Example sentences of "[not/n't] [vb infin] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The problem should not arise during direct processing , as every valid key has a corresponding record . |
| 3 | Morrissey 's dissatisfaction may not arise from political constrictions , but from a more profound restlessness at the limits of life . |
| 4 | We are anxious to ensure consistency in planning policy advice so that conflict does not arise from different interpretations . |
| 5 | These latter , he insists , do not exist outside human action . |
| 6 | A currency union can not exist without perfect capital mobility across the union and a fully integrated financial sector . |
| 7 | The high level of research interest and activity to be found in the Faculty could not exist without excellent research facilities . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Per capita distribution of wealth roughly followed this division , the industrial countries having the highest standard of living and the agricultural nations of the south and east the lowest , but the figures do not exist for precise comparisons . |
| 10 | About half of all part-timers earn below the limit , and therefore do not exist for national insurance purposes . |
| 11 | Such symbolic markets for artistic goods and their corresponding ‘ fields ’ do not exist in traditional , ‘ un-differentiated ’ societies , but only come to exist with differentiation in the process of modernization . |
| 12 | Thus without DNA , proteins would not exist in modern organisms ; but without proteins , DNA could not exist . |
| 13 | It is difficult to record colour objectively : people 's appreciation of colours obviously vary and , in any case , Nucella does not exist in discrete colour morphs . |
| 14 | An overwhelming body of evidence indicates that Nazareth did not exist in biblical times . |
| 15 | The actual agents of erosion may be completely different : glaciers do not exist in humid temperate regions except at high altitudes , where the climate is not really humid temperate , while wind , which is of considerable importance as an agent of erosion , transport and deposition in deserts , can almost be ignored except in the formation of coastal dunes . |
| 16 | The concept of deeds or documents under seal does not exist in Hungarian law . |
| 17 | Co-curators David W. Penney , Associate Curator , Department of African , Oceanic and New World Cultures , at the Detroit Institute , and George P. Horse Capture , a member of the Cros Ventre tribe and formerly Curator of the Plains Indian Museum at the Buffalo Bill Historical Center , tell us that ‘ art as a category did not exist in American Indian languages ’ , but their concern ‘ is not so much the issue of defining American Indian creations to fit a European definition of ‘ art ’ , but of redefining ‘ art ’ and consequently art history to include the artistic practices of American Indians , Africans , folk artists , and even the modern film industry , advertising and popular illustrations ’ . |
| 18 | Indeed , early exchange activities could not have done , since towns did not exist before late prehistoric times , and in later times periodic markets and fairs provided many of the opportunities for trade . |
| 19 | Depositors ' funds are placed with HM Treasury , authorised banks , local authorities and building societies in Great Britain ; Tyndall does not lend to other customers . |
| 20 | If one parent can do such a thing , can a child really accept that his mother will not disappear with equal suddenness tomorrow ? |
| 21 | At that time I did not think of other people , and what the creature could do to them . |
| 22 | " Most consumers do not think of domestic appliances as polluters " says a report published by the Department of Energy . |
| 23 | Seed will not germinate in wet heavy soil , and plants that do establish will probably not survive the winter . |
| 24 | Darlington does have problems but they do not compare with other areas of the country hit much harder by this recession and long-term industrial decline . |
| 25 | Even ‘ The Tip ’ which , I must admit , can not compare with Sporting Hydra Chemicals ' spanking new ground , Polypropylene Park , has enough history to make a visit an absorbing day out . |
| 26 | So , although a rich source of status and prestige , athletics could not compare with professional sport in terms of material gain . |
| 27 | To take care that in ploughing , the furrows are sufficiently ample and not hurried over , when good land is to be ploughed for fallow , the ploughmen to take care that they do not dip into bad soil , and in the time of rebinning not to go too deep , but to plough lightly just to destroy the weeds , lest if wet weather ensue when they come to sow the seed will be deposited in mud instead of solid soil . |
| 28 | For example , Hannan ( 1969 ) found that the number of young people in an area tended to increase outmigration , as the more able young left to follow the kind of careers not available in rural areas , though Grafton ( 1982 ) has argued that young people do not outmigrate from remote rural areas at a faster rate than their counterparts in less remote rural areas , and that any decline in such areas is due to lower levels of immigration , rather than higher rates of outmigration . |
| 29 | But that would not make for easy writing , still less reading . |
| 30 | These films do not make for easy viewing . |