Example sentences of "not [vb pp] with a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So long as people continued to live in their old houses , surrounded by their old friends and neighbours , and had not broken with a routine of life which perhaps dated back generations , then the re-moulding of mentalities was going to be a frustratingly slow process , particularly for an engineer of human souls who was no longer young . |
| 2 | They are not examined with a view to appraisal which might require adjustments to concepts of syllabus design to accommodate them . |
| 3 | But when the bridal pair returned home to Grantham , Lincs , from their Kenya honeymoon , they discovered that Angela 's parents had not parted with a penny . |
| 4 | There are cases , however , in which the trustee is not addressed with a request , or in which no words purporting to constitute a trust are used at all . |
| 5 | This column is genuinely not written with a sense of criticism , but I believe it does demonstrate one of the problems that is at the very heart of British tennis — lack of a sense of vision , a sense of belief and a passionate desire to achieve at the very highest echelons of the world game and not to be content to make a comfortable living in a relatively small pond . |
| 6 | He assumes that his family is not only as old as the hills , but rather more structural , and that nature , although on the whole a good idea — ‘ a little low , perhaps , when not enclosed with a park-fence ’ — is none the less ‘ dependent for its execution on your great county families ’ . |
| 7 | " Nobility is not measured with a rule , " said Candida , quoting the dictum Leonora often used to defend her own small stature . |
| 8 | AT last , some soccer even those not blessed with a satellite dish can watch . |
| 9 | The larvae are not born with a paddle , which appears 2–3 weeks after hatching . |
| 10 | When these hatch , the maggots find that they are not provided with a meal of rotting meat but only an inedible petal . |
| 11 | We have not dealt with a report from the Advisory Centre for Education saying that the number of complaints from parents who had not got their first choice of school had doubled . |
| 12 | I should not pretend that my personal motivation in studying social policy is not linked with a commitment to non-revolutionary movement towards social equality . |
| 13 | I have not toyed with a parachute chord |
| 14 | MIP-1 β- specific augmentation of adhesion to VCAM-1 was not observed with a control glycoprotein ( CD45 ; data not shown ) . |
| 15 | McRae , five seconds behind twice former world champion Biasion 's Ford and 25 seconds adrift of Sainz , could have been much closer to the Spanish ace had he not collided with a bale of straw during the second of two Clumber Park stages . |
| 16 | I think that the hon. Gentleman knows that the TA parachute regiments are not charged with a parachute role , but serve mainly in an infantry and national defence role — as do ordinary infantry regiments . |
| 17 | Apart from the fact that in the Fearon case the residence requirement was not coupled with a nationality requirement , that case can be distinguished on several counts . |
| 18 | In this crisis the last parliamentary Cabinet resigned and was replaced by a ‘ business cabinet ’ ( Kabinet karja ) headed by Djuanda , not identified with a party . |
| 19 | 5.9.10 Within [ 28 ] days of any assignment charge underlease or sub-underlease or any transmission or other devolution relating to the Premises to produce for registration with the Landlord 's solicitor such deed or document [ or a certified copy of it ] and to pay the Landlord 's solicitor 's [ charges of [ £20 ( twenty pounds ) ] for the registration of every such document or reasonable charges for the registration of every such document such charges not being less than [ £20 ( twenty pounds ) ] ] [ 5.9.11 Notwithstanding clause 5.9.1 the Tenant may share the occupation of the whole or any part of the Premises with a company which is a member of the same group as the Tenant ( within the meaning of Section 42 of the 1954 Act ) for so long as both companies shall remain members of that group and otherwise than in a manner that transfers or creates a legal estate ] On the one hand , the tenant will wish to deal with the premises in the most cost effective manner , even if this means subletting parts and , on the other hand , the landlord will wish to exercise fairly strict control over alienation , first by ensuring that any assignee is able to pay the rents reserved by the lease and perform the tenant 's obligations under it , and second by ensuring that at the end of the term the landlord is not left with a subtenant of a small part of the premises , which could affect the value of the landlord 's interest in the whole . |
| 20 | ‘ It is the first time in eleven years as a manager that I have not worked with a contract and it is like an air of freedom . ’ |
| 21 | Administration of sodium bicarbonate while reducing faecal fat excretion was not associated with a reduction in faecal bile acid losses and in vitro studies have failed to show an inhibitory effect of unhydrolysed triglycerides on ileal bile acid absorption . |
| 22 | On the other hand , there is experimental evidence showing that in differentiating cells the content of H1 is increased and that this increase is not associated with a decrease in cell proliferation . |
| 23 | The sticker on page one of the " Owner 's Manual " reveals all : " For your own safety this product is not fitted with a laser … |
| 24 | Many modern machines are not fitted with a nose release hook for aerotowing , but with one designed to be suitable for both wire and aerotow launches . |
| 25 | For a start , novice pilots should have some experience of aerotowing in single-seaters before converting to types which are not fitted with a nose hook , and gliders intended for inexperienced pilots should always be manufactured with a nose hook for aerotowing . |
| 26 | Because decision-makers in the political arena have conflicting objectives , policy measures are not chosen with a view to maximizing some conception of social welfare , but emerge as the result of implicit and explicit bargaining between the political interests . |
| 27 | German historians and Middle East experts pursue ‘ illusions ’ if they imagine they can ‘ explain ’ either figure , for ‘ we are not confronted with a German or an Arab phenomenon , but with a human one ’ . |
| 28 | ‘ Anyone who gets toothache but is n't registered with a dentist wo n't be accepted . ’ |
| 29 | I have n't travelled with a maid for years . |
| 30 | Spellbound , she could have stood there gazing indefinitely if her ankle , which unconsciously she 'd put weight on , had n't protested with a stab of pain . |