Example sentences of "[vb -s] not [verb] as a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , although the Cross Country route has not emerged as a high-speed line per se , it now features a number of useful long-distance trains mainly aimed at the leisure market . |
| 2 | All in all , it is submitted that the claim that there is a risk of liability under section 2 of the Suicide Act does not serve as a valid justification for ignoring the request of the patient that treatment be discontinued . |
| 3 | The Germanic tribe is therefore based on shared locality rather than kinship , but it consists of a collection of kinship units each with access to a territory , thus ‘ individual landed property ( of the different families ) does not appear as a contradictory form of communal landed property , nor as mediated by the community but the other way round . |
| 4 | The final surprise is that in the Old Testament the Spirit does not appear as a divine being . |
| 5 | So this does not appear as a technical difference . |
| 6 | Transport does not appear as a separate item , but as part of the overall block grant to regional authorities . |
| 7 | ( 2 ) The human being does not exist as a legal person until after birth . |
| 8 | If it does not stand as a moral example to the followers of the Church , it counts for nothing . |
| 9 | It does not perform as a titrating dosimat or have the RS 232C interface for the attachment of a balance , printer or PC , like the 665 Dosimat , but the 725 is available for about half the price of the 665 . |
| 10 | Moreover , historically , the possibility of pregnancy does not emerge as a central consideration in the offence of rape . |
| 11 | Fatialofa is L'Aquila 's ‘ foreign player ’ but on the other side of the scrum there is a South African of Italian descent , Gerardo Lepera , who does not count as a foreign player and has the right to play as what the Italians call an oriundi . |
| 12 | Turning now to impertinent , we can readily see that although the im -is replaceable by zero , it does not qualify as a semantic constituent : |
| 13 | This is partly because it is hard to identify true costs in any health system , but also because the market for health care does not operate as a normal market — particularly with respect to the nature of demand . |
| 14 | In contrast , the portfolio-management analysis of corporate strategy may take some account of discounted cash flow ( DCF ) , but it does not figure as a central concept . |
| 15 | An unholy alliance with other minorities to preserve ideological positions otherwise unacceptable to the electorate does not appeal as a noble enterprise . |
| 16 | I hope that that does not come as a total surprise to him , as it appears to . |
| 17 | If Lamb 's sacking does not come as a major shock then Gower 's latest axing is mind-blowingly baffling following his much trumpeted recall for the third Cornhill Test match at Old Trafford . |
| 18 | Generally , infertility does not come as a sudden cut-off point ; rather it declines gradually , and when it is observed we have to look for the cause in the interdependence breakdown , and not just regard it as a shortage of one or other nutrients . |
| 19 | From the available evidence , it seems fair to conclude that the typical legal sanction against corporate crime does not act as a general deterrent — others are not put off merely because some corporations and their executives have been fined , particularly when the fines are comparatively small and tax-deductable — and the evidence , such as it is , suggests that a specific deterrent function may operate , but only to deter corporations from recommitting the same offence . |
| 20 | Our data would support this hypothesis but also suggest that bile does not act as a simple genotoxic carcinogen for , although the intragastric bile concentrations found after truncal vagotomy were higher than those found after highly selective vagotomy ( Fig 3 ) , there was no correlation between bile concentrations and DNA adduct levels ( Fig 4 ) . |
| 21 | The administration itself is of course no monolith and does not act as a single bloc , pursuing its interests whatever they may be . |
| 22 | ‘ Not being able to support myself financially when old ’ , and ‘ having to care for an elderly relative ’ are some of your other major worries ; ‘ losing my job ’ does not feature as a key worry for most . |