Example sentences of "not [verb] [prep] [adj] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | We can not , because our human mind structure is not formed in that way , neither are our eyes . |
| 3 | If this mental scarring is not treated in some way , whether by hypnosis or some other means , then the effects will last literally for the whole of his life . |
| 4 | This is not to disparage in any way the commitment of health workers to physical rehabilitation which will sustain or restore people 's physical independence , especially following illness or accident . |
| 5 | In some cases a carefully monitored rolling programme ensured that over a given period of time , say a week or a fortnight , the teacher engaged directly with every child in every area of the curriculum ; but in other cases the inequality of investment was not adjusted in this way , and the result was the persistent neglect of certain children and certain areas of the curriculum . |
| 6 | However , the decision by Council to make cuts in the information budget is not intended in any way to deny the importance of the information system to advice workers in the bureaux , Council sees that the system has reached a very high standard and that this is recognised throughout the entire advice sector . |
| 7 | Ed 's Note : the headline ‘ Selective Conscience ’ in the April/May issue was not intended in any way to call Vic Williams ' position into question . |
| 8 | Certainly this policy is not intended in any way to erm prevent what P P G seven actually seeks er to promote in in the open countryside , ie outside the areas which we would expect most development to take place in . |
| 9 | Er yes Mr Chairman , I mean I assume this thing gives us a fairly embryonic stage , I hope it 's not intended in any way as a finished article , it seems to me in many cases er a state into the obvious er I 'd hope that our employees would be polite people , erm you know this is a great step forward to putting down on a paper , I do n't know , but I mean |
| 10 | 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 ’ . |
| 11 | It appears that deciduous trees do not acidify in this way . |
| 12 | The river needs to be deep enough for the otters to swim and catch fish , the dog otter eating two or three pounds of fish every day , it needs to have thick covering of vegetation along the banks and above all , the water must be clean , fresh and not polluted in any way . |
| 13 | The authors suggest that what is learnt from lucid elderly people should have direct relevance for those who are confused ( p. 4 ) but this theme is not developed in any way . |
| 14 | The meaning of this phrase was never very clear , but it now seems that whatever it meant , the availability of these two remedies is not limited in this way . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | After the 1906 printing the plates were inked up and varnished over but not cancelled in any way : theoretically , therefore , it would be possible for a new purchaser to print from them . |
| 17 | to the Chancellor 's announcement referred to pay awards in the public sector in their totality , not to relate in any way to the regularity or amount of increments . |
| 18 | The daughter of our maître de chai was not considered in any way suitable . |
| 19 | But this would not count in any way against language 's being innate . |
| 20 | In addition to the splitting there has occurred some penetration of very thin plates of bone such as occur on the scapula ( Fig. 1.4N ) and some breakage of the borders of such bone ( the scapula illustrated here was not modified in any way before it was exposed for weathering ) . |
| 21 | It is absolutely essential that the democratic base of this country is not eroded in any way . |
| 22 | Constanza agreed with much of what he had to say ; but he did not know of any way of not letting down Anna either . |
| 23 | Mature people do not behave in that way . |
| 24 | 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 ! |
| 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 | There is no known species of plant that is not attacked in one way or another by them . |
| 27 | Those are the ground of appeal and counsel for the local authority and the guardian , whilst not seeking in any way to defend the approach of the justices , asked the court to utilise the provisions of R.S.C. , Ord. 55 , r. 7(7) to dismiss this appeal notwithstanding the defective nature of the findings of fact and the reasons . |
| 28 | According to corporate sales manager Neville Street , AST has not suffered in any way as a result of the personal computer price war . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Mr McArdle wrote : ‘ It is sad to report that in this case the behaviour of the Daily Mirror and its staff did not contribute in any way to the detection of crime . |