Example sentences of "in [noun prp] [vb -s] not [vb infin] " in BNC.

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1 I accept that individual cases are studied carefully , but Sikhs from the Punjab think that the Home Office department in Croydon does not believe any Sikh from the Punjab who claims political asylum .
2 Stan O'Donnell , Permanent Secretary to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs , privately dismissed this to us a politically meaningless ; and made out his case that ideology in Africa does not count any more — economic need is deciding what happens .
3 His involvement in Traidcraft does not go unnoticed .
4 He has sought treatment on a number of occasions and has come to the conclusion that he can not break the habit and that what he needs and wants is a maintenance regime , preferably on heroin — something that the medical profession in Wirral does not want to give him .
5 They are pleased that belief in God does not mean one has to believe that there is another ( evil ) god , but they do wonder whether on this view God is in control of the universe .
6 This test demonstrates that the illogicality alleged in Bedder does not exist : some characteristics of each individual defendant must be considered by the jury in assessing the gravity of the provocation , but the level of self-control must be kept constant .
7 Of course Parliament in Britain does not control monetary policy on a day-to-day basis , but at least the Chancellor can be called to account for his policies , and he and his government will be judged on their performance .
8 Post-compulsory schooling in Britain does not have a nationally-agreed set of vocational qualifications .
9 SIR — Just because something is made in Japan does not mean it is wholly reliable .
10 For these reasons , an analysis of the so-called ‘ uneven playing-field ’ in Europe does not need to dwell for too long on the fact that there remains in many countries a low level of compliance with the rules .
11 Loch 's reputation in Shropshire does not appear to have been so contentious as it was in Scotland , and the landscape he created in the Wealdmoors is now level ploughland of peat interspersed with rectangular plantations of poplar .
12 The deposition of Roman Republican hoards in Italy does not reflect periods of warfare in that country ( fig. 26 ) .
13 The difficulty here in handling the ( a ) variable following Labov 's model ( which assumes an underlying structural identity ) is that the ( a ) systems in RP and in Scottish English are embedded in structurally different phonologies ; as a consequence the range of realizations in Glasgow does not correspond in any simple way to the range in RP , where there is a distinction at the phonemic level between front and back / a / rather than at the subphonemic level as in Glasgow .
14 The High Court in Edinburgh does not lay down sentencing guidelines , and in a case in 1987 ruled that the practice of giving a discount for a plea of guilty was objectionable , because it involved offering an accused person an inducement to plead guilty early , and disabled the judge from exercising his discretion fully and freely in any particular case .
15 After an overall view of the existing conditions in prisons , we are constrained to record that prison organisation in India does not conform to the required standards of a correctional department .
16 The court in Philippou does not appear to have known of the dictum in McHugh .
17 The 68-year-old former Clerk of Works at Harrow Council in London does not smoke , drink or gamble and has suffered two heart attacks .
18 The best street cleaner in London does not work in a direct labour department in Hackney , Lambeth or Lewisham .
19 ( Luke : The account of the trial in Luke does not take place at night but in the morning .
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