Example sentences of "not [verb] [noun] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I 'm deliberately not bringing Joan Collins into this argument because I 'm talking profundity not hormones . |
| 2 | Why should Parliament not make abortion criminal for pregnant women who were born in even years but not for those born in odd ones ? |
| 3 | ST ( who had not received day care in hospital ) was less likely to become disturbed when offered assistance . |
| 4 | An R&D worker is aware that what he does today will not affect company output in this order of time span . |
| 5 | But this time lag , combined with dilution by water already in the aquifer , means that if a pollutant enters the ground , it may not affect water supplies for many years . |
| 6 | Tetrodotoxin ( 100 nM ) did not affect muscle relaxation by leucocytes ( n=5 , not shown ) . |
| 7 | Proportional representation would not make majority government of this kind impossible ( we would have it if more than 50 per cent of the electorate wanted it ) but it would make it very much less likely . |
| 8 | There is no reason in principle why a small firm should not make pension provision on the same scale as a large employer . |
| 9 | On the other hand , although in recent years the regulation of the financial services industry has generated a lot of judicial review applications against regulatory bodies , the courts have discouraged these largely because they do not want court proceedings to be used as tactical weapons to delay financial transactions by parties disappointed by the failure of a regulatory body to give the applicant the protection it sought from financial predators . |
| 10 | She did not want Vitor d'Arcos inside her home . |
| 11 | Not surprisingly , they do not want Hong Kong in the equation . |
| 12 | Yachting can survive as a spectator sport , but the participants owe it to future generations not to promote tobacco consumption as part of their lifestyle . |
| 13 | While people in Scotland are flattered that in Battersea they think of nothing else but the protection of the people of Scotland from excessive expenditure , I fancy that the people of Scotland are mature enough to elect or to refuse to re-elect Governments who do not conduct taxation affairs in the way in which they wish . |
| 14 | Although I did not conduct field research in Nigeria , I visited that country in 1975 , 1978 and 1981 . |
| 15 | It is an established rule in intelligence circles that a country should not conduct intelligence operations on the territory of an ally without informing its government . |
| 16 | Principals , directors and shareowners who practise mainly from overseas offices which do not conduct investment business in or into the UK are disregarded for this calculation . |
| 17 | This structure of serious road-traffic offences was recently examined by the North Committee , which came to the conclusion that the criminal law does not treat traffic offences with the gravity they deserve , given the potential consequences of any deviation from proper standards of driving . |
| 18 | Of 60 fund managers asked last year , 55 did not regard IR officers as their primary company contacts ; 33 thought that British industry did not need any more IR consultants . |
| 19 | ‘ I do not regard property profits as earnings . |
| 20 | I did not regard Harold Wilson as a wit , nor was his conversation particularly spiced with humour , but it was immensely interesting because he would talk to me about his problems and their supposed solutions , and seemingly consult me on the matter — he was a very polite man — although I was conscious that on most political issues my own opinion was pretty well valueless and he recognised that . |
| 21 | ( 2 ) staffing levels not allowing library supervision for more than half the week : So $8,000 to $10,000 of books are not secure and are there for anyone to take ; |
| 22 | Erm , if we 're not allowing nerve tissue to be used in the feedstuffs of cattle , because we suspect that it might be carried in that , and therefore being transmitted to live , er , one species to another , how is it now we can buy chops with nerve ti tissue in it ? |
| 23 | But seconds later she stopped breathing again — and John , who had not given emergency treatment for three years , had to give her mouth-to-mouth resuscitation four times until paramedics arrived . |
| 24 | The age and sex profile of a practice does not explain interpractice variation in prescribing patterns . |
| 25 | By using an accurate new index ( the Newcastle prescribing index ) to adjust for the effect of patient sex and age on prescribing in the North East we have shown that a practice age and sex demography does not explain interpractice variation in prescribing habits . |
| 26 | ‘ Nuclear will be needed if we are to sustain our quality of life whilst ensuring we do not damage planet earth beyond repair . ’ |
| 27 | This theory makes the unlikely prediction that you will not experience colour constancy with objects you can not identify . |
| 28 | Gene transduction with these agents is essentially restricted to dividing cells , but although this could limit applications for other genetic disorders , it should not restrict gene therapy for cancer , where the target population of malignant cells is expanding . |
| 29 | The Annesleys had settled in Ireland in the 17th century but did not build Castlewellan Castle until the 1850s , when the bachelor 4th Earl Annesley commissioned William Burn to erect an austere granite pile . |
| 30 | Paragraph ( a ) does not assist Mr. Steed in his rectification claim against the building society . |