Example sentences of "not [verb] [pron] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Some problems do not lend themselves to financial solutions .
2 In sparring , this is not such a good idea , since the techniques do not lend themselves to repetitive actions .
3 The terms deregulation and reregulation do not lend themselves to easy definition .
4 Unfortunately , other forms of assessment do not lend themselves to precise measures of test-retest reliability and the clinician may need to judge how far situational factors might have influenced the two assessments .
5 The clay soils of many farms north of the Downs , for example , do not lend themselves to intensive arable farming , and few farms here ( or , for that matter , fields ) are far from woodlands so that they are not wholly dependent on such features as patches of scrub or hedges for the presence of many common farmland species .
6 The Rottweiler is basically a calm , confident and courageous dog with a self-assured aloofness that does not lend itself to immediate and indiscriminate friendships .
7 The system of health district administration does not lend itself to local initiatives , since the districts do not relate to any natural geographic catchment areas .
8 It does not lend itself to detailed cost investigation of departments and activities because it does not indicate where the overheads are actually consumed .
9 Similarly , a new method or process of manufacture which does not lend itself to detailed analysis by competitors will probably remain immune from imitation by rivals precisely because the employer has avoided the mandatory public disclosure involved in proceeding with a patent application .
10 It does not lend itself to detailed cost investigation of departments and activities because it does not indicate where the overheads are actually consumed .
11 Article 3(4) areas — zone Defavorisee hors montagne — a zone comprised mainly of land that can not be cultivated and which does not lend itself to intensive production .
12 Such a position does not lend itself to anthropological analysis , since one of the objectives of the discipline is to learn something of value from the practices of the people one is studying .
13 He was cooking this food , not bringing it in pre-frozen packs .
14 The statistically ‘ typical ’ rapist — the man who rapes one woman he knows — does not make it to front-page coverage , let alone fifty-nine pages across thirteen newspapers over ten days .
15 The Final will not make it onto American TV screens until four months after the event .
16 So , while you may well have some trait or peculiarity about her that will give her a mark of distinction , this must be something that does not disqualify her from maximum general sympathy .
17 The majority of people accept this because the state , by excluding these killings from the murder category , has signified its intention that we should not treat them as capital offenders .
18 These difficult questions should so far as possible be confined to those fields of law to which they are immediately relevant and I do not regard them as relevant questions under the Theft Act 1968 " .
19 ( When you 're not eating it with other meats , try melon , fresh figs or avocado . )
20 ‘ They grudgingly agreed , but they are not producing them for general sale .
21 We should give children books which stimulate them , which open their eyes , not confine them with safe lists . ’
22 compensation package for V A T for pensioners will not compensate them in full as was promised , and in view of the fact that we 've had extremely cold weather for the last week .
23 For example , a social worker felt that clients could speak more openly to him because they knew he could not recognise them in other contexts , and a counsellor reported that her clients would sometimes say that they could speak more openly knowing that she could not see them .
24 But I 'll not bore you with second-hand accounts of the way he lives .
25 The importance of the concession theory is that it establishes a theoretical framework sympathetic to state intervention ; the company is a creature of the state , existing to promote the public welfare , and as such the state has the right to interfere in its internal affairs and need not confine itself to external , general-law regulation .
26 However , and with great irony , it was the Government 's cuts which led to the virtual abandonment of the Council 's housing policy since the Council decided that whereas it was cheaper to service houses in groups , it was even cheaper and perhaps even permissible not to provide them with certain expensive services at all .
27 If we lose them as doubting teenagers by not stimulating them with well-made and provocative stories , what kind of audiences will we have left when they become adults ? ’
28 These men did not describe themselves as Zuwayi hurr , but even though their activities were largely circumscribed by their police work , they maintained some activities which were typical of a free Zuwaya .
29 They do not repeat : ’ Do not bring us to the test , but save us from the evil one ’ , or , ’ Do not bring us to hard testing . ’
30 Ragusa was able , however , to develop its overland trade with the Balkan hinterland , as this activity did not bring it into direct competition with the seaborne trade of Venice .
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