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

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1 It is not cost-effective to pursue the development of a full information model ( ie showing communication links ) using a flat-file database .
2 She was not sorry to see the back of Lazar Farm this time .
3 It is not pleasant to read the account of the plot got up to entice Forster 's boyfriend Bob Buckingham away from his wife , and not difficult to agree with PC Daley 's description of the Forster circle as ‘ pimps ’ .
4 It is an integral part of modern culture that it is simply not possible to envisage a model of freedom , including that abstraction needed for the achievement of equality , which would not have as one of its component parts the tendency towards alienation .
5 If , as Parsons puts it , there can never be an id-impulse as such for the individual , since it must always be seen as part of the expressive symbolism of a common culture , then it is not possible to envisage the possibility of someone being in conflict with their society 's common culture .
6 It 's simply not possible to form an opinion on it . ’
7 Although it was not possible to evaluate the completeness of the sickness absence records directly , the records were used for pay purposes and were therefore likely to be complete for most participants .
8 But it is not possible to reconcile the freedom of individual countries to tax with the freedom of capital movement within the Community .
9 It is not possible to control the part of an index track that is read first .
10 ‘ It is not possible to draw a line between human and human and say some do and some do not have the right to life , ’ he said .
11 It was also not possible to correlate the motility of the exercise periods durng the recording as patients were not subjected to any strenuous form of exercise during the recordings .
12 Hence , it is not possible to replicate the movements in a geometric index with an unchanging portfolio of shares .
13 A total synthesis is not possible given the rate at which new data and techniques are being produced ; the principal difficulty remains the quantity of material that was excavated in the last century under conditions which do not assist in answering the questions now being asked and which now lie , unpublished and unstudied in museum collections throughout England .
14 The spacing of such steps on pointe is so minute and so fast that it is not possible to see the change of feet as one succeeds the other .
15 In horses , although a history of donkey contact and clinical signs may be suggestive of D. arnfieldi infection , it is often not possible to confirm a diagnosis by demonstrating larvae in the faeces .
16 In this case it was not possible to explore the effects of different levels of risk on recognition of different exemplars of the same junction .
17 In consequence , it is not possible to define a rate of return on a futures contract , and some other type of analysis must be used which does not require the use of the sum invested .
18 If it is not possible to define the idea of numerical identity in terms of the criteria of re-identification , surely the idea of a plurality of particulars similarly can not be defined in terms of the criteria under which such particulars are differentiated from each other .
19 It is therefore not possible to set a theoretical limit to society 's power to use law to enforce moral rules , i.e. it is not possible to define an area of morality into which the criminal law may not under any circumstances intervene .
20 It is not possible to explain the reasoning behind the proposals or their details in this leaflet — these are in the Plan itself .
21 10.6 Where , exceptionally , the Director of Social Work considers that it is not possible to redeploy the employee within the Department , the full circumstances of the case will be forwarded to the Personnel Manager who will circulate details to other Heads of Department , in an appropriately confidential manner , with a view to identifying suitable vacancies for the employee in question .
22 It is not possible to create a hierarchy of our artistic fields as we are living as Blackwomen in the aftermath of slavery and imperialism .
23 Although this is a well identified relationship it is not possible to state the nature of the relationship .
24 It was not possible to give a home to all , so how could he pick out one or two ?
25 This also means that it is not possible to compare the dissociation from isolated GC sites with that from clusters of such sites which may be stabilised by cooperative interaction .
26 For larger molecules it is not possible to disentangle the information about the electronic ground state from that relating to the excited state .
27 It is not possible to evade the prohibition of asphyxiating , poisonous and other gases simply by calling the weapons ‘ control agents and herbicides ’ .
28 It is not possible to predict the types of security interests that will be created in the future and requiring registration of some such unforeseen interests could be unnecessarily burdensome ; even with respect to the known types of legal charge , particularly those conferring the right to possession , it would produce overkill ; and lastly it is claimed that to require the registration of all charges could dry up certain types of secured borrowing .
29 Clearly , it is not possible to undertake a search within the time allowed and it , therefore , becomes necessary for any relevant information to have been ingathered in course of pre-litigation investigation so that it is available on the insurance file .
30 It is not possible to put a figure on the costs .
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