Example sentences of "of [noun sg] not [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | PAMELA : Sir , when you consider that I had no prospect before me but dishonour , you will allow that I should have seemed very little in earnest in my profession of honesty not to endeavour to get away . |
| 2 | WARNING — Aspects of play not covered by the rules will have to be fought out between the parties . |
| 3 | Another important aspect of assessment not addressed by this study is that of physical disorder . |
| 4 | When one calculates , for example , the beginning of the universe , using the methods you described , surely you 're making great assumptions about the laws of physics not having changed ? |
| 5 | ‘ No , of course not blackmail ! ’ |
| 6 | The 76-year-old Euro-MP , who currently lives in West Germany , said he would of course not rule out a run some time in the future but for the moment he feels he can do more to promote his country in the European parliament . |
| 7 | And some carers and dependents find it difficult to adapt to a role reversal — the old person of course not wanting to relinquish her dominant role and the carer finding it difficult to cope with becoming the decision maker . ’ |
| 8 | You could of course not send the benefit statement . |
| 9 | I am of course not speaking of those from the interior it is necessary to be more guarded with them particularly those of the Namoi and Juden ( ? ) parts , which I am now about to visit . |
| 10 | Her regular shopping trip to get the food for the Sabbath was something she always enjoyed as the prelude to the best part of the week with its special evening meal , its rituals , her zeide 's stories of his life in Lithuania — no matter how oft repeated — and of course not having to go to work in her father 's store . |
| 11 | The amendment will of course not remove anyone during their period of office if they lose their job . |
| 12 | In everyday conversation , this rarely happens , and even if it does , there is certainly no guarantee that the sentence will have come to an end — because , after the pause , there may be a conjunction , such as the word because — or one such as or — which , as in the case of relative pronouns , can keep a sentence moving on , along with any parentheses and subordinate clauses that the speaker thinks fit to introduce , and of course not forgetting the coordinate clauses which in fact make up the vast majority of the cases that we encounter when we start analysing real conversational speech , and which , as I said at the outset , provide a great deal of the interest when we go in search of English — if you recall . |
| 13 | As Templeman LJ put it : As between Scherings and [ the expert ] if [ the expert ] had obtained the information from sources other than Scherings , then it would of course not have been confidential in his hands , but , by agreeing to advise Scherings and by accepting information from them to enable him to advise Scherings , [ the expert ] placed himself under a duty , in my judgment not to make use of that information without the consent of Scherings in a manner which Scherings reasonably considered harmful to their cause . |
| 14 | In every street in Kuwait there is a resistance , there are young guys , women , kids , you know there are many different kinds of resistance not to carry their weapons , but to say no to them . |
| 15 | It is obviously capable of overlapping other sections of the Act ; equally , it is obviously intended to catch exclusions of liability not covered by the other sections of the Act . |
| 16 | The auxiliary use of need has also been found in the following type of sentence not listed by Jacobsson : ( 23 ) By co-vary , we mean that the more a language has of one of the processes , the less it need have of the other . |
| 17 | British consumers will have to find £90m to meet the EC 's directives over the next few years ; might this large amount of money not have been better spent , say , in building hospitals and schools ? |
| 18 | Sums of money not required for immediate use can be put into a deposit account on which the bank will pay interest . |
| 19 | The semblance of UPH not owning it was created by allowing Smyth to put his nominees onto the board of Chestvale after he gave an undertaking to put the loan notes in place . |
| 20 | One recent advertisment carried a photograph of a rather seedy individual in a large hat and dirty raincoat which it stressed was precisely the type of applicant not required . |
| 21 | Right of action not to accrue or continue unless there is adverse possession |
| 22 | She thought that she knew who the lucky man might be , and it took all her strength of mind not to betray the dreadful emotions which merely thinking of him aroused in her . |
| 23 | Gidon Saks brought an uncharacteristic menace ( for the character , that is , rather than the singer , whom we have seen wonderfully menacing before ) to the role of the wise priest Sarastro , and his decidedly unplatonic attraction to Susannah Waters 's bright , pert , splendidly sung Pamina added an element of tension not envisaged in the original . |
| 24 | Three types of announcement are relevant during the preliminary stages : ( 1 ) the " talks are in progress " announcement ( " talks announcement " ) ; ( 2 ) the announcement of a firm intention to make an offer ; ( 3 ) statements of intention not to make an offer . |
| 25 | Statements of intention not to make an offer |
| 26 | The difference in cost between the cheapest scenario and the plan that produces least CO 2 is $102 for each tonne of carbon not released . |
| 27 | ‘ Since the board has elected as a matter of practice not to give reasons , and has given none to Mr. Cunningham , it has been bound by its own logic not to attempt to justify for the benefit of the court the figure awarded . |
| 28 | It takes every ounce of self-restraint not to go in and grab a handful of glazed donuts , tempting me in their neat little rows , glistening under fluorescent lamps . |
| 29 | When we talk of the in-love state , we are usually including strong sexual passion and an intensity of emotion not experienced in other affectionate and loving relationships . |
| 30 | The largest black and white woodpecker of the region , differing from all the others , except much smaller Three-toed , in its white or barred rump ; from the three on p 195 in its lack of any white patch on wing , which consequently looks mainly barred , and from Great Spotted and Syrian also by male 's red crown and face pattern of both sexes , with black bar on side of neck not joining black nape , as in Middle Spotted . |