Example sentences of "not [verb] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Early in the year , SCS could report a record quarter for increases in sales , capital and membership , reflecting a picture of growth over the year that did not dispel fears of the adverse influence of political involvement on trade . |
| 2 | A lot of Tories wanted John Patten out of education , but even tough leaders do not sack ministers in mid-crisis . |
| 3 | This is not to evade questions of strategy and tactics , merely to place them in an appropriate context . |
| 4 | FIVE schoolchildren in Japan were given 100-volt electric shocks for not bringing textbooks to class . |
| 5 | Voice of Lebanon radio reported on June 24 that Gen. Aoun had told Scheer that he was not demanding amendments to the accord , but simply a reconsideration of some of its provisions . |
| 6 | The natural communication system for humans is speech , not typing messages on keyboards and watching messages on television screens . |
| 7 | Paragraph ( c ) would appear not to affect decisions in cases such as Kendall v. Lillico ( see paragraph 10–07 ) and Cointat v. Myham ( see paragraph 10–08 ) cases where the purchaser chooses to buy goods for his business from a seller whose terms he has in a consistent course of dealing been apparently quite happy to accept or where the purchaser buys goods in a market in which a trade custom shows that merchants have found exclusion terms to be acceptable . |
| 8 | In fact only one DCSL has a teaching qualification , but this has not stopped others from becoming fully involved in curricular discussions in project schools . |
| 9 | Your attire must tell other walkers and climbers how serious you are , indicate the status you enjoy in the world of mountaineering , and not make locals in the mountain 's nearest bar fall dangerously silent when you pop in for a pint on the way back home . |
| 10 | Not to see points like that ( and there are more obvious ones ) is in a way shameful . |
| 11 | Polanski replied that he could not rush matters of a sexual nature . |
| 12 | Meanwhile , to ensure that the Germans did not rush reinforcements by rail to the threatened area , General Alexei Alexeievich Brusilov , commanding the South West Front , was ordered to make menacing probes in his area . |
| 13 | The Enduring Powers of Attorney Act 1985 , although extending powers beyond the onset of incompetence does not cover decisions concerning the grantor 's person , which would include treatment , but appears to relate only to the management of his property . |
| 14 | Loughlin , out until Christmas , broke his arm playing for Great Britain against New South Wales Country , and Saints have been told that insurance does not cover players on international duty . |
| 15 | The Stock Exchange 's exoneration does not affect the Serious Fraud Office 's investigation into Maxwell share-support schemes and the report does not cover transactions outside the period named . |
| 16 | ‘ If public money is put into R&D in chemistry-industry related areas ’ he added , ‘ then these areas must be defined by the chemical industry ’ — all too often projects do not cover areas in which the industry is interested . |
| 17 | Eliot 's letter of 22 October confirmed that he still had not received details from the Club ; but he understandably felt that while he could accept our invitation to tea , he ought to reserve his position about dinner . |
| 18 | But , without dismissing the claims of other actors such as transnational corporations or revolutionary groups , it will conclude that they do not affect questions about explaining and understanding , which are more clearly raised by considering better established theories that address the state . |
| 19 | The problem of budgetary control does not affect revenues in the same way as expenses . |
| 20 | Li Peng told Anan that the progress in China 's relations with Vietnam would not affect relations with Thailand or other South-East Asian nations . |
| 21 | It would not affect results in the period to the end of June or current trading , which was to budget . |
| 22 | This type of catalyst does not affect oxides of nitrogen . |
| 23 | The offence was a one-off which did not affect convictions before or since , he added . |
| 24 | Unless sites are discovered by accident ( when a new road cuts through a prehistoric cemetery , for example ) most methods of discovery do not locate sites with sufficient accuracy for excavation to take place with confidence . |
| 25 | He wanted talented members of the civil service to take temporary appointments in the police , but though agreeing in principle , the government could not spare officers from revenue and judicial work . |
| 26 | Both his mother and his brother found this new ruthlessness in Edouard 's character did not spare members of his own family . |
| 27 | The main conclusion about education and employment was that purely educational aims came first : schools should not prepare pupils for particular types of employment ; industry itself benefited from the teaching and learning of basic educational skills . |
| 28 | Water companies advised not to report breaches of EC rules on pesticides in drinking water . |
| 29 | In the I970s the fuel boards were pressured by the Labour government not to disconnect households with children providing they would cooperate in paying off their arrears . |
| 30 | Many critics of the encouragement provided until recently by the UK 's investment grants system in LFAs argue that farmers have been converting increasing areas of moorland and roughland to grass leys ( attracting substantial grants and more HLCAs ) while neglecting pastures previously improved and not maintaining standards of husbandry and land management . |