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

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1 Will you not stay a little while , Miss Abbott ?
2 Certainly he did not stay the full course which was seven years for the qualification of a Master 's degree , the necessary precondition for further study of law , theology and medicine .
3 In the economically more advanced countries , however , there does not exist a close relationship between age at first marriage and birth of first child , owing mainly to postponement of first birth through contraceptive use .
4 If we also consider thoughts about them qua spectacles , then we would say that I have not succeeded in thinking about them unless I am thinking about artefacts , thinking about items that can be worn on the nose , that aid vision , that are more-or-less breakable , that did not exist a thousand years ago , that this pair existed yesterday but did not exist in 1983 , and so on .
5 Its concern with adolescent love , and the way in which its idealism and purity can not evade the sullying effects of adult realities , paralleled Minton 's own fear of lost youth , his obsession with adolescence and desire for a love that could only exist in a state untrammelled by adult responsibilities .
6 Although these drugs are effective , they do not reduce the reflux of other gastric contents ( pepsin , bile ) and they do not modify the underlying causes of the disease by restoring lower oesophageal sphincter pressure or improving oesophageal clearance and gastric emptying .
7 Although it was initially believed that lowering mucosal prostaglandin values in ulcerative colitis would be therapeutic , and that the beneficial effect of therapeutic agents sulfasalazine and 5-ASA analogues is through their ability to inhibit cyclo-oxygenase , it isnow believed that a simple decrease in prostaglandins does not elicit a beneficial effect in ulcerative colitis and may even be harmful .
8 You would not think a broken shoe .
9 I do not think the Prime Minister imagines that this country 's future would be secure if we remained outside .
10 Nor did it impress the Arab states , which pointed out that if Israel was able to absorb hundreds of thousands of Jews it could certainly absorb more than 100,000 Palestinian returnees ; or the United States , which did not think the Israeli offer ‘ provide[d] a suitable basis for contributing to solution of Arab refugee question . ’
11 If he were to reflect on that , I do not think the hon. Gentleman would want it to happen .
12 v. Henn and Darby , where the Court of Appeal held that the term ‘ quantitative restrictions ’ in Article 30 of the EEC Treaty did not cover a total prohibition on imports on the grounds that such a restriction was not related to a quantitative measure , whereas the case law of the European Court had clearly established that the term in question covered both outright bans and quotas on imports .
13 In such situations , Peter Shilton 's frame can not cover a whole multitude of sins .
14 In November , 1991 , Lord Prosser dismissed the actions raised by Mrs Hamilton and Mr Watson after holding that ‘ person ’ did not cover an unborn child .
15 Lord Prosser decided that ‘ person ’ did not cover an unborn child .
16 Before any evidence was heard at the Court of Session on the issue of negligence , Lord Prosser dismissed the action after holding that ‘ person ’ did not cover an unborn child .
17 ( g ) Section 3 does not cover the moonlighting tenant .
18 But there will come a point where productivity gains alone will not cover the necessary wage increases .
19 This section does not cover the first £25 each claim each person except loss of deposit claims .
20 Von Frisch ( 1967 ) is the classic account of the dance language of the honeybee ; but does not cover the recent controversy : Gould ( 1976 ) is the best source for that .
21 The C & AG should not cover the nationalized industries .
22 Their relative goodness of fit can not properly be judged because the hypotheses do not cover the same input .
23 In the general theory of relativity the natural frame anywhere is chosen to be a frame in free fall , but we can not cover the whole Universe with one frame .
24 A pattern need not cover the whole board ; thus in Os & Xs , a pattern may cover just a row , or just a diagonal .
25 The chantry certificates of 1545 , even if one accepts their record of communicants in the parishes as accurate , do not cover the whole country , and again there is uncertainty as to the proportion of the population below communicant age .
26 Occupational Welfare is not evenly distributed , and does not cover the whole workforce .
27 Referring to Moser 's three sources of sampling bias mentioned earlier , it is clear that the sampling frame used ( two general practice records ) does not cover the whole population of housewives ; yet there is no evidence that these records represent a particularly unrepresentative sub-sample of the population .
28 The sample was picked from telephone directories which did not cover the poorer segments of the electorate .
29 You also find Marian that we were talking about that this morning as well we can not cover the national curriculum without more homework
30 The Fund does not cover the overseas branch offices of MNPs with fewer than 75% solicitor principals .
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