Example sentences of "not [vb infin] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus when we see the often remarkable similarity between the principles of the Godwinians and of Bloomsbury , and the external relations implied by these — a rational and tolerant group wishing to extend reason and tolerance , where necessary by radical reform — we find also that we can not stay on this level , since the actual external relations were also determined by others . |
| 2 | has said about most cases being unfounded though Mr McPhee does say that they ( the travellers ) do not stay on permanent sites whereas there has been a constant settlement of varying numbers of caravans over the past two years . |
| 3 | I contacted my social worker and told her that I could not stay at this place and that she would have to find me a Cheshire Home . |
| 4 | Downes himself could not stay for more than a few minutes . |
| 5 | Kate had felt she could not stay in that house a moment longer . |
| 6 | " When I was dealing with the men personally I generally got them to see matters from my point of view , but unfortunately I could not stay in any one port for any length of time ; my subordinates did not have the same control over men as I did " . |
| 7 | The question did not arise for those settling in their state 's colonies , who could continue to remain Englishmen or Frenchmen in New Zealand or Algeria , thinking of the old country as ‘ home ’ . |
| 8 | The problem should not arise during direct processing , as every valid key has a corresponding record . |
| 9 | Morrissey 's dissatisfaction may not arise from political constrictions , but from a more profound restlessness at the limits of life . |
| 10 | Unlike Aeschylus and Sophocles , he was not consistently popular , and his innovations did not arise from any desire to pander to the public . |
| 11 | We are anxious to ensure consistency in planning policy advice so that conflict does not arise from different interpretations . |
| 12 | Although the matter does not arise in this appeal because Woolwich were fully aware of all the relevant circumstances , I can not help feeling that there is some illogicality in treating as voluntary a payment by someone who justifiably believes that the demand is lawful whereas in fact it turns out to be unlawful . |
| 13 | But those circumstances did not arise until four years later , when I was not with my immediate family all the time , but away at boarding-school , the Malory Towers of my dreams . |
| 14 | These latter , he insists , do not exist outside human action . |
| 15 | A currency union can not exist without perfect capital mobility across the union and a fully integrated financial sector . |
| 16 | The high level of research interest and activity to be found in the Faculty could not exist without excellent research facilities . |
| 17 | If I had to give a single criterion of that dubious category , the homosexual sensibility , it would be this connection between perversity and paradox — if only because it suggests why that sensibility does not exist as such . |
| 18 | Well I think now , in general in in Scotland th the the the drinking license has been different er Hogmanay does not exist as such because |
| 19 | If this project falls , it is not for purely logical reasons ; it will rather be for the more interesting reason that the right sort of truths do not exist about human nature . |
| 20 | In his Dictionary ( 1697 ) , Bayle points out that although the ‘ new philosophers ’ do not set out to be sceptics , they go even further in extending sceptical arguments to the conclusion that smells , colours , and tastes , ‘ are perceptions of our soul and that they do not exist at all in the objects of our senses ’ . |
| 21 | In addition , the constant incursion and retreat of the sea creates and maintains vast zones that are neither wholly marine , nor wholly freshwater , nor wholly land-based ; intertidal zones that vary in width , between spring tides and neap , and which could not persist , or would not exist at all , were it not for the tides . |
| 22 | Although the family in the orthodox reader can not exist at all — there is no family so griefless , angerless , humourless , or so utterly devoid of conflict as the family in the orthodox reader — it is recognisable in externals … the detached house … father at leisure with the lawnmower ( or going to the office with the brief case ) , the large dog and the aristocratic cat , the tidy organised family consisting only of one father , one mother , one son , one daughter . |
| 23 | The only liberty I mean , is a liberty connected with order ; that not only exists along with order and virtue but , which can not exist at all without them . |
| 24 | But of course it is sometimes not possible , because historical research demonstrates conclusively that the kind of standardised written language which can be used to represent ethnicity or nationality is a rather late historic construction — mostly of the 19th century or even later — and in any case quite often it does not exist at all , as between Serbs and Croats . |
| 25 | The other and sometimes more difficult problem arises when the other firm does not exist at all , someone having , quite simply , forged a letterhead . |
| 26 | All three types of pattern , ( written , diagrammatical and digital or Form ) , are based on a tension , or gauge , swatch ; without this , the pattern would not exist at all in any form , because all knitting patterns are basically a notation of how to knit a shape with a given yarn and stitch type , mathematically calculated from the original swatch . |
| 27 | She suggests that the educational infrastructure does not exist at all in our present system but could be provided . |
| 28 | If the world had not first existed in the mind of God , it would not exist at all . |
| 29 | The penis did not exist at all in the British sex film because it was considered rude . ’ |
| 30 | While it would be foolish to suggest that a comparable problem does not exist at all in Britain , it is important to recognize that ours is a more simple system in which individual agencies have more clearly defined powers and more definite boundaries to their responsibilities and sphere of influence . |