Example sentences of "[adv] [vb -s] not [vb infin] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( 1 ) This section shall apply to any premises for which a public house licence is held and in respect of which an application for Sunday opening has not been granted under Schedule 4 to this Act : ( a ) if the holder of the licence gives notice of the application of the section to the premises in accordance with subsection ( 6 ) below , and ( b ) as from such date as may be specified in the said notice : Provided that a licence-holder shall not give notice of application as aforesaid , and this section shall not apply to the premises for which he holds his licence , unless : ( i ) the licensing board for the area within which the premises are situated is satisfied that the premises are structurally adapted and bona ride used , or intended to be used , for the purpose of habitually providing the customary main meal at midday or in the evening , or both , for the accommodation of persons frequenting the remises , and that the part of the premises mentioned in subsection 3 ) below does not contain a bar counter . |
| 2 | A statement such as As for animals , I advocate a conservation policy , implies that animals are being contrasted with something else for which the speaker perhaps does not advocate a conservation policy . |
| 3 | Lead piping has two main disadvantages : it is often very small bore , so does not allow a good waterflow , and the amateur will find it difficult to extend the system . |
| 4 | The hon. Gentleman said that he personally does not want a fourth boat . |
| 5 | The vapour alone does not give a deep enough etch for replicas , but is sufficient for stain preparation . |
| 6 | There is precedent for saying that a drunken belief that the car belongs to the accused when it did not does not give a s.12(6) defence : Gannon ( 1988 ) 87 Cr App R 254 . |
| 7 | The public infrastructure founded years ago when we felt rich patently does not deliver a quality of service we think we deserve — just at the time we realise we are not as rich as we thought . |
| 8 | The evidence presented above does not make a strong case tor substantial changes in Britain following the episode of Magnentius , but there is a sufficient number of indicators , at least , to suggest that the proposition can not be dismissed . |
| 9 | Figure 24.7 thus does not represent a single sequence . |
| 10 | Finally , we can see that Oakeshott , while rejecting natural law as a criterion by which to determine the justice of law nevertheless does not accept a purely formal positivist account of law . |
| 11 | Asserting ( 1 ) and ( 2 ) as true and ( 3 ) as false does not involve a contradiction . |
| 12 | As even the Treasury probably does not have a sufficiently sophisticated model to calculate where exchange rates or interest rates will go , the cleverest entrepreneur can not be expected to give a correct answer . |
| 13 | For Bickerton , the continuum — a dynamic system of lects — is necessary to explain the complexities of the Guyanese linguistic situation : " for Guyanese Creole clearly does not constitute a language , in so far as one end of it is indistinguishable from English " ( Bickerton 1973 : 166 ) . |
| 14 | This sort of tactic , or cheating , clearly does not have a place in rugby at any level , and I trust that linesmen and referees will be more vigilant and that the TV pundits accept the evidence of their eyes and expose the practitioners of dangerous tactics . |
| 15 | Unlike the government in Britain , the President 's party often does not have a majority in Congress . |
| 16 | Heron and Chown concluded that ‘ Industry in general simply does not acknowledge a problem of ageing ’ ( Heron and Chown 1961 : 16 ) . |
| 17 | In the Dance for the Haymakers that follows the comic Dialogue between Coridon and Mopsa , only the outer parts have been copied — but all the way through this movement the copyist has provided staves , complete with clefs and key- and time-signatures , for the second violin and viola parts without which it manifestly does not present a complete texture . |
| 18 | It certainly does not represent a mere ‘ raising to consciousness ’ of the inhibition . |
| 19 | The food certainly does not wear a hair shirt , and nor does Rex , ebullient and gregarious , ensuring a meal at his place is a sort of crazy party with himself as the slightly eccentric host . |
| 20 | In summary , the pattern of change in household composition certainly does not involve a simple shrinkage from large to small units . |
| 21 | Incorporation certainly does not provide a shield against actions brought against surveyors for professional negligence . |
| 22 | The market therefore does not produce a socially efficient allocation of resources . |