Example sentences of "not [vb infin] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The problem should not arise during direct processing , as every valid key has a corresponding record . |
| 2 | These latter , he insists , do not exist outside human action . |
| 3 | A currency union can not exist without perfect capital mobility across the union and a fully integrated financial sector . |
| 4 | The high level of research interest and activity to be found in the Faculty could not exist without excellent research facilities . |
| 5 | If this project falls , it is not for purely logical reasons ; it will rather be for the more interesting reason that the right sort of truths do not exist about human nature . |
| 6 | About half of all part-timers earn below the limit , and therefore do not exist for national insurance purposes . |
| 7 | It is difficult to record colour objectively : people 's appreciation of colours obviously vary and , in any case , Nucella does not exist in discrete colour morphs . |
| 8 | The concept of deeds or documents under seal does not exist in Hungarian law . |
| 9 | If one parent can do such a thing , can a child really accept that his mother will not disappear with equal suddenness tomorrow ? |
| 10 | Even ‘ The Tip ’ which , I must admit , can not compare with Sporting Hydra Chemicals ' spanking new ground , Polypropylene Park , has enough history to make a visit an absorbing day out . |
| 11 | So , although a rich source of status and prestige , athletics could not compare with professional sport in terms of material gain . |
| 12 | To take care that in ploughing , the furrows are sufficiently ample and not hurried over , when good land is to be ploughed for fallow , the ploughmen to take care that they do not dip into bad soil , and in the time of rebinning not to go too deep , but to plough lightly just to destroy the weeds , lest if wet weather ensue when they come to sow the seed will be deposited in mud instead of solid soil . |
| 13 | Without following Jakobson 's analysis in detail — it does not make for easy reading — I shall simply give examples of the sort of relationship he identifies under each of these headings . |
| 14 | The Building Regulations themselves do not make for easy reading , but there are various guides designed to explain them and the DoE now produce a Manual to the Building Regulations . |
| 15 | These films do not make for easy viewing . |
| 16 | But that would not make for easy writing , still less reading . |
| 17 | But the use of inexpertly laid and brightly coloured bricks , token pitched roofs and arched windows does not make for likeable architecture . |
| 18 | Still , one can see him becoming more loath to accept the evil in the good : and while this is charitable , it does not make for powerful story . |
| 19 | And even that did not make for encouraging listening . |
| 20 | Having read a lot of books does not make for good rock'n'roll lyrics — you end up with a band like XTC ; you might like them , sure , but that does n't make them rock'n'roll . |
| 21 | Theories do not make for liberating music . |
| 22 | The disconcerting ‘ first-disk ’ string sound may be down to miking difficulties ; likewise the booming timpani and overly forward woodwind , and these things do not make for comfortable listening . |
| 23 | It does not make for comfortable listening if one spends the First Act jumping up and down to raise the volume a notch , and the Third , mindful of the neighbours , turning it down again . |
| 24 | When it does not spring from mere distaste for all that is foreign , hostility to party lists is commonly associated with obsessive and fatalistic mistrust of political parties themselves . |
| 25 | Before the Prime Minister answers , let me repeat that a Member must ask questions about matters for which the Prime Minister is responsible ; he can not answer for Labour party policies . |
| 26 | Patterson does not comment on /a/ backing at all . |
| 27 | The evidence of such a writer does not relate to educated StE ’ ( 1968 II : 551 ) . |
| 28 | Supratentorial infiltrating , low grade gliomas are often difficult to identify on computed tomography because they are not associated with significant mass effect and may not enhance with intravenous contrast medium . |
| 29 | I have heard Christians give all sorts of response to this , for some will feel that indeed a non-Christian will not attain to eternal life . |
| 30 | Excellent technology will not compensate for poor science . |