Example sentences of "not [adj] [noun sg] [verb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | IT IS NOT MARINE PRACTICE TO APPLY THE EXCESS TO ANY CLAIM FOR TOTAL LOSS — within this we would include total loss of any separately insured item i.e. outboard motor , trailer , dinghy or trolley . |
| 2 | Against such threats the ego has many defences , such as denial , distortion , forgetting , intellectualization , projection and so on ; and thus it comes about that , in the not uncommon tendency to confuse the theory with the fact of what is repressed , psychoanalysis itself is seen as a threat to the very process of repression which it was the first to discover and is itself subjected to these defensive reactions . |
| 3 | In case relatives not present wish to view the body , great care should be taken not to cause them distress or offence . |
| 4 | The first asks : " Is it not artistic sacrilege to disturb the text ? |
| 5 | The fact that opposite directions of movement may in some circumstances be associated with different questions , considered a priori to encourage different types of cognitive activity , is not sufficient evidence to warrant the conclusion that opposite hemispheres are being engaged . |
| 6 | If Fen entered the galley for any reason , the curtain was not sufficient barrier to muffle the sound of sobbing . |