Example sentences of "[not/n't] [vb infin] in a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You snored all night , ’ he said with relish , and Cermait got up and removed himself from this low vulgar company , because you could not stay in a room with people who told the High Queen that you snored . |
| 2 | This uncertainty , by definition , does not exist in a currency union . |
| 3 | These atoms , as we have seen , are spewed out from dying stars ; but it would take at least a billion years for a star to use up all its helium energy and explode , hence life could not exist in a universe consisting of the shortest-living stars , since the necessary elements such as carbon would not exist . |
| 4 | Equally , concepts , the stuff of rules , can not exist in a vacuum as mere semantic toys . |
| 5 | The interpretation is a valuable reminder that the crisis of 1483 did not exist in a vacuum . |
| 6 | Ideas do not exist in a vacuum , free-floating in outer space , waiting to be corralled . |
| 7 | Forms of knowledge , even the most pure and theoretical , do not exist in a vacuum . |
| 8 | The interpretation is a valuable reminder that the crisis of 1483 did not exist in a vacuum . |
| 9 | True , politicians are by nature optimists , otherwise they would not persist in a trade that offers more kicks than ha'pence . |
| 10 | More often than not a shoal of big bream , particularly a small shoal of very big bream , does not remain in a swim for long . |
| 11 | Although supported by most ORTF personnel , a ‘ PDG ’ appointed by the government could not survive in a contest with the Information Minister . |
| 12 | The site needed excellent communications with the rest of the country ; R.S. would not survive in a distribution business if this was not available . |
| 13 | On the other hand , such an authority must act in good faith , use the powers for the purpose for which they were given , take into account relevant matters and disregard the irrelevant , and must not act in a way so unreasonable that no reasonable authority could have so acted . |
| 14 | Needs have to be met to enable active citizenship as without education , welfare , health care , self-respect , and law we can not act in a way we would like to . |
| 15 | He had never assumed her to possess a quality of mind like his own , a shared humour , interests in whatever interested him ; but that did not matter in a wife . |
| 16 | ( This angle does not matter in a goal state . ) |
| 17 | ( 13.22 ) in which Y does not appear in a denominator . |
| 18 | Unfortunately , it is precisely at the point when the plaintiff can not succeed in a claim in negligence that he needs to have recourse to the rule in Rylands v. Fletcher . |
| 19 | The other reason is that Sir David is well aware that the sort of low-grade ‘ sex scandal ’ which is grist to the mil of the News of the Screws will not do in a paper that speaks to the Better Bred . |
| 20 | The Programmer unconditionally and irrevocably waives the rights conferred by Chapter IV of Part I of the Copyright , Designs and Patents Act 1988 on such ( if any ) of the Program as does not consist in a computer program or a computer-generated work : this waiver extends to the Publisher 's sub-licensees and successors in title : it relates only to the components and not the Programmer 's works generally or to works of a particular description . |
| 21 | The Programmer unconditionally and irrevocably waives the rights conferred by Chapter IV of Part I of the Copyright , Designs and Patents Act 1988 on such ( if any ) of the Program as does not consist in a computer program or a computergenerated work : this waiver extends to the Publisher 's sub-licensees and successors in title : it relates only to the components and not the Programmer 's works generally or to works of a particular description . |
| 22 | The fact that no contribution was made to the pension fund during the 31 weeks by the plaintiff would not result in a diminution of his pension . |
| 23 | Surprisingly , perhaps , to advocates of ‘ free ’ markets , this does not result in a lack of dynamism or a neglect of issues of co-ordination and control at the strategic apexes of industry in Japan . |
| 24 | Prior to delivery there had been an exchange of counter-offers which the court held did not result in a contract . |
| 25 | In R v East Sussex CC , ex pR [ 1990 ] FLR 837 the President of the Family Division supported this view and said that judicial review should only be used in exceptional circumstances to challenge a case conference decision which did not result in a child 's removal from home . |
| 26 | The rather crude experiment that Marie Gibbs made by putting the methylanthranilate in the chicks ' bills when their eyes were closed arid showing that this did not result in a change in receptors is one such test , but , because being blindfolded is itself scarcely a neutral experience for the birds , it ca n't be more than suggestive . |
| 27 | It is also why the proper analysis of a work of art does not result in a sense of fragmentation but instead enriches the interweaving of its fabric . |
| 28 | For example , where work done does not result in a transaction , it is open to the client partner to discount the fee . |
| 29 | Attendance at the tribunal need not result in a claimant being out of pocket because the cost of transport to the tribunal and of any loss of earnings is reimbursed by the tribunal . |
| 30 | More curiously , since the complexities of threading one 's vehicle through the traffic is successful , this peripheralization of awareness does not result in a reduction in efficiency . |