Example sentences of "not [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Within hours of the closure of the polls , news of Aristide 's victory led to scenes of national euphoria not witnessed since the overthrow in 1986 of the notorious Duvalier family dictatorship . |
| 2 | The earliest steam-pumps of Thomas Newcomen and others in the eighteenth century were not erected from the kind of detailed and accurate drawings customary by the nineteenth . |
| 3 | The next day was hot and sunny , but I needed food and water , so I could not stay on the moor . |
| 4 | She had other questions but Stan chose not to be sidetracked from the serious business of telling Oliver he could not stay on the premises after all . |
| 5 | ‘ You 'll not stay for the wedding ? |
| 6 | ‘ And now , knowing the truth , or as much as I 'm prepared to divulge , will you not stay for the wedding ? |
| 7 | Your talk will be the first item on the agenda you need not stay for the rest of the meeting unless you want to . |
| 8 | If the leverage was too high , the needle would not stay in the groove without the weight upon the point being increased . |
| 9 | As the Dragoons were still looking for him , he would not stay in the house but had a small cave dug nearby , with a gorse bush to hide the entrance . |
| 10 | Like Flynn before him , Fonda can not stay in the town he has tamed and rides out at the fade-out into the desert . |
| 11 | They did not stay in the water long . |
| 12 | Bosses of the Tory-controlled authority say she can not stay in the school because she lives outside the priority area . |
| 13 | He regretted that as teachers of the deaf they were inadequately trained , underpaid and overworked and therefore did not stay in the profession . |
| 14 | She did not stay in the room for long ; it was too full of Bella . |
| 15 | The exclusion principle is crucial because it explains why matter particles do not collapse to a state of very high density under the influence of the forces produced by the particles of spin 0 , 1 , and 2 : if the matter particles have very nearly the same positions , they must have different velocities , which means that they will not stay in the same position for long . |
| 16 | Her brothers went through similar reactions with all the horrors of war to disturb their faith , and two did not stay in the Salvation Army . |
| 17 | Maybe I 'm just being traditional in my tastes ; it is probably important to watch the compilation in small doses and not sit through the whole three hours as I did . |
| 18 | The DHA responded to the MIND critique , strongly refuting the charge of having no coherent strategy and of not seeing beyond the enabling schemes . |
| 19 | Hunger is a problem that simply should not arise on the F-Plan , even though you are restricting the actual number of calories consumed each day . |
| 20 | This problem would not arise with the assumption of average cost pricing but other , potentially more intractable problems would then have to be tackled , in particular how such behaviour could be reconciled with the idea that firms are profit maximizing organizations . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The separate international personality of an international organisation with treaty-making power sets up another third party relationship that did not arise under the 1969 Convention , that of the member States of an organisation to a treaty concluded between the organisation and a State , or another organisation . |
| 23 | This right does not arise under the SGA where the contract provides for delivery in more than one consignment , since there has been no breach in respect of goods not yet delivered , however reasonable it is for the buyer to fear that there will be in the future . |
| 24 | However , Townsend 's response would be that true deprivation is indicated by the fact that choice in matters of style of living is an issue that does not arise among the poor : for example , three million people presumably do not choose not to heat the living area of their homes in winter ( see Mack , 1985 ) . |
| 25 | Electricity does not arise from the wall socket , nor even from the power station . |
| 26 | The idea that information about identifiable individuals must be handled with care is not new ; it does not arise from the use of computers to process such information , though the rapid development of computer technology in the 1950s and 1960s brought the issue into sharp relief . |
| 27 | They do not arise from the continuous political efforts of managers who , hoping they will have a short tenure of office , try to make their mark by some evident organizational change . |
| 28 | For Oakeshott the authority of respublica does not arise from the mere existence of a rule of recognition . |
| 29 | The error of rationalism , in Oakeshott 's argument , does not arise from the application of scientific methods to non-scientific material , but rather results from a mistaken understanding of the nature of reason . |
| 30 | He wants no reform , for the end of his abominable book is to show that the sufferings of the people do not arise from the want of reform ; but from the ’ indiscreet breeding of women ’ . ’ |