Example sentences of "not [vb pp] [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rather unexpectedly , the lighthouse is not situated at the far extremity of the headland , the Point of Stoer , but two miles short on the west side . |
| 2 | TWO men accused of killing a pensioner when a mugging went wrong had the charge found not proven at the High Court in Glasgow yesterday . |
| 3 | If the arms race is not stopped in the Middle East , any hope of the long-sought peace dividend will simply disappear , crippling even further the UK and US economies . |
| 4 | At present domestic labour is organisationally inefficient because it is not socialised like the industrial sphere , which counterbalances increased productivity through mechanisation . |
| 5 | Agree that Practice Rule 15 be not amended at the present time . |
| 6 | The DTI could have responded by saying that the absence of the monitoring return was a serious matter , that it would allow a short extension , but that ‘ consideration would need to be given to revoking the licence if a satisfactory and duly verified monitoring return were not received by the specified date . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Wearing a white beret in among Australians , New Zealanders and every type of nationality out there brought some great wolf whistles , which were naturally not received in the right manner . |
| 8 | Forward contracts are relatively easy to arrange , although the exporter is committed to supplying the currency agreed to the bank even if the export deal is cancelled or payment is not received within the forward contract period . |
| 9 | While every effort is made to offer those who book late the course they have requested , the school reserves the right to offer an alternative Executive Course in the case of applications not received within the specified time . |
| 10 | The tenders were not received until the following week . |
| 11 | However , financial advice is not provided by the solicitors who are not registered under the Financial Services Act but by a firm of insurance brokers , Sedgwick , which has a contract with the company . |
| 12 | After the last exchange of prisoners in mid-September , Iran had refused to release an estimated 17,000 Iraqi prisoners , claiming that Iraq still held 20,000 Iranians not registered with the International Committee of the Red Cross ( ICRC ) . |
| 13 | Anne 's first words were not uttered in the encouraging tones Robyn had hoped for . |
| 14 | ‘ For the purposes of all legal proceedings any question as to the meaning or effect of any of the Treaties , or as to the validity , meaning or effect of any Community instrument , shall be treated as a question of law ( and , if not referred to the European Court , be for determination as such in accordance with the principles laid down by and any relevant decision of the European Court ) . ’ |
| 15 | Section 3(1) of the European Communities Act 1972 expressly provides that the meaning or effect of any of the Treaties ‘ shall be treated as a question of law ( and , if not referred to the European Court , be for determination as such in accordance with the principles laid down by and any relevant decision of the European Court ) ’ . ’ |
| 16 | Until very recently professional sportsmen have been regarded by directors as skilled workmen ; footballers ' incomes were not calculated in the same way as transfer fees according to market value but in relation to what other working-class men could expect to earn . |
| 17 | It is sad that film sound-tracks are not treated with the same care that goes into the pictures . |
| 18 | Nevertheless , as Gordon Phillips has argued , the pattern of trade union activity and industrial relations was not altered by the General Strike . |
| 19 | The new government , whose authority was not recognized by the central government in Baghdad , said that its first task would be to restore order in Iraqi Kurdistan . |
| 20 | The interim government was not recognized by the major rebel movements . |
| 21 | ( Four of the homelands — Ciskei , Bophuthatswana , Transkei and Venda — were nominally independent of South Africa , but were not recognized by the international community ; the remaining six were " self-governing " ; all remained heavily dependent on subsidies from South Africa . |
| 22 | Upstream promoter regions are not recognized by the truncated RNA polymerases in contrast to the wild-type enzyme |
| 23 | However , at lac UV5 , the upstream region of the promoter is not recognized by the truncated polymerases in contrast to wild-type enzyme ; the DNAaseI protection of the truncated polymerases stops at position -45.5 on the lower strand and at position -41.5 on the upper strand ( the same upstream border was found for the gal 9A16C and malT p1 promoters ) whereas wild-type enzyme protects eight phosphate linkages further upstream . |
| 24 | Unlicensed boxing is not illegal , but it is not recognized by the British Board of Control . |
| 25 | They grant also what is called a divorce a mensa et thoro , or rather what we should call a judicial separation , i.e. they release the parties from the duty of living together on grounds of cruelty or misconduct ; but a divorce in the modern sense , which allows the parties to marry again , is not recognized by the medieval church in the case of any marriage which is originally valid . |
| 26 | Set in a ‘ green and silent spot , amid the hills ’ , it was not intended for the Lyrical Ballads , but was a political meditation inspired by fears of a French invasion . |
| 27 | The first three instruments here are obviously not intended for the serious player but for the beginner , or to be strummed once in a while as a second or third instrument . |
| 28 | They 're not intended for the dedicated hiker . |
| 29 | Put another way , the state is seen as divorced from any one class and is not regarded as the cohesive instrument of the economically powerful ( there is no ruling class ) ; the state is not a biased " establishment " serving only itself ; and the very fragmentation of the state provides for multiple access points for all interest groups . |
| 30 | DC is certainly not regarded as the perfect classification scheme even in sectors where there is no serious alternative . |