Example sentences of "not [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Parliament could not sack individual Commissioners , or force amendments on legislation , nor did it develop much influence over budgetary matters until the 1970s . |
| 2 | Roger : Ministers have declared new rules or constraints in advance but one rule will definitely be that employers must not sack other employees so that they can take on Workstart participants . |
| 3 | He says these new recruits to higher education , entering universities in large numbers are not seeing long-term change towards the market , so much as a reduced staff:student ratio , meaning less one-to-one contact , and larger , less frequent tutorial groups . |
| 4 | The owners are not seeing guilty behaviour when Rover slinks across the floor , they are seeing the submissive behaviour Rover displays in anticipation of the aggression , however mild , the owners are about to use in attempt to reprimand him . |
| 5 | Since her social life in Northam did not exist outside school , she had no evening clothes , and had had nothing resembling a party dress since the age of six , when she had possessed a fetching little garment of pink satin . |
| 6 | But , if only by default , through simply reading the text in terms of the text and not bringing outside considerations to bear , she , as does Barth , shores up its authority . |
| 7 | This preparation has been shown not to affect epithelial cell proliferation . |
| 8 | The disruption from 9.15 am to 9.45 am was designed not to affect other commuters , only gangs of chainsaw-wielding BR workers . |
| 9 | Lord Gardiner himself thought that political views ought not to affect judicial appointments at all , and he pursued this policy during his period of office as Lord Chancellor ( 1964 ) . |
| 10 | In the run-up to the country 's first multiparty elections for 43 years , scheduled for March 25 , the ruling Hungarian Socialist Party ( HSP ) was shaken by revelations during January that the Interior Ministry 's security police had not stopped covert surveillance of the activities of opposition politicians , despite the enactment during the past 12 months of laws and constitutional amendments creating a multiparty system [ see pp. 36399 ; 36960-61 ] . |
| 11 | The SEC in the US has not stopped corporate scandals , but it keeps an army of lawyers busy . |
| 12 | In Madrid the NATO Secretary-General , Manfred Wörner told legislators attending a five-day annual NATO assembly on Oct. 21 that , while " an additional independent European force " would " not make practical sense " , a European force co-ordinated by the Western European Union ( WEU ) could prove valuable in areas outside NATO 's traditional field . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | As he finally demonstrated over Cuba , he did not think Communist domination was worth the ruin of civilization . |
| 15 | Do you not think British Rail would have , have |
| 16 | There were some differences between the groups , mainly in the recognition of black speakers who were not using Creole features of syntax or segmental phonology . |
| 17 | By not using nuclear weapons and with repeated assurances via the hotline of limited goals and negotiable conquests , the Russians face the president of the United states with ‘ agonising decisions ’ and he hesitates in making any nuclear commitment for several vital days . |
| 18 | He said that his company , which also provides needs-analysis for companies , taught ex-service personnel skills such as not using military terms in their curricula vitarum and interviews . |
| 19 | The company , which will hold shares in the recycling business and assist in the marketing of products , continues to be criticised by environmentalists for not using washable plates and cutlery . |
| 20 | Later , Crawford generously conceded to Sherrin that the decision was right and it was a lesson in not using substandard material . |
| 21 | By September contracts had been signed for the import of scarce food and consumer goods worth 43,000 million roubles , mostly on a barter or joint-enterprise basis ( that is , not using hard currency ) ; some of the imports were to meet the demands of striking miners [ see p. 36826 ] . |
| 22 | Data volumes can also be cut by not using full screen video . |
| 23 | It is that people are forgetting or just not using Andean technology , so they are exhausting the soil . |
| 24 | Cameron pretended not to see young Donald till he was close beside him , then turned in mock surprise and said to him , ‘ Well well , Donald — we had given you up . |
| 25 | Where the statute looks as if it does not cover certain forms of conduct the courts have sometimes read the statute widely to convict the " manifestly guilty " . |
| 26 | However , because the sampling frame consists of private households only , the survey does not cover elderly people in institutional care — for example , those living in old people 's homes and those who have been in hospital for more than six months . |
| 27 | It does not cover professional negligence , etc . |
| 28 | The scheme is aimed at straightforward disputes ; it does not cover sharp practice or dishonesty by agents , and it is limited to England and Wales . |
| 29 | In this case the court gave a further reason why the false statement was not caught by section 14 , namely that it related to the price at which the goods were offered for supply and section 14 did not cover false statements about prices . |
| 30 | I think one of the problems is not taking out rate card , if you leave out , if you actually say this procedure does not cover full estimates and costs or costing based on rate cards . |