Example sentences of "not [verb] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Early in the year , SCS could report a record quarter for increases in sales , capital and membership , reflecting a picture of growth over the year that did not dispel fears of the adverse influence of political involvement on trade . |
| 2 | A lot of Tories wanted John Patten out of education , but even tough leaders do not sack ministers in mid-crisis . |
| 3 | Not seeing Fen for weeks or seeing him and knowing the futility of it all . |
| 4 | Leith asked promptly , sometimes not seeing Rosemary for days , but missing her now she was n't around . |
| 5 | As far as he was concerned , homosexuality did not exist north of Hampstead ( or perhaps south of it , either ) and despite the fact that its local manifestation was sitting in front of him he would not be convinced . |
| 6 | The details of the story of this major theory change , a change that took place over one and a half centuries , do not lend support to the methodologies advocated by the inductivists and falsificationists , and indicate a need for a different , more complexly structured account of science and its growth . |
| 7 | Finally , evidence from what was arguably the most traumatic period for capitalism , the post-1929 Depression in the United States , does not lend support to the real-balance hypothesis : ‘ For the 1929–32 period as a whole there was an increase in real balances of 42 per cent , and a decrease in real income of 40 per cent ’ ( Patinkin , 1951 ) . |
| 8 | ECGD does not lend money to companies but does offer a number of schemes to banks to allow them to finance exports at interest rates which are often significantly below prevailing market rates . |
| 9 | This is not to evade questions of strategy and tactics , merely to place them in an appropriate context . |
| 10 | FIVE schoolchildren in Japan were given 100-volt electric shocks for not bringing textbooks to class . |
| 11 | The counsellor has to enter into the family dynamic , not intrusively , not demanding compliance with the wishes or even with the needs of the elderly counsellee , but to ensure that the feelings and needs of each member of the family , however weak , are heard . |
| 12 | Voice of Lebanon radio reported on June 24 that Gen. Aoun had told Scheer that he was not demanding amendments to the accord , but simply a reconsideration of some of its provisions . |
| 13 | The natural communication system for humans is speech , not typing messages on keyboards and watching messages on television screens . |
| 14 | Paragraph ( c ) would appear not to affect decisions in cases such as Kendall v. Lillico ( see paragraph 10–07 ) and Cointat v. Myham ( see paragraph 10–08 ) cases where the purchaser chooses to buy goods for his business from a seller whose terms he has in a consistent course of dealing been apparently quite happy to accept or where the purchaser buys goods in a market in which a trade custom shows that merchants have found exclusion terms to be acceptable . |
| 15 | In fact only one DCSL has a teaching qualification , but this has not stopped others from becoming fully involved in curricular discussions in project schools . |
| 16 | Stirling 's decision not to continue writer in residence is ill-advised |
| 17 | Your attire must tell other walkers and climbers how serious you are , indicate the status you enjoy in the world of mountaineering , and not make locals in the mountain 's nearest bar fall dangerously silent when you pop in for a pint on the way back home . |
| 18 | Friend not lose sight of the fact that need does not always exist only in the inner areas of a city . ’ |
| 19 | Now it did n't mean that you build his war machine , but the Kuwaiti people being so close , or actually bordering , we helped the economy of Baghdad , we helped the economy of the Iraq , and we contributed thirteen billion dollars , just the government alone , to their economy and the people of Kuwait also helped with their own private donation to help the schools , the hospitals , the food , whatever they needed , and the country of Kuwait was erm trying to be , as my friend said , as neutral as possible because there is Irani interest in Kuwait , very great through trade , through Iranis who work in Kuwait , so we had a very difficult position with respect to keeping both parties erm sort of in sight , not lose sight of them from our humanistic point of view , but it was erm difficult to avoid being on the side of the Iraqui , mainly because they 're neighbours and they 're Arabs , and you 're part of the league of Arab states , so you ca n't draw the line and say the government was pro or against , but that was the atmosphere which we were leaving . |
| 20 | A high-rise block of flats had been clamped down on a street that did not think well of itself at the best of times . |
| 21 | Joan 's friends did not think Branson to be a particularly eligible figure . |
| 22 | Rather than investigate ways of cleaning waste water , researchers at the German Textile Research Centre decided to explore the possibility of not using water in the dyeing process at all . |
| 23 | The person who prescribed the medicine may have had homoeopathic experience but was not using homoeopathy in this case . |
| 24 | More importantly , he was a little wary of her father and not at all sure that Burkett was not using Sylvia as bait for a cast of his own . |
| 25 | Not to see points like that ( and there are more obvious ones ) is in a way shameful . |
| 26 | He invented a serious accident for his wife as an excuse not to see Eleanor for a while . |
| 27 | Polanski replied that he could not rush matters of a sexual nature . |
| 28 | Meanwhile , to ensure that the Germans did not rush reinforcements by rail to the threatened area , General Alexei Alexeievich Brusilov , commanding the South West Front , was ordered to make menacing probes in his area . |
| 29 | The Enduring Powers of Attorney Act 1985 , although extending powers beyond the onset of incompetence does not cover decisions concerning the grantor 's person , which would include treatment , but appears to relate only to the management of his property . |
| 30 | Loughlin , out until Christmas , broke his arm playing for Great Britain against New South Wales Country , and Saints have been told that insurance does not cover players on international duty . |