Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] by a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both sections 12 and 14 allow the senior police officer to impose conditions only if he ‘ reasonably believes ’ that the stipulated events will occur , and the Government White Paper expressed the view that the new law would ‘ ensure that demonstrators have an effective means of challenging any decision by the police to impose conditions which is not justified by a real risk of serious disorder , disruption or coercion . ’ |
| 2 | The British and Irish teams was unsuccessful in this event , and this is the first international event not won by a British team for a very long time . |
| 3 | Although simultaneous oesophageal pH measurements were not done , the bursts of non-deglutitive contractions were not preceded by a small pressure plateau or other signs of a common cavity phenomenon . |
| 4 | This had not been an issue as long as Edward IV was in good health , and his death was so unexpected that it was not preceded by a political regrouping around the heir . |
| 5 | This had not been an issue as long as Edward IV was in good health , and his death was so unexpected that it was not preceded by a political regrouping around the heir . |
| 6 | Visits are not encouraged and , if permitted , are best not preceded by a heavy lunch . |
| 7 | But the increase in incomes was not matched by a similar increase in the cash becoming available to farmers . |
| 8 | How many pensioners would be floated off means-tested income support if a £5 and £8 increase in the national insurance pension was not matched by a similar change in the income support rates ? |
| 9 | The social class bias in university entrance is not matched by a corresponding bias in university performance . |
| 10 | Similarly , in aggregate terms , the UK 's high rate of concentration was not matched by a high rate of growth in manufacturing output . |
| 11 | ‘ Fashion Mad ’ , it was titled , and this one was not written by a celebrated style pundit , but by a previously unrecognised talent called Associated Press . |
| 12 | Section 50A states that copyright is not infringed by a lawful user making an additional copy of a computer program for back-up purposes if doing so is necessary to the lawful use . |
| 13 | ‘ Functional ’ is to be preferred to ‘ instrumental ’ because the task of dissolving conflict and dispute is not done by a legal method when it is purely conciliation and compromise of a political sort . |
| 14 | The company is able to dispose freely of assets until a default crystallizes the floating charge , at which time the charge fixes on the assets of the company that are not secured by a fixed charge . |
| 15 | The pair have reportedly clashed over who runs the commercial side of the club , and their relationship is not helped by a new book by former chairman Irving Scholar . |
| 16 | The improbable plot is not helped by a weak script . |
| 17 | It would be tragic if Agassi 's rare talent was not rewarded by a Grand Slam title in the near future and a World No. 1 ranking later on . |
| 18 | No miller was allowed to buy or sell grain or flour except surplus toll corn until after the reign of Elizabeth I and although the influence of the soke began to wane during the seventeenth century , toll-in-kind was not replaced by a monetary charge until an act of 1796 . |
| 19 | Unfortunately , the 12.35 a.m. tram journey on route 16/18 was not replaced by a corresponding bus journey from Westminster to Purley . |
| 20 | Note that if national currencies are not replaced by a single union currency and the as if assumption is met , then intra-union exchange rates will be fixed even if they are not de jure fixed . |
| 21 | The conclusion of the first section was that a just government can exist even if its subjects are not bound by a general obligation to obey it . |
| 22 | Ltd [ 1944 ] 2 All ER 293 ( CA ) the Court of Appeal decided that it was not bound by a previous decision of that court , if satisfied that the decision in question was reached per incuriam . |
| 23 | It 's not bounded by a solid line but it 's just a normal hatching . |
| 24 | They walked in silence for a short distance before he asked casually , ‘ You 're not gripped by a mad urge to rip up a few ferns ? ’ |
| 25 | These data suggest that after medical dissolution , the risk of gall stone recurrence is not reduced by a high fibre , low refined carbohydrate diet : it may be lowered , but not abolished , by low dose ursodeoxycholic acid . |
| 26 | Yet contrary to what one might expect , the capacity for assimilation is not accompanied by a discursive restriction . |
| 27 | This may partly explains why the West German centre-right Conservative led government is adamant that there can be no further move to supra-national European Union that is not accompanied by a demonstrable system of Parliamentary accountability . |
| 28 | These protective effects of calcium are not inhibited by a fourfold increase in dietary phosphate . |
| 29 | If the hypocholesterolaemia among colorectal cancer patients is not caused by a metabolic effect of the tumours , how can such a phenomenon be explained ? |
| 30 | This susceptibility is not caused by a single gene defect but is thought to result from the cumulative interaction of a number of genes . |