Example sentences of "not [adv] [vb infin] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 The wrongful sale of goods subject to a hire-purchase agreement will constitute a repudiation and hence vest a right to immediate possession in the finance company even though the agreement does not expressly provide for this .
2 In this he was mistaken , since state control over industry was considerably reduced once the war was over , even if it did not wholly return to pre-war conditions .
3 It is probable that one can not properly speak of such a thing as a career as a mufti in the same sense that one can of a career as a muderris or a kadi ; but to the degree that there does appear to have been some hierarchical gradation of muftiliks , it is worth emphasizing that these did not lead to the office of the Mufti , which rather , from the sixteenth century on , was approached by the route of the medreses , mevleviyet kadiliks and kazaskerliks .
4 Voters do not instinctively turn to Labour in time of trouble .
5 But it also strained credulity to believe that any sort of war where any sort of nuclear weapons were available would not eventually lead to full-scale atomic destruction .
6 Insofar as English law requires the directors to take into account the interests of groups other than the shareholders it adopts the position that these interests do not fundamentally conflict with those of the shareholders and that it is therefore possible to arrive at a decision that balances all the relevant interests , subsuming them under or subordinating them to the vaguely defined collective goal of the organization .
7 Turning now to policy , it seems clear that a prohibitions-based or per se illegality form of legislation can not effectively deal with tacit collusion .
8 Vial did not apparently introduce for some time any regular system of instruction which would have concentrated the labours of the students .
9 They should not entirely supplant from political discourse and practical consideration the separate question of restrictions on the use ( as distinct from possession ) of nuclear weapons .
10 This chapter has argued that just as the study of style can not entirely rely on quantitative data , neither can it ultimately do without them .
11 States can not entirely depend on such measures , however , and must make provision for their own defence .
12 He had lost none of his ability — it can not suddenly disappear without physical cause .
13 ( 1983 ) discuss equally plausible models in which the outcome does not suddenly differ from that obtaining when their conditions hold , as those conditions are relaxed .
14 Quinn sees large companies as similar to large rivers slowly moving in given directions , but containing within them various ebbs , flows and eddies which , while they do not necessarily contribute in any direct analytical way to the general direction , nevertheless in aggregate help to determine it .
15 But statistics do not necessarily make for good intelligence .
16 Good science does not necessarily make for good philosophy .
17 THERE was an article in The Times the other day which said that good spelling did not necessarily make for good writing .
18 Hand-made panels do not necessarily make for better cars .
19 British vital interests might not necessarily coincide with those of the Americans as Suez had shown all too clearly .
20 On several occasions when their views have been canvassed , the judges of the High Court and the Court of Appeal have shown themselves capable of contemplating changes that do not necessarily coincide with popular or professional opinion .
21 But this apparent methodological superiority does not necessarily spring from any intrinsic properties of the stratificational model .
22 Planning need not necessarily start with detailed consideration of the content of a history study unit .
23 As the entries may not necessarily fit on one physical line , they may be continued by following any closing square bracket with a minus sign ( as shown in the example ) .
24 As the entries may not necessarily fit on one physical line , they may be continued by following any closing square bracket with a minus sign ( as shown in the example ) .
25 Increased motility does not necessarily result in increased propulsion , however .
26 In The Family , Sex and Marriage he was careful to retain an open mind on affective individualism , emphasizing first that it was not necessarily the way of the future , family change not being linear , and second , that it did not necessarily result in greater happiness than other forms of family organization .
27 As long as there is an abundant supply of water high temperatures tend to be associated with high rates of weathering , although this does not necessarily result in deep weathering profiles for , as we have already noted , where slope gradients are steep the products of weathering may be removed almost as soon as they are created .
28 ‘ . These figures do not necessarily correlate with increased market power , however , there being evidence to indicate that aggregate concentration and concentration in individual industries have not increased since the mid-1970's .
29 Evans-Pritchard and others have also pointed out that the divisions between scientific and non-scientific thinking as such , if they can indeed be reliably established , do not necessarily correlate with different social groups .
30 The trouble is , this does not necessarily lead to greater understanding of why something represents good practice .
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