Example sentences of "[conj] not [verb] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Servian centuriate organization — whether or not inspired by the Solonian model of the four classes — made Rome a timocratic city . |
| 2 | Well , I do n't suppose this contract 's costing us twenty-one million , but it 's costing us several million , and I would hate to think that er , any of that is being wasted , or not spent in the best possible way , and I would therefore recommend , chair , that we refer the matter of the facilities management contract to the budget review sub-committee for consideration of the way it 's not being implemented . |
| 3 | Bidders missing the deadline for offers or not shortlisted for the second phase may not be readmitted . |
| 4 | Frequently , indeed , local languages are not examined or not counted in the final mark to determine selection . |
| 5 | The difficulty is in deciding whether or not to start with the public culture ( pro third world , bicycles , a minimum wage , higher taxes , more women comedians , legal justice for black and Irish people ) and tackling popular fears about Labour ; or whether to assume that public culture is sanctimonious and self-deceiving and Labour 's interest lies in an honest public culture . |
| 6 | The ‘ offset ’ policy extends the bubble concept so as to allow interfirm trading of emission permits among activities not located in the same plant or not owned by the same firm . |
| 7 | These surveys , although not published before the first major statement on the curriculum , must have influenced HMI thinking . |
| 8 | So much of the power of the ‘ male gaze ’ depends on the impulse towards self-gratification that not to draw on the erotic is to limit the effect of the image . |
| 9 | Hamer USA told me when I spoke to them that this is a custom option and not featured on the standard Sunburst models . |
| 10 | Cultivations are carried out for three reasons : to improve the soil crumb structure and so create an ideal seed-bed for the crop ; to uproot and kill weeds ; and to bury turf or crop residues where they will rot down and not compete with the ensuing crop . |
| 11 | In some of these shops I observed one or more females , stript of their upper garment , and not overcharged with the latter , wielding the hammer with all the grace of the sex … struck with this novelty , I enquired , " whether the ladies of this locality shod horses ? " but was answered , with a smile , " they are nailers " . |
| 12 | ( b ) A blank copy of the builder 's standard descriptions of work ( i.e. omnibus and not based on the Standard Method of Measurement ) is forwarded to the sub-contractors for pricing . |
| 13 | The returns for Lothingland and Mutford hundreds , Suffolk , permit a rare glimpse of the mechanics by which many assessments were revalued , under the heading ‘ The namys of those personys forgotyn and not charged at the last subsidie which are to be charged now ’ . |
| 14 | Male and female roles were separate and complementary , and based on the primitive , that the male was the stronger and not exposed to the constant and deathly risks of the childbed . |
| 15 | The corporation hopes miners will take the redundancy and not go through the lengthy procedure . |
| 16 | Although the last thing we want is a return to rigid central control , the NHS does need some coordination to ensure that scarce resources are used to best advantage and not wasted by the unsupervised duplication of facilities . |
| 17 | There was also still a feeling in the Hollywood colony that as he had established himself as a star he should not play an unattractive character , and , what is more , he would only be the second lead and not appear for the first twenty minutes . |
| 18 | But I was through and not stuck in the dreadful clutch of metal links , not grasped by debris , not drowning without any chance of rescue . |
| 19 | She sort of froze for a moment , tried to smile and not smile at the same time , looked uncomprehendingly at me , turned ever so slightly towards the farther side of the road from me and walked away with quick nervous steps . |
| 20 | They are assumed to have been quarried there , in situ , and not removed from the glacial Drift . |
| 21 | Even the local garage conformed to the general pattern and this was obviously one of those fortunate towns where the planners had insisted that the character of the place be preserved , and not submerged by the usual welter of national stores . |
| 22 | Hodge : At 31 and not playing in the first team . |
| 23 | 5.19 Statutory notices etc To give full particulars to the Landlord of any notice direction order or proposal for the Premises made given or issued to the Tenant by any local or public authority within [ 7 ] days of receipt and if so required by the Landlord to produce it to the Landlord and without delay to take all necessary steps to comply with the notice direction or order and at the request of the Landlord but at the cost of the Tenant to make or join with the Landlord in making such objections or representations against or in respect of any notice direction order or proposal as the Landlord shall deem expedient Seven days may be too short a period , particularly if the notice is served at the premises and not forwarded to the appropriate officer of a tenant company with any great alacrity . |
| 24 | I 'd be a complete idiot if I thought that I could go through life and not bounce into the occasional person who did n't have my welfare at heart , and I 'm no idiot . |
| 25 | I would imagine what they 're doing is raising the roof and not putting in the second storey . |
| 26 | This gives rise to the conventional neoclassical objection to all models of this sort , namely , that the concept of a target real wage rate is ad hoc , arbitrary and not grounded in the rational calculus of profit and utility maximization which should be the starting-point of all economic enquiry at both the micro and the macro levels . |
| 27 | Er now I I would expect , I do n't know whether it 's worth talking about the general principle that we 're talking about different routes here and as i understand , the purpose today was to talk about the need for relief roads and I would expect at some future date , at a public enquiry when er I 'm defending er the outer blue er the outer northern route , to defend why that was chosen as opposed to an inner northern route and not rely upon the key diagram in the structure plan and the stars that are shown on there . |
| 28 | Lot seventy does not have a horn with it but Lot ninety two , the good news is it does have a reproducer er Lot one hundred and eleven should have a black dot against it to indicate that it will be removed from the premises if not cleared within the stated time Lot one seven four is withdrawn one nine one the estimate should read eight to twelve hundred and finally Lot one nine eight is withdrawn . |
| 29 | ‘ For the purposes of all legal proceedings any question as to the meaning or effect of any of the Treaties , or as to the validity , meaning or effect of any Community instrument , shall be treated as a question of law ( and , if not referred to the European Court , be for determination as such in accordance with the principles laid down by and any relevant decision of the European Court ) . ’ |
| 30 | Section 3(1) of the European Communities Act 1972 expressly provides that the meaning or effect of any of the Treaties ‘ shall be treated as a question of law ( and , if not referred to the European Court , be for determination as such in accordance with the principles laid down by and any relevant decision of the European Court ) ’ . ’ |