Example sentences of "not [vb infin] [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Does not affect survival in intensive care units |
| 2 | The mask will then arrive and terminate activity in the letter-detector level — but it will not affect activity in the word-detector level . |
| 3 | The comparatively puny damages of £1,000 ( the cost of a dozen bottles of champagne at the expensive nightclub where the affair had begun ) and the public ridicule suffered by all parties may serve to remind editors of the wisdom of the adage that " dog does not eat dog in Fleet Street " . |
| 4 | They agree that theological discourse does not make sense in the terms of ordinary language , but whereas for one this effectively consigns theology to the dustbin , for the other it gives it the same sort of status as speaking in tongues . |
| 5 | It does not want intimacy in order to love , in order to grow . |
| 6 | Some taxi firms said they did not want blood in their cars . |
| 7 | Later emperors did not regard suzerainty in central Italy as having passed to the popes by these donations . |
| 8 | Everyone does not regard noise in the same way . |
| 9 | ( Note that the Bank of England does not regard cash in tills as a reserve asset . |
| 10 | He therefore sees no point in trying to enforce statutory instructions that are so unclear that any reliance on them would be speculative , so vague that they can not aid coordination in any case . |
| 11 | As this temperature rise occurs after ovulation has already taken place , it can not predict ovulation in advance . |
| 12 | ‘ Can I make it absolutely clear we do not intend this to happen , will not let this happen and will not introduce change in a way which might cause it to happen ? ’ |
| 13 | Sixth-form colleges did not arouse enthusiasm in the Department of Education and Science of 1965 . |
| 14 | I replied to Ms Chevannes through the same newspaper thus : ‘ Generally , black kids do not demonstrate interest in school work and do not sink much enthusiasm into their efforts . |
| 15 | The development corporation is a creature of the Conservative Government , who clearly do not trust democracy in operation in Wales . |
| 16 | The commercial , scientific and industrial world of capitalism ( or socialism ) does not need religion in order to go about its business . |
| 17 | He was not like her own father ; he would not discuss business in front of women . |
| 18 | They do not promise change in the sense of progress ; they promise change in the same way that the apparatchiks of yesteryear want the Communists back in the Kremlin . |
| 19 | Cheryl Clarke cites from a leaflet distributed at a Black Liberation Movement meeting in 1981 : ‘ Revolutionary nationalists and genuine communists can not uphold homosexuality in the leadership of the Black Liberation Movement … |
| 20 | The overbearing sophistication of conceptualism and minimalism did not guarantee success in art for anyone . |
| 21 | Money may be able to buy flying time , but it can not buy skill — and it most certainly can not guarantee success in an aerobatic championship . |
| 22 | That provision in itself does not guarantee continuance in post until age 65 . |
| 23 | Domestic sexism does not guarantee sexism in public affairs , although one is often a symptom of the other . |
| 24 | The underlying epidemiology is unknown , but is perhaps associated with pasture contamination by that proportion of ingested larvae which did not undergo hypobiosis in early summer . |
| 25 | Timber trade world-wide is doing an enormous amount of work already to make sure that sustainable timber is supplied , and the horror stories are slowly going away , and a lot of people now do not buy timber in this country , from those countries who 've got a bad track record , but are buying from countries like Denmark and Sweden , where it 's a national law on their forestry policy . |
| 26 | On June 28 she announced that she would not seek re-election in the forthcoming general election . |
| 27 | The inclusion of this clause , Rodríguez stated , had besmirched the honour of his family as well that of the armed forces , since it implied a lack of confidence in his " word of a soldier " , given on previous occasions , that he would not seek re-election in the August 1993 elections . |
| 28 | Of course there was Marcella , but one can usually tell , from the way a man speaks of a woman , if there is an emotional involvement and , despite Mrs Burger , Wycliffe felt reasonably sure that Tate did not seek release in the arms of his stepmother . |
| 29 | We should not seek immortality in reproduction . |
| 30 | As a prince , you understand , one does not enjoy freedom in the sense that one of more humble origin may enjoy freedom . |