Example sentences of "not [vb infin] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 If it is correct , in general , that a public nuisance can not arise out of the lawful use of a highway , as Mr. Ashworth submitted , it is not , in my judgment , because there is no unlawful act .
2 As well as lines , Sumitomo had to install filters at each end of the lines to check that traffic that ought to be kept on the LAN does not disappear on to the WAN .
3 Mr Collor 's problem is that although money is no obstacle to his multi-million dollar campaign , it does not make up for the thousands of enthusiastic party militants campaigning for his rival .
4 It will not make up for the insufficient level of public services that Cleveland has been given by BR . ’
5 I could see by the light of his torch that the cave was deep and spacious ; I could not make out from the beam of light its total dimensions , but clearly a man would have had no problem stretching out to sleep there .
6 Some respondents felt that it was important that the manager had high expectations for punctuality and discipline so that resentment does not build up within the team .
7 Secondly , in dry summers the L3 are retained within the crusted faecal pat and can not migrate on to the pasture until sufficient rainfall occurs to moisten the pat .
8 Comment : Indirect questions are used all the time by people who need their status boosting through being given buckets of approval , or who are looking for a reason for punishing other people should they not fall in with the anticipated scenario .
9 If his education were below that of his audience he could not fall back on the validity of the Sacraments he administered for support .
10 He used almost völkisch language , claiming that the Romanians ( unlike the Hungarian , German and other minorities ) were ‘ autochthonous ’ : ‘ They did not come from elsewhere , they did not fall down from the sky ; they were born and lived here , in this land , and they defended it with their blood . ’
11 The tawny owl sample contains a lot of murids compared with other owls , and for this species the percentage molar loss is unexpectedly low because the murid teeth do not fall out of the maxilla so easily .
12 Ranulf was now fast asleep and the clerk breathed a prayer that his servant would not fall out of the saddle and break his neck .
13 Some have even kept their tattoos hidden from their children and have been reluctant to explain why they will not peel off in the sun . ’
14 We had a punchcard in class the other day which would not catch on to the ‘ cogs ’ and allow itself to rotate .
15 They may not catch on in the north-east !
16 The hospital management team for Claybury rejected the idea of the quadrant hospital concept , since this could not tie in with the principle of community care .
17 The Committee took the view that lawyers are unapproachable because of the inaccessibility of premises and their unwelcoming nature , because the methods of work do not tie in with the needs of clients , and because of a lack of response to the needs of linguistic minorities .
18 For a party you could prepare all four — and why not finish up with the orange and almond dessert on page 16 .
19 I was certainly happy to make this find as the larger hammered silver coins of this period are not common and certainly do not pour out of the ground no matter where you live .
20 You can not expect to be asked the questions exactly as they appear here and you will be badly thrown if you have programmed yourself with exact responses to very particular questions which do not crop up in the way you had anticipated .
21 In any case , he added , people did not show up for the political meetings , only arriving in time for the drinking afterwards .
22 But the NAIRU is indeed likely to be lower these days — partly because the labour market works better , and partly because some of those out of work will not show up in the figures .
23 This does not show up in the household statistics because many of these stays were for a brief few months right at the end of life .
24 It may be that Candida is overabundant , but that this does not show up in the stools because the yeast is attached to the gut wall in some way — perhaps in its hyphal form .
25 Although these weaknesses did not show up in the balance of payments until the 1960s this does not mean that the position in the 1950s was anywhere near ‘ entirely satisfactory ’ since the process was then in the making [ cf.
26 Although it does not show up in the analyses , content surely also became more international , in source of origin , if not always in substance .
27 Further , the fact that lesion of the cerebellum x including the flocculus in rabbits , cats and monkeys , or subdural application in rabbits and monkeys of haemoglobin ( which blocks LTD ) , abolishes the entire VOR adaptation , raises the question of why brain stem synaptic plasticity does not show up in the absence of cerebellar plasticity .
28 But a more novel objection came from Dr Leonard Wilson , when Bishop of Birmingham , and who opened a school without wearing gaiters as a form of protest because he believed : ‘ Bishops should not dress up in the way of the decadent eighteenth century . ’
29 Just as they are taught other subjects , they should increasingly be taught about such topics as mental handicap so that they do not grow up with the prejudices that their parents may possess .
30 He remembers his lonely school days , in assured manner that his son will not grow up in the same way .
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