Example sentences of "not [vb pp] [prep] [art] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | This invariably only occurs when the mulch is allowed to pack and remain undisturbed — mulching is not intended as a boon to lazy gardening by putting an end to the need for hoeing . |
| 2 | It is not intended as a guide to the relative merits of competing products — Which ? magazine , with its comparative testing reports , fills that role — but rather as a guide to the tools , materials and techniques needed for home plumbing and to the various plumbing jobs around the home , including the installation of central heating . |
| 3 | In the March 1989 issue of Digest , Seitz posed the question , ‘ Is Greg Norman Overrated ? ’ replaced Jeff Sluman 's name with the like of Alf Padgham ( which I 'm sure was not intended as an insult to the Padgham family ) and concluded that Norman was , indeed , overrated — ‘ for now ’ . |
| 4 | They are not examined with a view to appraisal which might require adjustments to concepts of syllabus design to accommodate them . |
| 5 | But this school was not considered by the authorities to be a suitable place of safety . |
| 6 | Whilst an extension of the deconcentration of central government might have gone some way towards abating these feelings , it was not considered by the majority to be a sufficient remedy . |
| 7 | This planned initiative runs alongside individual action and studies show that this system is not deemed by the teachers to be incompatible with their creative freedom ( Bjerke , 1983 ) . |
| 8 | Herbal cigarettes are not recommended as an aid to giving up smoking because they contain both tar and carbon monoxide . |
| 9 | The government 's economic policy , including severe cutbacks in the welfare state and extensive deregulation [ see below ] , exacerbated existing divisions within the National Party which had been concealed but not resolved in the run-up to the election . |
| 10 | A commitment to pensions means nothing if it is not matched by a commitment to low inflation . |
| 11 | The Court of Appeal allowed an appeal by the appellant , who was not named as a party to the action , against an order that he was liable to pay £861 with costs . |
| 12 | Again , while these books are in the ‘ horror ’ genre which the twentieth century has made its own , they are not written without an eye to their context in literary history beyond their descent from Mary Shelley 's Frankenstein and the Gothic novel . |
| 13 | However , R/3 is not seen as a competitor to R/2 : ‘ It ( R/2 ) will exist as long as IBM is still investing in mainframes , ’ commented Plattner . |
| 14 | Numbers of Americans and Britons have doubled in the past decade but , at 40,000 and 11,000 respectively , they are not seen as a threat to the social fabric in the same way as the Iranians and other Asians . |
| 15 | From this point of view the state is not seen as a threat to freedom , but is rather regarded as a vehicle for securing broad community and individual rights against the power . |
| 16 | Lung cancer was not seen as a sequel to smoking until the middle of the twentieth . |
| 17 | Porto Santo is not connected under the sea to Madeira but it is of a similar age — Miocene . |
| 18 | We were not convinced by the arguments to the contrary . |
| 19 | The proposal , from Notre Dame College , a Catholic college in Glasgow , was received sympathetically , but was not approved at a visit to the College in December . |
| 20 | The extent to which women thought that they were informed , however , was not reflected in the answers to a question about which disorders this blood sample was tested for ( table ) . |
| 21 | I should not pretend that my personal motivation in studying social policy is not linked with a commitment to non-revolutionary movement towards social equality . |
| 22 | Not rushed in a car to the church-yard |
| 23 | It would be independent of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization ( NATO ) structure , but Kohl said that the co-operation with France would not affect his country 's commitments to NATO and Mitterrand said that the corps was not meant as a rival to NATO . |
| 24 | Could I also ask you to ensure that the debris from the hedge-cutting is removed from the highway and not left as a hazard to cyclists . |
| 25 | ( p.91 ) This final sentence is evocative of all that is not stated about the sequel to the Passion . |
| 26 | His mother did encourage him in other of his writings , and certainly there is a good deal of family tradition in the ten books , which might reflect her influence , but she is not mentioned in the preface to the Decem Libri Historiarum . |
| 27 | There is , however , no evidence that Ali Kuscu succeeded Molla Husrev , and Uzuncarsili 's statement that he had been transferred to the Ayasofya medrese ( which is not mentioned in the needs to be set against the report that Ali Kuscu accompanied Mehmed II on the campaign against Uzun Hasan ( began Shawwal 877/March 1473 ) and was appointed to the Ayasofya medrese only on their return ( mid-878/autumn 1473 ) . |
| 28 | a rear fog lamp on a vehicle which is part of a combination of vehicles any part of which is not required by the Regulations to be fitted with a rear fog lamp ; |
| 29 | Because decision-makers in the political arena have conflicting objectives , policy measures are not chosen with a view to maximizing some conception of social welfare , but emerge as the result of implicit and explicit bargaining between the political interests . |
| 30 | It has n't passed on a penny to the landlord … and his tenancy agreement may not now be worth the paper it 's written on |