Example sentences of "not [adj] [to-vb] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Without this knowledge , it is not possible to decide on the people to interview , in which order they should be interviewed , and the level and subject matter of the questions to ask . |
| 2 | It is not possible to go into the details of the technology involved or to mention all the companies now producing hardware and software for the hotel industry , but to name a few : |
| 3 | It is not possible to discriminate between the components of each category . |
| 4 | however , the program control stack is still cleared when the error is detected and it is not possible to RETURN to the point where the error occurred . |
| 5 | Here the bargaining stage has given way to a period of time when you feel it is just not possible to cope with the situation and the future looks bleak . |
| 6 | It is not possible to say in the abstract what kind of decisions would be taken at these different levels , or at least not with any precision , since this would depend on the character of the economic relations between the general office of the enterprise and its operating units , and between the operating units themselves , quite apart from the particular forms of struggle at local and national level which would be required to implement any such scheme . |
| 7 | Despite that it has to be commended because it is not possible to sympathise with the railway 's present economic situation if unnecessary sums are spent on throw away publicity material . |
| 8 | Since it is not possible to get inside the heads of actors , the discovery of meaning must be based on interpretation and intuition . |
| 9 | It is not possible to generalise about the hedging policies that UK companies adopt such is the wide range of experience . |
| 10 | It is not possible to reply to the criticism here . |
| 11 | The children and their families need a great deal of support during this time — support which it is not possible to provide from the Health Service . |
| 12 | Very shortly after that the barrister said ( also in the presence of the jury ) , ‘ I am sorry that it is not possible to comply with the jury 's request , but I accept your Honour 's ruling and the thinking that lies behind it . ’ |
| 13 | Inevitably , this involves loss , because it is not possible to reproduce on the page all the features of voices , movements , expressions , and of the situation ; but it is possible to keep or discard differing amounts . |
| 14 | However , sometimes buyers can be required to give an undertaking to their building society to effect repairs as mentioned above and otherwise undertakings are used as a device to fulfil a commitment that it was not possible to fulfil before the completion date . |
| 15 | But while her novels of this period — The Languages of Love ( 1957 ) , The Sycamore Tree , ( 1958 ) , The Dear Deceit , ( 1960 ) , and The Middlemen ( 1961 ) — are in many respects typical products of their generation , they raise a number of issues which it was not possible to articulate within the parameters of the contemporary debate . |
| 16 | One can not quite understand the process of informalisation in European countries if one does not take into account that here too one can observe upward movements of working-class traditions and downward movements of middle-class traditions of conduct , although it is not possible to speak of the emergence of a new more firmly established code of conduct . |
| 17 | But it is not possible to look beyond the world in order to see what it depends upon directly . |
| 18 | Why is it not possible to begin with the basis in a theoretical analysis of Soviet economy . |
| 19 | It was not possible to know from the data available whether this was the defendants ' choice or magistrates declining to try them . |
| 20 | His plea of not guilty to murder on the grounds of diminished responsibility was accepted . |
| 21 | Pask has pleaded not guilty to murder on the grounds of diminshed responsibilty . |
| 22 | It arrived just before he was leaving for the United States ( another example of his self-forgetfulness , as he had not mentioned this to me ) , and he was not due to return until the end of July . |
| 23 | Okay , Bellow , I knew , was not due to arrive till the end of the week ; but where the hell were Márquez , Lessing , Gordimer ? |
| 24 | They did not want success at all costs , but likewise they were not willing to jump off the pop escalator , or stand on the spot arguing among themselves . |
| 25 | Their presence is a detraction in the group because they 're not willing to add to the group you know you 've got to have this attitude if you 're in a group well the attitude you need to help the group is how can I help that group ? |
| 26 | The man himself becomes a thief out of sheer desperation , and a sense of injustice , and , ironically , accepts the pardon which he is not willing to accord to the person who stole his bike . |
| 27 | ‘ No , I am not prepared to wait for the trial . |
| 28 | He was not prepared to gamble with the future of the Elf race . |
| 29 | Why is the Scottish Office so feeble that it is not prepared to go to the Treasury to obtain the funds needed to complete the improvement scheme once and for all ? |
| 30 | There may be a good relationship between management and employees in most companies , but if people are not prepared to go down the road together they will not be allowed to go down the road at all . |