Example sentences of "[noun] of [noun prp] [vb mod] [not/n't] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Economic and social factors now loom large , and can be seen as being of greater importance than purely land use matters , though the courts would not necessarily accept such a line of reasoning ( as , for instance , when Lord Widgery held that the London Borough of Hillingdon could not impose a condition that the occupants of a private housing development should be people on the council 's waiting list ) . |
| 2 | In his electoral speeches , Boris Yeltsin had emphasised that the president of Russia should not belong to a political party . |
| 3 | Bets that he 'll take over as president of Novell may not take into account the short life span of any of Novell 's prior heirs apparent . |
| 4 | If the highly developed woollen textile industry be disregarded , the structure of crafts and trades of Babergh may not have been in any way unrepresentative of the shires at that time . |
| 5 | Chamberlain wanted to meet Parliament , saying ‘ the loss of Steel-Maitland need not determine an essential question of policy . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ The Countess of Anjou ca n't hurt you now . |
| 7 | In deference to German wishes , the EC agreed that recognition of Bosnia should not take place from yesterday , April 6 , a date still remembered in the Balkans as the anniversary of the Nazi invasion in 1941 . |
| 8 | But even then the East End of London could not have represented the rest of the country ; and even he plays for our pity , opening with a classic portrait of poverty and deprivation . |
| 9 | In vain Auguste pleaded that the Prince of Wales would not wait until September . |
| 10 | YOUR claim that the Prince of Wales can not communicate with young people is untrue . |
| 11 | ‘ And if he does not , ’ he continued , ‘ the Prince of Wales will not mind . |
| 12 | On signing these heads of agreement the shareholders of ABC shall not enter into discussions with any other party relating to the disposal of their interests in ABC for the period of 45 days unless the party to these heads of agreement withdraws or delays unreasonably progress towards completion . |
| 13 | Christ 's feet in ‘ Mr. Eliot 's Sunday Morning Service , are ‘ unoffending ’ which may mean without sin , but might also mean just harmless or inoffensive , devoid of power in a way paralleling Origen 's sexual impotence ; the apparent presence of God need not guarantee Christ 's power . |
| 14 | If then you have invited the artists of Europe to send in plans for a Plan which we have no intention of executing , two questions will arise — the first is who will pay the Premiums which you propose to offer for these Plans , seeing that we could hardly propose to Parliament to vote Premiums for Plans that are not to be executed , and secondly whether the Artists of Europe will not think that they have been trifled with in being asked to send in Plans for an undertaking which the Govt had on consideration determined not to attempt . |
| 15 | It is orthodox doctrine that the Archbishop of York ought not to hold exactly the same opinions as the Archbishop of Canterbury . |
| 16 | Fisher objected that an Archbishop of York ought not to encourage illegality by being present at the requiem ; and , painfully for himself , felt under a duty of conscience not to attend the memorial service . |
| 17 | Lacking comparable communications , the northern division of Buckinghamshire could not match the wealth of the Chilterns and other arable regions . |
| 18 | Palafox was a great aristocrat , known to be a friend of the deposed Ferdinand and anything but a democrat ; but , as his brother made clear , the future hero of the siege of Saragossa could not master the people on any other terms . |
| 19 | The Princess of Wales may not have been quick to learn at school — possibly because her lessons did not interest her much — but she has certainly made up for lost time since her marriage . |
| 20 | He also said that the Prince and Princess of Wales would not make a planned visit to China in November ‘ so long as those responsible for the atrocities over the past weekend remain in control of the Chinese government ’ . |
| 21 | ‘ Yes , as I say , the worthy burghers of Oswaldston would not have asked me to spread the artistic products of my maturity before their admiring gaze if it had n't been for the Machin boom . |
| 22 | A leading Slovene politician , Jože Smole , who has held many high positions , including a period as governor of the National Bank and another as federal minister of finance , maintained ( Politika , 25 August 1987 ) that the directors of Agrokomerc would not have issued such a large number of uncovered bills of exchange without the approval of the local commune , the Bihać bank , the Associated Banks of Sarajevo , the National Bank of Bosnia and Herzegovina , and the Social Accounting Service of Bosnia and Herzegovina . |
| 23 | On the other hand , " the author of Macbeth " is a non-rigid designator , because the author of Macbeth might not have been Shakespeare . |
| 24 | It was not just the natural fear of a cruel crucifixion : suffused with the divine life , the person of Jesus could not die in any ordinary sense . |
| 25 | The wreck of Braer will not cause the oil industry to ground its plans to expand . |
| 26 | Peter was a born leader and his chairmanship of WWF could not have been more effective . |
| 27 | Yet it was , I think , a tragedy for both parties that the whale of London could not keep down this nimble Jonah who distracted , but so well stimulated , her lethargic stomach . |
| 28 | In Polish Romantic art there was a frustrated urge to responsibility and national independence accompanied also by an indolence that grew out of the crushing knowledge that the resurrection of Poland would not arrive in the artist 's lifetime . |
| 29 | The people of Stockport could n't give a damn . |
| 30 | We were also given cause to laugh by a comment made by a prominent Unionist MEP at a Twelfth demonstration in Armagh who said something along the lines of ‘ The people of Ulster will not tolerate Dublin rule ’ . |