Example sentences of "[noun] [not/n't] [vb pp] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is the most spectacular section of the Dee , its steep confining walls fringed by dense woodlands and its rocky bed much too rough for the passage of walkers not addicted to hard labour and who have respect for their clothes . |
| 2 | a balance sheet for all funds not included in consolidated balance sheet ; |
| 3 | The language in the samples contains syntactic patterns and inter-sentence relationships not found in oral language . |
| 4 | Two months after the military crackdown in Beijing in June 1989 , it was announced that university student intake would be cut from 640,000 to 610,000 in the next academic year , and that " specialities mainly in the social science fields which the State has deemed for a long time to have turned out personnel not qualified for socialist construction " would be suspended . |
| 5 | For the purposes of s 287(1) , the meaning of the term should be confined to releases not given for full consideration , on the grounds that such a limitation was required by the context of s 287(1) itself and by the provisions of TA 1970 relating to company distributions as a whole ( ss 233–237 and 282–286 ) . |
| 6 | My fear was further sharpened when Tooth , the only practising Muslim aboard , stiffly emerged from below wearing his black peci hat , and proceeded to prostrate himself towards Mecca at hours not prescribed by Islamic doctrine . |
| 7 | Sums of money not required for immediate use can be put into a deposit account on which the bank will pay interest . |
| 8 | Balanced Banking is also proving popular with around 50 per cent of the customers joining Balanced opening a new high interest savings accounts , and these accounts show higher average balances than for savings accounts not linked to Balanced Banking . |
| 9 | Poetic speech does not differ from ordinary speech just because it may include constructions or vocabulary not found in everyday language ( the lo ! s thous and word-order inversions conventionally allowed in English poetry ) , but because its formal devices ( such as rhyme and rhythm ) act on ordinary words to renew our perception of them , and of their sound texture in particular . |
| 10 | More important still , it was the only large town in Russia not ravaged by barbarian invasion in the thirteenth century , due to its marshy situation on the shores of Lake Ilmen , so it was able to expand and become wealthy . |
| 11 | ( Such statements are usually opinion not supported by quoted evidence . ) |
| 12 | From her vantage point she watched them come in : serious-looking lads in duffle coats , earnest women in glasses and hand-knitted cardigans , the clerical students from the religious seminaries in their black suits all looking remarkably cleaner and neater than the other males not bound for religious life . |
| 13 | Theoretical or descriptive surveys not based on empirical research commonly make no reference to women at all , or allot them a specific section on ‘ work and the family ’ or some such title . |
| 14 | The best and cheapest solutions to providing domestic hot water not connected to central heating systems are likely to be an Economy 7 hot water cylinder or , if you have gas laid on , a gas circulator used with an indirect cylinder . |
| 15 | The July regulations imposed tariffs up to 20 times higher than before on goods not intended for personal use . |
| 16 | By virtue of being interdisciplinary , psychobiology has some special problems not encountered in mainstream psychology . |
| 17 | The number of modules with no destination volume includes all modules in charge codes not specified for hard copying , any 0.0Z package modules for which no later issues exist and any modules filtered from hard copying . |
| 18 | I am vulnerable to the inference here that my inquiry has vested interests ; that because I am an African-American and a writer I stand to benefit in ways not limited to intellectual fulfilment from this line of questioning . |
| 19 | But because IQ is , in fact , so broadly correlated with other cognitive activities , in school and at work , it is virtually impossible to design objective measures of performance not correlated with tested intelligence , and hence subject to the same charges of ineffectuality and bias . |
| 20 | A further question that arises ( and that might be perceived on the face of this problem ) is whether dismissal by the Crown can only be for misbehaviour in office or whether it can be for an offence not related to judicial office or affecting judicial ability . |
| 21 | Network SouthEast will be the only European commuter rail operation not supported by public money , and Mr Parkinson has ordered it to earn a commercial rate of return by 1995/96 , a move which implies further fare increases . |
| 22 | Erm so it 's a question of how one can best do it , but initially it would be er the onus would go on the individual to use the the spaces not designated as short stay . |
| 23 | A further 2 per cent of women and 4 per cent of men had income from private pensions not derived from past employment ( ibid . , |
| 24 | The middle aged or elderly patient who presents with CLO and a heavy smoking history , however , is already at increased risk of developing adenocarcinoma , a risk not reversed by anti-reflux sugery . |
| 25 | With a move to new premises which would double its audience capacity in a city not noted for enthusiastic theatre-going , the company needed to retain its existing audience while attracting new theatre go-ers to fill additional seats . |
| 26 | The filtering operation is crucial , because the total amount of environmental information could swamp virtually any receiver not adapted to selective perception . |
| 27 | In addition to this reference manual — which is a substantial document not intended for casual browsing — the TEI plans to make available a number of smaller introductory tutorials focused on particular application areas . |
| 28 | The USA , which was the only country not represented by Cabinet-level official , declined to offer any financial assistance . |
| 29 | Its effect is to expose to restraining action in the courts any local authority activity not backed by statutory authority . |