Example sentences of "[not/n't] [vb infin] [det] an [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And do not think such an object can be disguised for that is manifest nonsense as you have only to try to discover . |
| 2 | If the Court of Session could make an order of the same nature , it was better to resort to its jurisdiction ; if it would not make such an order , the English court would hesitate the more before seeking to make an order to be effective in Scotland . |
| 3 | The court must not make such an order if satisfied that the petitioning creditor 's debt has been paid either from third party funds or from the disposition of the debtor 's own property with the approval of the court ( r 6.31(3) ) . |
| 4 | Even in the case of specific or ascertained goods the court will not make such an order unless damages for non-delivery would not lie an adequate remedy . |
| 5 | A local authority can not apply for a residence or contact order and the court can not make such an order in its favour ( s9(2) ) . |
| 6 | Not surprisingly , in our judgment , the barrister would not make such an apology or explanation to the jury . |
| 7 | Wilson 's disinclination to protest against the inquiry probably arose from a reasonable belief that any senior politician who did not want such an inquiry had something discreditable to hide . |
| 8 | But central government need not give such an undertaking if it is seeking to enforce compliance with a statute or regulation ; although it must do so if it is seeking to protect its property or contractual interests . |
| 9 | Consultation in the creation of policy is essential , but it should not become such an end in itself that decisions become imprisoned in a wheel of endless debate . |
| 10 | A fortiori , the interest of an individual member of the group did not constitute such an interest . |
| 11 | And the glint in his eye as he had enjoyed her earlier discomfiture convinced her he would not miss such an opportunity to embarrass her further . |
| 12 | It is interesting to note that when an epergne stood on the table , there were no creams , jellies , or syllabubs in glasses mentioned in the dessert course , but Lady Grisell herself did not possess such an ornament and for her own dinners still served " sweetmeats and jelly and sillibubs " , curds and cream , pears and apples , " pistaches and scorcht almonds , Bisket round the milk " in the old way in separate dishes , in glasses on footed salvers , and in sweetmeat glasses . |
| 13 | However , deprivation of liberty for a shorter period does not have such an effect . |
| 14 | This remains unknown in man , but we have investigated the effects of commonly used anaesthetic agents on tissue protein synthesis in the rat and found that although halothane causes a significant depression of liver protein synthesis , isoflurance did not have such an effect . |
| 15 | That we do not have such an answer , it can be argued , is the fact that what follows , from the occurrence of the effect , is only that that circumstance or another occurred . |
| 16 | A party who makes such an offer shall file a copy in a sealed envelope , but the offer shall not be brought to the attention of the court at the hearing until the question of costs falls to be decided and the court shall , in exercising its discretion as to costs , take into account any offer which has been brought to its attention : Provided that , except in a case to which paragraph ( 3 ) of the rule applies , the court shall not take such an offer into account if , at the time it is made , the party making it could have protected his position as to costs by means of a payment into court . |
| 17 | More sophisticated and complex computer models of the heroin ‘ epidemic ’ can be constructed to produce precise estimates for the future , but given the many untestable assumptions of ‘ epidemic ’ models ( particularly those based only on figures for known users during a relatively short time period , as in the present case ) , we did not attempt such an exercise . |
| 18 | Althusser does not attempt such an argument but his sole example — a glancing reference to Foucault 's studies of asylums and clinics — suggests that he might have some sympathy with it . |
| 19 | Look , reproduction should not require such an upheaval . |
| 20 | Her willingness to talk verged on a compelling need and after all his previous attempts to gain her confidence , which had made little headway , he knew he must not let such an opportunity pass him by . |
| 21 | The Welfs could not allow such an election to pass unchallenged and a minority elected their own candidate , Siegfried . |
| 22 | Gandhi could not countenance such an approach because it involved rejecting ahi sā and relinquishing sarvodaya . |
| 23 | Shevers , who had already dropped the name Hawk 72 for the new aircraft , opting instead for ‘ Liberty ’ , says he is concerned that Textron , which already produces engines for light aircraft , may decide that resumption of single-engined aircraft production does not represent such an increase in its product liability exposure as it did for Cessna 's former parent General Dynamics . |
| 24 | The teaching of grammar , as traditionally practised , does not promote such an alliance . |
| 25 | The alternative version has the same two properties together making up a property complex that is applied to the immediately adjacent subject of the sentence ; moreover in both cases the complex as a whole is assigned syntactically to the subject E ; the sole difference is in the matter of which property is taken as " senior " to the other within the bounds of the complex , as in ( 63 ) , and in such a case this will produce an infinitesimal semantic difference : ( 63 ) However this sort of syntactic trading is only possible where the language contains suitable lexical items ; it must have an adverb and verb with the appropriate meanings ; thus , in the absence of an adverb equivalent to after a change and a verb meaning to be orange , for instance , English can not offer such an alternative for ( 64 ) : ( 64 ) in spring , their skin turns orange 5.8 The range of verbs which can occur with postverbal adjectives is in fact quite wide . |
| 26 | Teclis could not refuse such an honour and so he returned to the Tower of Hoeth . |
| 27 | We do not find such an explanation satisfactory . |
| 28 | All I would claim is that given the existence of this phenomenon of extensive , very long-term memory of the campaigns of successful brands , the onus is on the mathematicians to disprove the existence of any long-term effect : the fact that they can not find such an effect , with the somewhat rudimentary apparatus at their disposal , is not enough . |
| 29 | That 's because we did n't want half an hour and he wanted half an a hour . |
| 30 | ‘ You ca n't have half an hour , ’ Jack argued . |