Example sentences of "not [adv] [verb] [prep] [noun] in " in BNC.

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1 Since these particular constraints do not apparently operate upon variation in subject-verb agreement in standard English , which in turn is affected by a different set of constraints ( see Huddleston 1984 : 241 ) , we must assume that the surface variants of the verb which occur in the two dialects are embedded in structurally different grammars .
2 The differing styles of these articles mean they are not all suited to publication in similar outlets , but it is hoped that unlike past years ' winners we shall see all of them published in some form or other in the coming year .
3 My diagnosis of the increased gap between the participants implied by the Sidneian constellation is strengthened by Lyons 's argument that ‘ whereas first and second person are the positive members of the category of person , third person is essentially a negative notion ’ , because ‘ it does not necessarily refer to participants in the situation of utterance ’ .
4 We do not necessarily think of pigments in the context of metalwork , but there are traditions of painted metal statues .
5 Erm , nor I think are there any proposals to change the grading or pay honorarium to P As to reflect there work on these files , er , I 'm not sure whether the assumption that this would n't be taken into account by the W R is sound , because I think one of the principles that I recall was that he were meant to ensure that that each of these job evaluation panels had somebody from each office so that an account could be taken of the different practices , I mean I 'm sure that , I 'm sure that each of the three offices in the er deal with things in a different way , so that er what gets done by one person here is not necessarily done by people in Coventry and York , and that in fa in London , and that also holds good in the other way , I think .
6 It is however apparent that differences in comprehensive income measured in this way do not necessarily correspond to differences in ability to pay , defined in terms of opportunity sets .
7 This lack of discrimination suggests that the general knowledge required is not highly related to attainment in mathematics .
8 As an infection carried on the air and in milk , diphtheria was not much affected by changes in living standards .
9 Saving , he maintained , depends mainly on the level of national income and is not much affected by changes in interest rates .
10 Does the Minister agree that something must be done to control imports of the drug known as Ecstasy , which is not merely creeping into schools in London but has reached teenagers in my constituency in south Devon ?
11 But unfortunately there are few descriptive accounts of people 's efforts to reduce the likelihood that an event will occur , perhaps because effective responses are self-evident , or because they are not easily assessed by investigators in that successful action will have removed the difficulty .
12 But they would still insist that induction into a tradition is right — it should be teaching religion not just teaching about religion in a way which distances it and effectively marginalizes it .
13 Nightmares are not normally experienced by adults in good health , though we may all experience one occasionally .
14 Although alarm is not expressed to relate to any particular source of concern , we do not usually speak of alarm in a vacuum .
15 Even if the latter is true , it does not automatically translate into increases in higher level educational streams ; in some countries the main growth at the 16–19 stage has been not in the pre-academic general streams , but in the intermediate ‘ technical ’ ones ( Squires 1989a ) .
16 Privatisation will not inevitably lead to changes in public perception .
17 His central assumption was that agents are not perfectly informed about prices in markets other than their own .
18 Nevertheless , distinguished musicians might be pleased to tackle the challenge of simplicity required by a church with few musical resources , and congregations are not often taken into account in commissioned music .
19 But you should not simply stick to subjects in which you did well at school .
20 In our marginal universe , we pursued offences which were then not even classified as crimes in the Home Office Standard list , and were pitched into a new philosophical world structured by a number of alternative social constructs .
21 In NME , which usually covered the band 's activities in extreme detail , Charman was not even mentioned by name in the tiny news item informing readers of the band 's new drummer .
22 The disadvantage is that it was very expensive , low in fibre , and not well balanced for use in the long term .
23 Though modern empirical experimental science is one of the more obvious products of that movement , the Society was not narrowly restricted to science in any modern sense .
24 They are about recognising the reality of the problem and taking all reasonable steps to ensure that the well-being of both staff and clients is not unnecessarily put at risk in having to deal with such situations .
25 We do not believe that cholestasis is an important factor in the increase in laminin despite the significant correlation found with bilirubin and alkaline phosphatase , because alkaline phosphatase activity was not significantly associated with laminin in the multivariate analysis .
26 Retractions were sensitive but not specific , and grunting was not significantly associated with hypoxaemia in these newborn infants .
27 Non-preferred terms are not absolutely forbidden for use in the records , but no relationships are attached to them , and this has implications during information retrieval .
28 The harp is an instrument of considerable versatility which is not commonly associated with use in church services .
29 He did n't much care for nature in the raw : it was messy and wasteful and there was too much of it .
30 However , the real reason for starting with observation is that communication does n't merely depend on observation in these two ways : in effect , communication itself is a kind of observation .
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