Example sentences of "not [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's English they wanted not Spanish on this tape . |
| 2 | Twenty-one years A lease for a term of years less than twenty-one is not registrable at HM Land Registry ( Land Registration Act 1925 , s8 ) . |
| 3 | Such a charge is not registrable against the clearing member under s 395 of the Companies Act 1985 . |
| 4 | Religious ideas are not checkable by ordinary experience , asserts Freud . |
| 5 | Many of the men are black or half-caste descendants of freed Saharan slaves and I feel that what I am watching is not Islamic at root but a practice brought by their ancestors and grafted on to the religion . |
| 6 | Me mother 's not broad like me dad . |
| 7 | I take care of myself , I eat sensibly , I try to maintain my face and body as best I can but I 'm not obsessive about it . |
| 8 | ( b ) One might wish to argue that in both cases the accused was not dishonest towards the shop . |
| 9 | While the fulfilling of the obligations or the intention to repay is not per se not dishonest it is evidence that the accused was not dishonest under Ghosh . |
| 10 | If the foreigner is not dishonest at this first stage there is no need to ask the second question . |
| 11 | Even if the accused does not fall within s.2(1) , he may still be not dishonest for the purposes of the Act . |
| 12 | The two-fold test was : ( a ) The jury are to apply the " ordinary standards of reasonable and honest people " : if the accused is not dishonest by those standards he is not guilty . |
| 13 | The courts have held that if there is no evidence that the accused believed that he was not dishonest by the standards of ordinary people , the judge need not give a direction in Ghosh terms : Roberts ( 1987 ) 84 Cr App R 117 on handling ; Price ( 1989 ) 90 Cr App R 409 on deception ; and Squire [ 1990 ] Crim LR 341 on conspiracy to defraud . |
| 14 | The jury , however , does not ask whether the accused believed he was acting with the relevant state of mind , but under the Theft Acts as well as offences of fraud the jury must acquit if the accused believed that what he did was not dishonest by the standards of ordinary decent people . |
| 15 | Roberts ( 1987 ) 84 Cr App R 117 held that the second stage of the Ghosh test does not have to be given in handling cases if there is no evidence that the accused did believe that he was not dishonest by the standards of ordinary decent people . |
| 16 | I was not dishonest in any way . |
| 17 | What is dishonest in York may not be dishonest in London , and since dishonesty is judged by current standards , what is not dishonest in 1992 may be dishonest in 1997 . |
| 18 | A claim of a moral right to the asset does not fall within s.2(1) ( a ) , but may be not dishonest within the principles to be discussed shortly . |
| 19 | Since the directors are the sole shareholders , the shareholders are not deprived of anything , and it could be said that the sole controllers are not dishonest within Ghosh . |
| 20 | In defending the theory of the civilising process , Wouters argues that informalisation is not inimical to civilisation , but can in fact be integrated into the overall theory . |
| 21 | The defendants ' operations were not destructive of telegraphic communication generally , but only affected instruments unnecessarily so constructed as to be affected by minute currents of the escaping electricity . |
| 22 | She said yesterday that it was not profitable for the new trust members to speculate on why the Scottish Office had not appointed a member of the medical school . |
| 23 | The systems division is still not profitable after charging research and development expenditure , but services — technical support , third-party maintenance , consulting , are said to be very profitable and represent 30% of receivables all told . |
| 24 | Although not profitable in the first year of acquisition , BMK with its complementary customer base and very different range of production equipment , will greatly strengthen us in the longer term . |
| 25 | They were ‘ overqualified and not cost-effective for small cases ’ . |
| 26 | Unless you install one of the cheaper d-i-y types , double glazing is not cost-effective from the insulation point of view . |
| 27 | Originality was only to be found in the words of songs , but these words were not understandable to western audiences . |
| 28 | They are not sunken into hollows as on many echinoids This genus and its allies are quite commonly found in Jurassic and Cretaceous rocks . |
| 29 | Friday 30 june was not untypical of a normal day at the PT School . |
| 30 | ‘ Our levels of absenteeism are not untypical of the London area , ’ says Dennis Tunnicliffe , the managing director of London Underground ; ‘ And that 's enough to cause some noise in the system . ’ |