Example sentences of "not [vb infin] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Adverse meteorological conditions should not be considered the fundamental cause of smogs since high concentrations of pollution would not arise unless the general level or baseline of pollution in the urban atmosphere was relatively high anyway : there is a limit to the peak pollution value that the atmosphere can produce . |
| 2 | The need did not arise because the man referred to would be here himself before long . |
| 3 | If the contract is voidable , there is no " obligation to make restoration " because the obligation does not arise until the innocent party elects to avoid the contract . |
| 4 | As a result it was held that the sellers ' right to repossess the goods did not arise until the expiry of the credit period allowed by the terms . |
| 5 | The problem does not arise where the review takes place on the assumption of a hypothetical letting for the residue of the actual term . |
| 6 | This would not arise if the universal conception were to be theoretically dominant in a social psychology which resembled a universal anthropology more than it did a historical social science . |
| 7 | The question does not arise if the decision is forced by circumstances . |
| 8 | These problems do not arise if the referee is an expert . |
| 9 | It is submitted that there is no good reason why an obligation of confidence should not arise if the supplier of the information clearly expresses it to be confidential . |
| 10 | Society can not exist unless a controlling appetite upon will and power be placed somewhere , and the less of it there is within , the more there is without . |
| 11 | If consent does not exist where a woman lacks understanding of the nature of the act and if the defendant knows of her lack of understanding , then he must have the requisite mens rea for the offence . |
| 12 | But these conditions do not exist where the original parties have invested in transaction-specific assets . |
| 13 | The blue tits in any area may vary , but they can not be divided into two or more discrete groups ( except by sex , or by age ) , and the distinction between blue tits and great tits in any area is absolute ; intermediates do not exist because the two species do not interbreed . |
| 14 | There are certain other circumstances in which this problem of unduly encouraging an authority to reach a particular decision does not arise and in which a scheme of compensation might be feasible and desirable : where there is no question of a decision being re-made , notably where the time-limit for challenging an allegedly illegal decision has run out ( through no fault of the applicant ) ; or where a citizen has suffered loss by relying on a representation by a public body that it will act in a particular way , in circumstances where the law will not require the body to make good its representation because it has undertaken to act illegally ; or where a court exercises its discretion not to quash an illegal decision In such cases the problem of causation does not exist because the decision in question will not be reconsidered . |
| 15 | That reference does no more than show that the essential element of dishonesty does not exist if the defendant when he appropriates the property believes that the owner would consent if he knew the circumstances . |
| 16 | The Bill gives asylum seekers in that position the right — it did not exist when the case was before the court — to appeal to an independent adjudicator . |
| 17 | A cause of action which did not exist when the summons was issued can be added by amendment only with the consent of the other party ( Chuan Chow Maritime v K/S A/S Bulk Transport ( 1984 ) The Times , 25 February ) . |
| 18 | And always , always , however she killed , the moment of agonising red pleasure that was awareness of non-existence , the I stilled , the beautiful blissful moment when she did not exist and they did not exist and They did not exist and the whole dusty lightless World was not — only the certainty of not-existing never lasted and soon she would have to kill again . |
| 19 | In Chan Wai Lam v R [ 1981 ] Crim LR 497 , the Court of Appeal of Hong Kong held that an accused was not guilty of obtaining a lease by deception because the lease did not exist until the victim granted it . |
| 20 | By parity of reasoning with Chan Wai Lam v R the accused who deceives the victim into writing a cheque in his favour is not guilty under s.15 because the amount represented by the cheque did not exist until the cheque was drawn . |
| 21 | The manor did not disappear when the Middle Ages drew to a close , nor when the Tudors made the parish the administrative unit that was responsible for maintaining the poor and the highways and for petty law and order . |
| 22 | It was true that the press gave far more attention to shortcomings than had been the case in the recent past , but those shortcomings were a feature of life itself and would not disappear if the newspapers simply ignored them . |
| 23 | The faculty could not think that a young man of 35 years , who had written one book which not everyone thought wonderful , could hold a candle to his predecessor . |
| 24 | I do not think that a single critic noticed that it was any different from the customary ‘ rum-te-tum ’ , but if one of them did he evidently did n't think it was worth a comment . |
| 25 | Elisabeth did not think that a life sentence of Bo-Bo 's knitting was the harshest a man might serve . |
| 26 | He did not think that a ‘ good artistic work can be the joint production of two minds ’ . |
| 27 | ‘ I do not think that a single relative should ever have the sole care of senile dependent . |
| 28 | He did not think that a state in which a rich majority governed could be properly called a democracy : " suppose a total of one thousand three hundred ; one thousand of these are rich , they give no share in government to the three hundred poor , who also are free men and in other respects like them ; no one would say that these thirteen hundred lived under a democracy . " |
| 29 | I do not think that a defined solution can be provided for all cases . |
| 30 | It is not certain , therefore , whether the rule in Quenerduaine v. Cole would apply , though on the whole I think it would , because I do not think that a court would speculate on the reasons that moved B to telegraph rather than write . |