Example sentences of "not [vb infin] [prep] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not that she could n't handle him , but it was so much better if the situation did not arise in the first place . |
| 2 | Those ‘ events ’ of primitive evolution which did not qualify as ‘ good ’ should not be termed ‘ bad ’ , but simply ‘ not good ’ , because ‘ bad ’ implies the existence of ‘ evil ’ , and this did not exist during the first two of the three periods into which this book assumes universal existence to be divided . |
| 3 | Payment has never been demanded and it is possible that the provisions are not necessary because the liabilities they cover did not exist in the first place . |
| 4 | As with externalities , we can not expect markets to allocate resources efficiently if the markets do not exist in the first place . |
| 5 | It did not exist until the mid-eighteenth century , when Joseph Black first prepared carbon dioxide . |
| 6 | This technique is one of the prominent syntactico-semantic features of the first part of the novel , and it does not disappear in the second and third sections . |
| 7 | A story in Numbers 25 which we did not consider in the last chapter ( for it is not a complaint story ) makes it even more readily understandable . |
| 8 | I doubted not that they were law officers , but did not linger for a second look , being already at the casement windows into the side garden . |
| 9 | This can not fall on the last syllable of the stem , and is , if necessary , moved to an earlier syllable . |
| 10 | F.L.R. 237 , 245–246 , whether the case might not fall within the second of the two classes of case identified by Dixon J. in Yerkey v. Jones , 63 C.L.R. 649 . |
| 11 | We cooked dinner , packed up things we did not need over the next two days and had a group meeting to discuss the itinerary for our journey home . |
| 12 | OUR flower gardens are full of blossom at the moment , carried on plants that will not survive beyond the first few frosts of autumn . |
| 13 | George VI , a shy man , was terrified of his new position and many feared that the monarchy would not survive into the next decade . |
| 14 | FORMER Liberal leader Sir David Steel yesterday urged Labour to stand down for the Liberal-Democrats in seats they can not win at the next Election . |
| 15 | In fact , it appears to have been due less to a plot than to a calculation that she could not win in a second ballot . |
| 16 | Please do not wait until the last moment to inform us . |
| 17 | Please do not wait until the last moment to inform us . |
| 18 | The value of AOB is to allow urgent matters to be raised which can not wait until the next meeting . |
| 19 | So I must not jump at the first chance . |
| 20 | This means the voter marks his second preference on the ballot paper ; and , if his first choice candidate does not finish in the first two , his vote is transferred to one of those who is still in with a chance . |
| 21 | However , climbing sports differ from true climbers in that invariably they do not bloom until the second year wood , and then only on side shoots , and seldom repeat much after the first burst of bloom during June . |
| 22 | My Lords , I did not speak on the second reading of this Bill , because I spoke extremely critically on in the debate on the White Paper o on er May the 26th last year , but er I would therefore like to er commence by joining with my Right Honourable Friend Lord Whitelaw because I was so critical , in welcoming the changes which the Home Secretary has now proposed . |
| 23 | However , X does not appear in the first place as a response to some specific stimulus ( as in the case of a reflex ) , but more or less spontaneously . |
| 24 | A critic walking for the first time into a gallery may describe a colour in a picture as blue ; it will have been the scrupulous task of a conservator to have established that the particular colour in question was Prussian blue , and thus can not date before the eighteenth century . |
| 25 | Energy saving does not date from the first oil crisis . |
| 26 | She could almost see him searching for another string of quips if Jessica would not thaw to the first attempt . |
| 27 | ( Lewis , 1973 , p. 33 ; Stalnaker , 1975 , p. 173 ) It is said that this proves the failure of transitivity — the three statements are Unexceptionable and the third does not follow from the first two . |
| 28 | See chapter 2 and do not look on the last fortnight as the only time to work , even if it does " concentrate your mind wonderfully " . |
| 29 | In the south of the county , it was only beginning on some manors in the late fourteenth and early fifteenth , while on others it did not occur until the sixteenth and seventeenth . |
| 30 | I AM one of those ‘ stupid idiots ’ who did not vote in the last election ( Letters , September 6 ) . |