Example sentences of "not [vb infin] [prep] [noun] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | A university spokesman said last night he could not comment on speculation that Mr Powell , who was studying for a BSc in applied biology , had been anxious about sitting his first year exams . |
| 2 | The Home Office spokesman said he could not comment on reports that the men had been beaten up for allegedly ‘ grassing ’ on other prisoners in the wing . |
| 3 | Police said the house , at Little Chart , was isolated and a prime target for burglary , but could not comment on reports that the break-in was the eighth the home-owner had suffered . |
| 4 | David Pipe , the Jockey Club 's Director of Public Affairs , would not comment on suggestions that Her Honour had been administered a fast-acting tranquiliser . |
| 5 | The major one is that the Act 's accountancy regulations will not relate to charities that are limited companies . |
| 6 | So , if the owner of goods merely allows another person to have possession of them , ( e.g. at a left luggage office ) that act will not raise an estoppel for it does not convey to others that he considers the person in possession to have the right to dispose of them . |
| 7 | We would not know from Polybius that he was a contemporary of Ennius , Plautus and Terentius . |
| 8 | If they did not act in order that the plaintiff should suffer damage they are not liable , however selfish their attitude and however inevitable the plaintiff 's damage may have been . |
| 9 | As the Italian inventor may discover , the music industry does not flourish on recordings that sound right only on headphones |
| 10 | Any design can be created in any of these seven formats and it will not matter on bit that you have used the Fair Isle option to draw a four colour jacquard design . |
| 11 | Through them , it is possible to argue , as Foucault concluded from the design of the Panopticon , a whole type of society may emerge , a society based on the protection of sectional interests through subtle coercion , whose technology is used to preempt what people can and can not do in buildings that they use or occupy . |
| 12 | In other words , his argument might be seen as an attempt to confront the common sense with the disconcerting fact that references to what are assumed to be numerically identical spatio-temporal particulars inhabiting an objective world " out there " can not be given a satisfactory justification , and consequently that one can not claim with certainty that such particulars represent the basic material of which the world is made up . |
| 13 | It seemed to me at the time that this fact did not square with claims that the Bible was inerrant . |
| 14 | Too many local authorities used the changeover to milk people of money that they did not have through bills that they could not have anticipated and therefore provided for . |
| 15 | One can not quite understand the process of informalisation in European countries if one does not take into account that here too one can observe upward movements of working-class traditions and downward movements of middle-class traditions of conduct , although it is not possible to speak of the emergence of a new more firmly established code of conduct . |
| 16 | It does not take into account that in a group of nursery children each will be happy to play with the others ' toys until stopped by peer group pressure . |
| 17 | Cover does not apply to items that are hired , borrowed and not the property of the Insured Person . |
| 18 | Plants like pansies will flower for longer , but even those that flower for a long time anyway , like African and French marigolds , will look neater and tidier if dead-headed , and the dead flowers will not detract from flowers that are still blooming . |
| 19 | I do not mean of course that there is no tradition of love in marriage . |
| 20 | d ) Changing conceptions of professionalism — finally , it should not pass without comment that the traditional concept of professionalism on which successive generations of solicitors have been reared was not uncommonly perceived to have been undermined by the dominant political and economic ideology of the last decade , with its emphasis on consumerism and market forces . |
| 21 | Lying is never due to witchcraft , nor can it excuse adultery ; a thief can not plead in mitigation that he was bewitched , for witchcraft is not recognized as a cause of theft . |
| 22 | I did not confide to Otto that Jean-Claude was stealing from me . |
| 23 | Current powers do not allow for searches that are based on a policeman 's hunch that someone may be carrying an illicit article , or for blanket searches that are carried out in a particular area or among particular groups . |
| 24 | For all that , it did not seem to Karelius that things had gone too badly . |
| 25 | It did not seem to people that , to use de Gaulle 's expression , " the train was back on the tracks " . |
| 26 | Perhaps the most important difference is that the buyer can not complain of defects that a reasonable examination ought to reveal . |
| 27 | Even if the government neglected to veto legislation of this sort , the Westminster Parliament could in theory pass laws to repeal colonial legislation , but in practice Parliament did not legislate on issues that could be seen as internal concerns of the colonies and did not go round picking up loose ends left by the governors . |
| 28 | The relief from VAT on new domestic housing does not extend to items that are not ordinarily installed by builders . |
| 29 | Accordingly , their Lordships did not agree with counsel that if the jury convicted the first appellant upon the basis that he was guilty as actor , they necessarily should have acquitted the second appellant . |
| 30 | The most modern interferometers can obtain spectra in shorter times , but even so they can not deal with samples that decay in seconds , let alone milli- , micro- or nanoseconds . |