Example sentences of "not [vb infin] [adv] [conj] [art] " in BNC.

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1 The first are generated by scanners and need careful handling , the accompanying bitmap for display purposes may not reproduce properly although the image will print correctly — this is caused by the difference in screen resolutions between the two systems .
2 Wellcome would not comment further until the data from the study had been fully analysed , although the preliminary indications were ‘ encouraging ’ .
3 A spokesman for the company , which provided cooling and water tanks , tanks for the pavilion said last night : ‘ I can not comment further because the situation is legally delicate . ’
4 His world , it 's safe to say , will not fall apart if the Lemonheads do .
5 Despite some degree of battlefield success at Dezful — in the course of which Iraq captured a number of British-made Chieftain tanks which it put on display before foreign journalists at al-Amarah in the central sector just as Iraq 's own armour , mainly Russian in origin , was gathering for further fighting at Ahwaz — Dezful did not fall either and the Iranians were far from having been routed .
6 The troll was out to lunch , the sky did not fall in and the three pals arrived without mishap at the Gruff 's house .
7 The challenge began last year when the Americans could not win here and the English could not win in America .
8 In any event , knowledge within the firm of the identity of the intermediary 's client may not identify him if the salesman or perhaps the dealer concerned did not know either that the intermediary was acting as intermediary or the identity of the client ; this is a Chinese wall-type question .
9 One could avoid this difficulty of having to describe what we do not and can not know only if the histories satisfy the no boundary condition : they are finite in extent but have no boundaries , edges , or singularities .
10 Now , in the context of a ‘ live ’ performance ( a very good one , at least ) , this need not matter unduly if the spirit of the music has been captured successfully ; but is this really enough for a recording ?
11 It does not matter much whether the government taxes the incomes of rich people or taxes the goods that rich people buy .
12 But the presence or absence of specificity may not matter much where the most serious penalty is an OFT or MMC inquiry .
13 It was noted that the localiser deflection sensitivity of the No. 1 VOR was set too high and the flag alarm settings on both the localiser and the glideslope were such that the flags would not appear even when the signals were unusable .
14 ‘ In the eyes of government officials , therefore , ’ he says , ‘ businessmen do not appear simply as the representatives of a special interest , as representatives of interest groups do .
15 ( 3 ) If the defendant has delivered a defence but does not appear then if the plaintiff so requests and can give evidence of the facts and as to quantum , judgment may be given or alternatively directions ( Ord 17 , r 8 ) .
16 I have already commented that colours will not show up unless the intensity of the light is sufficiently great .
17 For while they indicate how complicated and taxing it would be to build inside the scaffolding erected by Althusser , they do not show either that the building would stand or that it is doomed to collapse .
18 What is more , the experimental results that have been taken to demonstrate that retrieval plays a part in latent inhibition can not demonstrate this failure to be the sole source of the effect — these experiments show that a CS-US association is indeed formed after latent inhibition training and can be revealed if the conditions of testing are appropriate ; they do not show convincingly that the association is just as strong as that formed in subjects given no pre-exposure to the target stimulus .
19 But cash from the sale of licensed goods , cosmetics , sunglasses and perfume like C'est La Vie , did not flood in and the company has never made a profit .
20 The Government was tempted to seek alternative partners in the Commonwealth and Europe , but did not do so because the Americans had so much more to offer if the MacMahon restrictions could be circumvented or ameliorated .
21 It will not do so where the majority have acted in bad faith , or where class interests have not been properly identified and fairly represented ( see below ) , or where it can be demonstrated that the majority voted in favour of the scheme because of their interests as shareholders of another class or as creditors ( see Carruth v ICI [ 1937 ] AC 707 ) .
22 Held , allowing the appeal , that although there was a strong presumption against interpreting a statute as taking away the right of silence of an accused person it was the plain intention of the Criminal Justice Act 1987 that the powers of the Director of the Serious Fraud Office should not come to an end when the person under investigation had been charged ; and that , accordingly , she was entitled to compel the applicant to answer questions on pain of commission of a criminal offence under section 2(13) of the Act of 1987 if he did not do so and no caution was appropriate ( post , pp. 68F–H , 81C–F , 83E , 86H ) .
23 He did not do so and the fire spread and damaged the plaintiff 's property .
24 ( Sadly , the commission will not report again because the government has disbanded it . )
25 She did not look up when the girls came in , although the billiard table was connected by a cord to a cow-bell , which jangled harshly .
26 I was watching a card trick one of the soldiers was showing me and did not look up until the cart had almost passed the window .
27 Jenna looked up , but she dared not look further than the hard chest , the white shirt still showing signs of damp .
28 The presence or absence of reefs can not be explained solely in terms of temperature and turbidity , for , although reefs are absent from cold current shorelines , such as the west coast of South America , they do not occur even where the temperatures are high enough for coral in this region .
29 Questions of construction may be involved on what is said in Parliament and I can not see how if the rule is modified in this way the parties ' legal advisers could properly come to court without having looked to see whether there was anything in the Hansard Report on the Bill which could assist their case .
30 We can not see directly whether a fossil animal was warm or cold-blooded when alive ; often the evidence is indirect and depends on careful study of little bits of bone .
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