Example sentences of "not [verb] new [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This positive part of conventionalism most plainly corresponds to the popular slogan that judges should follow the law and not make new laws in its place . |
| 2 | The blurred , poky , and inadequate black and white illustrations will just about serve the devoted collector but will not make new converts . |
| 3 | If you can not afford or do not want new furniture , then start to attack the soft furnishings . |
| 4 | Sometimes owners had to promise not to issue new shares for two more years . |
| 5 | Only the other day on ’ Panorama ’ Conservative councillors in Worcester said that they could not build new council houses without losing money . |
| 6 | It 's where the mover chooses to exercise that particular right , but in so doing the mover can not , or should not introduce new material and make another speech . |
| 7 | ’ We emphatically do not need new regulations , ’ Mrs Thatcher said in Bruges last autumn , ’ which raise the cost of employment and make Europe 's labour market less flexible . ’ |
| 8 | In the early 1930s , IBM developed the first modern accounting machine , which was designed for banks , but banks in 1933 did not buy new equipment . |
| 9 | For example , 80% of female personal service workers said they could not design and plan important parts of their work ; 96% said they could not decide their starting and finishing times ; and 63 % said they could not initiate new tasks during their work . |
| 10 | On the other hand , the guiding principle in sentencing republicans was moderation in order not to create new martyrs within the republican minority . |
| 11 | Lisa Milroy has not exhibited new paintings in London since 1988 when she showed with Nicola Jacobs , although there was a museum exhibition at Glasgow 's Third Eye Centre and in Southampton the following year . |
| 12 | Like the Spanish , the Portuguese had not made new acquisitions since the great days of the sixteenth century , and they had lost their possessions in the Spice Islands , but Brazil continued to flourish and was beginning to emerge as the world 's main source of gold . |
| 13 | To a very large extent Chalmers ' codification did not break new ground in the Bills of Exchange Act , 1882 — adopted with notifications in the United States as its Uniform Negotiable Instruments Law — but reproduced existing law . |
| 14 | The men claim they were not offered new sales posts with Swithland Motors , of Mountsorrel , Leics , after it took over the Birmingham-based Colmore Group in March last year . |
| 15 | Iraqi media reports prior to the meeting were uncompromising and blunt ; the daily al-Jumhuriya reported on July 30 that Iraq was attending the Jeddah talks to " retain its rights and not to hear new talks about " fraternity and solidarity " which yield nothing " . |
| 16 | We should be getting rid of unnecessary layers , not adding new ones . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ You might not see new vessels in the port , but their cargoes will be here , ’ said Mr Koornstra . |
| 18 | As the Community moves to complete the internal market , it will be necessary to ensure that anti-competitive practices do not engender new forms of local protectionism which would only lead to repartitioning the market . |
| 19 | Canals did not create new towns ; those built up by the railway companies , such as Swindon , Crewe or Eastleigh , being concerned with the building of locomotives and rolling stock , had no parallel . |
| 20 | However , the court can not create new rights over the landlord 's land and can not elevate informal personal privileges into property rights ( Orlik ( G ) ( Meat Products ) Ltd v Hastings and Thanet BS ( 1974 ) 29 P & CR 126 ) . |
| 21 | The press reflected the living culture of the people ; it could influence opinion and reinforce existing attitudes but it did not create new forms of entertainment and rarely attempted to alter the habits or loyalties of its readership . |
| 22 | In their different ways , both absolute and relative concepts suggest that the struggle to make ends meet is fought out in and against the routines which sustain health ; in the routines of buying bones from the butcher and not buying new shoes for the children . |
| 23 | John 's address stressed that the Council was to be pastoral rather than dogmatic , thus distancing himself from his advisers , and endorsing the view , condemned by Cardinal Ruffini , that the task of the Council was not to proclaim new dogmas but to find new ways of expressing the old ( see Abbott , p. 710–19 ) . |
| 24 | These companies expected Speywood to spend their £4 million investment on perfecting and marketing blood proteins from conventional technology — not funding new biotechnology projects . |
| 25 | ‘ There have been approaches by several institutions but we are not considering new ventures as a priority , ’ he says . |
| 26 | Or a trade may be used not to do new business , but to transfer a credit balance between accounts . |
| 27 | No perceptible direct line connects Edward 's law with Wyclif 's radicalism , but what can be asserted is that in this matter — as in so many others — Wyclif was not breaking new ground but appealing to ideas already long current in certain circles . |
| 28 | We can not discover New oceans Unless we have courage To lose sight Of the shore These lines from André Gide are quoted in New Methods in RE : An Experiential Approach ( Hammond et al. |
| 29 | Alex and I were convinced that even if we would not discover new superconductivity materials , our work on the metal oxides would yield very interesting results . ’ |
| 30 | If you 're planning on a few intimate moments then why not try new Santes anti-perspirant deodorants . |