Example sentences of "not [adj] [prep] [noun sg] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Your request in the 9 February letter was not specific in respect of Lochbridge Road .
2 Identifying some kinds of pollutants , however , is simply not possible by rule of thumb assessments made on the spot .
3 ( a ) he is not guilty of murder by reason only of the fact that a defence provided by s.56 ( diminished responsibility ) , 58 ( provocation ) or 59 ( use of excessive force ) applies ; or
4 ( b ) he is not guilty of murder by reason only of the fact that , because of voluntary intoxication he is not aware that death may be caused or believes that an exemplary circumstance exists ; or
5 Section 4(1) of the 1981 Act provides : ’ Subject to this section a person is not guilty of contempt of court under the strict liability rule in respect of a fair and accurate report of legal proceeding held in public , published contemporaneously and in good faith . ’
6 He had continued to plead not guilty in respect of count 5 , but the only defence made after the legal ruling was the defence of duress , which was rejected by the jury and with which the Court of Appeal was not concerned .
7 When a jury is satisfied that the act was committed , but that at the time the accused was so insane as not to be legally responsible , it brings in a special verdict of ‘ not guilty by reason of insanity ’ , though the accused is then ordered to be detained during the ‘ Queen 's pleasure ’ .
8 In Michigan , for example , 50 per cent of patients who had been found not guilty by reason of insanity during the mid-1970's were discharged from mental hospital within 60 days .
9 The M'Naghten rules are still in force and the ‘ not guilty by reason of insanity ’ plea succeeds only in about ten cases each year in British courts .
10 The Criminal Procedure ( Insanity and Unfitness to Plead ) 1991 was enacted as a result of major dissatisfaction with the way in which those found mentally unfit to stand trial or not guilty by reason of insanity were dealt with under the Criminal Procedure ( Insanity ) Act 1964 .
11 He pled not guilty by letter at Cupar Sheriff Court yesterday .
12 That the German audience is not deaf to beauty of tone production as some have been so foolish to pretend , is shown by the enormous enthusiasm with which Battistini is greeted when he sings in Germany , to say nothing of Caruso , although one hesitates to mention him in such proximity to so transcendent an artist as Battistini . ’
13 The eight other players will get an exclusive copy of SummerSlam ‘ 92 on video from Silvervision — not due for release until mid-October .
14 These studies therefore show that the ulcer formation is not due to hypersecretion of acid or pepsin .
15 It is not due to lack of ability .
16 This last argument seems to be of little use against the solipsist , who is not interested in communication with others .
17 It based itself in that connection on Brugnoni v. Cassa di Risparmio di Genova e Imperia ( Case 157/85 ) [ 1986 ] E.C.R. 2013 relating to the interpretation of article 2 of the Directive , which , in the Commission 's view , was not different in substance from article 1 .
18 Extensive lists of references are not appropriate in Chemistry in Britain articles , but readers can rest assured that our attention , both to published literature and ongoing work in Europe , including the USSR , has been as thorough as possible .
19 This amounts to a concise argument that semantics is not autonomous with respect to pragmatics , and that pragmatics provides part of the necessary input to a semantic theory .
20 The decision of the Arbitrators is final and not subject to ratification by Council .
21 As they expand to a much greater diameter ( 24 FG ) than plastic stents , they are not subject to occlusion by debris and bacteria , though some become blocked by tumour ingrowth between the stent mesh .
22 In Hooper v. Exeter Corporation , 56 L.J.Q.B. 457 , the plaintiff paid harbour dues on all limestone which he landed , being unaware that such dues were not payable in respect of limestone to be burnt .
23 Because there is a two-year birth interval and because females are in reproductive synchrony , the birth-rate is not constant from year to year .
24 He chattered on in his easy way to a somewhat sceptical family who were not accustomed to thinking of Bodo in this new and totally unexpected light .
25 The freedom which members of high-performing systems appear to enjoy is thus not inconsistent with stability of purpose and behaviour .
26 Even if things look pretty grim at the moment consideration of twentieth-century housing developments in North Shields shows that capital has by no means always has its own way and that , as Ball indicates above , capital is not undifferentiated in relation to land and what is built on it .
27 Absence of evidence is not synonymous with evidence of ineffectiveness .
28 But there is a lack of ethnic minorities and the town 's poorest areas , Whaddon and Hester 's Way , are populated by the ex-agricultural working class , who are not dissimilar in outlook to Essex Man .
29 ‘ I 'm not sure about education for girls . ’
30 The 3.4-kb mRNA , but not the 1.9-kb mRNA , derives from the D15S12h locus , because it is not present in skin of p 6H / p 6H mice ( Fig. 2 a , lane 14 ) , in which D15S12h is deleted ( Fig. 1 b ) .
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