Example sentences of "[noun] [vb base] not [vb infin] a " in BNC.

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1 The fateful words do not establish a trust in favour of him , but instead a trust at his expense in favour of another person .
2 There are two reasons for this : ( a ) the correct words do not have a proven semantic relationship ( unlike the semantic pairs ) , and ( b ) the control words are not artificially selected but instead are random orthographic derivations of the correct words and therefore not necessarily unrelated .
3 Briefly the requirements for short story are for fictional narrative based er narrative based scripts of two thousand one hundred to two thousand three hundred words do not use a factual accounts or anything longer or shorter on this , nor can we consider 60 Writers Monthly
4 We all welcome his precision in noting the fact that the Opposition do not have a proper policy .
5 It means one in four schools do not have a full staff .
6 If drama schools do not incorporate a stage management course , basic lectures and some participation in production work may take place in the senior terms .
7 Serious Faults Straw-coloured , excessive , insufficient or sooty markings ; rust marking other than described above ; white marking any place on dog ( a few rust or white hairs do not constitute a marking ) .
8 Acquired immunity in ostertagiasis is slow to develop and calves do not achieve a significant level of immunity until the end of their first grazing season .
9 We are well aware , however , that the results of this study do not form a basis for firm conclusions about the pathophysiology of specific clinical disorders .
10 FACT The department of health says these concentrations do not pose a health risk .
11 This may well be possible : there is hardly a field of study in which computers do not have a valuable role to play .
12 The porters do not have a key to the cupboard .
13 Unlike numeric variables , string variables do not have a fixed length .
14 But a spokesman for P and O accused Sealink of being selective in their choice of dates , saying : ‘ Two months do n't make a year .
15 The parties do not share a conception of the good by reference to which the fruition of their powers or even the satisfaction of their desires can be evaluated .
16 The main provision of the most recent guidelines issued in 1986 provides that the prohibition in Article 85(1) will not apply to agreements where the parties together do not enjoy more than 5 per cent of the total market for the goods or services in the area of the common market affected by their agreement and the parties do not have a combined annual turnover exceeding 200,000,000 ECU ( approximately £140-150m ) .
17 So it 's definitely the latter , we are developing a fully capable Eurofighter two thousand aircraft and if erm any of our four participating nations do not want a particular facility then we will make provision for them to leave that out in production and if an export customer does not require the full range of capabilities we can also remove them for that export customer .
18 But fears are now being voiced that these new safeguards do not make a complete ‘ package ’ and that the failure of one to work properly might have a ‘ domino effect ’ on the efficacy of others .
19 But female subjects do not guarantee a wholly woman-centred approach .
20 The 1989 Kiwis do not look a patch on their predecessors .
21 The bedrooms do not have a safety deposit box .
22 Older teenagers do not want a mother to be yearning over them day and night , even when several hundred miles lie between them .
23 That is very different from the approach of the Government , who have not only abandoned a serious commitment to training , but have suggested that sectors do not have a valuable role to play .
24 It is now thought that the proteins do not form a continuous layer covering both sides of the lipids proposed by Davson and Danielli .
25 He addresses Dame Sirith imperiously , and with a French expression : But Dame Sirith 's final words remind us that this courtliness of expression is located in a fabliau in which the actions and attitudes are as commercial ( pris , mede ) and as crude , sexually , as in any French counterpart : These lines do not quite move into the register of marked language that we have seen in the French fabliaux and shall see in Chaucer 's English fabliaux except in so far as references to women 's thighs do not find a place in the conventional rhetorical portrayal of a courtly lady .
26 Restaurants do not provide a memorable gastronomic experience , but no-one goes hungry .
27 Whilst the heads do not represent a legally binding document , the drafting process for the heads will tend to assist the progress of the deal by enabling yourselves and the vendor to focus on the key issues .
28 A baby carriage Do n't mean a marriage —
29 If screams do not cause a single person to react , what hope is there that a small , silent television screen in a bank of twenty-one such screens will be more effective ?
30 Some homes do not have a table ; food may be provided while the child is playing or walking around .
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