Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] on a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps what has saved it is the fact that it is not situated on a major road . |
| 2 | is not justified on a general reading of that case . |
| 3 | A package which is to be submitted for approval/has already been submitted for approval includes modules which are not listed on a corresponding Design Change ( DC ) . |
| 4 | I will not comment on a particular by-election . |
| 5 | Even if you 're not parked on a yellow line , the police can imagine you 're travelling at forty when you 're just doing thirty and so on . |
| 6 | Although not located on a structural culmination , the well had a small show of methane at the top of the Lower Permian Sandstone beneath the Magnesian Limestone and Zechstein salt . |
| 7 | And the presidential election is not won on a first-past-the-post basis by simply tallying the votes for Bush , Clinton and Ross Perot across the country . |
| 8 | There is nothing more annoying than a computer system that works beautifully , say , in a library , and then one goes in at nine thirty in the morning and you ca n't get books out because the power has gone off , and if we are sure to go on having a society with industrial disputes , we want a system that is not capable of being completely ruined by one small section of workers deciding not to work on a particular day , and so I think while we 're putting them in , while we want to put them in in a way which that is compatible , we also need to think of having a kind of fail-safe system , particularly in the sort of more serious applications such as medicine and transport and so on , whereby we ca n't be held to ransom by very a small group of people , or indeed by just some technical fault , such as a power failure or something of this kind . |
| 9 | Statistics for the number of recipients of all benefits are not collected on a regional basis . |
| 10 | " This is a fascist policy " , he remarked , " only the collective effort of nation states can guarantee that such a policy is not imposed on a world-wide scale " . |
| 11 | What would happen if the Institute were not accepted on a new Register ? was glad of the opportunity to speak on the matter and as the Institute representative on the Committee he was disturbed by the lack of progress by the appointed agent . |
| 12 | You had , he says , to be careful not to fumigate on a foggy night when the air was too heavy to let the fumes drift away . |
| 13 | Nevertheless , the report did criticize the police for not preventing the incident and in particular for not acting on a wide range of warnings that unrest had been planned . |
| 14 | A market purchase is one made on a recognised investment exchange ( which includes the London Stock Exchange and the USM ) , whereas an off-market purchase is one which is not made on a recognised investment exchange ( ie by private contract ) or is so made but the shares are not subject to a marketing arrangement on that exchange . |
| 15 | It was in the 2nd round of the FA Cup in December 1937 when the Palace had had to make the long trip to Accrington on one of the rare times when the draw for this round was not made on a geographical basis . |
| 16 | One of the problems with old masonry door steps is that , very often , they are not bedded on a damp-proof course . |
| 17 | The type of heads contamination mentioned above with a floppy disk drive can not occur on a hard disk because it is sealed from external air-borne dust , and the disk is assembled in conditions which are scrupulously clean . |
| 18 | I still put myself to sleep by thinking about not lying on a cold pavement covered with newspapers . |
| 19 | At first , Stalin did not insist on a communist regime and in the 1945 elections , the communists only obtained seventeen per cent of the vote . |
| 20 | To presuppose this is both contradictory and dangerous ; contradictory because the West can not insist on a certain outcome from free elections and still uphold democracy ; dangerous because , if the confusion of the two in the public mind persists , there will be many more instances of superpowers subverting elected governments because they have not opted for a market economy . |
| 21 | Unlike the other three types of scheme , the amount of pension you receive is not based on a fixed formula but ( within Inland Revenue limits ) is dependent on the investment performance of the fund into which your own and your employer 's contributions on your behalf have been paid . |
| 22 | Mr Bowman warned a moral panic not based on a real perception of the situation , could lead to bad or ineffective legislation . |
| 23 | It is crucial , therefore , that mathematics be recognised as being of less value if it is not based on a multicultural approach . |
| 24 | Her perception was not clearly defined by sensations and she made a value judgement not based on a logical process . |
| 25 | How workers understood work , therefore , was not based on a simple perception of its demands , but was refracted through available discourses on the nature of the wider society . |
| 26 | With reference to old people of over 75 , who are here our main concern , there is a further aspect of ageist stereotyping which is prevalent and regrettable ; that is , the tendency to make negative assumptions about the capacities of individual old people which are not based on a proper appraisal of their state . |
| 27 | Zimbabwe 's economy is not based on a single commodity like Zambia 's and it did not experience the mass exodus of whites and ‘ scorched earth ’ policies of the Portuguese in Mozambique and Angola . |
| 28 | Unlike realism , liberal pluralism is not based on a single set of ideas developed over time , but embraces a variety of approaches . |
| 29 | The purchaser may want the earnout to run for at least two years to ensure that the earnout payment is not based on a one-off peak in earnings . |
| 30 | And as it 's not flying on a vertical pole , it needs planning permission . |