Example sentences of "not [vb pp] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A month or so later Anna 's mother got a kitten , a grey tabby tom kitten , who was very affectionate from the start , sat on her lap , purred loudly when stroked and snuggled up in her arms , though Anna was sure her mother had not stopped having baths or using perfume . |
| 2 | Leaving aside for the moment purely defensive moves , not calculated to increase efficiency , responses may , following Eisenberg 's terminology , lead to improvements in operating efficiency or resource efficiency . |
| 3 | Lord Sutherland said that the accused had not intended to cause death or even serious injury but he had shown reckless disregard for Mr Buckley 's safety . |
| 4 | They are not intended to confine police investigation of crime to conduct which might be regarded as sporting to those under investigation . |
| 5 | This is not intended to supplant Pearson 's perennial panic view with a resuscitated Whig theory of progress . |
| 6 | Those texts are not intended to promote students ' engagement and critical thinking but , instead , are intended to initiate students into the culture of the scientific discipline in question . |
| 7 | However , the controversy obscured the clear military fact that Operation ‘ Apache Snow ’ was not intended to hold territory , but rather to keep the NVA occupied and thereby prevent it moving into the coastal provinces . |
| 8 | It is not intended to form part of an offer relative to the contract of insurance . |
| 9 | The provisions of this Code are not intended to form part of any contract entered into between registrants and third parties unless expressly incorporated into such contract and should not be regarded as creating a collateral contract between registrants and third parties . |
| 10 | It was plain that she had not intended to divulge Liza 's whereabouts — at least , not yet . |
| 11 | Well that article you referred to at the very beginning of the programme in the Observer , the final part of that article went something like this erm ‘ this article is not intended to accuse individuals or colleges . |
| 12 | Our article of May 13 , 1986 was not intended to apportion blame for Mr Mikkelson 's death . |
| 13 | These comments are not intended to challenge Hsu 's competence as a social anthropologist ( later on he was to become President of the American Anthropological Association ) , but to point up the fact that the understandable , and indeed laudable , desire on the part of some social anthropologists to study their own society is beset with hazards . |
| 14 | The Act was not intended to protect non-customers . |
| 15 | It is therefore orientated towards the young and is not intended to provide adults with channels of communication with the police or forums for joint consultation . |
| 16 | As La Forest J. said , at p. 193 : ‘ The law of restitution is not intended to provide windfalls to plaintiffs who have suffered no loss . ’ |
| 17 | Such a detailed description of the Charing Cross collective bureau is not intended to imply recommendation of a collective structure or that it is without problems . |
| 18 | Fact : Sunscreens are not intended to increase sun exposure time but to increase protection during unavoidable exposure . |
| 19 | Most of the cases decided under the doctrine of fundamental breach have not been overruled , and they can be regarded as illustrating a prima facie presumption of construction that an exclusion is not intended to cover cases of fundamental breach or breach of a fundamental term , and very clear words will be needed to displace that presumption . |
| 20 | So , for instance , the promoter of a Bill may state that Clause 1 is not intended to cover X because X is covered by Clause 2 , and the Clause 3 is intended to implement a Community obligation ; yet , as a matter of law , X may not be covered by Clause 2 and there may be no obligation in Community law . |
| 21 | Mozambique , technicians were not taught to use slide-rules . |
| 22 | They benefit management but they " are not undertaken to please management . |
| 23 | Since the metal is borrowed the group is not exposed to price fluctuations on these stocks . |
| 24 | Brief band lifespans are not limited to rock music , however . |
| 25 | Another historian notes that women have not come to rival men , despite the equality established through legislation ( ! ) , but needs to add a critique of such legislation and society if he is to understand its failures . |
| 26 | The black and white lists provide fairly clear guidance to the kinds of clauses which are and are not deemed to violate Article 85(1) , and firms interested in co-operating with each other need only build in an R&D element to their agreement and consult the white and black lists to remove the threat of antitrust action ( ‘ grey clauses ’ require notification , but will be deemed as exempted if the Commission does not reply within six months ) . |
| 27 | Revenues , from reprocessing domestic and imported nuclear fuels , are not expected to exceed £5.2 billion . |
| 28 | She returned to the liver unit ward just before noon but was not expected to regain conciousness for some hours . |
| 29 | The new president is not expected to take office until March 1990 , or at best 1 January if Jose Sarney steps down from the presidency early . |
| 30 | These were not expected to take place until December or possibly January 1993 . |