Example sentences of "not [adv] [vb infin] [noun] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 As noted , structuring does not merely involve routine tasks but also often requires complex financial engineering , in which houses based in London have developed considerable expertise over the years .
2 Thus speakers do not randomly mix acrolect features with those from the basilect to create a " mesolect " ; each " lect " is discrete and ordered with respect to the other lects in the continuum .
3 Local authorities do not generally make policy decisions in isolation .
4 claimants did not generally feel Review Boards to be independent .
5 We do not just mean convenience foods , but the convenience of eating a meal in relation to the time allowed , and the situation .
6 An additional attractive feature for savers was the fact that societies did not normally levy transactions charges on accounts .
7 Many nurses , for example , give injections , supervise medication , discuss problems and act as counsellors , but they do not usually negotiate welfare benefits , arrange outings , arrange for the gas board to read the meter , go shopping with a client , and so on .
8 Muslims are just as divided as Christians : by ethnic origin ( they hail from areas as far apart as Turkey and Nigeria ) ; by language ( as well as Arabic , their native tongues include Urdu , Bengali , Hausa , Swahili and Farsi ) ; by doctrine ( three-quarters are Shias and the rest are Sunnis ) ; by money ( Kuwaiti bankers do not usually invite Bradford textile-workers to their Knightsbridge dinner parties ) ; and by politics .
9 In these two genera the tentacle pores on the arm are open and do not usually have tentacle scales .
10 He observes that universities do not usually have research policies as such , and that the librarian therefore receives little guidance on new directions for collection development .
11 ILS , coupled with DME , does not usually include marker beacons .
12 Although the Centre does not formally teach postgraduate students itself , it has an active programme of seminars and teaching and provides a Canadian dimension to research in a wide range of disciplines .
13 But consumption does not directly create capital assets whether financed internally or externally , and investment levels in most countries have not risen significantly as a proportion of GDP in Africa over the last twenty years , and reMain 6 or 7 per cent lower than in both the rest of the developing world and in the industrialized world .
14 The Council ; s regional surveys did not directly include whisky distilleries , for a variety of reasons .
15 The influence of the adult experimenter on the child 's performance is one that has concerned Donaldson , who has shown convincingly that the child does not always interpret adult meanings as intended ( McGarrigle and Donaldson , 1975 ) .
16 THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING REASONABLE No one wants departing employees to take the firm 's best clients with them , but courts will not always uphold restraint clauses
17 ( In terms of spending power , this is , of course , hardly logical — but the laws of supply and demand do not always produce common-sense effects ) .
18 ‘ With Celon , we can not possibly have football conversations .
19 The large number of contracts which end up in litigation or arbitration suggests that many surveyors do not strictly follow contract procedures .
20 CHAIN does not automatically close data files , but it does clear the variables in which the file handles were stored .
21 Third , studies can not accurately quantify mortality rates .
22 Subsequently these conclusions have been challenged , it being pointed out that experiments involving the rapid heating and cooling of small individual rocks do not accurately re-create field conditions .
23 ‘ I can not simply order lamb chops . ’
24 The Argyll Street entrance was full of real beggars , the kind that do not even have mouth organs .
25 Thus , if the buyer does not immediately buy replacement goods but does so subsequently and at a different price from the market price at the date of the breach , that is normally irrelevant .
26 VE does not initially consider manufacturing methods , as would a cost reduction exercise , but starts by questioning the necessity of the functions and the means by which they are performed .
27 VE does not initially consider manufacturing methods , as would a cost reduction exercise , but starts by questioning the necessity of the functions and the means by which they are performed .
28 Britain can not unilaterally compel meat companies to show the method of production on the label unless the majority of member states agree .
29 However , Glashow himself remarked that the Nobel committee really took rather a gamble , because we do not yet have particle accelerators of high enough energy to test the theory in the regime where unification between the electromagnetic forces , carried by the photon , and the weak forces , carried by the W + , W - , and Z , really occurs .
30 The EC Agriculture Commissioner , Raymond MacSharry , said that the EC would not completely eliminate export subsidies , as such a policy would drive " 3,000,000-4,000,000 farmers out of business " .
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