Example sentences of "not [verb] in [det] " in BNC.
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1 | Kate had felt she could not stay in that house a moment longer . |
2 | " When I was dealing with the men personally I generally got them to see matters from my point of view , but unfortunately I could not stay in any one port for any length of time ; my subordinates did not have the same control over men as I did " . |
3 | Although the matter does not arise in this appeal because Woolwich were fully aware of all the relevant circumstances , I can not help feeling that there is some illogicality in treating as voluntary a payment by someone who justifiably believes that the demand is lawful whereas in fact it turns out to be unlawful . |
4 | Difficulties may arise where equivalent terms do not exist in all of the languages of the thesaurus . |
5 | In Marshall ( Thomas ) ( Exporters ) Ltd v Guinle [ 1979 ] 1 Ch 227 Megarry V-C held that an express contractual restriction on disclosure did not also prohibit use of the information ( the plaintiff was , in fact , granted an injunction against use on the grounds of the defendant 's duty of good faith but this duty will not exist in all cases ) . |
6 | Accepting the uniqueness of capitalism in the disjunction between the extraction of economic surplus and extra-economic coercion also suggests that in post-capitalist societies the correlation between base and superstructural form is highly significant , i.e. that ‘ pure ’ economics do not exist in such societies . |
7 | Mass owner-occupation is relatively new and does not exist in many other countries . |
8 | It is probable that homologous cross-veins do not exist in many orders but their positions in some cases are so constant that analogies , if not homologies , can be traced and similar names are applicable . |
9 | Wages as such and therefore wage differentials do not exist in many kibbutzim . |
10 | Dr Runcie , he writes , ‘ is calling for a social market economy ’ , the implication being that such a marriage between free market principles for wealth creation and collective provision for social needs does not exist in this country . |
11 | Few figures are available from the 1955 Census and data does not exist in this detail for intervening years . |
12 | It was reported that he had said the Government ‘ had fallen flat on its face in dealing with the situation ’ , adding that law and order did not exist in this country at the moment ; that there could be up to five million illegal immigrants in Britain ; and that judges should be able to impose the death sentence on anyone convicted of an offence carrying more than a fifteen year sentence . |
13 | Do you consider any of these to be culture specific : either because the genre does not exist in some cultures , or because it is substantially different ? |
14 | As far as they are concerned the future does not exist in any way , other than that they hope they wo n't live to have any part in it . |
15 | And what we today call ‘ soteriology ’ ( the doctrine of salvation ) did not exist in any systematic way at all ( Kelly 1977 : 375 ) . |
16 | We can not be complacent , for progress marches on and inflation eats at our financing , but we can be proud of the Institution — and extend again our heartfelt thanks to the voluntary fund raisers and crews without whom it could not exist in any form . |
17 | Either supposition leads to a contradiction , and the conclusion must be that such a class can not exist in any conceivable universe . |
18 | There was , however , a complicating factor here which did not exist in any other European state . |
19 | For example , the performance of the hon. Gentleman 's authority , Sheffield , was markedly inferior to that of Rotherham , although the discrepancies of the sort that he described do not exist in those two authorities . |
20 | As we shall see later , it is not that the superego does not exist in these circumstances , but that it is undeveloped , unsupported by cultural forces of a progressive character ( and therefore vulnerable to exploitation by those of a regressive nature ) , and is primitive in its functioning . |
21 | Although this crude characterisation of the ‘ management mentality ’ does not exist in most of our schools , many teachers will recognise this description . |
22 | For example , the management information function referred to frequently in the chart did not exist in most Colleges before the study was carried out , but appeared to be essential for effective operation in the future . |
23 | These extremes of wealth and poverty apparently inseparable from corn-and-sheep husbandry did not exist in most pastoral regions , where , as a rule , little more than a tenth of all wealth belonged to men worth £50 or more . |
24 | For some reason we do not think in such simplistic terms and did not dismiss the Director of Licensing at the CAA from office when the pilot of a Vanguard trying to land in a snowstorm at Basle failed to carry out a successful instrument approach and killed all those poor housewives out on a day shopping trip . |
25 | Medieval kings did not think in those terms . |
26 | Medieval kings did not think in those terms . |
27 | But Anselm did not think in these terms . |
28 | It is difficult not to see in that agreement what has come to be called the ‘ cascade ’ model of curriculum development : materials are prepared centrally and passed down the line for the classroom functionaries to implement . |
29 | It is difficult not to see in such debates a growing independence of science from biblical constraint . |
30 | Occasional statistics sometimes throw light on the problem ; in 1875 Gladstone 's pamphlet on the Vatican Decrees sold 100,000 copies and it is difficult not to see in this a level of religious interest which later declined . |