Example sentences of "not [vb infin] the [noun sg] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | If they are fatally damaged when attacked , their deaths do not affect the population as a whole because they have already bred and are no longer doing so . |
| 2 | For the diminutive Andy — people often wonder how he hauls around the pro bags that stand as high as him — the triumphs he has shared with Nick Faldo are something of a fulfilment of his own ambition of winning the titles himself : he started as a tournament professional with dreams of a major championship before realizing he would not make the grade as a pro , and so took up the bag instead of the club . |
| 3 | In fact , the gurus of the East teach that the goldfish might well have been your great , great grandmother in a previous existence if she did not make the grade as a human being . |
| 4 | Of those who apply , three quarters do not make the grade as potential pilot material . |
| 5 | But he does not regard the charge as a serious objection to his theory . |
| 6 | A qualified judgement was submitted by UNTCOK : the results were accepted as valid in those areas visited by members of the commission but UNTCOK did not recognise the assembly as a national assembly , which could lead to the formation of a national government . |
| 7 | The certificates they obtain do not specify the centre as Maidstone Prison ; they can be safely shown to employers and are much prized . |
| 8 | Naturally he would stress the difference between phalanx and legion in a war between Macedonians and Romans ( 18.28 ) , but he would not present the war as a conflict between Macedonian monarchy and the Roman mixed constitution . |
| 9 | Pupils are tempted not to do the job properly because they do not see the work as proper' maths . |
| 10 | He did not see the failure as a consequence of the refusal to unite all opponents of Unionism , but of the NILP 's willingness to compromise in order to achieve such unity : |
| 11 | On the Conservative side this element is based in the Smoking Room , and is composed of the men with estates or directorships who do not see the House as their primary source of prestige or income . |
| 12 | Simpson does not see the acquisition as an exercise in corporate break-up . |
| 13 | She had to admit that he would almost certainly not see the situation as an unmitigated disaster . |
| 14 | The first mate and the ship 's engineer took their meals at different times , and did not use the saloon as a sitting-room . |
| 15 | A stack of debris was cleared to provide agents an unobstructed view of the compound and drums of diesel and petrol were eliminated so the cult could not use the fuel as an incendiary device , Ricks said . |
| 16 | What is being said is that the recipient of confidential information can not use the information as a shortcut to side-step the work which other members of the public would have to do . |
| 17 | He did not use the car as a conveyance . |
| 18 | Otherwise , the right sombrely heroic quality emerges , but the playing of the movement does not grip the listener as the composer surely intended and Leonskaja 's leisurely treatment of the second subject group ( say in the recapitulation at 9′54″ ) lacks the tension which would integrate it into the whole . |
| 19 | He gave art an openly political meaning and did not appreciate the artist as an individual dissenting voice . |
| 20 | When it is safe , give a right turn signal and as soon as you can do so take safely , take up position just left of the middle of the road or in the space marked by right turned vehicles , if you can leave room for other vehicles to pass on the left , wait until there is a safe gap between you and any oncoming vehicle , looking , look out of sight for motor cyclists and pedestrians , then make a turn , but do not cut the corner as people like pedestrians crossing the road in which you are turning . |
| 21 | The newcomer , moreover , does not enter the village as a lone individual who has to win social recognition among the locals in order to make life tolerable-Instead , particularly during the 1950s and 1960s , the newcomers arrived in such large numbers — perhaps due to the building of a new housing estate by a local speculative builder — that the individual ‘ immigrant ’ found himself one of many others whose values , behaviour and life-styles were similarly based upon urban , middle-class patterns of sociability . |
| 22 | Just as companies must not overlook the market as a source of funds , so they should avoid getting locked into the idea that they must invest their own cash surpluses . |
| 23 | Because the professional services will have been supplied to the landlord , only the landlord may recover as his input tax the VAT on those costs , even though they may have been borne by the tenant : because the expense is not on a supply to the tenant , the tenant can not deduct the VAT as input tax . |
| 24 | A possible explanation for this apparently delayed effect of the Black Death is that the first onset , despite its virulence , did not harm the economy as a whole as much as might have been expected , and that it was the continuing effect of later outbreaks which did the greater damage . |