Example sentences of "[noun sg] not [verb] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And why indeed should gamesmanship not exist in disabled sport when it is rife everywhere else ? |
| 2 | Assuming the Daventry nuns have been subject only to the same controls being applied to all other British egg producers , the protest by the United Kingdom Egg Producers ' Association ( Ukepra ) , the only organisation within the UK egg industry not represented among BEIC members , is potentially damaging both to egg consumers and to egg producers . |
| 3 | The residual , that part of the earnings gap not explained by personal attributes , is conventionally taken as an indicator of discrimination . |
| 4 | Second , the male family members , because they are male , are given a credibility — and hence power — to influence non admission not given to female members . |
| 5 | Evidential issues are often used , incorrectly , by organisations as an excuse not to adapt to new technologies , or to continue to maintain paper back-up of such documents . |
| 6 | At Rothschild , for instance , they defend a decision not to invest in British biotechnology by saying that there are no good commercial ideas in Britain . |
| 7 | Sums of money not required for immediate use can be put into a deposit account on which the bank will pay interest . |
| 8 | The Belfast /a/ system varies considerably in terms of length , height , backness , rounding and diphthongization , and shows variation to a degree not attested in standard accounts of English phonology : if we include pre-velar items ( as in table 4.2 ) , the range ( in place of articulation ) is from mid-front to low-mid back . |
| 9 | Social services departments may also be able to help you pay for work not covered by disabled facilities grants , and can also provide additional facilities to make the property safer , more comfortable and more convenient . |
| 10 | Poetic speech does not differ from ordinary speech just because it may include constructions or vocabulary not found in everyday language ( the lo ! s thous and word-order inversions conventionally allowed in English poetry ) , but because its formal devices ( such as rhyme and rhythm ) act on ordinary words to renew our perception of them , and of their sound texture in particular . |
| 11 | All this provides a flexibility not found in other models . |
| 12 | When we deal with social phenomena , however , things are more complicated as they have an additional dimension not found among inanimate objects , namely the meaning of behaviour . |
| 13 | ( Such statements are usually opinion not supported by quoted evidence . ) |
| 14 | So if natural selection of random mutations were truly the driving factor underlying change among the creatures , why is nature not riddled with biological imperfections at a biochemical and physiological level ? |
| 15 | A. V. Dicey , the prominent nineteenth-century jurist and by no means an extreme anti-feminist , considered that while distinctions of rights founded on sex often gave rise to injustice ‘ they have this in their favour — they rest upon a difference not created by social conventions or by human prejudice and selfishness , or by accidental circumstances … which split society into classes , but by the nature of things ’ . |
| 16 | He thought he had programmed his body not to go for intellectual types — that is , if any woman could be described as intellectual . |
| 17 | In reply , Boycott and Brearley put on no less than 129 for the first wicket — jolly good in a Test , but they took thirty-eight overs about it , with Boycott not getting into double figures until the seventeenth over . |
| 18 | The best and cheapest solutions to providing domestic hot water not connected to central heating systems are likely to be an Economy 7 hot water cylinder or , if you have gas laid on , a gas circulator used with an indirect cylinder . |
| 19 | Inflation not resulting from excess demand could possibly be controlled by a prices and incomes policy . |
| 20 | Furthermore , the value of a given site is increased not only by the development permitted on that site , but also by the development not permitted on other sites . |
| 21 | The little evidence I could obtain suggested that the explanation was the usual one in criminal justice short-comings : a rising demand not met with increasing resources . |
| 22 | Our data show that malignant transformed epithelial cells of colorectal carcinomas expressed a 105 kD ( non-reduced ) precursor form of the Β 1 chain not found in epithelial cells of the normal mucosa . |
| 23 | With middle to top-quality carpets retailing at anything from £15 to over £40 per square metre , it can be a false economy not to call in professional carpet fitters for some jobs . |
| 24 | When she went up to her room that night she sat in her chair not listening for ghostly rustlings , but to the rise and fall of their conversation downstairs , punctuated with bursts of laughter . |
| 25 | But because IQ is , in fact , so broadly correlated with other cognitive activities , in school and at work , it is virtually impossible to design objective measures of performance not correlated with tested intelligence , and hence subject to the same charges of ineffectuality and bias . |
| 26 | She wanted to go on and talk to the audience before the show began : ‘ Like me , please like me , ’ she said to them , which is an approach not appreciated by British audiences . |
| 27 | A further question that arises ( and that might be perceived on the face of this problem ) is whether dismissal by the Crown can only be for misbehaviour in office or whether it can be for an offence not related to judicial office or affecting judicial ability . |
| 28 | To others it meant merely music not written in definite keys . |
| 29 | ‘ A joint agreement by the media and the Government not to report on particular matters . ’ |
| 30 | Network SouthEast will be the only European commuter rail operation not supported by public money , and Mr Parkinson has ordered it to earn a commercial rate of return by 1995/96 , a move which implies further fare increases . |