Example sentences of "[not/n't] [vb infin] [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Deng Xiaoping is 85 , and while apparently in reasonably good health , will not outlive the instigators of the ‘ counter-revolutionary rebellion ’ . |
| 2 | ‘ You did not expound the words of scripture . |
| 3 | No case of this kind has ever been considered by the courts before , and I do not think the dicta in the previous cases should be read as excluding a case of this kind where a landlord seeks , by a course of intimidation , to " annul his own deed " , to contradict his own demise , by ousting the tenant from possession which the landlord has conferred upon her . |
| 4 | They produced fair quantities of copper and a little silver but , with a declining market for copper , could not cover the costs of installations and the travelling expenses of almost 150 Austrian and German craftsmen , a total which amounted to about £50,000 . |
| 5 | The validity of such first destination statistics as a general measure of graduate employment will be discussed in Chapter 3 , and it is important to note that in this case they did not cover the colleges/institutes of higher education , which produce significant numbers of ‘ arts ’ graduates who have relatively high unemployment rates . |
| 6 | This would not affect the finances of Virgin Group at all . |
| 7 | If the deceased 's death is caused by the negligence of one of his dependants , that negligence does not affect the claims of the other dependants ( Dodds v Dodds [ 1978 ] QB 543 ) . |
| 8 | Intragastric administration of indomethacin did not affect the activities of SOD in the gastric mucosa at three or six hours after indomethacin . |
| 9 | It is merely a contract between the creditor and the joint debtor which does not affect the liabilities of the other joint contractors or their rights of contribution or indemnity against their co-contractor . |
| 10 | It did not affect the sediments of the carbonate mud wedge because these remained in a submarine environment . |
| 11 | Nevertheless this strategy did not affect the results at the end point established in the methods ( rebleeding ) . |
| 12 | When it looked as if the Danzigers would not oblige the Nazis with an overwhelming vote of confidence , the Nazis set out to help themselves . |
| 13 | Unlike other newspaper barons , he has no desire to see his face on the front of his newspapers ; unlike other Hollywood moguls , he does not make the pages of the National Enquirer . |
| 14 | Sir Anthony says : ‘ The Department were at fault in failing to appreciate that the instructions given to Spicers to carry out an audit of the partnership 's client accounts would not , at least as regards some important Barlow Clowes portfolios , have enabled any reassurance to be gained on the score of the concern that the partnership could not make the payments of income they had guaranteed without eroding clients ’ capital . |
| 15 | The push buttons do not make the patterns on their own , they answer your request by selecting those needles that you programme in by pushing them . |
| 16 | These problems alone would not make the prospects for the straightforward treatment of deictic sentences within truth-conditional semantics look very hopeful . |
| 17 | It is a marriage of convenience between workers in many fields — archaeologists , geographers , geologists , botanists and zoologists — who do not want the barriers of 19th century subject divisions to stand in the way of understanding the way in which the human environment has evolved , the human role in shaping that environment and the ways in which humans gained a living from it . |
| 18 | However prior to taking delivery of the goods the customer changed his mind and decided that he did not want the goods after all . |
| 19 | Only the new trench leading to the banqueting hall cut a brown gash through the green , but even there green moustaches were perhaps beginning to cover the lips of the parapets … the Collector hoped they were : he did not want the ramparts to be washed away . |
| 20 | My hon. Friend is also right that business wants regulations kept in bounds , with decent regulations so that markets are fair and open , but it does not want the masses of red tape that the Opposition are always recommending day after day in the House . |
| 21 | Quite certainly , Maurice did not want the police on his boat . |
| 22 | Councillor John Wilson said he did not want the guidelines to be mandatory . |
| 23 | He did not want the amusements of the seaside , or the beauties of the countryside . |
| 24 | The students do not conduct the experiments with a detached eye ; rather , they are looking for the results predicted in the textbook . |
| 25 | For , ‘ As Marx said , every child knows that a social formation which did not reproduce the conditions of production at the same time as it produced would not last a year ’ . |
| 26 | In what follows , I shall not reproduce the details of any of them , but proceed more generally and schematically . |
| 27 | ‘ They know that while he is abroad he can not answer the questions about what has happened to the promised recovery . ’ |
| 28 | Your ability to pay will not influence the decisions about which services you need . |
| 29 | It was made clear , furthermore , that the Society did not regard the houses of businessmen or the ‘ newly rich ’ as ‘ distinguished ’ , and in my opinion this piece of out-dated thinking crucially undermined any serious authority the Society may have achieved to arbitrate on standards in our profession . |
| 30 | Thus s.309 of the Companies Act 1985 does not regard the interests of the employees and the shareholders of the company as irrecon-cilably opposed , expecting the directors to be able to take the interests of the employees into account whilst performing their duties to the company , including the shareholders . |