Example sentences of "is not [verb] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This study is not constructed to test general theories about the relationship between crime and social change or the state . |
| 2 | It is not scaremongering to raise these spectres . |
| 3 | He opposed the Criminal Law Amendment Bill on the grounds that ‘ repressive legislation of this kind is not calculated to improve public morals ’ . |
| 4 | Besides , advanced treatment — a process of extra filtration , biological decomposition and chemical treatment — squeezes out more phosphorus but is not proven to reduce large amounts of nitrogen . |
| 5 | In all these cases , the Attorney-General is not bound to take legal action , even if the law has clearly been broken . |
| 6 | My earlier use of ‘ translation ’ to cover both interpretation and compilation into a lower-level language is not intended to carry any suggestion that the lower levels , including the lowest level of all , the machine 's registers , can be an interesting formal semantics for the higher levels , let alone what the highest level ‘ is about ’ . |
| 7 | Similarly , local authorities should not refuse permission for development by small businesses on the grounds that established businesses would be adversely affected : ‘ planning control is not intended to enable local planning authorities to intervene in the normal operation of market forces ’ . |
| 8 | But the opacity , unlike the ludic obscurities of French poststructuralists , is not intended to undermine traditional meaning . |
| 9 | Once the marriage is dissolved , prima facie there is a charge to inheritance tax on a transfer of property between husband and wife unless the disposition is not intended to confer gratuitous benefit on either person and is made between persons not connected with each other ( Inheritance Tax Act 1984 , s10(1) ) . |
| 10 | A way round this hearsay evidence is for the officer to say ‘ The passenger Mr. Jones says he is not licensed to drive this car so I am reporting you ( the defendant ) for quitting a vehicle ’ etc . |
| 11 | ( 139b ) … reflected solar radiation is not expected to cause sizable errors in the measurements of planetary radiation . |
| 12 | Expansion of radio-based signalling will lead to a further cut in technical staff on the rural lines , but this is not expected to cause great discontent . |
| 13 | Fiscal equality is not expected to reduce racial isolation . |
| 14 | Because he is waiting to see if the anticipatory breach turns into non-performance in fact , he is not expected to buy any replacement goods until the date of actual non-performance . |
| 15 | The new laboratory will employ six to 10 people in an area of science that is not expected to produce marketable results for five to 10 years . |
| 16 | The important point is not to try to harmonise this account with that of Luke in the Acts — after all , John in all probability never read Luke 's work , and presents the material in a very different manner and with different aims . |
| 17 | Lazarsfeld 's proposal is not to try to resolve methodological problems philosophically but to see what follows by way of research practice if we recognise that we can never investigate phenomena directly . |
| 18 | Our concern here is not to try to disentangle New Liberalism from Fabian socialist thought . |
| 19 | Thus if a partner obtains a renewal of a lease of partnership property in his own name , he is not permitted to treat that lease as his own property to the exclusion of his co-partners while the business continues and before there has been a distribution of assets following a dissolution ( see Featherstonhaugh v Fenwick ( 1810 ) 17 Ves Jr 298 ) . |
| 20 | Such behaviour is not guaranteed to foster good relations between two self-respecting performers and neither did it between them . |
| 21 | I 'm taking here about pure , blind betting of someone who is not attempting to exercise any skill but is just looking at the odds offered by the bookies , and pointing out — and I 'll have a table to demonstrate this in the talk I give at the Open Day — the way in which the rate of return on bets made in this way decreases steadily the longer the odds are offered . |
| 22 | So in this type of garden you 'll need to be doubly vigilant , first ensuring that you keep the soil well fed and watered , then keeping a constant umpiring eye open to make sure that one plant is not starting to take unfair advantage of another . |
| 23 | Further research has failed to turn up a single firm IBM Corp mainframe deal for this quarter anywhere across Europe , and the disk business is not going to save any IBM bacon either : word in leasing circles is that users are so averse to buying new disks that prices of used 3380Ks have risen by some 25% . |
| 24 | Unfortunately that is not going to happen any time soon . |
| 25 | ‘ London is not going to put serious pressure on Articles 2 and 3 . |
| 26 | Refusing to give contraception to young girls is not going to stop sexual activity ; all it means is that more run the risk of pregnancy , which can be far more dangerous . |
| 27 | But in most situations , when you 'd be asking a colleague on the same staff to work with you , you 'll need to find a way of working that is not going to cause massive disruption to the school timetable , that 's not going to demand that the headteacher come and cover one of your classes while you 're busy with your investigation into the disappearance of the crew of the Marie Celeste . |
| 28 | In that way the landlord need serve only one notice ( the section 25 notice ) , which will be effective to bring the tenancy to an end , even if the landlord is not going to oppose any application for a new tenancy ( Scholl Mfg Co Ltd v Clifton ( Slim-Line ) Ltd [ 1967 ] Ch 41 ; Rene Claro ( Haute Coiffure ) Ltd v Halle Concerts Society [ 1969 ] 2 All ER 842 ; Keith Bayley Rogers & Co v Cubes Ltd ( 1975 ) 31 P & CR 412 ) . |
| 29 | It is not going to require all schemes to increase pensions in payment by up to a maximum of 5 per cent a year . |
| 30 | What happens in Strasbourg is not going to have much effect on the mortgage rate or inflation . |