Example sentences of "of [noun sg] [verb] [not/n't] [vb infin] " in BNC.

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1 Unfortunately , other forms of assessment do not lend themselves to precise measures of test-retest reliability and the clinician may need to judge how far situational factors might have influenced the two assessments .
2 ’ One and a half centuries later , similar books are being contemplated with text and photographs but the march of progress does not heed them .
3 We know rather little about what kind of bargains are struck at the present time although inheritance is always a possible way of ensuring that the balance of support does not tip too much in one direction , even if its use is not spoken about openly .
4 Expansion has been a major part of Lyles ' recent history but still the pace of change does not let up .
5 The effect of smoking did not seem to be greater in one group than the other ; the percentage fall was the same in both .
6 This type of catalyst does not affect oxides of nitrogen .
7 The journalists of Esquire did not specify the names of this country 's worst -dressed men .
8 The severity of impairment did not differ from that seen after left-sided lesions .
9 Frank was brought up in the Hollywood studio tradition and expected producers to exert a large amount of control , but Lester 's lack of freedom did not stop him changing parts of the script — including all of Gawford 's scenes — and reducing the number of songs .
10 Other aspects of freedom did not affect them so much .
11 This was not orthodox , but then , although a Freudian , she was not an orthodox Freudian , and her vision of futurity did not exclude celibacy .
12 The two kinds of responsibility do not coincide .
13 His parents , Malcolm and Susan Mallard , of Blacon , Chester , claim the Ministry of Defence did not look after him properly .
14 Because the do document , Patterns of Ministry does not talk about lay presidency !
15 Furthermore , there are certain limitations to what we can learn from science because the concept of replication does not obtain in police investigation .
16 At the Federal level there is an Office of the Co-ordination of Soil and Water Conservation , but it has a tiny staff and its position within the Ministry of Agriculture does not enable it to have much influence on land-use decisions .
17 All this makes it evident and indisputable that the compiler of PS did not understand the finer points of trust wordings : for he announces that the wordings he quotes are ones in which the settlor addresses the beneficiary .
18 It must be ensured that the process of reorganisation does not result in lasting damage to competition [ and ] Community law must therefore include provisions governing those concentrations which may impede effective competition in the common market or in a substantial part of it .
19 Although our sense of smell does not compare as favourably as some of our other senses , it allows us to detect tiny traces of a very wide range of complex chemicals .
20 Moreover , it is frequently pointed out that the early Christian definitions of faith did not mean by the Greek and Latin words that we commonly translate as ‘ person ’ exactly what we would mean by ‘ person ’ today .
21 The mere fact that Nizan , in an important article on Chamson published in 1935 , chose to give prominence to the contribution of Bukharin at the 1934 Congress is symptomatic of the fact that an acceptance of the ideological function of literature does not signal in Nizan 's eyes the complete abandonment of art to the demands of ideology .
22 Profits are well up , cost reduction obviously played a major part in this and the F T group is er , fifty five percent up on last year and this is against the background of a five percent drop in advertisement volume and we have an eleven percent drop in advertisement volume from the continent of Europe erm , which of course does n't affect other national newspapers .
23 Er whatever agreements may have been made with the Department of Transport and the County Surveyor regarding the acceptability north east of York of course does n't mean that other locations are also not un not acceptable under this criterion .
24 The computer , which of course does n't find it at all funny , needs to guess what it is , and needs to rely not just on sentence structure but also on general knowledge about heads , grenades and buckets of sand — general knowledge that computers do n't have unless it is built in to them .
25 We should rather refer to economic processes which are constituted in a particular place , which of course does not make them local .
26 ‘ That of course does not exist , ’ he says .
27 This of course does not mean that the opposition to birth control expressed in the early years of the century , particularly by religious authorities , has completely ended .
28 Counsel 's action of course does not resolve the question whether some or all of these statements ought or ought not to have been disclosed earlier and it will now be convenient to state the accepted procedure with regard to statements , as described in the respondent 's case , and the relevant principles as set forth in the Jamaican authorities .
29 Also , Christie 's tell me that their film and entertainment sale of December 1991 saw a mere 10 per cent unsold by value and a paltry 25 per cent unsold by lot , which of course does not add up to ‘ a third of the lots ’ unsold , as I wrongly stated last week .
30 This of course does not deny the grief that will be expressed , but it often acts as a strong trigger for its positive expression in a healthy way .
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