Example sentences of "not [verb] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had other questions but Stan chose not to be sidetracked from the serious business of telling Oliver he could not stay on the premises after all . |
| 2 | Joseph Fraunhofer , an optical-glass maker of Munich , had mapped over five hundred dark lines in the solar spectrum by the early 1820s , and had shown that they did not arise in the prisms used to produce the spectra . |
| 3 | it 's the usual problem whe when the site is not aligned with the points of the compass . |
| 4 | Watkins found crossroads falling on leys with amazing frequency , even though the present-day roads were not aligned on the leys . |
| 5 | These do not exist in the hops and must be converted from precursor a acids which are present by an extended period of boiling . |
| 6 | John CW Symon ( Points of View , today ) writes : ‘ It would seem obvious that young hooligans do not think of the consequences of their actions … quite likely they do not think of what they are doing as ‘ crime ’ at all … |
| 7 | The children ; one dared not think of the children . |
| 8 | Pilots are most vulnerable to all of these problems when they are out of practice or when they become blasé and do not think about the procedures regularly . |
| 9 | It was held that this did not entitle the seller to take from the buyer the proceeds of the sub-sales of his ( the seller 's ) property ; instead it merely created a charge in favour of the seller which was void because it was not registered under the Companies Act . |
| 10 | A fact , by the way , she had not communicated to the police . |
| 11 | This success before 1841 does not compare with the periods following 1846 and 1855 , mainly because of the differences in the international scene after that time . " |
| 12 | In Al Ain I could not eat in the men 's majlis . |
| 13 | However , notwithstanding his extensive programme , no courses longer than the Terminal type were arranged , possibly because student groups were not formed in the villages of people who would have accepted responsibility to stimulate , organise and sustain local demand . |
| 14 | They were rather pleased with themselves for saying this , because it was something the Gruagach would find quite flattering and , also , it had not referred to the Wolfkings , which would have been extremely discourteous , not to say disastrous . |
| 15 | The management usually have a ruling that receptionists do not socialise with the guests on a personal basis ; therefore staff should not make dates with guests or visit their rooms even if invited to do so . |
| 16 | It is the duty of us all to ensure that an entire cultural group is not tainted by the actions of a criminal minority . |
| 17 | Hunger and poverty , the main reasons for their poaching , are not treated by the courts as extenuating circumstances . |
| 18 | The government had not intervened in the dockers ' ban , and although they supported the Poles against the Bolsheviks they were aware of the general feelings amongst the working classes , which were expressed vociferously at workers ' meetings throughout the country . |
| 19 | They are not binding on the judges , but they have a persuasive authority where judicial choice is possible . |
| 20 | It is not binding on the courts , although it remains a treaty obligation for the Government to ensure that the law conforms with it . |
| 21 | In December 1947 , for example , when they had agreed a memorandum on Area Board organisation , Randall , the London Board chairman , insisted that it should be a purely advisory document not binding on the areas ; and some degree of variation in local organisation did in fact emerge . |
| 22 | Unless otherwise agreed , the findings of the expert(s) are not binding on the parties : they may be recommendations for the future performance of the contract . |
| 23 | In this case , the effect is that goods received in the old financial year ( Invoice ) are not recognized by the accounts until the new financial year ( Cash paid ) . |
| 24 | If the trustees are found to be the settlor 's nominees the settlor will be the person assessed on the trading or other income ( Dreyfus v IRC ( 1963 ) 41 TC 441 ) although the Inland Revenue will usually find it difficult to establish nomineeship if this was not intended by the parties ( Burman v Hedges and Butler Ltd [ 1979 ] STC 136 ) . |
| 25 | ‘ So it emerges from these authorities that the retention of moneys known to have been paid under a mistake at law , although it is a course permitted to an ordinary litigant , is not regarded by the courts as a ‘ high-minded thing ’ to do , but rather as a ‘ shabby thing ’ or a ‘ dirty trick ’ and hence is a course which the court will not allow one of its own officers , such as a trustee in bankruptcy , to take . |
| 26 | The Buid do not regard themselves , and are not regarded by the Christians , as belonging to the same social system , and as sharing an underlying set of political values . |
| 27 | Where crops were sold both by large estates and small farmers or peasants , the situation was more complex , though in peasant economies , for obvious reasons , the proportion of the crop which came on the world market — i.e. which was not consumed by the producers — from large estates was normally much larger than that which came from the peasant holdings . |
| 28 | A SIGN taped to the wall above the lavatories in the Ministry of Constitutional Development in Kampala politely asks visitors not to expectorate in the sinks . |
| 29 | Mozart wrote often to his wife , admonishing her not to fall in the baths , not to go out walking alone , and not to gamble in the casino . |
| 30 | As for the requirement for the owners , charterers , managers and operators of the vessel and , in the case of a company , the shareholders and directors , to be resident and domiciled in the member state in which the vessel is to be registered , it must be held that such a requirement , which is not justified by the rights and obligations created by the grant of a national flag to a vessel , results in discrimination on grounds of nationality . |