Example sentences of "[not/n't] [vb pp] [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rather unexpectedly , the lighthouse is not situated at the far extremity of the headland , the Point of Stoer , but two miles short on the west side . |
| 2 | TWO men accused of killing a pensioner when a mugging went wrong had the charge found not proven at the High Court in Glasgow yesterday . |
| 3 | If the arms race is not stopped in the Middle East , any hope of the long-sought peace dividend will simply disappear , crippling even further the UK and US economies . |
| 4 | At present domestic labour is organisationally inefficient because it is not socialised like the industrial sphere , which counterbalances increased productivity through mechanisation . |
| 5 | Agree that Practice Rule 15 be not amended at the present time . |
| 6 | The DTI could have responded by saying that the absence of the monitoring return was a serious matter , that it would allow a short extension , but that ‘ consideration would need to be given to revoking the licence if a satisfactory and duly verified monitoring return were not received by the specified date . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Wearing a white beret in among Australians , New Zealanders and every type of nationality out there brought some great wolf whistles , which were naturally not received in the right manner . |
| 8 | Forward contracts are relatively easy to arrange , although the exporter is committed to supplying the currency agreed to the bank even if the export deal is cancelled or payment is not received within the forward contract period . |
| 9 | While every effort is made to offer those who book late the course they have requested , the school reserves the right to offer an alternative Executive Course in the case of applications not received within the specified time . |
| 10 | The tenders were not received until the following week . |
| 11 | After the last exchange of prisoners in mid-September , Iran had refused to release an estimated 17,000 Iraqi prisoners , claiming that Iraq still held 20,000 Iranians not registered with the International Committee of the Red Cross ( ICRC ) . |
| 12 | ‘ For the purposes of all legal proceedings any question as to the meaning or effect of any of the Treaties , or as to the validity , meaning or effect of any Community instrument , shall be treated as a question of law ( and , if not referred to the European Court , be for determination as such in accordance with the principles laid down by and any relevant decision of the European Court ) . ’ |
| 13 | Section 3(1) of the European Communities Act 1972 expressly provides that the meaning or effect of any of the Treaties ‘ shall be treated as a question of law ( and , if not referred to the European Court , be for determination as such in accordance with the principles laid down by and any relevant decision of the European Court ) ’ . ’ |
| 14 | Nevertheless , as Gordon Phillips has argued , the pattern of trade union activity and industrial relations was not altered by the General Strike . |
| 15 | The new government , whose authority was not recognized by the central government in Baghdad , said that its first task would be to restore order in Iraqi Kurdistan . |
| 16 | The interim government was not recognized by the major rebel movements . |
| 17 | ( Four of the homelands — Ciskei , Bophuthatswana , Transkei and Venda — were nominally independent of South Africa , but were not recognized by the international community ; the remaining six were " self-governing " ; all remained heavily dependent on subsidies from South Africa . |
| 18 | Upstream promoter regions are not recognized by the truncated RNA polymerases in contrast to the wild-type enzyme |
| 19 | Unlicensed boxing is not illegal , but it is not recognized by the British Board of Control . |
| 20 | They grant also what is called a divorce a mensa et thoro , or rather what we should call a judicial separation , i.e. they release the parties from the duty of living together on grounds of cruelty or misconduct ; but a divorce in the modern sense , which allows the parties to marry again , is not recognized by the medieval church in the case of any marriage which is originally valid . |
| 21 | The first three instruments here are obviously not intended for the serious player but for the beginner , or to be strummed once in a while as a second or third instrument . |
| 22 | They 're not intended for the dedicated hiker . |
| 23 | Put another way , the state is seen as divorced from any one class and is not regarded as the cohesive instrument of the economically powerful ( there is no ruling class ) ; the state is not a biased " establishment " serving only itself ; and the very fragmentation of the state provides for multiple access points for all interest groups . |
| 24 | DC is certainly not regarded as the perfect classification scheme even in sectors where there is no serious alternative . |
| 25 | The statement that ‘ radiotherapy and radical prostatectomy are effective in treating locally confined prostate cancer ’ ( cited with a reference to an American consensus conference ) is not justified by the available evidence . |
| 26 | A significant variance could be defined as one amounting to more than a given percentage of the budget but which is not explained by the general level of prices , i.e. inflation or deflation . |
| 27 | Both the book entitled For Marx , and Althusser 's essay in Reading Capital are elaborate interpretations of Marx 's views , and this fact is not explained by the simple observation that Althusser himself is a Marxist , anxious to give an account of the theory of history to which he is politically committed . |
| 28 | Indeed , that part of the over-representation of teenagers amongst the temporary labour force which is not explained by the temporary working of persons still at school is explained by the high proportion of the age group in special youth training schemes . |
| 29 | If we take from ( 1 ) the phrase distant cousin , we can remark that it is closely analogous to another phrase — near relative — in which it is quite plain that the adjective is not assigned to the referential locus of the following word , but qualifies the property which it expresses in just the way that the same word does in : ( 5 ) a near impossible task The facts of intensional qualification are not in the least altered because traditional grammar has customarily described near as an adverb in phrases like ( 5 ) , but as an adjective in near relative . |
| 30 | It revealed most black and ethnic minority households interviewed in south east Hampshire had not heard of the local council 's SSD . |