Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] [prep] a particular [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I will not comment on a particular by-election . |
| 2 | These are not strictly part of our ‘ urban ’ concerns , but they do show how Harré 's and Goffman 's ideas , as well as Giddens 's concept of ‘ locale ’ are not limited to a particular scale . |
| 3 | It is not limited to a particular place . |
| 4 | There is nothing more annoying than a computer system that works beautifully , say , in a library , and then one goes in at nine thirty in the morning and you ca n't get books out because the power has gone off , and if we are sure to go on having a society with industrial disputes , we want a system that is not capable of being completely ruined by one small section of workers deciding not to work on a particular day , and so I think while we 're putting them in , while we want to put them in in a way which that is compatible , we also need to think of having a kind of fail-safe system , particularly in the sort of more serious applications such as medicine and transport and so on , whereby we ca n't be held to ransom by very a small group of people , or indeed by just some technical fault , such as a power failure or something of this kind . |
| 5 | Perhaps its most important aspect is that it is not confined to a particular region . |
| 6 | In modern times [ h ] -dropping — like -in' for ( ing ) — is extremely widespread and well established : as we have noted above , it is not confined to a particular region ( as voicing of initial fricatives is , for example ) . |
| 7 | We recommend that future project initiatives of this kind should give much more thought to the structures and procedures , both within project schools and at the level of overall planning and coordination which are required to ensure that initiatives are not confined to a particular time period or grant , and that the inservice implications of good practice resulting from the project are capitalised upon . |
| 8 | Although I realise that he can not know of a particular incident that has been drawn to my attention today , is he aware that information has been sent to deceased claimants , thus causing a great deal of distress to the families concerned ? |
| 9 | Unlike many young painters , Roxy Walsh has established her reputation through work which is not bound to a particular style , technique or concern . |
| 10 | Examples in Northern Tyneside include ship-building and -repair as part of the maritime industrial structure , and those local plants which are independent and not tied to a particular customer . |
| 11 | By antecedent , in terms of the example , I of course mean only R and C. In virtue of this fact of generality with respect to independent conditionals they are not tied to a particular situation , as are dependent conditionals . |
| 12 | Where the ideal type of literacy is not found in a particular practice that practice is taken as an example of ‘ restricted ’ literacy . |
| 13 | They have not therefore always reached their conclusion on analytical grounds ; often these conclusions are expressive of a pragmatic desire not to intervene in a particular case . |
| 14 | The essence of both offences would be the intrinsic quality of the driving and its deviation from the proper standard , not the consequences which happen to result or happen not to result in a particular case . |
| 15 | In possibly solving a problem in relation to stamp duty or SDRT the arrangement may throw up problems in other areas : ( 1 ) Section 89(4) of CA 1985 ( statutory pre-emption rights ) provides that the statutory pre-emption rights do not apply to a particular allotment of equity shares if these are , or are to be , wholly or partly paid up otherwise than in cash . |
| 16 | Furthermore , the institution should be required to listen to representations from the parties as to why the presumption of the legislation should not apply in a particular case , and to evaluate these representations . |
| 17 | We have argued that such institutions should be public ( though not ruling out the possibility of a role , even an important role , for private actions , as an additional deterrent to abuses of market power ) ; that there should be a single investigating institution with powers to identify and to investigate cases , and to propose remedies , within a clearly stated framework of rules and guidelines ; that firms should be given an opportunity to make representations as to why the competition policy presumptions should not apply in a particular case ; and that there should be a competition tribunal with the task of reviewing and monitoring the recommendations of the competition policy institution . |
| 18 | The Centre of African Studies in Edinburgh has always maintained a focus on the whole of Africa , and has not concentrated on a particular region — such as West or Southern . |
| 19 | Effective communication nationally was the one factor missing , German chemists were not concentrated in a particular city , unlike their French counterparts in Paris , and thus a forum was needed . |
| 20 | Evolution thus does not proceed in a particular direction but types emerge which deal most effectively with their particular environments . |
| 21 | Sometimes the tears come for no reason ( by which phrase we mean that someone is not crying for a particular reason , for something or someone in particular , but that they are crying for everything ) . |
| 22 | They are not linked to a particular course or to a particular method of study . |
| 23 | There is no necessary link between tense and time ; it is likely in this instance that the use of the present tense is not restricted to a particular time ( which is the time of the utterance ) but refers rather to a " general " present . |
| 24 | As always in such an undertaking , the art of organization lay in the avoidance of offending those who were not asked at a particular moment and in the ability to remember enmities and jealousies which could cause friction and poison the atmosphere if the wrong people found themselves together . |
| 25 | Unless one of the steps in the review machinery is the service of a counternotice by the person upon whom the review notice is served , it is better not to stipulate for a particular form of notice because the fewer the requirements that have to be complied with the less scope there is for litigation . |
| 26 | Of course , it is not always easy to pinpoint exactly why we do or do not engage in a particular action . |
| 27 | These are designed to deal with the situations where , under the TALISMAN system , a certificate is not issued to a particular type of transferee , or the company is entitled to and does refuse to register a transfer . |
| 28 | The church sends an invitation to any who do not belong to a particular church , but would like to join in . |
| 29 | In terms of computer technology trade libel would occur if someone falsely claimed that a particular software dealer was trading in pirated software or was in financial difficulties or if a software house 's products were defective or would not operate on a particular make of computer . |
| 30 | But even so this is not perceived as a particular lack in other countries . |