Example sentences of "not [verb] [prep] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The patient should not stay in bed without a special reason , such as feeling ill or exceptionally fatigued , or having a headache . |
| 2 | Many of the animals swim so quickly that they do not stay in sight for long . |
| 3 | So the question of the soundness of Atkins L.J . 's dictum did not arise for decision in that case . |
| 4 | This has two purposes , firstly to illustrate the above assertion about the pervasiveness of layering and secondly to act as a reminder that there are important double diffusive flows that do not arise from instability of vertical gradients . |
| 5 | A more realistic approach would recognize that new DNA does not arise in evolution as a random set of sequences , but as a duplicate of some pre-existing and functional sequence . |
| 6 | Defective tiled roofs can produce problems identical to those posed by ageing slate roofs , but because clay plain tiles are necessarily hung on battens ( not every tile is nailed except on very steeply pitched roofs ) and it is not possible simply to apply tiles direct to a boarded surface as in the case of a slate covering , the problem of rotting roofing battens and sarking does not arise in connection with tiling . |
| 7 | Such a consideration did not arise in connection with Sainte-Agathe , however , and when Jean-Claude felt he needed to refresh his memory of details , we rode cross-country to the village . |
| 8 | At the same time , spacetime itself will break up ; as matter and energy can not exist without spacetime as a ‘ basis ’ , the end product of this process can be nothing butnothing . |
| 9 | City life can not exist without security in its open spaces , some unarmed trust and reciprocity . |
| 10 | They can not exist to society as a whole ’ . |
| 11 | They may exist in favour of individuals , and in some cases in favour of a limited class , but , with the exception of the public right of fishing in tidal water , they can not exist in favour of the public at large . |
| 12 | Patriotism did not exist in spite of the inconveniences caused by the war , but because of them . |
| 13 | A ‘ universal ’ old age pension did not exist in principle until 1956 , and not until 1965 was it extended to the peasantry and made universal in practice . |
| 14 | A procedure does not exist in isolation from its surroundings , and Procedure Audit requires this to be acknowledged explicitly . |
| 15 | Even the best examples of habitat types can not exist in isolation like islands of richness in a sea of poverty . |
| 16 | For these students , this was manifested by a decision not to continue with physics at postgraduate level . |
| 17 | The three found so much to talk about that they did not think of tea till nearly five o'clock . |
| 18 | She said that she did not think in advance about the possibility of him losing his seat . |
| 19 | He did not talk like this with anyone else , but his father would not laugh at talk of the Holy-Place-From-Over-the-Great-Water or the Yellowlegs Who Has Lost Much . |
| 20 | a document connected with the appeal was not received in time by one of the parties or their representative ; |
| 21 | The pathogenesis , diagnosis , treatment and control measures are as for the other ruminants , but care must be taken in choosing the anthelmintic since many of those recommended for sheep and cattle are not registered for use in goats . |
| 22 | The sheet explains what an NMT is ; what arrangements apply when supplying an NMT to a person not registered for VAT for removal to another EC country ; what happens if a new vehicle is to be used on UK roads before it is removed to another EC country ; and what to do if obtaining an NMT in the UK for removal to another EC country . |
| 23 | Despite a long tradition of education , there is still a lack of qualified teachers : in 1986 almost 400 teaching posts were not filled for lack of trained applicants . |
| 24 | any of the rights of the shares to receive payments ( whether in respect of dividends , in respect of redemption or otherwise ) are for a limited amount which is not calculated by reference to the company 's assets or profits or the dividends on any class of equity share . |
| 25 | any of their rights to participate in a surplus in a winding up are limited to a specific amount which is not calculated by reference to the company 's assets or profits and such limitation had a commercial effect in practice at the time the shares were issued or , if later , at the time the limitation was introduced . |
| 26 | In direct financing , the ostensible supplier , the financier , is not treated as supplier for liability purposes ( s46(2) ) . |
| 27 | Thirteen patients did not enter the study : two did not want to , two were pregnant at the time of colposcopy , and nine were not treated in accordance with the study protocol ( no cervical scrape or no biopsy specimen was taken or no treatment was given when the biopsy specimen showed cervical intraepithelial neoplasia ) . |
| 28 | The pattern of inheritance of this simple characteristic led the Moravian monk , Gregor Mendel , to one of the greatest insights in biology — character traits were not blended during passage from one generation to another but inherited as separate factors , later called genes . |
| 29 | And , perhaps , since he was not blinded by love after all , he might be prepared to listen to her for once ! |
| 30 | It has also been widely assumed that members do not want to involvement in the policy-making process and that they join the party primarily for personal or social reasons . |