Example sentences of "not [vb infin] as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the person who caused the nuisance can not be found and it is clear that the nuisance did not arise as the result of the act , default or sufferance of the owner or occupier , the local authority itself may take steps to abate it and prevent a recurrence . |
| 2 | If the piranha fish did not brush its fins gently against a member of the opposite sex each month it would not exist as a species . |
| 3 | L. , 1976 ) water authorities had a statutory power to make orders imposing charges on persons not connected to mains drainage was held to be ultra vires as the correct state of affairs did not exist as a precondition to the exercise of the power . |
| 4 | ( 2 ) The human being does not exist as a legal person until after birth . |
| 5 | Meanwhile , the NSF led by former Prime Minister Petre Roman elected a new executive bureau on April 9 and condemned the NSF-22 December branch , saying that it did not exist as a party , but only " expressed an intention " . |
| 6 | Thus , at all pressures below this point carbon dioxide can not exist as a liquid . |
| 7 | Certainly , central banking was markedly different from our own day and monetary policy did not exist as an instrument of economic policy . |
| 8 | The suggestion at the time that the Labour Party had been behind Profumo 's downfall was a little unfair to many members who repeatedly expressed their misgivings about the scandalous imputations , which several of them could not regard as a proper currency for a political difference . |
| 9 | To say what it ought to be would be to express attitudes of his own , which he does not regard as the task of the kind of philosopher like himself who is , in his professional work , trying to understand ethical discussion rather than to participate in it . |
| 10 | However , the case is significant in showing that the court did not regard as an abuse of the court 's process , a second prosecution whose principal objective was to obtain redress or a second victim . |
| 11 | Mosses are mostly small plants , and often overlooked , but Fontinalis is a useful aquarium plant which many people do not recognise as a moss , although its common name is Willow Moss . |
| 12 | An unholy alliance with other minorities to preserve ideological positions otherwise unacceptable to the electorate does not appeal as a noble enterprise . |
| 13 | As well , he won a £4,500 wristwatch for his 66 , which will not count as a course record because lifting and placing was permitted on the rain soaked fairways . |
| 14 | Fatialofa is L'Aquila 's ‘ foreign player ’ but on the other side of the scrum there is a South African of Italian descent , Gerardo Lepera , who does not count as a foreign player and has the right to play as what the Italians call an oriundi . |
| 15 | But it would not count as a non-branching hierarchy ; branching can be regarded as a canonical feature of a taxonomic hierarchy . |
| 16 | But a course which only consisted of getting the student on to the inside of one or more disciplines would not count as a course of higher education ; it would merely be a training in those disciplines . |
| 17 | It does not count as an argument in a rational or scientific discussion about Freudian theory , however , any more than Berger 's analysis of other sections of the theory does . |
| 18 | PEACE envoy Lord Owen warned last night that Bosnia-Herzegovina would not survive as a single state if Moslems and Croats continued fighting . |
| 19 | One is the failure to understand the radical hostility of communism to mankind as a whole — the failure to realise that communism is irredeemable , that there exist no ‘ better' ’ variants of communism : that it is incapable of growing ‘ ‘ kinder' ’ , that it can not survive as an ideology without using terror and that consequently to co-exist with communism on the same planet is impossible . |
| 20 | As Lord Devlin has put it : ‘ An economic system which did not include as a part of itself , or at any rate as an adjunct to it , machinery for settling commercial differences in accordance with the ideas of commercial men would be bad for trade . ’ |
| 21 | Humphrey 's research on workers in the Brazilian motor industry in the 1970s shows that , in this particular case , a group of relatively highly paid workers in a modern sector of the economy did not behave as a labour aristocracy , but took on a vanguard role in providing political leadership for the working class as a whole ( Humphrey 1982 ) . |
| 22 | Turning now to impertinent , we can readily see that although the im -is replaceable by zero , it does not qualify as a semantic constituent : |
| 23 | Both Mr. Beloff and Mr. Philipson place strong reliance on section 39(11) , but in my judgment an injunction does not qualify as a ‘ reasonable excuse ’ within the terms of that subsection . |
| 24 | That appraisal of the Order might have more force if the Order had provided simply that from 31 July any sum to which a person became entitled other than by operation of law would not qualify as a deposit . |
| 25 | The conclusion derived from this is that if an object is such that in principle it can not be referred to directly and unequivocally with a simple symbol , only described , then it can not qualify as a fundamental ontological existent . |
| 26 | Although half the contents are by Rameau , this does not qualify as a Rameau source , since all the Rameau pieces were copied from engraved editions . |
| 27 | Even though the purchase order accepts on its face all of the terms of the seller 's quotation , and even if the quotation had the status of an offer , the purchase order will not qualify as an acceptance . |
| 28 | however , the strategy should switch from defence to attack such that these sites ( and others that may not qualify as the finest , rarest or most representative examples ) are protected as sources of biological quality ( Ffynnon Bywyd ? ) from which an impoverished countryside can be recolonised through schemes like ‘ Tir Cymen ’ and ESAs ; |
| 29 | The administration itself is of course no monolith and does not act as a single bloc , pursuing its interests whatever they may be . |
| 30 | Here partnerships would not act as a proxy or alternative to the local education authority but rather as facilitators , allowing schools and colleges to learn more about accountability , how it is portrayed and realised . |