Example sentences of "not [verb] [conj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now that type of exception would mean that the practical difficulties to which he referred would not arise except in the comparatively few cases that arise of the particular type . |
| 2 | This does not arise because of failure , but , rather , the use of Total Communication offers both spoken and signed stimulation which provides a range of alternatives for the deaf child . |
| 3 | However , that charge does not arise because of the provisions mentioned above . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The announcer warns people not to swim because of a dangerous fish . |
| 6 | … it would be inconsistent with the equitable nature of the relief for the bank not to be affected by the undue influence exerted by its agent when the transaction would not exist but for the wrongful acts of its agent . |
| 7 | As we have made clear in answer to issue ( 4 ) , the undue influence is required to have brought about the transaction , and it would be inconsistent with the equitable nature of the relief for the bank not to be affected by the undue influence exerted by its agent when the transaction would not exist but for the wrongful acts of its agent . |
| 8 | He was left to lament : ‘ In many cases the party does not exist except in name , and the most urgent and repeated efforts to correct this meet with the indifference , carelessness , ignorance and , now , the obstinacy and hostility of the party leadership . ’ |
| 9 | The French police said the number they had called did not exist but in fact it was a special number allocated to the DGSE . |
| 10 | Like the pain , it ‘ can not exist but in a mind perceiving it . ’ |
| 11 | My primary target was the heat-pain argument , and its conclusion : that heat , like pain , ‘ can not exist but in a mind perceiving it ’ . |
| 12 | Even where religious textual condemnation does not exist as in some societies , there is a strong cross-cultural feeling that such acts are ‘ against nature ’ or God . |
| 13 | He added that while the evangelicals had their part in the Church he did not think that on the whole they had the qualities suitable for being bishops . ’ |
| 14 | I understand the hon. Gentleman 's concern , which is shared by my Department , but I do not think that on reflection he would want the defence industry to be singled out for particular treatment from our other manufacturing industries . |
| 15 | Well — the argument goes — it must be because we do not think that behind the parrot 's utterance is the thought ‘ I 'm going to the bank ’ . |
| 16 | I do not think that in either case there has been any failure in interpretation of the ideas proposed , but rather that accommodation has been too readily accorded . |
| 17 | However , convention has it that TBs are not quoted on the basis of a yield , rather , they are quoted on the basis of a discount rate ; and the issue price of TBs is not calculated as in ( 4.7 ) ; instead , it is determined as the difference between the face value and the discount . |
| 18 | The problem is quite general : when the pragmatic implications of an utterance do not match the context , then in general the utterance is not treated as in any way infelicitous or inappropriate or bizarre-rather the pragmatic implications are simply assumed not to hold . |
| 19 | Surely it was his duty to be ? she told herself , not realising that at that very moment he was sitting listening to a paper being read at a learned society , his mind occupied with a particularly tricky question he intended to ask when the speaker sat down . |
| 20 | For the simple reason that , if they were to be considered as arbitrators , there would be at least a danger that one party or the other might be able to require a case to be stated before a court of law , by which means it could be suggested that the award was not binding because of some error in it . |
| 21 | Total hours are not prescribed because of the special nature of the trade ( i.e. exemptions , extensions and licensing hours which vary from district to district ) . |
| 22 | Both of them realised that he had abandoned all pretence that Sally-Anne was an ordinary young woman come to work in Vetch Street , but neither of them pursued the matter , Dr Neil from delicacy , and Sally-Anne because she could not tell him the real truth about herself — he would undoubtedly immediately send her back to the embassy , and she did not want that at all — it would be failure . |
| 23 | Similarly in a case involving a French corporation , an order for depositions and document production at the offices of New York attorneys was not regarded as in conflict with the Convention ; all that was to happen on French soil was ‘ certain acts preparatory to the giving of evidence ’ , the selection of appropriate employees to travel to New York and of relevant documents to be disclosed in New York . |
| 24 | The second influence has been the expansion of international regulation into areas which were previously not regarded as within international competence . |
| 25 | He described it as " very backward " and claimed it had " not matured and through cowardice or through lack of experience keeps quiet when there is , for example , a violation of democracy " . |
| 26 | The finest Cycladic products of the time are huge jars decorated with figure-scenes not painted but in relief , the best from Mykonos with panels on the body showing warriors putting women and children to the sword : a savage view of the sack of Troy , as is made clear by the superb rendering on the neck of the Wooden Horse ( fig.10 ) . |
| 27 | However , it remains to be seen whether in their place will arise a significant number of women who have married , divorced and not remarried and to whom society would wish to ascribe similar roles . |
| 28 | We decided not to wait and to content ourselves instead with the street exhibition that day . |
| 29 | Wycliffe did not answer and after a pause Maurice went on : ‘ What will happen now ? ’ |
| 30 | I 've not heard that for quite a while and its unfamiliarity makes it sound strange . |