Example sentences of "[not/n't] [adv] [vb infin] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Many do not successfully complete this journey as anemones are often a limited resource on the reef and most of the fry are eaten by predators before they can reach protection . |
2 | When a Devonian stage in Canada may be 10 000 feet thick and a Jurassic stage in Sicily may be thinner than its characteristic ammonites , we can not altogether ignore sheer size . |
3 | Another factor was raised in a case in which the government did not properly consult local authorities ( as required by statute ) before making some regulations : by the time the application to revoke the regulations was heard , they had been in operation for some time and to revoke them would have caused considerable administrative inconvenience which could not be justified given that no real complaint was made about the substance of the regulations . |
4 | Debbie Jones , who co-ordinated the SSD 's response , describes the forms as a blunt instrument which do not properly measure disabled children 's progress . |
5 | Its view of corporate governance is rather limited and it does not properly address corporate governance as the network of accountability relationships that exists between stakeholders in a company . |
6 | The final year of the Occupation did not fundamentally alter this status . |
7 | Qualities that might generate and recoup excellent work in the classroom ( including , for instance , risk-taking , creativity , originality , the valuing of independence and initiative , a questioning and critical approach , etc. , none of which appear on the DES 's own list ) might not most endear new teachers to their colleagues ; and qualities like ‘ tidy appearance ’ that may be essential for staffroom acceptance may be relatively unimportant to children . |
8 | This means , among other things , that the electoral system should be one that does not effectively disenfranchise large sections of the citizenry , while at the same time it must produce a government that will be both effective and accountable . |
9 | It argued that without them : it would not be possible , in practice , to operate a system of resale price maintenance because it would be impracticable for each publisher to specify his own conditions of sale ; booksellers would find it impossible to comply with all the varied terms imposed by different publishers ; booksellers would lose their assurance that they were not being undercut ; and the Association itself could not effectively monitor individual resale agreements . |
10 | But , although these concepts ( standardness , eliteness , carefulness ) are of different orders ( and we shall return to these distinctions ) , Dobson does not apparently see any reason to keep them separate . |
11 | The closed conformation in this latter structure does not apparently have torsion-angle train , as judged from the stereo diagram of the active centre . |
12 | Louis IX did not apparently take any steps to prevent Henry from using an obsolete and illegal instrument . |
13 | With mind all is opposite ; minds are not substantial , do not apparently obey physical laws , can not be directly observed or inspected , unless it is my own mind that is in question . |
14 | We can not literally weigh religious truth-claims or look at them through a micro- scope . |
15 | Even the most experienced police interrogator can not entirely avoid leading questions , simply because he can not know what the witness actually knows or what really happened . |
16 | Yet the portrayal of sexual violence , combined with Emilia 's protest , leaves the impression that the conclusion does not entirely resolve thematic contradictions . |
17 | I do not entirely decry such tactics . |
18 | They have taken great pains to eliminate explanations based on freak signals from side walls , or from inanimate objects ( although we can not entirely discount such hypotheses until we have specifically investigated them ) . |
19 | The overall impression of similarity can not entirely mask significant differences between these districts . |
20 | The largest specimen here does not greatly exceed 2 cm in length . |
21 | But by the time Parasites Of Heaven was written an intensely negative aspect is unveiled : ‘ The nightmares do not suddenly develop happy endings , I merely step out of them . ’ |
22 | That does not necessarily create any problem for doctors or hospitals . |
23 | He wanted runners in his pack , so Neath — Waldron 's club , as his antagonists accusingly pointed out — came into vogue even though the evidence was swiftly adduced that outstanding club players do not necessarily make adequate internationals . |
24 | Increasing the loudness of voice will not necessarily give greater clarity . |
25 | ICS will contact all known investors with the firm , which acted as an adviser on investments , life assurance and unit trusts , and any others not hearing from it should contact the ICS , although declaration of default does not necessarily mean all investors will be eligible for compensation . |
26 | There is utter and total confusion and anything that stands still they used to say they would paint it in industry they now say market test it and they do admit to us that the end object does not necessarily mean complete contractorization or privatization , but at this particular moment in time |
27 | Better contraception does not necessarily mean lower fertility , although it should mean less unwanted fertility . |
28 | But rough justice on one side of the green line does not necessarily mean rough justice on the other . |
29 | But rough justice on one side of the green line does not necessarily mean rough justice on the other . |
30 | The same applies to the situation between nations : inequalities between developed countries have not declined but this does not necessarily mean wholesale rejection of the basic claims that a certain level of education is a necessary prerequisite to industrialisation . |