Example sentences of "not [vb infin] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You snored all night , ’ he said with relish , and Cermait got up and removed himself from this low vulgar company , because you could not stay in a room with people who told the High Queen that you snored . |
| 2 | ‘ The defence does not arise on a plea of autrefois convict , but on the well-established rule at common law , that where a person has been convicted and punished for an offence by a court of competent jurisdiction , transit in rem judicatam , that is , the conviction shall be a bar to all further proceedings for the same offence , and he shall not be punished again for the same matter ; otherwise there might be two different punishments for the same offence . |
| 3 | This fear does not arise from a view of themselves as unskilled in formal police requirements , for no policemen or women would express that they suspect this of themselves , although some admit to suspecting it of others . |
| 4 | On the other hand , ‘ society could not exist without a morality which mirrored and supplemented the law 's proscription of conduct injurious to others ’ . |
| 5 | At first I thought that Anthony Trollope , though an amusing writer , was another male author of the nineteenth century who assumed that women could not exist without a man somewhere in the vicinity . |
| 6 | L. , 1976 ) water authorities had a statutory power to make orders imposing charges on persons not connected to mains drainage was held to be ultra vires as the correct state of affairs did not exist as a precondition to the exercise of the power . |
| 7 | Thus , at all pressures below this point carbon dioxide can not exist as a liquid . |
| 8 | Meanwhile , the NSF led by former Prime Minister Petre Roman elected a new executive bureau on April 9 and condemned the NSF-22 December branch , saying that it did not exist as a party , but only " expressed an intention " . |
| 9 | The proposal was that His Majesty would invite certain individuals as individuals to take upon their shoulders the burden of carrying on the Government and Mr. Baldwin and Mr. Samuel ( sic ) had stated that they were prepared to act accordingly … the Administration would not exist for a period longer than was necessary to dispose of the emergency , and when that purpose was achieved the political parties would resume their respective positions . |
| 10 | This uncertainty , by definition , does not exist in a currency union . |
| 11 | These atoms , as we have seen , are spewed out from dying stars ; but it would take at least a billion years for a star to use up all its helium energy and explode , hence life could not exist in a universe consisting of the shortest-living stars , since the necessary elements such as carbon would not exist . |
| 12 | Equally , concepts , the stuff of rules , can not exist in a vacuum as mere semantic toys . |
| 13 | The interpretation is a valuable reminder that the crisis of 1483 did not exist in a vacuum . |
| 14 | Ideas do not exist in a vacuum , free-floating in outer space , waiting to be corralled . |
| 15 | Forms of knowledge , even the most pure and theoretical , do not exist in a vacuum . |
| 16 | The interpretation is a valuable reminder that the crisis of 1483 did not exist in a vacuum . |
| 17 | Who would not disappear like a wraith the moment she turned her back . |
| 18 | Some people prefer to think of blue or golden light ; others may not think of a colour at all but just feel they are centred within a sphere . |
| 19 | After citing passages from Amand 's case Sir John Donaldson M.R. , with whose judgment Kerr and Lloyd L.JJ. agreed , observed , at p. 977 , that he could not think of a case in which the order appealed from arose more clearly in a criminal cause or matter . |
| 20 | Those who make a mistake , or can not think of a word beginning with their letter , drop out . |
| 21 | Back at his hotel , packing for his return to London , John wondered how to fit this large acquisition into his luggage , could not think of a way , decided that he did not want a souvenir of the trip anyway because of his gloom about the impending ballet , so tore it up and threw it in the wastepaper basket . |
| 22 | I can not think of a recipe for diminution of standards that is more likely to succeed . |
| 23 | Until she met Rainald she could not think of a future , with or without fitzAlan . |
| 24 | We are starting with the press that the need for a National Airport 's policy I can not think of a number , a major or even a concentrate all these airfields and resources in one region . |
| 25 | For twenty minutes and more I could not think of a thing to write . |
| 26 | At first he sat looking at his feet , and she could not think of a thing to say . |
| 27 | I do not think for a moment that the Letter of Aristeas should be taken as a Festal Scroll , something like the Book of Esther , to be read in the Alexandrian synagogues every year on the day on which ( as we know from Philo ) the Alexandrian Jews commemorated the translation ( De vita Mosis 2.41 ) . |
| 28 | This is a situation where you can not knock on a door and hope to be immediately granted the favours you seek . |
| 29 | But the new President , in spite of his doubts about Soviet motives , did not rush towards a showdown with Stalin . |
| 30 | Do not rush into a decision . |