Example sentences of "[not/n't] [vb infin] [pron] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Future funding from the Board to law centres would be for cases done under the green forms and legal aid schemes , including any new arrangements that might be developed , ‘ and possibly grants for specific types of work where the law centres could demonstrate that they would provide a better and more efficient service in ways that did not lend themselves to payment on a case by case basis . ’ |
| 2 | It is not , however , ideal as a general methodology for lexical semantics : it is far too cumbersome , many areas of meaning do not lend themselves to illustration in this fashion and , in any case , production only taps active competence . |
| 3 | Unfortunately , because of their omission from citation , the role of such ephemeral , non-rigorous , or incomplete data in the communication process in geology does not lend itself to citation analysis . |
| 4 | This morphology does not lend itself to analysis after conventional staining since only a few of the autosomes show distinguishing features in the form of secondary constrictions ( Figure 3a ) and , of the sex chromosomes , only the Y of some strains can be recognized by virtue of occasionally visible unique features ( Figure 3a ) . |
| 5 | But Sheila 's situation does not lend itself to action . |
| 6 | Information on employees may exist on a company 's mini or mainframe computer but is stored in a form not usually usable or accessible by the personnel department , and mainframe information does not lend itself to interrogation on a real time basis . |
| 7 | The Local Authority will not think it worth while spending money on science teachers or equipment , nor will properly qualified science teachers be willing to accept posts in such schools . |
| 8 | ‘ Lord Mandru will not eat you for breakfast ! ’ he said . |
| 9 | If it were not human you would not want it for research and if it was not human no one would deny you having it for research . ’ |
| 10 | That may be the competitive advantage that the hon. Gentleman wants for his constituents , but I do not want it for mine . |
| 11 | Being infected should not add to her credibility , while not being so should not disqualify her from comment , she says . |
| 12 | The patient keeps his hands clasped together throughout the active parts of the transfer , so that he does not throw himself off balance by reaching out to grab the carer or the arm of the chair . |
| 13 | Better a culture in which men have one wife and women need not shroud themselves in black , we 'll say . |
| 14 | If the Minister does not consider it worth while , all he has to do is call it in and either have a public inquiry or decide for himself whether it is a good scheme . |
| 15 | He did not recognise it as hope . |
| 16 | They did not confine themselves to church attendance nor to their concern for church buildings , but endeavoured to follow Christian principles in their everyday lives . |
| 17 | There are some types of case which it can not sustain , and some which do not need it in order to remain at home ; but there is a group — those with relatively severe dementia , probably living alone , and unable to receive the care they need from elsewhere ( usually because they do not have able and willing involved relatives ) who appear unlikely to have remained at home had it not been for the involvement of the Home Support Project . |
| 18 | Although the Chicago School made passing reference to Freud 's work in discussing the biotic level , it did not explore it in detail , perhaps because it was not fully available in English during the 1920s and 1930s . |
| 19 | Suffering can make its full contribution to my awareness only if I do not pursue it in advance , even though its value may be appreciated in retrospect . |
| 20 | CCETSW , in a survey of social work qualification courses , found one in nine did not include anything on substance problems , and only one in 20 students was given practice training with specialist alcohol or other drug services . |
| 21 | One was new and had come instead of his uncle who was ill , but the guards would not let him in because they did not know him by sight and they nearly threw him into the ditch before they would even let him go home . |
| 22 | They might not know him by sight , or might not be looking for him at all . |
| 23 | He did not qualify him for income support , he supported him on to the back of his ass , he took him to the inn . |
| 24 | Because the infant is unwanted by one or two people at one point in time does not qualify it for extermination . |
| 25 | This , Emecheta explains , is a very strong goddess of the Ibos , so strong that Hausa soldiers dare not attack her for fear of being made impotent . |
| 26 | The name had been dropped into Karen 's consciousness only days before , at Jessica 's home near Belfast , and she could not rid herself of curiosity . |
| 27 | In many cases this is due to great disappointment : if you can not enjoy yourself at Christmas when can you enjoy yourself ? |
| 28 | I think that we shall not beat him in set battle , the Bruce taught us that , surely … |
| 29 | It is likely that you already have many systems in place , even if you do not identify them as quality systems . |
| 30 | But drafting for a fellow-barrister , though desirable for experience , does not bring one into contact with the instructing solicitor , and so does not nurture one 's own practice . |