Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] certain " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 " . |
| 2 | Second , to provide that existing conditions on a mineral planning permission can be changed with reduced or no compensation payable , provided the changes do not affect certain fundamental elements of the permission . |
| 3 | What did I say about how not to input certain numbers ? |
| 4 | If the NEA is to survive , it will have to act responsibly vis-à-vis the electorate and the electorate does not want certain work funded . |
| 5 | The MNR did not regard certain areas as part of the Beira corridor , he said , whereas the government approved the JVC 's definition of a corridor as " a continual strip of land between two known points " . |
| 6 | Alison Taylor , the former Gwynedd social worker who says she was sacked for speaking out about the abuses in care , told Community Care last week that she was concerned both at the slow progress of the investigations and the decision of the Crown Prosecution Service not to prosecute certain individuals on grounds of insufficient evidence . |
| 7 | We lack the knowledge to explain the true meaning of these lurches : the early reign did not lack certain eighteenth-century reformist traits — chairs in political economy , an interest in ‘ safe ’ elementary education , the building of the Prado . |
| 8 | The electoral reform law passed on Dec. 13 did not include certain previously agreed provisions designed to help small parties , such as the introduction of restrictions on campaign spending . |
| 9 | I have heard the Secretary of State for Scotland and some of his ministerial team say that local income tax would not benefit certain groups of people — teachers and hospital porters , for example . |
| 10 | And it does not accommodate certain institutions , such as Durham , Keele or the Open University , which because of origin or nature , are sui generis . |
| 11 | To say that human beings can not do certain things is , of course , an extremely vague form of statement . |
| 12 | I regularly confront a decision , for example , whether or not to sell certain shares , in varying circumstances . |
| 13 | Here , however , Colin is using modern physics to support Christianity , on the basis that science can not provide certain knowledge , and that we must therefore look elsewhere for certainty . |
| 14 | If the mother notices that he does not like certain songs she at once introduces others with different phrases and melody embodying the same teaching . |
| 15 | There are conditions you must meet in all services , such as using proper packaging , addressing things correctly and not sending certain things in the post . |
| 16 | He said : ‘ They did not have certain top-class players out there , but the majority of those who came in were £1 million players and I felt that they would be fighting for a place in the Cup replay . ’ |
| 17 | Unfortunately , he did not have certain items of information such as the history of the Star pistol found at the cottage . |
| 18 | The first is that we do not have a certain general idea , since often we do not have certain specific ideas . |
| 19 | If we did not have certain terms , for instance if we did not have a word ‘ orange ’ as well as a word ‘ yellow ’ , it is easy to imagine that we would not have a concept of the corresponding colours ; indeed the fact that there is nothing natural or necessary about colour terms is proved , as one of Saussure 's successors argued ( Hjelmslev 1961 : 52ff. ) by the fact that different languages divide up the colour spectrum differently . |
| 20 | We do not take certain inner City areas . |
| 21 | Such a hypothesis attempts to describe a whole person , and not to separate certain aspects of an individual 's life for special attention . |
| 22 | ‘ It 's better if children see their parents in a normal existence and not having certain attentions thrown their way . |
| 23 | It is in the very nature of democratic politics that policy change must be rationalised in a vocabulary that both appeals to popular understandings of the social problems that are being tackled and yet does not disturb certain common sense understandings of the workings of the economic system . |
| 24 | Not only did the Dissenters still suffer civil disabilities , but they could still be prosecuted for worshipping outside the Church of England if they did not fulfil certain requirements at law . |
| 25 | But above all , the Conservatives were impaled on the difficulties of saying why , since they had run the country for 13 years , they had not taken certain actions sooner . |
| 26 | The dubious research is that in which it is clear that the author has been disappointed not to have certain hypotheses upheld and is trying to talk ( or rather write ) his way round the evidence . |
| 27 | There are , however , certain conditions on borrowing , the main one being that borrowing can not exceed certain sums as prescribed by the Minister . |
| 28 | ‘ The British diet has started to change , but a far greater rate of progress can be achieved if we now shift to a positive message about what to eat , rather than going down the old road of saying do n't eat certain foods . |
| 29 | ‘ Alas , ’ sighed Googol , ‘ our flustered friend has n't noticed certain discrepancies yet . |
| 30 | Unless you 're American , you just ca n't understand certain things . |