Example sentences of "not [vb pp] [to-vb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The work can be at various levels from initial reconnaissance to diamond drilling but is not intended to go beyond the discovery stage of a mineral deposit . |
| 2 | Granada 's defence that the words were not intended to refer to the plaintiff and would not have been so regarded by reasonable viewers was rejected by the jury , after hearing that the officer had received " unpleasant and damaging " comments afterwards . |
| 3 | There is a long-standing presumption that Acts of Parliament are not intended to derogate from the requirements of international law . |
| 4 | A contract of hire is a species of bailment and although it is readily distinguishable from sale in that general property is not intended to pass to the hirer , there are important public policy issues in a consumer hire context , which dictate that the owner be subject to similar liability to that visited upon the seller . |
| 5 | The decision by a court that a particular situation was not intended to come within the ambit of a statute , though within its words in what may be their most obvious meaning , does not deny the supremacy of Parliament , for if Parliament disagrees with the decision it can pass another Act dealing specifically with the type of case . |
| 6 | I had not intended to contribute to the debate but the hon. Member for Keighley ( Mr. Waller ) , who introduced the motion , was asked several questions during his introductory speech and he failed stoically to produce any answers . |
| 7 | I had not intended to speak on the motion , but I feel that I must bring to the attention of the House certain points made by the Select Committee on Procedure in two reports to the House on the passage of legislation . |
| 8 | Here , they are quiet as mice throughout Act 1 and are not heard to applaud at the end . |
| 9 | The windsurfing concept is not limited to use on the water and in recent years windsurfing sails have been seen on land , snow and ice . |
| 10 | The US Congress is considering legislation for limited tort reform , he added , but that is not expected to progress before the end of the year . |
| 11 | Deferred taxation is provided in respect of liabilities relating to timing differences between profits as computed for taxation purposes and profits as stated in the accounts , except to the extent that the liability is not expected to crystallise in the foreseeable future . |
| 12 | Even following recession , energy demand is not expected to return to the levels of growth originally predicted . |
| 13 | Mr Patten left his hospital bed for last week 's crucial Commons ' votes , but he is not expected to return to the Department of Education , until the end of next month . |
| 14 | On April 9 the then Minister of State for Cabinet Affairs Abdul Rahman Abdallah as Awadi said that elections were unlikely to be held before August or September 1992 due to the continued absence of an estimated 400,000 Kuwaitis ( including " second category " citizens ) who had left the country during the Iraqi occupation and who were not expected to return before the end of 1991 . |
| 15 | However , EPHOS is not expected to impinge upon the UK 's own GOSIP profile , ‘ EPHOS is at a higher level , ’ according to the UK 's Central Computing and Telecommunications Agency , although it admits that ‘ they may merge in the future , but we 're talking about four or five years . ’ |
| 16 | The first shipments were not expected to arrive in the country until the autumn . |
| 17 | It should be noted that although the total population over 65 is not expected to increase for the remainder of the twentieth century , this is due to a projected fall in the numbers aged 60/65–74 ( by 5 per cent between 1981 and 1991 ) combined with a rise in the numbers at older ages . |
| 18 | ( As of mid-March 1990 Clowes and six others faced charges relating to fraud , theft and deception in a trial which was not expected to begin until the spring of 1991 . ) |
| 19 | All overheads are fixed and are not expected to change from the present cost of f2,000 per month . |
| 20 | This information can be used in equation ( 3 ) to calculate the cost of equity finance : Assuming a corporation tax rate of 40 per cent , we now have all the information to use equation ( 1 ) to calculate the firm 's cost of capital : This is the appropriate cost of capital for this firm providing that it is only considering further investments that have the same risk characteristics as those previously evaluated , and that its gearing ( that is , the ratio of debt to equity ) is not expected to change in the foreseeable future . |
| 21 | The ICL machine , not expected to appear on the market until 1994 , will utilise up to 128 pairs of superscalar Sparc RISC chips — one CPU for the application , the other to drive the network — each with 64Mb memory . |
| 22 | So while the practice of resignation has been re-established , it is still true that ministers are not expected to suffer for the shortcomings of their staff . |
| 23 | In spite of these remarkably positive indicators , Singapore is not expected to grow at the same rate in the 1990s . |
| 24 | Singapore is not expected to grow at the same rate in the 1990s . |
| 25 | And at once they had to acknowledge what probably they had known but not wished to push before the other — that physical flutter had been their bond , certainly at first , though by now there were other more convenient linkages ; for they found each other very beautiful , very desirable . |
| 26 | The children were allowed no breakfast , the younger two were not permitted to go to the bathroom , and none of them was allowed to take a single personal possession , not even a teddy bear or something to be a link with home . |
| 27 | As in World War I , deaf persons were not permitted to serve in the armed forces , yet there were thousands of able-bodied deaf men and women who could be used to serve their country in a civilian capacity . |
| 28 | As a result of US pressure Arafat , unlike the heads of other delegations , was not permitted to speak from the podium . |
| 29 | Unlike the United States Supreme Court , which can delve deep into the deliberations of the Founding Fathers to try to elucidate what was meant by a particular provision of the Constitution , British courts are not permitted to look at the proceedings of Parliament in order to determine what Parliament really meant . |
| 30 | I am just not prepared to wait for the green shoots of recovery . ’ |