Example sentences of "not [verb] [prep] an [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just it was a beautiful day , so I said why not stay for an hour , so we got out , out , in , so we , as it is , , you know we just went round a little bit , and it 's very tidy and nice , biscuits . |
| 2 | Certainly , central banking was markedly different from our own day and monetary policy did not exist as an instrument of economic policy . |
| 3 | She never could have done in Europe what she did in New York ; I can not think of an artist who points up this issue more clearly and I can not understand why she of all people was left out of the show . |
| 4 | This may be done by including in the grant of the option a proviso that it is to be void if it is not registered as an estate contract within , say , three months from the date of the lease . |
| 5 | Theodora had by now abandoned all attempts not to sound like an interrogator . |
| 6 | In the March 1989 issue of Digest , Seitz posed the question , ‘ Is Greg Norman Overrated ? ’ replaced Jeff Sluman 's name with the like of Alf Padgham ( which I 'm sure was not intended as an insult to the Padgham family ) and concluded that Norman was , indeed , overrated — ‘ for now ’ . |
| 7 | It is not intended as an effort at resolving these debates : my objectives are specific and political — they are to do with action . |
| 8 | It is not intended as an explanation of linguistic communication , a theory we might proceed to test . |
| 9 | Conversely had we had the profits last year which would have generated taxable profits then we would n't have needed to have done that , so that 's one reason why it was not disclosed on floatations at the time and floatation was not regarded as an asset . |
| 10 | Serrano 's victory in the January 1991 run-off presidential elections , however , was not regarded as an expression of a national consensus for his proposed policies , since a record 55 per cent of those eligible abstained from voting [ see pp. 37850-51 ; 37956 ] . |
| 11 | A time bar clause is not regarded as an ouster of the jurisdiction of the court and so is valid at common law ( Atlantic Shipping and Trading Co v Louis Dreyfus & Co [ 1922 ] 2 AC 250 ) . |
| 12 | It is not justified by an observation of their own behaviour . |
| 13 | The case ended in April 1992 when the company decided not to appeal against an appeal court ruling made three months earlier [ see ED 55 ] . |
| 14 | However , the case is significant in showing that the court did not regard as an abuse of the court 's process , a second prosecution whose principal objective was to obtain redress or a second victim . |
| 15 | It was not a ‘ true ’ style because it had not developed within an era to meet a genuine need ; it was merely copying the dead and it ‘ degrades architecture from its high position of a quasi-natural production to that of a mere imitative art ’ , a criticism often levied by professional architects against the wishes of the man in the street . |
| 16 | As a follow up to its advice on what not to wear to an interview ( see ACCOUNTANCY , September , p 21 ) , Robert Half recruitment consultants — obviously not snowed under with work at the moment — has joined forces with Accountemps to unveil some of the stranger CVs companies have received over the years . |
| 17 | If such cells develop as they do because they contain only some of the genes — for example , just the genes for being a gut cell — then a nucleus from such a cell could not substitute for an egg nucleus . |
| 18 | Gardner-Medwin proposed screening 18 month old boys who are not walking as an approach to the problem of delayed diagnosis . |
| 19 | Banc One has a rule that it will not merge with an institution that is larger than one-third its own size . |
| 20 | Reflecting the substantial barriers to international integration , prices have not come to an equilibrium across countries . |
| 21 | The IDA once again flew in another independent medical expert , Dr Muriel Newhouse of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine , who assured the planning inquiry that she would not object to an asbestos dump , such as the one proposed , being sited ‘ at the bottom of her garden ’ . |
| 22 | Revenues are not included in an income statement until they are realized either in cash or in the form of other assets , the ultimate cash proceeds of which are reasonably certain . |
| 23 | Written details of any restrictive agreement ( whether written or oral ) which amounts to a " registrable agreement " as defined in RTPA 1976 and which does not fall within an exemption must be sent to the OFT for registration . |
| 24 | It does not count as an argument in a rational or scientific discussion about Freudian theory , however , any more than Berger 's analysis of other sections of the theory does . |
| 25 | That question is not addressed to an association or a federation . |
| 26 | He did not doubt for an instant that once he explained things to his brother , once he made him see what assets were available and how they could be used , Jean-Paul would rise from his lethargy and be as engaged , as excited , and as determined , as Edouard . |
| 27 | One is the failure to understand the radical hostility of communism to mankind as a whole — the failure to realise that communism is irredeemable , that there exist no ‘ better' ’ variants of communism : that it is incapable of growing ‘ ‘ kinder' ’ , that it can not survive as an ideology without using terror and that consequently to co-exist with communism on the same planet is impossible . |
| 28 | ‘ There is obviously a consensus that , generally speaking , it is useful not to work in an environment with pictures of naked women , ’ said a committee spokeswoman yesterday . |
| 29 | Herbal cigarettes are not recommended as an aid to giving up smoking because they contain both tar and carbon monoxide . |
| 30 | Society itself and those who govern it need such understanding ; and in a democratic society this entails that the study of the humanities be widely spread , not confined to an élite of self-indulgers , the leather blotter-owning classes . |