Example sentences of "in [noun prp] [vb base] not [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The Welsh in Shrewsbury do not invite notice , especially by night , my lord . |
| 2 | The black sacks full of fetid rubbish that are to be seen in Lambeth do not meet the eye on entering Wandsworth . |
| 3 | Police in Sunderland do not know if the badly decomposed remains found in the River Wear are male or female . |
| 4 | The family connections of the Pastons in Norfolk do not seem to have been quite so far-reaching among the gentry families there as those of the Stonors , although Margaret Mauteby , the wife of the elder John Paston , was the daughter of another gentleman of the shire . |
| 5 | Some 40 per cent of services in Flanders do not employ such staff ( Hellinckx and Munter , 1990 ) . |
| 6 | In a telling phrase Lord Scarman argued : ‘ The social conditions in Brixton do not provide an excuse for disorder . |
| 7 | It was once explained to me that most Asians in Yorkshire do not play cricket anyway , but that those who did were genuinely encouraged to join Yorkshire League clubs . |
| 8 | In practice , its mission will be to make sure the Contras in Honduras do not infiltrate Nicaragua , and to keep the Farabundo Marti Liberation Front ( FMLN ) guerrillas in El Salvador from seeking shelter in Honduras . |
| 9 | For example , planners in China do not seem aware of the cohort structure their population might have in decades to come if the drastic reductions in fertility introduced in the 1970s are maintained for 20 or 30 years . |
| 10 | Many changes of government in Britain do not usher in a new set of policies in most departments . |
| 11 | Many members of the immigrant population in Britain do not subscribe to it , while current murmurs of homosexual " marriage " cast a new light even upon the heterosexual implications of this definition . |
| 12 | Consequently , while local authorities in Britain do not have a ‘ general competence ’ to do whatever they wish in their local areas , the variation in functions and standards between one authority and another may be considerable — to an extent which seemingly belies the simplicity of lists of services such as those contained in Figures 8.4 and 8.5 . |
| 13 | Computer owners in Japan do not favour the trend in the West of designing general-purpose software packages . |
| 14 | In general , big cities in Japan do not have museums in their town centres which is why exhibitions in department stores are considered indispensable for presenting Japanese culture , as well as that of other countries . |
| 15 | The personal skills necessary to conclude negotiations successfully in Japan do not come naturally to the Westerner . |
| 16 | The majority of KPMG 's offices in Europe do not have a pro-active search capacity although several have been involved by us in this type of work — in particular Amsterdam , Utrecht , Paris , Frankfurt and Madrid . |
| 17 | Anti-whaling forces at the annual meeting in Kyoto do not have sufficient support for a French proposal to create a whale sanctuary in the southern ocean which would prevent the Japanese from resuming commercial whaling . |
| 18 | But our top class jockeys in America do not flop about they use a slightly different style . |
| 19 | Iraq , which is thought to have capacity to produce at least twice as much oil as Kuwait , did not send its oil minister to the OPEC talks — an indication that the authorities in Baghdad do not expect an early resumption of export trading . |
| 20 | These pupils in Wales do not start formally to be taught English until the age of 7 or 8 ; all pupils in England will be required to be taught English from age 5 . |
| 21 | Although the sets made in Leicester do not have digital circuits , ITT would need Digivision Broadcast 's permission to use the name . |