Example sentences of "not [verb] [conj] the [noun sg] is " in BNC.
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| 1 | The question does not arise if the decision is forced by circumstances . |
| 2 | These problems do not arise if the referee is an expert . |
| 3 | ‘ I do not think that the situation is slipping out of control . |
| 4 | The Government 's commitment to the environment can have no credibility — I stress that I am talking about the Government , not the Minister — if the Prime Minister and the Chancellor do not think that the environment is important , even if lesser Ministers do . |
| 5 | [ New ] Wolverton has now been modernised and , apart from a pleasant public library and some flower beds in the narrow residential streets , I do not think that the result is a great amelioration . |
| 6 | Early risers can also have cheap electric showers ( not quite so early in the summer , as the clock is not altered when the change is made to British Summer Time ) , while fridges , freezers and outside lights will cost less to run . |
| 7 | Similarly , at the year end , goods are received ( Invoice ) but not recognized because the cash is not paid until the subsequent year . |
| 8 | when for any other reason whatever a Consignment can not be delivered or when a Consignment is held by the Carrier ‘ to await order ’ or ‘ to be kept till called for ’ or upon any like instructions and such instructions are not given or the Consignment is not called for and removed , within a reasonable time , then transit shall be deemed to end . |
| 9 | We are co-operating with three European business schools ( ESC Lyons , Henley Management College and ESADE , Barcelona ) to develop the International Management Institute of St Petersburg , and do not consider that the Community is ‘ making a hash ’ of technical assistance to the ex-Soviet Union . |
| 10 | If the pen 's barrel is not cracked and the lever is capable of movement then it should be possible to repair it for less than twenty pounds . |
| 11 | A second group is at the opposite extreme of breakage , with no mandibles intact , and this includes the mammalian carnivores , the little owl and most of the diurnal raptors not included in the main analysis ( not included because the damage is so great that hardly any recognizable bone is left in the pellets : see Table 2.1 ) . |
| 12 | Unlike the familiar blood alcohol tests in motoring cases , urinalysis does not demonstrate that the employee is impaired by drugs . |
| 13 | The reason for discussing it here is that , under the Sexual Offences Act 1967 , this offence is not committed where the act is done in private , between consenting males , both aged 21 or over . |
| 14 | We need not doubt that the epithet is justified and I think we are on the right track in attributing its powers to nerve cells with their trigger features and projective zones , but the connecting links are missing . |
| 15 | The gifts of the Spirit are not expected and the preaching is weak . |
| 16 | If Labour can not win when the country is in the deepest recession since the war and the Tories have ditched their greatest electoral asset , can it have any hope of ever again forming a government ? |
| 17 | We do not know whether the lake is safe for our customers to fall into . ’ |
| 18 | The accused need not know that the act is unlawful : Newbury , DPP v Daley [ 1980 ] AC 237 ( PC ) . |
| 19 | This applies only where the person dealing with the company does not know that the action is beyond the powers of the company 's directors under its constitution ( s. 35A(1) — ( 3 ) CA ) . |
| 20 | I do not know if the gesture is valid , but I enjoy the ritual ; it makes me feel better . |
| 21 | We do not know if the cause is genetic , the result of physical or mental antecedents such as infection or early childhood experiences or , as has been suggested by some observers , the outcome of growing up feeling disaffected and disenfranchised in a rejecting society which offers black people few prospects of work , wealth and the good things in life to which white people aspire . |
| 22 | Proponents ( and opponents ) argue fiercely that it will ( or will not ) , but we shall not know until the system is in operation in several years ' time . |
| 23 | Increasing the spring rate of stiffness too much is not a good idea as it transmits forces into the chassis for which is was not designed and the vehicle is also uncomfortable to drive . |
| 24 | Portugal has not claimed that the treaty is void , but that its negotiation and conclusion are with a State that has no legal authority over the territory in question . |
| 25 | If B does not yield and the contract is broken , then A 's threat has not caused C to suffer loss . |
| 26 | But so often the challenge is not met and the result is a wishy-washy moral parable . |
| 27 | It does not matter that the redevelopment is likely to be carried out by a purchaser from the landlord rather than the landlord himself ( Adams v Green ) ; nor that the redevelopment proposals are very tentative ( Edwards ( JH ) & Sons Ltd v Central London Commercial Estates Ltd ( 1983 ) 271 EG 697 ) . |
| 28 | It does not matter whether the purpose is to educate or edify , to corrupt or simply to make money . |
| 29 | It does not matter if the cartoon is insulting to men . |
| 30 | It does not matter if the man is fulltime employed or unemployed , the balance of domestic work is still determined by the woman 's employment status . |