Example sentences of "is [not/n't] [verb] [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If , for clinical reasons , a GP wishes to refer a patient to a hospital that is not contracted to provide a service to the GP 's district , the GP must be able to do so . ’ |
| 2 | The acquiring company is not believed to have a track record in Unix . |
| 3 | As regards international linkages , the DTB is not seeking to become a partner in the Globex system . |
| 4 | The Mercury One-2-One Ltd digital cellular joint venture between Cable & Wireless Plc and US West Inc has been talking to Reuters , and says it is not seeking to trigger a price war with Cellnet Mobile Communications Ltd and Vodafone Group Plc . |
| 5 | On a more practical level , in assisting a trade union member , unlike the EOC or CRE , s3 the Commissioner is not empowered to seek a settlement of the dispute through conciliation . |
| 6 | The Court of Appeal is not bound to follow a decision of its own if it is satisfied that the decision was given per incuriam . |
| 7 | It takes time and patience to get these quiet slow spoken people to talk ; they must be sure that one is not trying to make a fool of them or mocking them . |
| 8 | This document is not intended to replace a Will . |
| 9 | It is not intended to provide a pedestrian crossing of the Bypass at the location of the severed Baberton Mains Terrace if the low level option is adopted . |
| 10 | This method of presentation is not intended to suggest a data collection form , with boxes to be filled . |
| 11 | It is not permitted to sound a car horn after a certain hour . |
| 12 | Unlike the membership register a company is not compelled to maintain a register of debentureholders . |
| 13 | Behaviour like that is not going to save a son or daughter . |
| 14 | However , in an interview in the Independent of March 9 the US ambassador to NATO said that " the alliance is not going to underwrite a security policy that is made somewhere else " . |
| 15 | The occasional smack meted out in a happy , secure home is not going to scar a child 's psyche . |
| 16 | Forcing children to acknowledge sexuality at an early age and face up to adult problems is not going to raise a generation of responsible adults — it is far more likely to breed a generation of confused and unhappy children . |
| 17 | Notice that the operand field of the jump instruction is not used to access a store location directly , but is loaded as an immediate value into the program counter ( after any address modification , such as indexing ) ; thus " jump to location x " is equivalent to " load program counter with literal x " , rather than to " load program counter from location x " . |
| 18 | The commission later decided to restore the seat and today its interim report said : ‘ At present the Commission is not minded to recommend a reduction in the total number of constituencies in Scotland from 72 to 71 . ’ |
| 19 | Should a buyer cancel , he is automatically entitled to claim back advance payments and the seller is not allowed to levy a cancellation fee . |
| 20 | An orthodox man is not allowed to hear a woman singing as this is felt to be seductive . |
| 21 | Whereas cost is a definite factor taken into account in plan formulation by the Defence Council and Politburo , it is not allowed to become a disrupter of plan fulfilment . |
| 22 | ‘ A concert pianist is allowed a wrong note here and there , ’ Amis observed in his introduction to The New Oxford Book of Light Verse ( 1978 ) , ‘ a juggler is not allowed to drop a plate . ’ |
| 23 | Equally , the stress on the negative influence of Irish catholicism is not meant to imply a negation of its positive aspects : its sustenance of the people during long years of oppression , the dedication of its clergy and religious orders , both in education and in welfare , not to mention the contribution of its missionaries to the fight for social justice in third-world countries . |
| 24 | If the landlord is not required to serve a notice in order to initiate the review , then no fixed timetable will be necessary . |
| 25 | He is not required to enter a plea at this point . |
| 26 | No provision is made in votes for commitments entered into but not yet matured , nor for supporting services for which the receiving department is not required to make a cash payment . |
| 27 | An informant is not required to register a death which is the subject of a coroner 's inquest , but the coroner 's officer may inform the relatives when the coroner has issued his inquest certificate to the registrar so that the relatives can obtain any death certificates from the registrar . |
| 28 | Where the original tenant is not required to provide a guarantor but the alienation provisions permit the landlord to require a guarantor on an assignment if it is reasonable to do so , some landlords and tenants prefer the form of the guarantor 's covenants not to be set out in the lease but to rely upon what is reasonable at the time of the assignment , presumably to ensure that the state of the art is employed . |
| 29 | She is not planning to marry a cook . ’ |
| 30 | Although this is a fair wage , it is n't going to sustain a rock ‘ n ’ roll superstar lifestyle for longer than a few weeks , so it is only by sensible use of budgets that the real size of the advances can be put in context . |