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

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1 Hence it is the closed national state which afforded to capitalism its chance for development — and as long as the national state does not give place to a world empire capitalism also will endure .
2 For example , considering ( 3 ) , there is no fixed number of participants at which conversation becomes impossible , but although a conversation can take place between five people , it can not take place between a hundred .
3 Foucault is actually arguing that ‘ control ’ need not take place through the direct and constant surveillance of individuals by authorities .
4 It was considered that , under the 1959 Act , an informal meeting of the licensing court prior to the statutory meeting to consider and authorise citations was competent , and there is no reason why such consideration under the 1976 Act should not take place under the provisions of s.15(2) .
5 The story I have sketched here should be sufficient to indicate that the Copernican Revolution did not take place at the drop of a hat or two from the Leaning Tower of Pisa .
6 The author has felt that these latter efforts have not in some way brought out the real flavour of the game in the sense that the play does not take place on a real pitch , surrounded by players who get in the way of run-making and occasionally do their stuff by bowling the batsman out or sending him back to the pavilion by some other means .
7 To say that the death of the pigs did not take place on the same occasion at all and has nothing to do with the miracle .
8 Successful though holidays may be they would not take place without a large bank balance .
9 This change can not take place without the involvement of the people themselves and , therefore , they must be moved from their traditional passivity towards an active role in shaping their own lives .
10 Conversely , abstract communication can not take place without the development of appropriate models .
11 The third lesson is that local economic development can not take place without an overall strategy for national and regional development .
12 Noting that " negotiations can not take place behind the backs of our people " , he implicitly reaffirmed the ANC demand for a one person one vote system , declaring : " It is our belief that the future of our country can only be determined by a body which is democratically elected on a non-racial basis . "
13 The final shattering of the delusion did not take place until the 1940s ; but when it did occur , it prompted not the abandonment of the system of the delusion itself but a further and almost incredible elaboration of it .
14 The new abortion referendum , approved by the Cabinet last night , will probably go ahead with all speed while the Maastricht vote may not take place until the autumn .
15 The matter is , however , far from conclusive and the presence of the southern building on a different alignment , much nearer to an east-west axis , with the entrance at the west side , raises the possibility that a small Christian shrine was built to sanctify the site ; , but this , according to the rather tenuous argument over the coins , did not take place until the end of the century .
16 Terrestrial animals move around too much for the naturalist to think easily in terms of a stable community , and the main development of animal ecology did not take place until the twentieth century .
17 Whatever may have occurred earlier , it seems most likely that the sustained recovery of population did not take place until the late fifteenth or the early sixteenth century .
18 But he added that the move would not take place until the end of the year at the earliest .
19 The contradictions of the model help explain why the transition from Francoism to democracy did not take place by a process of radical ‘ rupture ’ , but through a more consensual evolution in which elements of the regime 's own institutions and key political figures played a central role .
20 The process of conception as such is not affected , and the scientist no more ‘ creates ’ a baby than does the obstetrician who performs a Caesarean section , an operation which has saved the lives of countless mothers and babies in situations where birth could not take place by the natural route .
21 Though it did not take place in a laboratory , the study by Atkinson et al .
22 Practice does not take place in a vacuum , and may be implicitly based on contingent theories which allow few across-the-board answers or approaches .
23 Professional training can not take place in a vacuum .
24 Now we know that such a deformation can not take place in a polymer , for if it did some atoms would move relative to their topological nearest neighbours by far more than covalent forces would allow , dissociation would occur ( chain scission ) and the nature of the polymer would change .
25 Depression — like creative work — does not take place in the interstices of life : it is continuous .
26 If the maritime portion does not take place in the first leg of the journey , the transport document can not attest to a loading on board the vessel when , in fact , the goods are only on board a truck or railroad car .
27 Certainly the development of community care did not take place in the way that might have been envisaged .
28 I reject ( 1 ) because this can not take account of the vast range of human communication which does not take place within the canonical situation of utterance — i.e. face-to-face .
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