Example sentences of "not [adj] [to-vb] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That , my Lord , the matter moves on to the fifteenth of October on which day er the plaintiff together with Mr attended Richmond Magistrates Court and obtained a protection order from the justices in relation to the premises and then on the sixteenth of October erm this was the day when things started to go very badly wrong for the plaintiff because Mr by now had returned from his holiday and come back cautiously , he apparently attended after his holiday and on this day Mr was told that , by Mrs that it was not possible to proceed with the financial er dealings that had been agreed between them unless the Frinton property was offered as security . |
| 2 | At the present time , it is not possible to distinguish between the other alternative explanations , though it may be that both factors operate to modulate the pattern of frequencies recorded at the body surface . |
| 3 | Secondly , it is not possible to distinguish in the aggregate figures either those married women who are not entitled to pensions until their husbands reach the age of 65 or those aged 60–4 whose husbands do not appear in the statistics . |
| 4 | ‘ to fall within the principle , not only ( 1 ) must there be a necessity to act when it is not practicable to communicate with the assisted person , but also ( 2 ) the action taken must be such as a reasonable person would in all the circumstances take , acting in the best interests of the assisted person . |
| 5 | Israel , having bent on other matters , continues to insist that the future of the settlements and Jerusalem can not be discussed before the negotiations on the final status of the territories , which are not due to begin until the third year of self-government . |
| 6 | And Dr Frome was clearly not willing to smooth over the terrible event , to refrain from raking over the coals . |
| 7 | Cripps and his supporters objected that the Labour leadership had failed to absorb the lessons of 1931 and were not Prepared to deal with the inevitable " sabotage " of the Labour programme by capitalist interests . |
| 8 | The Parliamentary Labour Party , despite its greatly reduced numbers , was not prepared to return to the previous Standing Orders which had allowed the ILP to put forward a distinct policy in Parliament while still remaining within the Labour Group . |
| 9 | He was not prepared to preach to the British — ‘ I do n't really know too much about them ’ — but he did say that no one could expect success without putting in a great deal of hard work . |
| 10 | The pub owner said he was not prepared to comment on the loyalist group 's withdrawal of threats on pubs , such as his own , which host Irish folk music sessions . |
| 11 | By sticking to a small basic unit ( 100 or 120 hours of student effort ) delivered across terms ( three per year , and with the development of a summer school , potentially four ) Oxford has established a pattern of regular assessment , and regular award-making examinations boards , that depends upon an intensity of academic staff commitment that other institutions would find difficult if not impossible to implement within the current framework of practice and conditions of service . |
| 12 | It is not easy to distinguish between the first and the second categories : Reynolds could well have belonged to both . |
| 13 | It 's not easy to learn in the strong afternoon winds of the high season unless you 're pretty fit . |
| 14 | Yet , except for their poverty , it is not easy to generalize about the poor : their attitudes and assumptions are harder to disinter than those of the dominant and vocal élites . |
| 15 | The extent of language function in the right hemisphere under normal circumstances is not easy to infer from the clinical studies . |
| 16 | Situated on the hillside which rises above the port of modern Thessaloniki the Church of the Holy Apostles is not easy to find amidst the poorer districts of the town , but it is well worth the effort of searching . |
| 17 | Yet through it all a strong sense of caring pervades and a feeling of friendship which is not easy to find in the Western World . |
| 18 | It was a tense match with not much to choose between the two sides until Scotland scored the first try near the end of the first half . |
| 19 | Fathers may miss their teenagers but are not likely to grieve in the same way . |
| 20 | Maufe 's obituary read , ‘ His work is not likely to appeal to the present generation of architects because it was essentially traditional and restrained . ’ |
| 21 | On the other hand , research has shown that in their dealings with families , EWOs , many of whom are not qualified social workers , are not likely to focus on the surrounding causes of truancy . |
| 22 | We 're not supposed to go through the new Lab anyway . |
| 23 | Mahmood added : ‘ The referee is not supposed to interfere in the traditional role of the umpire . |
| 24 | Not fit to live under the same roof . ’ |
| 25 | There are a hundred different ways of evaluating every piece of intelligence gathered so it is not hard to come to the wrong conclusions . |
| 26 | The acrylic is not effective to use in the traditional opaque sense , it must be treated as a watercolour . |
| 27 | Similarly , if a person is able to accept supervision , how can it be argued that they are not able to consent to the medical arrangements given during it ? |
| 28 | Imagine , for a moment , the situation that could arise if one was taken ill and was not able to perform to the required levels of the Bank 's Targets ? |
| 29 | We were not able to adjust for the possible confounding effect of body weight as this information has not been collected . |
| 30 | If an injury is serious i.e. where marked residual aspects claimed and/or lengthy absence from work involved , it is not advisable to wait for the third party solicitors to produce a Medical Report . |