Example sentences of "[not/n't] [vb infin] on [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Patterson does not comment on /a/ backing at all . |
| 2 | Grandparents could not count on natural loyalty : rather ; they had to positively create their roles by winning a child 's affection . |
| 3 | The gonococcus does not flourish on ordinary shin surfaces , preferring mucous membranes and internal tissues . |
| 4 | Otherwise dates did not appear on western coinage until the thirteenth century . |
| 5 | And , since crops will not grow on baked land , famine is the result . |
| 6 | Can not insist on full service . |
| 7 | Compared to manual workers clerks still work in relatively small units , they do not work on huge factory floors . |
| 8 | The IGCC plant does not run on natural gas , however , but on gas made from coal in a gasifier . |
| 9 | Catalogues raisonnés of modern artists do not depend on scholarly guesswork at attributions , and thus lack the laconic critical judgements reached by connoisseurs . |
| 10 | Selection does not depend on simple presence or absence in the cohort , but on relative goodness of fit to the sensory input . ’ |
| 11 | Indeed , lawyers and others may operate in the belief that international law is an important , though not conclusive , element of the political relationship between states , or that law has an important ‘ symbolic ’ role to play — in other words , it adds credence to the political and moral case put forward by the peace movement in a way that does not depend on international law being ‘ effective ’ . |
| 12 | This effect did not depend on oesophageal acidification as it occurred to the same extent with both pH + and pH - common cavity episodes . |
| 13 | Like Japan 's economic future , it does not depend on basic manufacturing : assembly costs account for just 5% of its sales . |
| 14 | Critical is the view that the event is stored and that the particular realisation of it in linguistic form is variable and does not depend on stored information of agent , recipient and so on . |
| 15 | Their relative independence of the councils which set them up means that deals can be negotiated and long-term arrangements achieved which do not depend on detailed discussion through council committee . |
| 16 | The study of litigation or arbitration does not depend on detailed study of the applications of those systems . |
| 17 | These results suggested that in ulcerative colitis , the aberrant mucosal production of IgG1 and IgG2 does not depend on active disease , but is apparently at least partially explained by a genetic impact . |
| 18 | The movements analysed by Loeb and his successors did not depend on previous experience . |
| 19 | People esteemed some men more than others , but their influence then was personal , and their command , if it was obeyed , did not depend on formal office and resulted in no treasury . |
| 20 | It also remains the case that the Cabinet , as an institution , does not rest on parliamentary authority but rather on practice developed over the centuries . |
| 21 | They can not feed on ploughed land for there 's nothing there . |
| 22 | Faith does not feed on thin air but on facts . |
| 23 | There is a complex interrelation of both systems and we can again distinguish different countries in which this dual function of law plays a greater or lesser role : the UK for example , without a written constitution , without a constitutional court , without a long tradition of legal science but with a multitude of extra-legal institutions and ideologies does not rely on legal ideology to the same extent as other countries , for example , West Germany and the USA . |
| 24 | Likewise , the presidents of at least some of the successor republics can not rely on firm support from their assemblies on all issues . |
| 25 | He added that the world could not rely on American growth to pull it out of recession , and suggested that Europe should lower interest rates . |
| 26 | Roofs of houses are now generally constructed with a series of individual trussed rafters , which do not rely on heavy timber purlins and common rafters , as in traditionally constructed roofs . |
| 27 | The privatised electricity industry should not rely on imported coal ‘ dumped ’ at artificially low prices , he said . |
| 28 | Do not rely on flying beacon to beacon — there are n't many , and the mountainous terrain makes reception much more difficult than you might imagine or than Bottlang would suggest . |
| 29 | With Gwendolen certain to change her vote , and as he could not rely on foolish Angelina to change hers , the situation was dangerous in the extreme . |
| 30 | Told Albert it do n't run on fresh air . |