Example sentences of "an [noun sg] that [verb] not " in BNC.
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| 1 | The confidential report , The Philippine Poor : What is to be Done says about 30 million Filipinos , out of the country 's 56 million population live in ‘ absolute poverty , in the sense of having an income that did not enable them the satisfy basic needs ’ . |
| 2 | Scientists have developed an injection that does n't use a needle and is completely pain-free for the patient . |
| 3 | The other part handles the manufacture and marketing of a very large range of ‘ effect chemicals ’ whose uses are legion : there is scarcely an industry that does not need them as intermediates to a greater or lesser extent . |
| 4 | There is scarcely an industry that has n't been affected by it ; from manufacturing through to publishing . |
| 5 | Sophie was like an engine that had n't been switched off ; he could sense the energy in her and feel the heat . |
| 6 | However , Townsend 's response would be that true deprivation is indicated by the fact that choice in matters of style of living is an issue that does not arise among the poor : for example , three million people presumably do not choose not to heat the living area of their homes in winter ( see Mack , 1985 ) . |
| 7 | The Russians courteously declined , saying they could n't get mixed up in an issue that did n't concern them . |
| 8 | ‘ This has been a subject that has been bubbling around for years and with an ageing population , it is an issue that has n't been talked about enough . ’ |
| 9 | I mean I think we 've only ever met him once since we 've been here , he 's our head of department , its an issue that affects not just you as the bo as the head of department |
| 10 | What survival value can there be in an eye that does n't see ? |
| 11 | They are itching to hold up the red card to an establishment that does n't believe that ex-pros have the right pedigree to control top matches . |
| 12 | Atari makes it more difficult by writing into the operating system ( the instructions that govern how the computer handles data ) an instruction that does not allow the computer to talk to disc drive and cartridge at the same time . |
| 13 | He was regarding me with an indulgence that did not convince me . |
| 14 | An organisation that does n't change fossilises . |
| 15 | Selling off an organisation that has n't made a profit for 40 years always looked like being the toughest possible test of the privatisers ' skills , and recent developments are not making things any easier |
| 16 | The difficulty arises , as we saw with professional groupings , of sub-groups existing within an organisation that do not all share the same goals or values . |
| 17 | It had to be an art that did not separate him from the uncultured poor but was founded in them , gathering them to him in a home of art they could all share , a home that sheltered and consoled ; a warm place . |
| 18 | We need to offer disruptive children an education that does not limit them in a straitjacket designed to serve the political and economic needs of a society characterised by a culture of individualism . |
| 19 | The words covered the hot ache inside her , the sense of an object that did n't belong , ripping , invading . |
| 20 | A refractory ulcer was defined as an ulcer that did not heal within three months on conventional treatment with full dose H 2 blockers or 20 mg omeprazole . |
| 21 | The other departments will inevitably come into conflict with marketing from time to time because the latter 's need to satisfy customers requires an adaptability that does not fit into their drive for efficiency of operations . |
| 22 | You are an island that has not sunk . |
| 23 | It is of no surprise to you and I to know that we are in a erm an economic crisis , and , but I think that we might be accused of being in an area that does n't take the fair share of the cuts . |
| 24 | Definitely , we do n't if we were crossing an area that had n't been secured by any other officer , so we were particularly concerned that we should get out of any possible danger area . |
| 25 | I grew up in an area that did n't have any live theatre to speak of , but we did have a local cinema house , and I was just in awe of this thing called the cinema . |
| 26 | ‘ Primary ’ rainforest is an area that has n't been disturbed for hundreds of years and has reached a state of mature complexity ; it is also known as virgin forest . |
| 27 | A distinguished backing band , including Dave Edmunds and Presley 's one-time guitarist , James Burton , knocked out a few appropriate standards while a video crew wandered about on the stage shining lights at an audience that had not paid to be treated as studio extras . |
| 28 | I hope that it will come about under the Portuguese presidency , and I am working towards that end ; but it must be an end that does not discriminate against Scottish farmers or British farmers generally . |
| 29 | They differ from connotative terms like ‘ metal ’ — and to this extent ‘ are in the same condition as proper names ’ — in that whereas to the question , ‘ What are the things the resemblance to which you mark by calling this thing a ‘ metal ’ ? ’ the answer , ‘ Things of which it is true that their oxide dissolved in water yields an alkaline solution ’ can be given ; to the question , ‘ What are the things the resemblance to which you mark by calling this sensation ‘ a sensation of white ’ ? ’ the only answer that can be given is , ‘ Sensations to which I have given the name ‘ a sensation of white ’ ’ , an answer that does not ‘ unfold the signification of this class of names ’ . |
| 30 | It was an answer that did not mean much to me then and I confess that it means very little to me today : it is not only a rather arid and pompous definition , which seems to drain the idea of God of imaginative life , but it also seems arrogant — even hubristic . |