Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] [modal v] not [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He states : ‘ What Hale is saying is that for the purpose of the law of rape the consent given at the time of the marriage ceremony can not in law be revoked . ’ |
| 2 | Among the many popular items in this Bill is the provision that councillors who will not pay their community charge or their council tax will not in future be entitled to vote on setting a budget for their local authorities — |
| 3 | Ministers rejected a German proposal to establish a list of countries in which there is generally no serious risk of persecution and from which asylum applications would not in principle be accepted . |
| 4 | In contrast , exchange rate fluctuations can not by definition be a source of uncertainty in world trade under a fixed exchange rate system . |
| 5 | A problem with this manoeuvre , however , is that certain evidence implicates the right hemisphere in control of simple reaction time ( Benson and Barton , 1970 ; Howes and Boller , 1975 ; Nakamura and Taniguchi , 1977 ) and thus equivalent response times for left and right hemisphere groups may not in fact reflect equivalent damage at the two sides of the brain . |
| 6 | In 1977 , however , it was decided that inter-city ( as well as freight ) rail services should not in principle be subsidized ( Department of Transport 1977 : chs. 6 , 7 ) , although in practice they continued to be . |