Example sentences of "[adv] [not/n't] [verb] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The joint DES/DHSS nature of the Circular , the necessary involvement of health and social services professionals in the multi-professional assessment , and their part in providing for those with special educational needs , were apparently not seen as sufficient reason for including them in discussions . |
| 2 | Such a test much be wide enough to safeguard public morality , yet narrow enough not to encroach on private taste or conscience . |
| 3 | Debt-free and so not hampered by high interest rates , they are nimble enough and liquid enough to take advantage of the recession . |
| 4 | Similarly , the interglacial periods have not been of the same duration and have presumably not resulted in equal melting of the ice . |
| 5 | Sheppard was forced to pull out of the last of the British Grand Prix qualifying meets last month , thus losing her chance to defend the sprint freestyle title at the Superfinal in Cardiff in May , and she has still not returned to full training . |
| 6 | Consistent with its fluidity and lack of strength , leaded bronze is mainly confined to decorative axes requiring detailed casting which were probably not produced for functional use . |
| 7 | This can be claimed for romantic and romance , but is not appropriate in the case of arable farmer , nor of foreign policy or animate nouns from ( 7 ) , nor of new in ( 17 ) nor naked in ( 18 ) ; and it would clearly not apply for nuclear scientist either ; while there does exist a noun nucleus , which is certainly the etymological origin of the adjective , the scientist is , synchronically and in the usage of the ordinary speaker , to be connected with the indefinite notion of nuclear matters ( where , for example , Latin would have used the neuter plural of an adjective ) rather than directly with nucleus ; one may reasonably guess that many speakers to whom the word nucleus is quite unfamiliar would nevertheless feel they understood quite satisfactorily a headline which read : TOP NUCLEAR SCIENTIST GOES MISSING ! |
| 8 | Many staff felt that their involvement had simply not increased with financial devolution . |
| 9 | The responsibility which parents have to ensure that sexual acts do not take place between themselves and their children is surely not confined to sexual intercourse . |
| 10 | What is manifestly not disorganized in disorganized capitalism as a set of social relations is capital , either in abstraction or as a ‘ system force ’ in crucial locations , but especially at the point of production . |
| 11 | Michael Palin played goody goody headmaster Jim , Robert Lindsay the deeply insecure bad guy allegedly not based on militant councillor Del Hatton — both lent the vastly ambitious saga the power and sympathy crucial to flesh out Bleasdale 's artful comic polemics . |
| 12 | Alternatively , why not turn to male school leavers to make up the difference ? |