Example sentences of "not [verb] [prep] [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 ( This problem does not arise with input channels because these are all , by assumption , distinct in ALT patterns . )
2 Similar trends are apparent in the series for cumulated inflows , suggesting that the observed changes in the stock do not arise from revaluation effects alone .
3 Conservation safeguards exist in the UK , particularly for SSSIs and , to a lesser extent ( under a voluntary arrangement ) in the National Parks of England and Wales , but such afforestation Proposals outside designated areas would not be subject to any significant level of control , particularly because prior approval does not exist for grant aid .
4 Already , in effect , US military commanders — in this case , the commander of US naval forces in the Western Pacific — were testifying to the domino effect : if Chinese communists were not stopped in South China , Indo-China , Burma , and perhaps Malaya , would then fall , either from internal subversion or external attack .
5 ( People may well not think of mail order as a form of credit at all . )
6 Do not think of lesson notes as finished products ; they are rough , interim reports .
7 I think it dawned on him then for the first time that there were two streams , and that the pond was not formed by Burden Creek .
8 With one exception previous studies of acute renal failure were renal unit based and did not include those patients who were not referred for specialist opinion .
9 This study shows that some patients are not referred for specialist opinion , the shortfall being mainly among elderly people .
10 This was not calculated for sleep position and breast feeding because of the similar exposure distribution of these two variables among Maori children and their controls ( table IV ) .
11 In one of these three patients the bleeding started in another ulcer not seen during the first endoscopy and therefore not treated with heater probe .
12 Whenever a specific sanction is not prescribed by Community Law , it is left to the discretion of the Member States to choose among the different solutions suitable to achieve the objective of the provision infringed .
13 The overall mortality reduction in the five included community studies ( fig 1 ) was highly significant , both statistically ( two tailed p<0.0000001 ) and clinically : a common odds ratio of 0.70 ( 0.62 to 0.79 ; confidence interval not adjusted for cluster design of community studies ) indicating a risk reduction of 30% — that is , a reduction of about a third in mortality from all causes .
14 He had not adjusted to prison life as Nehru was able to do ; he had found it ‘ a shattering experience ’ .
15 It was not intended as music fur dancing .
16 The late '40s means ‘ bebop ’ , much harder and faster than the ‘ swing ’ tempos of the '20s and '30s , and certainly not intended for dance halls .
17 Plastics not intended for food use vary : some may leach dye into the water , and some can be toxic .
18 Quite a lot of young girls , however , choose not to sue for child maintenance .
19 More fertilizer might mean more grain ( and more carbon dioxide and nitrous oxide to add to the greenhouse effect ) , but there obviously comes a point where more fertilizer does not mean a bigger yield or perhaps is not justified on cost grounds , particularly when grain prices are low , as they were for part of the 1980s .
20 But they were not successful ( Queen Wilhelmina and the government escaped ) and they were certainly not disguised as servant girls .
21 Helmut had not heard of M. Lévy .
22 ( Today no one would dare propose such a thing , even purely as a thought experiment , but in Schrödinger 's time they had not heard of animal liberation . )
23 They had already decided not to go for Display PostScript — the on-screen imaging model that matches the printer language — but to concentrate on enhancing QuickDraw .
24 He decided not to go for repair grants .
25 Officers are now told not to go onto festival sites to pay benefits .
26 Officers are now told not to go onto festival sites to pay benefits .
27 As the tracks were not completed at West Croydon , such transfers proved rather difficult and cars had to be moved at night , using temporary rails to bridge the gap at the top of Tamworth Road .
28 Birth dates are not given on marriage certificates , only ages , and his mother 's was there as twenty-five , which meant she must have been born in 1926 and have been twenty-seven when he was born .
29 This is the second time in a fortnight the Chancellor has broken with the convention that he does not comment on interest-rate movements .
30 Certainly the general belief was that , having wantonly thrown away a Conservative majority , Baldwin could not remain as Party leader let alone Prime Minister ; and Randolph Churchill , the biographer of Lord Derby , comments that ‘ It is interesting to notice in Derby 's correspondence , and in that of other leading Tories of the time , how for the first two or three weeks after the Party 's defeat in the Election there was an unchallenged assumption that Baldwin could not survive the catastrophe . ’
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