Example sentences of "not [vb infin] [adj] [noun pl] [unc] " in BNC.

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1 Because he does not know other countries ' systems or customs , he has a certain narrowness of thinking , which we Europeans do not have , of course .
2 I have no idea of a man being a good diplomatist who does not give good dinners ' , he provoked widespread ridicule .
3 Treaty in relations between the member states does not jeopardise non-member countries ' rights under the Geneva Convention of 1958 , the United Kingdom can not rely on that Convention in order to justify infringements of those rules .
4 You can not counterfeit forty years ' honest work , or get the same result by being a clever young man who prefers vanilla to orange or heliotrope to lavender perfume .
5 And because it is always uncertain whether a new system of regulation can be smoothly established when the old one breaks down , the regulationist approach does not share world-system theories ' perspective of inexorable capitalist expansion in which all developments are seen as functional for and planned by capital as a whole .
6 The phasing condition attached to the consent for application no. 396/90 should also be applied to Phase 2 , i.e. house completions from the whole site ( Phases 1 and 2 ) should not exceed 30 units per annum , of which a maximum of 20 units are family houses .
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