Example sentences of "not [vb infin] [adv] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The dervish whose thoughts were sweet as the sugarcane could not remain perpetually in a state of ecstasy but he obtained from the stillness of the soul a sweetness which is the heirloom of the mystic . |
| 2 | The main reason for this was pointed out in Chapter I ( : the beneficiary of a trust had a relationship with the property under trust , but it was one which did not fall neatly into a civil-law category . |
| 3 | Assembling in front of the Eiffel Tower , the teams drove through France and sailed the Med safely enough before rumbling south from Algiers with back-up that did not include much besides a wing and a prayer . |
| 4 | Mother poured hair dye round the hoof ; even that did not act sufficiently as a lubricant to set the poor beast free . |
| 5 | We know nothing of his campaign , except that it was limited to a single season and that the Silures did not appear again as a fighting force . |
| 6 | Labour , like other left parties , does not do well in a recession , but prospers when the economy is booming , unemployment is going down , and redistribution favours me-firstism . |
| 7 | No , I shall not do so for a second , because it will prolong matters . |
| 8 | Those of us who believe that our future and national interest lie in such a course do not do so in a spirit of emotional faith or constitutional adventurism ; rather , we take a hard-headed view of where our economic interests lie and where the money will come from in the years ahead . |
| 9 | It acknowledged that states had the sovereign right to exploit their own resources ( by implication , therefore , ruling out coercive action to halt the destruction of , for example , the tropical forests ) , but added the rider that they should not do so in a manner which caused damage to the environment of other states . |
| 10 | It said that states had the sovereign right to exploit their own resources ( by implication , therefore , ruling out coercive action to halt the destruction of tropical forests ) , but added the rider that they should not do so in a manner which caused damage to the environment of other countries . |
| 11 | The committee pointed out that " industry can not grow steadily in a situation where industrial policy three years from now could be in the hands of politicians of utterly opposed political views " . |
| 12 | The labour which rural families can devote to export crops will not grow significantly as a proportion of the total and — except where export crops have a very high value , as in the case of horticulture — they will grow only slowly , if at all . |
| 13 | Which , thinks Howard , may not sound much like a compliment — but which sounds considerably more like a compliment than anything else Phil has ever said . |
| 14 | In future , ministers need not look far for a way to bridge working relationships between central and local government . |
| 15 | Cornwall was no centre of radicalism , so one would not look there for a pattern of oscillation , but a detailed study of the Great Yorkshire Revival of 1792 – 6 has led its author to the conclusion that Thompson 's speculative idea gains some support from the experience of the North . |
| 16 | The obsessive vision that propels and sustains Birdy on his long night has a once-in-a-lifetime quality about it , a quirkiness that does not augur well for a successor … |
| 17 | It may be that that individual does not function normally as a consequence of the sensory deprivation . |
| 18 | If these forms were not internalized as habitual mental patterns independent of thought , they could not be readily accessed and language could not function effectively as a means of thinking and communicating . |
| 19 | Secondly , CAFFE could not react intelligently to a user 's needs . |
| 20 | Yes erm it was obvious because if he 's already told the man he 's going to move forward , to handcuff him erm he will not move forward to a person with his gun er in his hand . |
| 21 | At first sight , this approach has the advantage that the classification issue does not depend solely on a value judgment by the court about the appropriate scope of governmental activity . |
| 22 | Firstly , Allied troops , after years of war , would not take well to a renewal of fighting , against forces whom they had been repeatedly told were our brave allies . |
| 23 | The whips , however , would not take kindly to a woman set among them . |
| 24 | When mortality for both sexes in infancy and childhood was great , as it was at the beginning of the century , it did not take long for a cohort to advance up the age scale before females outnumbered males . |
| 25 | A combination of government secrecy and collective responsibility ( the notion that an individual member must not disagree publicly with a Cabinet decision ) have made it difficult to discover the extent to which cabinets are genuinely collective decision-making bodies , but a succession of leaks and memoirs , such as Richard Crossman 's ( Crossman , 1975–7 ) , has built up a picture of a committee in which genuine debate tends to be restricted to issues that come to assume major political importance for the government . |
| 26 | The sowing of the seed of the gospel does not happen just with a look , any more than the sowing of barley occurs by the farmer going out and smiling at his field . |
| 27 | ‘ The next parliament will not serve merely as a forum for making political statements but rather as a national institute in which we will all take part in formulating the country 's policies , ’ he said on television before leaving on a three-nation tour as part of Middle East peace efforts . |
| 28 | British TV viewers will not pay more for a cable system just because one day it will be able to provide interactive services which they have never heard of , let alone want . |
| 29 | THE BBC has admitted it may not go ahead with a TV version of Michael Dobbs 's sequel to his political bestseller House of Cards . |
| 30 | ‘ Always I have let my horn cry at setting forth , and though thereafter we may walk in the shadows , 1 will not go forth as a thief in the night . ’ |