Example sentences of "not [vb infin] in [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kate had felt she could not stay in that house a moment longer . |
| 2 | Although the matter does not arise in this appeal because Woolwich were fully aware of all the relevant circumstances , I can not help feeling that there is some illogicality in treating as voluntary a payment by someone who justifiably believes that the demand is lawful whereas in fact it turns out to be unlawful . |
| 3 | It is difficult to record colour objectively : people 's appreciation of colours obviously vary and , in any case , Nucella does not exist in discrete colour morphs . |
| 4 | Dr Runcie , he writes , ‘ is calling for a social market economy ’ , the implication being that such a marriage between free market principles for wealth creation and collective provision for social needs does not exist in this country . |
| 5 | It was reported that he had said the Government ‘ had fallen flat on its face in dealing with the situation ’ , adding that law and order did not exist in this country at the moment ; that there could be up to five million illegal immigrants in Britain ; and that judges should be able to impose the death sentence on anyone convicted of an offence carrying more than a fifteen year sentence . |
| 6 | Few figures are available from the 1955 Census and data does not exist in this detail for intervening years . |
| 7 | As far as they are concerned the future does not exist in any way , other than that they hope they wo n't live to have any part in it . |
| 8 | We can not be complacent , for progress marches on and inflation eats at our financing , but we can be proud of the Institution — and extend again our heartfelt thanks to the voluntary fund raisers and crews without whom it could not exist in any form . |
| 9 | The concept of deeds or documents under seal does not exist in Hungarian law . |
| 10 | It leaves one open to an accusation that we dare not make in this Chamber ; otherwise , the hon. Member for Rugby and Kenilworth would hear me say it . |
| 11 | Other believing people will say that they really can not answer in that way because it does not seem to fit with other messages in the New Testament of people being held to account ‘ in the latter days ’ . |
| 12 | It appears that deciduous trees do not acidify in this way . |
| 13 | Despite the various amounts that come from the Foundation for Sports and the Arts — given at the whim of the trustees in a haphazard fashion — they do not compensate in any way for the £60 million cut in real grant from the Government since 1986 . |
| 14 | The Divisional Court and the Court of Appeal [ 1991 ] 1 W.L.R. 1277 did not consider in any detail the old authorities to which I have referred . |
| 15 | It did not consider in any detail the relative merits of a currency union . |
| 16 | But this would not count in any way against language 's being innate . |
| 17 | The hiddenness does not lessen in that dark , nor by its dawn , |
| 18 | Professional ’ ( L17.95 ) provide the information she could not include in this article due to shortage of space . |
| 19 | Mature people do not behave in that way . |
| 20 | Approved modules do not behave in this manner with respect to inheritance . |
| 21 | We are of course aware that educational levels may be important at some stage , but we do not pre-classify in this way because we do not assume beforehand that we know the sociolinguistic structure of the speech community : this is what we are trying to find out ! |
| 22 | Another piece of evidence that p53 and K-rase do not cooperate in large bowel epithelium is the finding of ras mutation accompanied by p53 overexpression in an adenoma cell line , isolated by Dr C Paraskevas ( personal communication ) . |
| 23 | In this case I would think that , if the minister does not act in good faith , or if he acts on extraneous considerations which ought not to influence him , or if he plainly misdirects himself in fact or in law , it may well be that a court would interfere ; but when he honestly takes a view of the facts or the law which could reasonably be entertained , then his decision is not to be set aside simply because thereafter someone thinks that his view was wrong … |
| 24 | Note that the Official Solicitor will not act in any capacity in the magistrates ' court . |
| 25 | If any employee is threatened with violence in order that the assailant(s) may obtain money they are carrying in the course of duty , they must not act in any way likely to place themselves or others in danger . |
| 26 | If an Act of Parliament says that A ( who may be a minister or a commission or a local authority or an individual ) shall be the person to settle certain specified questions and that there shall be neither appeal to nor review by any other body or person ( including the courts ) , then A's decisions are unchallengeable so long as ( a ) it is A , not another , who decides , ( b ) A decides those specified questions and not others and ( c ) A does not act in bad faith or with similar impropriety . |
| 27 | He did not glance in that direction , but started to cross the square , when there were three shots in quick succession . |
| 28 | The last three statements are assertions of contentment , but only three statements — numbers six , seven and ten — do not refer in some way to domestic work or the work environment . |
| 29 | They were concerned to push beyond the simple and trite observation that issues do not matter in electoral politics in order to ask a more detailed question as to the " terms " on which they are likely to matter . |
| 30 | It had not occurred to him that he was naked , but it did not matter in any case what she thought . |