Example sentences of "not [vb pp] [to-vb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The truckers ' strike during July and August 1973 was also largely motivated by controls — the shortages of spare parts for their trucks , official discrimination against them in favour of state-run firms , and the fact that the charges which they could make were fixed by the government but not adjusted to take into account the rapid rate of inflation .
2 My Lords , this appeal arises out of a memorandum of agreement dated 19 December 1930 and said to have created a lease for a term which was not limited to expire by effluxion of time and can not now be determined by the landlord .
3 P appealed to the High Court , contending that no part of his interest ‘ came to an end ’ within para 4(2) ; he had merely disposed of shares in Q. Similarly , para 4(2) was not deemed to operate by virtue of para 4(1) , which provided that a disposal of an interest in possession of any property was not a transfer of value , but should be treated as the coming to the end of an interest in possession , bringing into play para 4(2) .
4 The Stock Exchange smaller companies working party is not expected to report until autumn of this year .
5 Two months of treatment has failed to clear up the trouble , so Molby has had surgery and is not expected to return to action for another six weeks .
6 Schoolteachers were not expected to engage in research , and by the 1870s this was anyway much more difficult than it had been in 1800 : there was more to master first , and more equipment was needed .
7 In cases in which pain and suffering is not expected to continue for life the court has to form a view as to how long it is likely to continue .
8 The case is not expected to finish before Christmas .
9 The review will refer to , but is not expected to cover in detail , the adult education literature nor that on the 14-18 pre-vocational curriculum .
10 That case is not expected to come to court for a few months and Dairy Crest wanted to stop him trading in the meantime .
11 If the spot price is not expected to change over time , then in contracts with a positive basis the futures price in the contracts with nearby delivery dates will be lower than the futures price in the contracts with distant delivery dates ( a situation known as normal contango ) .
12 But in those far off days , we were not expected to speak in class except to answer a teacher 's question .
13 This book is not designed to engage with exposition of doctrine though it will inevitably point to its importance ; rather it attempts a mode of appreciation of these texts to help readers , whether or not they have prior knowledge of the subject , to respond to them as literary witnesses to a life of faith understood as a game .
14 An arrangement whereby a limited partner invests a capital sum in the business which he is not permitted to withdraw until dissolution of the partnership ( which will not automatically occur on death or bankruptcy etc ) and which represents his maximum liability in respect of the firm 's debts and obligations , who is given a profit share but who is excluded from the management of the firm , is doubtless seen as too restrictive .
15 Moreover , sales staff are not permitted to speak in jargon and are obliged to help the layman understand exactly what their products are all about .
16 But he made it clear when he arrived in Perth the next day that he disagreed with Marsh 's sacking , an interesting observation given that the players ' code of behaviour specifically states that they are not permitted to comment on selection decisions .
17 There are no formal rules of evidence and generally the parties are not permitted to appear by counsel .
18 They have shown by their tasteless and tactless menace tonight that they are still not prepared to take on board the problems of people who can not pay their poll tax because they do not have sufficient funds .
19 Also vestiges of that culture such as language , religion , certain social relations , which have not needed to change under domination continue to exist alongside new impositions .
20 ‘ We were not born to live off charity in refugee camps .
21 That is due partly to quite creditable reasons : mothers on their own have more assured rights to benefits and to housing than they have in many other countries ; , they are not compelled to go to work ; and their benefits are more generous in comparison with wages .
22 He said yeah but we 're not authorised to put on money on anybody 's card Ann .
23 She had not wanted to talk to Finn but she could not help it when he came and sat on the counter .
24 you 're not meant to say in front of the classes .
25 ‘ Ah , but I have not tried to think of love , ’ came the answer .
26 to do it , and it starts a lot earlier , it starts when you 're at school and the fact that that women are told that you can do , like home economics an , and sewing and all that , and then they 're not encouraged to go into engineering courses .
27 It was argued that industrialists are not encouraged to come into West Belfast by various Government agencies .
28 Out of one hundred and twenty-two horses , only three had not learned to ask for food within seven days .
29 Sending Ælfgifu and Swegen to Norway perhaps had its advantages here , and maybe Harold Harefoot was not allowed to live at court , which might partly explain alleged doubts about his identity .
30 God Akhenaten was his prophet and in fact claimed to be the son of God his son and er all other religions were persecuted and er , so what in Ancient Egypt was that the traditional polytheism which was rampant was persecuted by there was only one god and as Andrea says , even proscribe the word gods in , in the plural , you know the , you know the er feminist thought police would try and rule out certain words you 're not allowed to use like chairman which has become chairperson or something like that
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