Example sentences of "not [adj] [to-vb] [pers pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The conclusion seems justified , but owing to the problems of transmission of these works of Scaevola , it is not possible to use it as a conclusion for classical law . |
| 2 | And the fact is that with the money available erm the Gardener Centre I should think it 's not possible to use it in the kind of flexible way in which it was planned in the first years . |
| 3 | Although it is clearly not possible to restore it as a conduit care , the same external effect will be provided by the use of re-chargeable batteries with a replica truck and control gear . |
| 4 | If Peter is actually a ‘ tough ’ whose nickname means ‘ Rocky ’ , is it not possible to equate him with the fierce individual known as Simon Zelotes or Simon the Canaanite — to equate him , that is , with Simon the Zealot ? |
| 5 | Perhaps it is not possible to reduce it to a single definition , but for the purpose of this passage I will concentrate on the individual learner . |
| 6 | But they also say in the alternative that that since the plaintiffs themselves were at this time by mid to late October of nineteen eighty five , not ready or able to complete it would have been improper erm for the defendant to advise the plaintiffs to serve a special notice to complete and my Lord the question that therefore arises er whether , even if that were correct , er and it 's not admitted that it is , that exonerates the defendants from given the advice er and whether they should still have advised the plaintiff erm of the opportunity which was open to him , that the plaintiff could if necessary take that course himself or be advised to go er elsewhere and be advised independently is er this is , this the point of the matter which he regarded as improper and was not willing to do it on the plaintiff 's behalf . |
| 7 | But Ven , she discovered , was not prepared to let her off the hook , and , ‘ Why … ’ he began to challenge , ‘ … when you 're honest , I know it , yet have begun on a path of deception to one particular end — why , when it 's so important to your sister whom — you love … ’ an alert look suddenly came to his eyes , and he broke off for a brief moment before continuing , his serious dark eyes holding hers ‘ … a sister whom you 'd do anything for , as you proved when you left England and came here — why are you ready to leave now , without another thought ? ’ |
| 8 | De Gaulle wanted the agricultural settlement but was not prepared to accept it at the price of giving in to the other five and the Commission on the issues of resourcing and budgetary control . |
| 9 | This cultural change is the second major theme of this book , but it is not easy to separate it from the political story . |
| 10 | It is not easy to approach them in a situation like that , without being angry . |
| 11 | You 're not supposed to throw it on the floor where 's the end there . |
| 12 | He did not enumerate them , but it is not hard to reconstruct them from the records of over half a century of Masai administration . |
| 13 | It is perhaps not inappropriate to compare them to the astronauts in our own day : they had broken into an uncharted region , blazed a new trail to God and to the depths of the self and had returned to earth like the heroes of antiquity , bringing news of a hitherto unimaginable realm which gave an entirely new perspective on the human condition . |
| 14 | As the comments run into hundreds of pages in total , it was not feasible to append them as a single annex to this report . |
| 15 | But I found it too embarrassing to keep suggesting to a fellow professional that he should take time off from his own work to accompany me to functions where he was not able to join me at the dinner table when he got there . |
| 16 | So Middleton did two sorties I believe , and on each occasion he brought back an aircraft that was no longer capable of flying and was a write-off , it had so much flak and fighter damage , When the same thing happened a second time I had Middleton in and told him that one of his problems was his navigator who was just not able to navigate him round the very heavy flak areas . |
| 17 | That sounds a lot of money , but it 's not difficult to spend it on an airline . |
| 18 | However , that knowledge was not sufficient to rid him of the problem , so we continued the treatment by using hypnotherapy . |