Example sentences of "[adv] not [adj] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is perhaps not surprising given that bidders are attracted to targets for a variety of reasons that may be unconnected with the potential for improving the target 's management . |
| 2 | Central government was thus not able to give clear guidance drawn from the Worcester case for hospital managing authorities in the rest of the country . |
| 3 | The Services needed time to grow closer together : it was just not possible to find enough officers with the experience in tri-Service co-ordination to go further in 1963 . |
| 4 | Despite food hygiene regulations and the Food Safety Act , it is surprising that one of the principal aids to compliance is often neglected ; where one would expect to see commercial refrigeration it is still not uncommon to find domestic style refrigerators and freezers . |
| 5 | The pipette shield furthermore enables the operator to view the pipetting operation at eye height , which is usually not possible using conventional shields . |
| 6 | Population studies of gastric acid secretion in children at risk from undernutrition are clearly not possible using conventional intubation techniques . |
| 7 | There were nearly three million non-standard consumers ( nearly a third of the total ) on nationalisation , and this number increased as resources were simply not available to convert local networks when new houses required a supply . |
| 8 | It is simply not necessary to make all policy behind closed doors . |
| 9 | His trouble was , he realized , that he was simply not able to grasp any religion , let alone a faith where his only spiritual mentor was a book from Wimbledon Public Library . |
| 10 | Usually this is not a serious source of practical difficulty , since most cases are intuitively clear ; but it is unfortunately not easy to formulate explicit criteria for recognising lexical ambiguity . |
| 11 | All that I have said in the last chapter about preparation and being able to sort out important issues is again not possible given this scenario . |
| 12 | The directors are accordingly not obliged to maximise current profits in order to satisfy short-term demands for dividends at the expense of a growth in profitability over a longer period . |
| 13 | Furthermore , according to a MIDEPLAN [ state planning ] study , 41.7 per cent of wage earners were poor ( i.e. not able to meet basic needs to some extent ) in 1980 , and this proportion rose to 56.4 per cent in 1981 and 70.7 per cent in 1982 , indicating the impoverishment of wage earners as a result of the crisis and the adjustment . |
| 14 | Consequently , all translations of carpet names and terms are strictly phonetic , and it is therefore not surprising to find wide variations in the spellings of individual towns , weaving groups and designs . |