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

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1 The answer is , of course , that the new clause does not relate to all the private operators , but it does relate to the subsidiaries being set up in the Bill .
2 They would not object to such a tight fit , in fact it would help them keep their restless horses under control , but once they had set spurs and the horses bolted , murder occurred . ’
3 CPRW does not object to such an approach , believing that it is quite appropriate for planning officers to explore the potential for overall planning gain in specific cases .
4 Objects in the real world do not behave in such a crazy way , so the brain can safely filter out the apparent echo as background noise .
5 Plainly , there will be a very close connexion between the rules of change and the rules of recognition : for where the former exists the latter will necessarily incorporate a reference to legislation as an identifying feature of the rules , though it need not refer to all the details of procedure involved in legislation .
6 Bede 's reckoning from 642 for the accession of Oswiu would suggest to him the year 664 , but if Oswiu did not succeed until 643 the reference to his twenty-second year would point to 665 as the year of the council .
7 No , he could not believe in such a God .
8 Mr Clinton can not believe in all the things that his myriad groups of supporters think he believes in , or at least he can not if he is to rescue his presidency .
9 We realised , however , that the hard-pressed Billeting Office would be unwilling to countenance a move unless we went ‘ two into one , ; but we did not mind at all the prospect of sharing .
10 Another problem is where a function word in the target language has the same meaning as in your own language , but does not occur in all the same contexts as it does in your own language .
11 Though one can not claim for Green the sublimity of Turner , the clarity of Cotman or the magnificence of Constable , he was one of the most faithful topographical artists to paint the Lake District .
12 Leapor simply does not fit into such a view of the mid-eighteenth century .
13 A rather larger star — one of mass greater than about 1.2–1.4 times our Sun 's — can not contract in such a controlled way .
14 Fortunately , there are some issues that do not depend on such a level of specificity .
15 ( b ) The social importance of the accused 's conduct does not depend on such an intention .
16 His mind could not take in all the implications of this sudden realization .
17 She found the whole thing very embarrassing and had tried several times to back out of it , but Felipe would not hear of such a thing .
18 Of course , this can not apply to all the unemployed : our unemployment levels today are due to government policy and the world economic crisis , rather than to worsening national health !
19 It was obviously imperative that they should not mix with all the other nice clean patients attending the hospital with nice clean diseases .
20 The file organisation methods so far discussed do not respond to all the desired features of database systems .
21 Sometime genuinely strong potential acquirers will not enter into such a process because they can not react quickly .
22 general propositions … [ are ] certainly true … yet we can come to no knowledge of them merely by our senses ; because they can not reach to all the particulars included in the subjects of them .
23 I would recommend to Ran that perhaps he does not go on such a big trip again , and I 'm going to recommend it to myself . ’
24 I can not go into all the options if you should be unfortunate enough to be attacked .
25 Its outcome is not really in doubt , not because it is a put-up job but because the CEGB would not go into such an exercise if it had only a 50–50 chance of success .
26 However , persuading companies to pay out in a worldwide recession is hard-going , and the IASC can not rely on such an uncertain source of funding .
27 The second defendants were liable because they could not rely on such an examination taking place .
28 Perhaps , after all , anencephalics should be considered for suitable research , although I personally would not subscribe to such a view .
29 ‘ It was natural , and they should not interfere with such a right .
30 We could not afford to retile the roof with Westmorland slates , but the sheer urgency of making the church watertight ruled this out anyway .
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