Example sentences of "not [vb infin] [adj] [conj] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | [ It should be noted that the rule does not make clear that the form incorporates the notice . ] |
| 2 | A report in the weekly Moscow News did not make clear if the insurgents were Armenians or Azerbaijanis . |
| 3 | This criterion on its own does not guarantee any but the most tenuous relation of sense , since , for instance , harmless is compatible with heavy , and rare with round . |
| 4 | And it might say do not dry clean and the customer has it dry cleaned and of course the garment is very likely going to be ruined . |
| 5 | More generally , Arrow ( 1984 ) calls it hidden information or hidden knowledge — the principal does not know all that the agent knows . |
| 6 | The wetness of the rags does not accomplish much but the wood gets heated and the rags may insulate the hot wood and prevent it from cooling too quickly . |
| 7 | Given what has been said so far it will not appear surprising that the conference sponsors include the Western Isles Islands Council — it is to be held in Stornoway — as well as the SED and OECD . |
| 8 | And Fazal said : ‘ You had better not do that if the Mamur Zapt is about . ’ |
| 9 | The plaintiff vendors sought to set aside the expert 's decision and to have the court decide the matter , but the defendant purchasers said that the plaintiffs could not do that because the contract bound them to accept the expert 's decision . |
| 10 | But now the sun can not do this because the man is dead but his comrades are hoping that by moving his body out into the sun it can use its power to wake him as it used to do . |
| 11 | The Council accepted the report , amending one sentence to-read : ‘ For reasons which are apparent from the rest of this report the Visiting Party could not feel assured that the Director was fully and properly exercising his responsibility for the ‘ internal organisation and management and discipline of the Polytechnic ’ , in accordance with the Articles of Government' . |
| 12 | If you have symptoms that you think may be caused by food intolerance you should not feel affronted if the doctor 's initial questions seem rather personal and irrelevant to the aches and pains being suffered . |
| 13 | Names and positions are as important as addresses and telephone numbers and some directories do not give more than the editors ' and advertisement managers ' names . |
| 14 | Hannah herself beams with delight at the mention of his name and there can not be a past or present resident of the dale who does not become animated when the name of Sam Fawcett is mentioned in conversation . |
| 15 | Capital gains tax will not become payable until the original shareholder sells his shares in B ; and if B is formed in a tax haven in which there are no restrictions on loans to directors , he can in fact enjoy the proceeds of the original shares in Company A free of tax until he dies or takes up permanent residence outside the jurisdiction . |
| 16 | Difficulties in contrast sensitivity may not become apparent when the Snellen Test is used , but a child scoring medium or low levels on a contrast sensitivity test could have problems in discriminating print unless it was presented in strong contrast in a good light . |
| 17 | The spores of various fungi are nearly always present in woodwork , just as the germs of many diseases are present in our bodies , but they do not become active unless the conditions are favourable . |
| 18 | County were beaten 3–1 , but the omens did not look favourable when the Town 's mascot , a stuffed donkey , caught fire at the post-match celebration . |
| 19 | She did not like flying and the mental energy involved in getting through the ordeal without flinging herself down in the aisle and drumming her heels was considerable . |
| 20 | You may not realize this but the name ‘ Grand Canyon ’ was actually one developed by DisneyWorld who own and run the place . |
| 21 | RESPONSORIAL PSALM : Do not begin this until the group who are leading the congregation in gesture are assembled in the sanctuary and ready . |
| 22 | But the first kiosk only took cards , and she did not have one and the next kiosk was broken . |
| 23 | Sometimes the king allowed subjects to take deer for themselves in his forests ; the warden 's duty was to see to it that they had a proper writ of warranty when they came to his forest , that they did not take more than the specified number , and that they took them in the prescribed manner . |
| 24 | Although this Arrowana is relatively cheap when young , I would not recommend more than the single specimen in an aquarium of this size . |
| 25 | Industry does not stand still and the trend nowadays is for employers to expect their employees to respond positively to the demands of the enterprise . |
| 26 | The recent acquisition of Leckpatrick by Cork-based Golden Vale demonstrated the world would not stand still until the dairy industry was restructured , he told us . |
| 27 | However , we will not pay more than the market value of the package . |
| 28 | ( Remember that this would not hold good if the passage were f instead of p . ) |
| 29 | unc These are equivalent , but the rule does not prove this because the left hand program is finite but is not weaker than any finite syntactic approximation to the right hand program . |
| 30 | Disregarding the cases when the electric field is very large or the conductor is very hot ( beyond the scope of this course ) the electrons can not get farther than the boundary of the conductor . |