Example sentences of "[not/n't] [adj] [verb] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was not pleasant to feel like a mindless bore . |
| 2 | Where proceedings are commenced in the wrong court or transferred in contravention of the APO they are not rendered invalid and it is not possible to appeal against a final order on this basis alone ( APO , art 21 ) . |
| 3 | I had already discussed with Roger Penrose the idea of defining a black hole as the set of events from which it was not possible to escape to a large distance , which is now the generally accepted definition . |
| 4 | It is not possible to come to a firm conclusion about this project in financial terms at the moment . |
| 5 | It is not possible to come to a clean and simple judgement . |
| 6 | Unfortunately , often it is not possible to comment on a given source study 's assumptions as only summary calculations are presented . |
| 7 | For example , it is not possible to differentiate between a hilar stricture caused by focal sclerosing cholangitis from one resulting from a cholangiocarcinoma , or a distal stricture due to cancer of the pancreas from a stricture caused by chronic pancreatitis . |
| 8 | It is therefore not adequate to speak of a local economy . |
| 9 | ( 1986 ) and Borgman ( 1980 ) have found from their studies that older children especially are not willing to move to a new family if contact with their biological families is to be severed , though of course some children may be unable to voice their reluctance and tend to go along with the plans . |
| 10 | Not only was a papal judgement difficult to get , but there were some points on which Anselm was not prepared to abide by a papal judgement unreservedly . |
| 11 | Nevertheless in Guildford Rural District Council v Fortescue the court was not prepared to accept as a general proposition that mere intensity of user could never be relevant . |
| 12 | One intent of the review , says Nancy Maynard , an assistant director at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy , is to eliminate duplication but it is not likely to lead to a wholesale restructuring of agency missions . |
| 13 | The lifetime of the proton in a nucleus is predicted to be greater than 1025 years , so it is not feasible to wait for a sufficient number of transmuted atoms to accumulate . |
| 14 | While these changes do not alone amount to a decisive shift in the social and political culture , they none the less have a crucial role in shaping people 's feelings about themselves and their own worth . |
| 15 | ‘ Third , and most important , there are parents who are not able to cope with a handicapped child themselves . |
| 16 | That er erm the county council feels that it 's not able to move toward a preferred general location in advance of the detailed assessment of the criteria . |
| 17 | On mentioning that I was not happy to pay for a second hour of parking , for the privilege of waiting for their delayed train , I was told ‘ That 's no problem . |
| 18 | We have got a well established machinery instituted , we work under that auspices and I believe it is not unreasonable to ask for a substantial wage increase , because after all , a lot of our members depend on family income supplement and rents and rates rebates . |
| 19 | Where the concept of the Created God is accepted , it is not difficult to differentiate between a healthy conscience and a guilt complex , for the criterion will then be known to be based on a single undisputed source of ethical knowledge . |
| 20 | But we are not obliged to join in a single currency if we do not want to . |
| 21 | At a buffet you ensure that elderly and infirm guests , and those who have travelled long distances , have seats near the buffet table so that they are not obliged to stand for a long period . |
| 22 | The request for her to stay away from work for two months out of 12 was not sufficient to amount to a fundamental breach . |
| 23 | Hence it is not unnatural to speak of a lexical unit standing in a particular semantic relation to other lexical units . |
| 24 | This man of all men was n't likely to answer to a mere twenty-year-old — and certainly not to one he held in such contempt . |