Example sentences of "[not/n't] [adv] [vb infin] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Charles Russell also found much to admire in his Manchester Scuttlers , seeing in their violent gang fights a ‘ sense of comradeship ’ which he could not altogether disapprove of : ‘ The ‘ Scuttler ’ ’ was not wholly bad ; he would rather be a blackguard than a dullard . |
| 2 | I can not altogether agree with Ruskin . |
| 3 | Some , as you will see , I do not altogether agree with . |
| 4 | Liza Tremayne , going about her duties at Southern Command and ever susceptible to atmosphere , was possibly more conscious of this than many of the girls with whom she worked , girls who she well knew did not altogether approve of her present lifestyle . |
| 5 | After the Leeds Congress Maginn was plainly a disappointed man and probably did not altogether approve of the BDDA 's leadership . |
| 6 | It is true that the section does not expressly refer to proceedings by way of injunction as such ; but , as I have previously said , the breadth of the section is such as to embrace injunction proceedings , brought under the power subsequently conferred by section 222 of the Local Government Act 1972 , when such proceedings are necessary . |
| 7 | Thus if the clause does not expressly refer to negligence , the clause may still exclude liability for negligence provided that ( 1 ) the wording is capable of covering negligence and ( 2 ) there is no other head of liability to which the clause could apply . |
| 8 | No body , no individual may exercise authority which does not expressly emanate from the Nation . ’ |
| 9 | His distribution contract did not expressly provide for him to be personally involved in the distribution although his personal involvement was appreciated . |
| 10 | The wrongful sale of goods subject to a hire-purchase agreement will constitute a repudiation and hence vest a right to immediate possession in the finance company even though the agreement does not expressly provide for this . |
| 11 | We have already seen that national rules which do not expressly discriminate on grounds of nationality may nevertheless have this effect in practice . |
| 12 | It need hardly be added that the examiner always wants reasons and authorities for the answer , even though he does not expressly ask for them . |
| 13 | In this he was mistaken , since state control over industry was considerably reduced once the war was over , even if it did not wholly return to pre-war conditions . |
| 14 | Although reduced feed consumption and diarrhoea affect liveweight gain they do not wholly account for the loss in production . |
| 15 | I believe that the House should insist er that the not only should th should be a majority o of local of of of local authority members , but these so-called independent members are really quite superfluous to requirements they are p they are creating another kind of semi-quango , they are concentrating more power into the hands of the Home Secretary and for that reason , although I do not wholly agree with the amendments that have been put down , I shall certainly vote for them all . |
| 16 | If the meaning of an utterance does not wholly reside in the semantic meaning , and if people can mean quite different things with the same words , how do human beings interpret — usually quite accurately — what is meant from what is said ? |
| 17 | Although I do not wholeheartedly agree with the view the author takes of the mechanical world of the train being somehow better than that of nature , I can still find it interesting and thought inducing from a philosophical angle . |
| 18 | If two monads coincided in all their attributes , then they would be indistinguishable and one could not properly speak of " two " monads . |
| 19 | It is probable that one can not properly speak of such a thing as a career as a mufti in the same sense that one can of a career as a muderris or a kadi ; but to the degree that there does appear to have been some hierarchical gradation of muftiliks , it is worth emphasizing that these did not lead to the office of the Mufti , which rather , from the sixteenth century on , was approached by the route of the medreses , mevleviyet kadiliks and kazaskerliks . |
| 20 | It is important to emphasize that ‘ creative accounting ’ does not properly refer to ‘ illegal accounting ’ : there is or was no support for illegal accounting . |
| 21 | With the two stories of Abraham in Genesis 22–23 we can not properly start with them , but must quickly trace ‘ the story so far ’ . |
| 22 | ( a ) Where the judge comes to the conclusion that the prosecution evidence , taken at its highest , is such that a jury properly directed could not properly convict upon it , it is his duty , upon a submission being made , to stop the case . |
| 23 | If the magistrate concludes , on the evidence before him , that the previous evidence is such that a jury properly directed could not properly convict upon it , then , on the principle stated in Reg. v. Galbraith [ 1981 ] 1 W.L.R. 1039 , he should not commit . |
| 24 | The United States could not properly insist on " a blank check " . |
| 25 | Voters do not instinctively turn to Labour in time of trouble . |
| 26 | But it also strained credulity to believe that any sort of war where any sort of nuclear weapons were available would not eventually lead to full-scale atomic destruction . |
| 27 | Insofar as English law requires the directors to take into account the interests of groups other than the shareholders it adopts the position that these interests do not fundamentally conflict with those of the shareholders and that it is therefore possible to arrive at a decision that balances all the relevant interests , subsuming them under or subordinating them to the vaguely defined collective goal of the organization . |
| 28 | ( 2 ) A partner who retires from a firm does not thereby cease to be liable for partnership debts or obligations incurred before his retirement . |
| 29 | It follows that , strictly , we can not justifiably speak of the " same propositions " , or the " same concepts " . |
| 30 | I wonder whether Christ would not rather go to Calvary again than to suffer the unfaithfulness of some of his friends . |