Example sentences of "not [vb infin] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Three-quarters of Scotland 's top companies believe the Government has no effective economic policy and the same proportion believe Mr Lamont should not stay as Chancellor , according to a poll by the accountancy firm Pannell Kerr Forster and BBC TV in Scotland . |
| 2 | I could not stay at home and write a novel because I feel too tired and run down , and need a break from mental activity . |
| 3 | ‘ Why not stay to lunch ? |
| 4 | You must forgive me , Mrs O'Dell , I fear I can not stay for coffee — I have many other calls upon my time . |
| 5 | She did not stay for coffee . |
| 6 | He did not stay for coffee but left the hotel and walked down the almost deserted main street . |
| 7 | I shall not stay for coffee . |
| 8 | There were seventy- five paintings in the exhibition and by the time I left , which was quite early as I did not stay for dinner , most of the pictures had a little red sold label . |
| 9 | • If you feel tired when it is time to get up — indeed , you might just be getting off to sleep ! — do not stay in bed , but get up . |
| 10 | The patient should not stay in bed without a special reason , such as feeling ill or exceptionally fatigued , or having a headache . |
| 11 | Many of the animals swim so quickly that they do not stay in sight for long . |
| 12 | Old-fashioned or external sanitary towels , as anyone who has had the misfortune to make use of them will know , are dreadfully uncomfortable : they will not stay in place , they leak , and they chafe . |
| 13 | So the question of the soundness of Atkins L.J . 's dictum did not arise for decision in that case . |
| 14 | What the position would have been if , say , half of the contents including the signature had been written on one occasion and the rest of the contents on another , later , occasion , with the deceased indicating on the later occasion to the two witnesses that he regarded his signature as authenticating the whole of the contents , does not arise for decision and need not be decided now . |
| 15 | One reason for the apparent failure of whooping cough immunization may lie in the ability of the virus to mutate to new forms which evade destruction until a new vaccine can be devised and introduced ; this problem does not arise with diphtheria and measles . |
| 16 | ( This problem does not arise with input channels because these are all , by assumption , distinct in ALT patterns . ) |
| 17 | Ceauşescu knew that revolutions do not arise from despair but hope . |
| 18 | Similar trends are apparent in the series for cumulated inflows , suggesting that the observed changes in the stock do not arise from revaluation effects alone . |
| 19 | This has two purposes , firstly to illustrate the above assertion about the pervasiveness of layering and secondly to act as a reminder that there are important double diffusive flows that do not arise from instability of vertical gradients . |
| 20 | It was held in Chamberlain v IRC 25 TC 317 that where assets settled by X were invested in shares in a company controlled by the settlor , the whole of the capital of which was held by the trustees themselves , the income arising in the company did not arise from property comprised in the settlement within the meaning of TA 1988 , s672(1) . |
| 21 | A more realistic approach would recognize that new DNA does not arise in evolution as a random set of sequences , but as a duplicate of some pre-existing and functional sequence . |
| 22 | Defective tiled roofs can produce problems identical to those posed by ageing slate roofs , but because clay plain tiles are necessarily hung on battens ( not every tile is nailed except on very steeply pitched roofs ) and it is not possible simply to apply tiles direct to a boarded surface as in the case of a slate covering , the problem of rotting roofing battens and sarking does not arise in connection with tiling . |
| 23 | Such a consideration did not arise in connection with Sainte-Agathe , however , and when Jean-Claude felt he needed to refresh his memory of details , we rode cross-country to the village . |
| 24 | One such dispute was settled by Marie with a verdict apparently asserting that true love can not exist between man and wife . |
| 25 | For until such time as oxygen in sufficient quantities could create an ozone shield , organisms subject to the lethal wavelengths of ultraviolet radiation could not exist on land except in the shade , or in shallow water within reach of suitable wavelengths of light for photosynthesis to take place . |
| 26 | At the same time , spacetime itself will break up ; as matter and energy can not exist without spacetime as a ‘ basis ’ , the end product of this process can be nothing butnothing . |
| 27 | Just as day can not exist without night or the Sun without the Moon , logic is dehumanised without the balance of intuition and feeling . |
| 28 | Just as up can not exist without down , left without right , hot without cold , so existence is a condition of non-existence , space of non-space , being of non-being . |
| 29 | City life can not exist without security in its open spaces , some unarmed trust and reciprocity . |
| 30 | Certain qualities are in OPPOSITION to others , water can not exist as water and as ice at the same time . |