Example sentences of "[not/n't] [adv] [vb infin] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Certain facts need to be considered : ( i ) Repairs — The court can not expressly order a party to pay for or contribute towards the cost of repairs to the house the subject of the court order because its powers are limited to ordering periodical payments and lump sums . |
| 2 | Firstly , where are the political , legal , and material guarantees that German unity would not eventually create a threat to the national security of other states ? |
| 3 | Mr Shevardnadze told members of the European Parliament that while the German people had the right to self-determination there would have to be ‘ political , legal and material guarantees that German unity would not eventually create a threat to the national security of other states and to peace in Europe ’ . |
| 4 | Now would you not rather have a Poem , however imperfect , than a plate of cucumber sandwiches , however even , however delicately salted , however exquisitely fine-cut ? |
| 5 | What they wanted to provide very rarely brought expenditure close to this ceiling , so they had little problem in deciding whether the project could or could not cost-effectively support a client ( see Chapter Six for further details of the cost of care ) . |
| 6 | Formerly , this sub-sub-delegation of supervisory powers to SRO 's did not effectively establish a system of self-regulation , since the principle of equivalence operated to ensure that the SIB retained significant control . |
| 7 | This leads to the following definition of economic earnings per share : subject to the restriction which implies that the present value of new external funds must sum to zero over the life of the firm , otherwise the firm would not effectively have a budget constraint . |
| 8 | If a parliament can not effectively question a government , power will slip from its grasp , and government will become autocratic , benign or otherwise . |
| 9 | The beauty of these words can not entirely hide a sense of suggested differentness , of an essential something so far held back but pushing now to get out . |
| 10 | The question " Were you speaking Patois or English just then ? " will not necessarily make a lot of sense to a member of the London Caribbean community , any more than the questions " Why did you say that in Patois ? " or " How would the effect of that be different if you said it in ordinary English ? " . |
| 11 | But that does not necessarily make a boom . |
| 12 | It will be argued that the BBC will not necessarily show a game every Sunday . |
| 13 | Changes that do not revert , e.g. , emulsion separation , do not necessarily eliminate a product . |
| 14 | When all is said and done , there may be no way to avoid the momentary grip of fear descending on you when unusual things start to happen on your computer , but I hope to have shown that this should not necessarily start a panic . |
| 15 | This does not necessarily mean a lack of interest . |
| 16 | This does not necessarily mean a mathematics degree , as many people imagine . |
| 17 | It was suggested in the workshop that this does not or should not necessarily mean a cutback in the budget . |
| 18 | Company spokesman John Dodds said the investment would be staggered over a period of time and would not necessarily mean a glut of vacancies in Darlington . |
| 19 | The work with the Hypertext book did not necessarily identify a set of link types that were either generic to producing a book or to the topic of hypertext . |
| 20 | Adults considering enrolment on further or higher education courses ‘ shop around : with various factors in mind so that failure to enrol on any specific course does not necessarily equal a rejection of the idea of further study . |
| 21 | Promotion might not necessarily represent a change in class position for all white-collar workers . |
| 22 | These do not necessarily represent a kind of tyranny imposed by men on women . |
| 23 | Speakers of different age-groups frequently show different patterns of use , which do not necessarily represent a move either ‘ towards ’ or ‘ away from ’ a standard norm . |
| 24 | Such a line of argument is based primarily upon scripture , and does not necessarily involve a notion of there being male and female principles in the universe . |
| 25 | In other cases , however , no biochemical difference between the parental cell and the mutant could be pointed out , suggesting that alterations causing lack of transcription do not necessarily involve a defect in the DNA recognition of a transcriptional factor . |
| 26 | A fall in the interest rate on bonds , for example , will lead to an individual rearranging his wealth portfolio , but this will not necessarily involve a shift from bonds to money ( as in the Keynesian case ) ; it may involve a shift from bonds to some other financial asset or into property . |
| 27 | This does not necessarily involve a search for new inventions , but , rather , a concerted shortening of the lead-time between the inventions and their implementation in the form of new innovations . |
| 28 | They point out that services need to be aware of carers ' histories and their responses to stress , and that retirement may not necessarily increase a person 's ability or willingness to become an informal carer . |
| 29 | If so , the restoration of the OR seen in these circumstances need not necessarily imply a change in the specific ability of the target stimulus to evoke its UR ; rather it may mean that even a weak tendency to emit this UR can be amplified substantially by a high level of arousal . |
| 30 | This does not necessarily imply a chase and no evidence of an attack was found when the Roman town at Casterton was excavated in the 1950s . |