Example sentences of "not [adj] [verb] [noun] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the most common practical problems at the time of someone 's death is that there are lots of extra expenses involved and yet it is not possible to get hold of cash or obtain access to funds because financial accounts have to be reorganized following the death of the person concerned . |
| 2 | It is not possible to achieve equality of knowledge and learning with different curriculum materials and different aims and objectives for curriculum planning . |
| 3 | The Department pledges its support to staff who work within the spirit of the Guidelines set out in this document , and will make it clear that as a Department we are not prepared to accept threats of intimidation and violence from that small number of clients who use such methods to manipulate their social environment or evade responsibility for their behaviour . |
| 4 | If interest payments are waived , the society is not obliged to pay arrears of interest in future years . |
| 5 | Seventy Mothers ' Clubs distributed 2,000 questionnaires , which showed that the average worker in that part of São Paulo earned one and a half minimum salaries , which was not sufficient to cover costs of food , rent , mortgage of land payments , clothing , transport , medicine , school equipment , electricity and water for their families . |
| 6 | However , the dividing line between what is and what is not permissible is often difficult to draw , as Maugham LJ illustrated in the Wessex Dairies case : … although the servant is not entitled to make use of information which he has obtained in confidence in his master 's service he is entitled to make use of the knowledge and skill which he acquired while in that service , including knowledge and skill directly obtained from the master in teaching him his business . |
| 7 | ‘ It is n't unusual to vary levels of service provision as and when finances dictate , ’ says a County Hall spokesman , smugly . |
| 8 | And in truth , it was n't difficult to cite examples of short-sightedness , bloody-mindedness , and cynical manipulation of memberships . |