Example sentences of "not [vb infin] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The next day was hot and sunny , but I needed food and water , so I could not stay on the moor . |
| 2 | Your talk will be the first item on the agenda you need not stay for the rest of the meeting unless you want to . |
| 3 | ‘ You 'll not stay for the wedding ? |
| 4 | ‘ And now , knowing the truth , or as much as I 'm prepared to divulge , will you not stay for the wedding ? |
| 5 | Bosses of the Tory-controlled authority say she can not stay in the school because she lives outside the priority area . |
| 6 | They did not stay in the water long . |
| 7 | If the leverage was too high , the needle would not stay in the groove without the weight upon the point being increased . |
| 8 | As the Dragoons were still looking for him , he would not stay in the house but had a small cave dug nearby , with a gorse bush to hide the entrance . |
| 9 | Her brothers went through similar reactions with all the horrors of war to disturb their faith , and two did not stay in the Salvation Army . |
| 10 | He regretted that as teachers of the deaf they were inadequately trained , underpaid and overworked and therefore did not stay in the profession . |
| 11 | She did not stay in the room for long ; it was too full of Bella . |
| 12 | Like Flynn before him , Fonda can not stay in the town he has tamed and rides out at the fade-out into the desert . |
| 13 | This problem would not arise with the assumption of average cost pricing but other , potentially more intractable problems would then have to be tackled , in particular how such behaviour could be reconciled with the idea that firms are profit maximizing organizations . |
| 14 | If the person who caused the nuisance can not be found and it is clear that the nuisance did not arise as the result of the act , default or sufferance of the owner or occupier , the local authority itself may take steps to abate it and prevent a recurrence . |
| 15 | This right does not arise under the SGA where the contract provides for delivery in more than one consignment , since there has been no breach in respect of goods not yet delivered , however reasonable it is for the buyer to fear that there will be in the future . |
| 16 | Electricity does not arise from the wall socket , nor even from the power station . |
| 17 | My surprise does not arise from the possibility of a Government defeat over the social chapter but from the fact that it is only now that such a story has found its way onto the front pages . |
| 18 | Authority descended from above : it did not arise from the will of the majority of the people below . |
| 19 | He wants no reform , for the end of his abominable book is to show that the sufferings of the people do not arise from the want of reform ; but from the ’ indiscreet breeding of women ’ . ’ |
| 20 | The idea that information about identifiable individuals must be handled with care is not new ; it does not arise from the use of computers to process such information , though the rapid development of computer technology in the 1950s and 1960s brought the issue into sharp relief . |
| 21 | There was a conspiracy among Labour Members to put on the record points that do not arise from the report . |
| 22 | Assuming there is a transfer of value and consequently a reduction in the value of the estate of Mr X which does not arise from the disposal of excluded property , and further assuming that the transfer is not an exempt transfer , one is left with a chargeable transfer on which inheritance tax is payable starting at nil per cent ( the nil rate band ) and 40 per cent . |
| 23 | The error of rationalism , in Oakeshott 's argument , does not arise from the application of scientific methods to non-scientific material , but rather results from a mistaken understanding of the nature of reason . |
| 24 | 3.11 When there is some particular feature in a case which aggravates the degree of suffering it need not arise from the plaintiff 's concern about himself . |
| 25 | If Labov 's interpretations were suspect ( and of course they are not ) , this would not arise from the fact that he failed to test for significance . |
| 26 | The first is that the obligation to make discovery does not arise until the close of pleadings . |
| 27 | If the defendant is successful in the RSC Ord 14 proceedings , the court may make various orders , including allowing the defendant to defend the claim , which means that the plaintiff 's next opportunity to obtain judgment against the defendant will not arise before the end of a full trial . |
| 28 | Official nature conservation policies in France are only very recent in origin so the framework of protected sites simply does not exist on the scale and extent it does in the UK . |
| 29 | Classes did not exist during the era of primitive communism when societies were based on a socialist mode of production . |
| 30 | ‘ The Federal Republic can not exist without the support of other states . |