Example sentences of "not [vb infin] at [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thomas Knowlton ( 1691–1781 ) , a gardener employed first by William Sherard and then by the Earl of Burlington , wrote to Samuel Brewer in 1741 , ‘ as to Miller he does not look at poor men , only a lord or a duke is company for him ’ . |
| 2 | Why should he not look at other women , as other men did ? |
| 3 | It is an example of construction : the liberality lies in finding a legal framework for an intention which could not work at civil law : that any acquirer of the money should be liable under the trust . |
| 4 | Waterwheels could not function at low water , so adjustable wheels were made . |
| 5 | At first sight it may seem unlikely that computers and computer software could kill or cause serious injury , but negligent liability does not stop at personal injury but extends to damage to property . |
| 6 | This interest in colour does not stop at traditional boundaries , because the range also includes a selection of five metallic hues , an iridescent white and six pearlescent colours . |
| 7 | Every country has its own system for using frequencies , and they have to think about each other — radio waves , after all do not stop at national boundaries and without international collaboration there could be interference and general chaos . |
| 8 | Outsiders , in their experience mainly Malays and Chinese , are portrayed as thieves and cheaters who will not stop at physical violence . |
| 9 | For this reason , a reaction may not proceed at low temperatures . |
| 10 | When Spurgeon opened Pastor 's College in 1856 some of the first pupils were illiterate but he insisted that his aim was to equip ‘ a class of ministers who will not aim at lofty scholarship , but at the winning of souls — men of the people ’ . |
| 11 | The remaining junctions we have studied ( G4pC5 , A5pC6 , G7pT8 , T8pC9 ) do not resonate at low field and thus would not be expected to be in the B II state . |
| 12 | It is also found that , for the junctions whose phosphates do not resonate at low field , the torsional energy of the B II conformation is uniformly less stable than that of the starting structure . |
| 13 | First commissions could be obtained through political interest , and this would appear to have been the situation of Philip Hay , whom Admiral Lord Keith managed to place in the 11th Foot as an ensign on the strength of imaginary past service , though his patron remarked that ‘ if his father can not get at old General Grant or Lady Sutherland he may not be confirmed . |
| 14 | ( ii ) " Long Play " discs ( CLV : Constant Linear Velocity ) The frames on these discs are assigned differently and they do not play at constant speed . |
| 15 | Already there are sawmills that can not operate at full capacity because of wood shortages . |
| 16 | Initially , gluRs are homogeneously expressed on the muscle surface and do not cluster at synaptic sites or elsewhere . |
| 17 | Weak Max+Max interactions can also be detected , but Myc+Myc homodimers do not form at physiological concentrations in vitro or in vivo . |
| 18 | They do not fly at ordinary room temperatures and they crawl only slowly , so there will not be much danger of them crawling out of the container and escaping . |
| 19 | yeah I mean , and the trouble is what n annoys me more than anything is the fact that he 's good worker I me even when he 's drunk , alright he do n't work at full capacity but he does sort of almost as much as what they do and when he 's |
| 20 | YOU LOOK VERY CLOSELY AT ROB LOWE , in a way men usually do n't look at other men . |
| 21 | The position therefore is you do n't look at residential care , erm , yes , over a period of time we could raise the requirements or the need levels that allow people access to residential care . |
| 22 | ‘ We do n't look at special circumstances . ’ |
| 23 | But there is a sense in which the genes of different species , even if they do n't meet at close quarters inside cells , nevertheless constitute an important part of each others ' environment . |
| 24 | Because motor cars did n't go at great speeds and nobody would dream of taking a motor car to Edinburgh when the railway was there and could get you in Edinburgh within three quarters of an hour . |
| 25 | He wo n't come at short notice . |
| 26 | But I do n't practise at full volume — I do n't know anyone who does ! |
| 27 | They have the ability to make me feel guilty if I do n't write/'phone/visit at regular intervals . |