Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [verb] not [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Consideration for admission does not depend on the candidate 's likely specialisation since flexibility is preserved until a late stage in the course . |
| 2 | Although the extra representation for zemstva did not arise out of St Petersburg 's enthusiasm for local government ( but out of the determination of central agencies to prevent any one of their number dominating the rest ) , it nevertheless ensured " a large dose of decentralization " in primary education and gave primary schools a better chance than they would have had otherwise . |
| 3 | The merchant seaman 's need for benevolence did not go entirely unnoticed in the eighteenth century . |
| 4 | Given that , at least in the first year of the new council tax , there will still be two-tier authorities in the shires , I hope that the Bill will be as tight as a drum to ensure that the tiered authorities that are not up for election do not use that freedom from the ballot box — as happened in Nottinghamshire with the poll tax — to wreck the council tax in the way that they wrecked the poll tax in its first year . |
| 5 | For these and other reasons , the empirical evidence on the demand for money does not provide conclusive evidence in support of the extreme versions of either of the two theories . |
| 6 | Value for money does not remove political judgment — it may well increase the emphasis on it . |
| 7 | Conversely , the school tests for explicitness do not tell us very much about the exercise of multiple points of view . |
| 8 | The techniques required for scrummaging have not changed and the sound scrummaging pack will still reap benefits from its skills . |
| 9 | The idea that reading might be for pleasure had not occurred to him . |
| 10 | But his search for pleasure did not stop there . |
| 11 | ( And four Los Angeles policemen beating a black man 56 times after stopping him for speeding does not count as better law enforcement . ) |
| 12 | The purpose of these measurements was to ascertain through conscientious planning and medical surveillance that inadvertent exposure during spraying does not create any hazard to a rural population . |
| 13 | The fee for burial does not include charges for grave-digging , which may be carried out by a parochial officer ( in which case the vicar sets the charge ) , or by a grave-digger hired by the funeral director . |
| 14 | McEniff 's zeal for football has not subsided in later years , but it now has to compete with two other compelling passions , his family and his business . |
| 15 | Ironically , Gallacher 's capacity for tragedy did not leave him for long ; at the end of the game he was told his sister-in-law had died in Scotland , and as the tartan army led a ragtime jazz-band through the streets of London , Hughie Gallacher was on his way to the funeral . |
| 16 | IF EITHER PARTNER HAS ANY DOUBTS ABOUT STERILISATION AFTER COUNSELLING DO NOT GO AHEAD , but continue with another method of contraception . |
| 17 | These data show , therefore , that the ability of the gastric mucosa to defend itself against noxious challenges depends on the integrity of its sensory innervation , whereas the rapid repair processes taking place after injury do not require an intact sensory innervation . |
| 18 | It is perhaps worth saying again that this argument for a rational basis for pedagogy does not imply that everything about good teaching can be reduced to what is rational . |
| 19 | Where the plaintiff 's damage is the result of more than one cause , the but for test does not appear to provide an answer to causation problems . |
| 20 | Another problem to consider is that if the people identified for transfer do not go , what happens to their career prospects ? |
| 21 | The numbers conferred by the Office of Works for identification did not run consecutively , and one competitor complained that his work was hung in two separate parts of the hall . |
| 22 | If negotiation about sovereignty does not take place , there will inevitably be a ‘ Falklands re-play ’ . |
| 23 | Unfortunately , other forms of assessment do not lend themselves to precise measures of test-retest reliability and the clinician may need to judge how far situational factors might have influenced the two assessments . |
| 24 | ’ One and a half centuries later , similar books are being contemplated with text and photographs but the march of progress does not heed them . |
| 25 | We know rather little about what kind of bargains are struck at the present time although inheritance is always a possible way of ensuring that the balance of support does not tip too much in one direction , even if its use is not spoken about openly . |
| 26 | Expansion has been a major part of Lyles ' recent history but still the pace of change does not let up . |
| 27 | The modern control room fools us into thinking that we have more accurate and basic control , while the basics of actual quantification of change have not altered , merely the presentation of inaccurate data in more sophisticated ways . |
| 28 | The effect of smoking did not seem to be greater in one group than the other ; the percentage fall was the same in both . |
| 29 | This type of catalyst does not affect oxides of nitrogen . |
| 30 | The journalists of Esquire did not specify the names of this country 's worst -dressed men . |