Example sentences of "not [verb] [adv] an " in BNC.

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1 The essential concept is that if a trigram does not exist then an approximate ( non-zero ) value is calculated based on the lower order transitions .
2 If the timing were tight he might not need even an hour .
3 I 'm quite clear that I do not need either an outline or a planning application in order to arrive at my conclusion that the effect of any development on these sites would be deleterious to the historic character of Skelton .
4 An important principle of treatment is that it should control the hypertension to an acceptable degree , be free from side-effects and not cause either an unacceptable deterioration of glycaemic control or have an adverse effect on blood lipids .
5 However , it will not do so an indefinite number of times .
6 If , in a Rorschach test , I show you a symmetrical ink blot , you do not see merely an ink blot , but a bat , a witch , a face , or a dragon .
7 Until the smell of the substance is neutralized the horse will not move forward an inch , resisting all kinds of persuasion and even force .
8 The law does not allow even an adult to do with his body as he wishes .
9 First of all , he can include a patent indemnity , without any exclusion clause tacked on to it , along the lines set out above , providing express but limited remedies , and , in particular , not putting forward an express right to compensation for economic loss .
10 During the First World War , Radek of the Polish party and the Left abstained on national questions ; ‘ Social Democracy does not advocate either an erection of new boundary posts in Europe nor the re-erection of those which have been torn down by imperialism ’ .
11 But he ca n't take seriously an historian who doubts whether the Holocaust ever happened …
12 we had Roy and then we had Simon for a bit and then we decided because it was n't working altogether an Edinburgh person and a Glasgow person
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