Example sentences of "not [vb infin] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not that she could n't handle him , but it was so much better if the situation did not arise in the first place . |
| 2 | Those ‘ events ’ of primitive evolution which did not qualify as ‘ good ’ should not be termed ‘ bad ’ , but simply ‘ not good ’ , because ‘ bad ’ implies the existence of ‘ evil ’ , and this did not exist during the first two of the three periods into which this book assumes universal existence to be divided . |
| 3 | Payment has never been demanded and it is possible that the provisions are not necessary because the liabilities they cover did not exist in the first place . |
| 4 | As with externalities , we can not expect markets to allocate resources efficiently if the markets do not exist in the first place . |
| 5 | It did not exist until the mid-eighteenth century , when Joseph Black first prepared carbon dioxide . |
| 6 | This technique is one of the prominent syntactico-semantic features of the first part of the novel , and it does not disappear in the second and third sections . |
| 7 | A story in Numbers 25 which we did not consider in the last chapter ( for it is not a complaint story ) makes it even more readily understandable . |
| 8 | This can not fall on the last syllable of the stem , and is , if necessary , moved to an earlier syllable . |
| 9 | F.L.R. 237 , 245–246 , whether the case might not fall within the second of the two classes of case identified by Dixon J. in Yerkey v. Jones , 63 C.L.R. 649 . |
| 10 | We cooked dinner , packed up things we did not need over the next two days and had a group meeting to discuss the itinerary for our journey home . |
| 11 | OUR flower gardens are full of blossom at the moment , carried on plants that will not survive beyond the first few frosts of autumn . |
| 12 | George VI , a shy man , was terrified of his new position and many feared that the monarchy would not survive into the next decade . |
| 13 | FORMER Liberal leader Sir David Steel yesterday urged Labour to stand down for the Liberal-Democrats in seats they can not win at the next Election . |
| 14 | Please do not wait until the last moment to inform us . |
| 15 | Please do not wait until the last moment to inform us . |
| 16 | The value of AOB is to allow urgent matters to be raised which can not wait until the next meeting . |
| 17 | So I must not jump at the first chance . |
| 18 | This means the voter marks his second preference on the ballot paper ; and , if his first choice candidate does not finish in the first two , his vote is transferred to one of those who is still in with a chance . |
| 19 | However , climbing sports differ from true climbers in that invariably they do not bloom until the second year wood , and then only on side shoots , and seldom repeat much after the first burst of bloom during June . |
| 20 | My Lords , I did not speak on the second reading of this Bill , because I spoke extremely critically on in the debate on the White Paper o on er May the 26th last year , but er I would therefore like to er commence by joining with my Right Honourable Friend Lord Whitelaw because I was so critical , in welcoming the changes which the Home Secretary has now proposed . |
| 21 | However , X does not appear in the first place as a response to some specific stimulus ( as in the case of a reflex ) , but more or less spontaneously . |
| 22 | A critic walking for the first time into a gallery may describe a colour in a picture as blue ; it will have been the scrupulous task of a conservator to have established that the particular colour in question was Prussian blue , and thus can not date before the eighteenth century . |
| 23 | Energy saving does not date from the first oil crisis . |
| 24 | She could almost see him searching for another string of quips if Jessica would not thaw to the first attempt . |
| 25 | ( Lewis , 1973 , p. 33 ; Stalnaker , 1975 , p. 173 ) It is said that this proves the failure of transitivity — the three statements are Unexceptionable and the third does not follow from the first two . |
| 26 | See chapter 2 and do not look on the last fortnight as the only time to work , even if it does " concentrate your mind wonderfully " . |
| 27 | In the south of the county , it was only beginning on some manors in the late fourteenth and early fifteenth , while on others it did not occur until the sixteenth and seventeenth . |
| 28 | I AM one of those ‘ stupid idiots ’ who did not vote in the last election ( Letters , September 6 ) . |
| 29 | MB 's is wearing clothes that do not fit in the first example eg. This time he refers to the good opinions that people have of him as new clothes and killing the king would be like throwing away hardly worn clothes . |
| 30 | Ray Parlour , having been caught heavily by former Gunner Kevin Richardson , did not return for the second half . |