole country , and again there is uncertainty as to the proportion of the population below communicant age . |
| 49 | Occupational Welfare is not evenly distributed , and does not cover the whole workforce . |
| 50 | Referring to Moser 's three sources of sampling bias mentioned earlier , it is clear that the sampling frame used ( two general practice records ) does not cover the whole population of housewives ; yet there is no evidence that these records represent a particularly unrepresentative sub-sample of the population . |
| 51 | You also find Marian that we were talking about that this morning as well we can not cover the national curriculum without more homework |
| 52 | The Fund does not cover the overseas branch offices of MNPs with fewer than 75% solicitor principals . |
| 53 | Although CBT may not cover the full range of expert decision support facilities such systems incorporate additional , purely training features such as teaching , practice and checking . |
| 54 | Even so , this did not cover the full cost of the project , confirming that some form of subsidy was essential . |
| 55 | While this might seem to be stating the obvious , the fact is that this issue has not received a great deal of systematic ( as opposed to post hoc ) discussion in the literature . |
| 56 | The UFD , claiming that the government had not received a popular mandate , warned President Taya that its supporters would not accept the result . |
| 57 | Ecalpemos , after all , was not Greek and did not even sound so to Rufus who , unlike Adam , had not received a classical education . |
| 58 | A Downing Street spokeswoman said later they had not received a formal request from Mr Rushdie for a meeting . |
| 59 | As for making up and imposition , the tasks most often cited as barred to women , they could certainly not be carried out by anyone who had not received a proper training , and were rightly regarded as skilled work . |
| 60 | He described himself as a victim of a US plot to turn his country into a colony , and alleged that he had not received a fair trial . |