Example sentences of "not [verb] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus when we see the often remarkable similarity between the principles of the Godwinians and of Bloomsbury , and the external relations implied by these — a rational and tolerant group wishing to extend reason and tolerance , where necessary by radical reform — we find also that we can not stay on this level , since the actual external relations were also determined by others . |
| 2 | has said about most cases being unfounded though Mr McPhee does say that they ( the travellers ) do not stay on permanent sites whereas there has been a constant settlement of varying numbers of caravans over the past two years . |
| 3 | I contacted my social worker and told her that I could not stay at this place and that she would have to find me a Cheshire Home . |
| 4 | Kate had felt she could not stay in that house a moment longer . |
| 5 | The problem should not arise during direct processing , as every valid key has a corresponding record . |
| 6 | Morrissey 's dissatisfaction may not arise from political constrictions , but from a more profound restlessness at the limits of life . |
| 7 | Unlike Aeschylus and Sophocles , he was not consistently popular , and his innovations did not arise from any desire to pander to the public . |
| 8 | We are anxious to ensure consistency in planning policy advice so that conflict does not arise from different interpretations . |
| 9 | Although the matter does not arise in this appeal because Woolwich were fully aware of all the relevant circumstances , I can not help feeling that there is some illogicality in treating as voluntary a payment by someone who justifiably believes that the demand is lawful whereas in fact it turns out to be unlawful . |
| 10 | But those circumstances did not arise until four years later , when I was not with my immediate family all the time , but away at boarding-school , the Malory Towers of my dreams . |
| 11 | He points out that even at Poole the two spits are not aligned with each other as one would expect had they been remnants of a former baymouth bar . |
| 12 | These latter , he insists , do not exist outside human action . |
| 13 | A currency union can not exist without perfect capital mobility across the union and a fully integrated financial sector . |
| 14 | The high level of research interest and activity to be found in the Faculty could not exist without excellent research facilities . |
| 15 | If this project falls , it is not for purely logical reasons ; it will rather be for the more interesting reason that the right sort of truths do not exist about human nature . |
| 16 | The net assets of the Company , as stated in the balance sheet on page 18 , are more than half of the amount of its called-up share capital and , in our opinion , on that basis there did not exist at 31 December 1992 a financial situation which under Section 40(1) of the Companies ( Amendment ) Act 1983 would require the convening of an Extraordinary General Meeting of the Company . |
| 17 | Between 1941 and 1945 it created a following for itself which has never been equalled since and certainly did not exist at any time prior to 1941 . |
| 18 | While I appreciate that in many cultures a woman 's failure to marry can have serious socio-economic implications which may not exist for many women in the UK , I was distressed by AI promoting this view of marriage as the raison d'etre of a woman , and of a woman whose hymen has been perforated as ‘ damaged goods ’ . |
| 19 | Per capita distribution of wealth roughly followed this division , the industrial countries having the highest standard of living and the agricultural nations of the south and east the lowest , but the figures do not exist for precise comparisons . |
| 20 | About half of all part-timers earn below the limit , and therefore do not exist for national insurance purposes . |
| 21 | The sooner an agreement is notified the longer the period of protection from fines is likely to be , since such protection does not exist for any period of operation of an agreement prior to notification . |
| 22 | Thus without DNA , proteins would not exist in modern organisms ; but without proteins , DNA could not exist . |
| 23 | In Marshall ( Thomas ) ( Exporters ) Ltd v Guinle [ 1979 ] 1 Ch 227 Megarry V-C held that an express contractual restriction on disclosure did not also prohibit use of the information ( the plaintiff was , in fact , granted an injunction against use on the grounds of the defendant 's duty of good faith but this duty will not exist in all cases ) . |
| 24 | Accepting the uniqueness of capitalism in the disjunction between the extraction of economic surplus and extra-economic coercion also suggests that in post-capitalist societies the correlation between base and superstructural form is highly significant , i.e. that ‘ pure ’ economics do not exist in such societies . |
| 25 | It is difficult to record colour objectively : people 's appreciation of colours obviously vary and , in any case , Nucella does not exist in discrete colour morphs . |
| 26 | An overwhelming body of evidence indicates that Nazareth did not exist in biblical times . |
| 27 | It is probable that homologous cross-veins do not exist in many orders but their positions in some cases are so constant that analogies , if not homologies , can be traced and similar names are applicable . |
| 28 | Dr Runcie , he writes , ‘ is calling for a social market economy ’ , the implication being that such a marriage between free market principles for wealth creation and collective provision for social needs does not exist in this country . |
| 29 | It was reported that he had said the Government ‘ had fallen flat on its face in dealing with the situation ’ , adding that law and order did not exist in this country at the moment ; that there could be up to five million illegal immigrants in Britain ; and that judges should be able to impose the death sentence on anyone convicted of an offence carrying more than a fifteen year sentence . |
| 30 | Few figures are available from the 1955 Census and data does not exist in this detail for intervening years . |