Example sentences of "is not [verb] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | is not justified on a general reading of that case . |
| 2 | Both sections 12 and 14 allow the senior police officer to impose conditions only if he ‘ reasonably believes ’ that the stipulated events will occur , and the Government White Paper expressed the view that the new law would ‘ ensure that demonstrators have an effective means of challenging any decision by the police to impose conditions which is not justified by a real risk of serious disorder , disruption or coercion . ’ |
| 3 | Hence , the requirement for very large rates of return is not justified from a shareholder-wealth viewpoint . |
| 4 | If your aircraft is not painted in a standard colour you will often find details of the exact type and colour in the airframe log book . |
| 5 | Section 50A states that copyright is not infringed by a lawful user making an additional copy of a computer program for back-up purposes if doing so is necessary to the lawful use . |
| 6 | Ideally , the product should also run on a range of platforms so that the user is not tied to a single source of hardware . |
| 7 | The Court held on the one hand that the protection of the Directive was a matter of public policy and so the worker could not trade away his right under the Directive to the maintenance of the same terms and conditions , even if ‘ the employee obtains new benefits in compensation for the disadvantages resulting from an amendment to his contract of employment so that , taking the matter as a whole , he is not placed in a worse position than before ’ ( point 15 ) . |
| 8 | The plaintiff was in any case prevented from bringing an action by the statutory provision , which is not limited to a bare right of passage and is not lost by the taking of a photograph . |
| 9 | Unlike the Magistrates ' Court , the Crown Court 's jurisdiction is not limited to a given area . |
| 10 | It is not limited to a particular place . |
| 11 | Secondly , because the horse is not locked into a certain form of behaviour by habit , it will have more flexibility of mind about doing new things and it will be more easily motivated to learn something different . |
| 12 | Like Burroughs ' Naked Lunch , it carries a directive that the sections can be read in any order but , unlike B. S. Johnson 's The Unfortunates , it is not presented as a boxed set . |
| 13 | But man is not made for a solitary , self-sufficient existence . |
| 14 | A market purchase is one made on a recognised investment exchange ( which includes the London Stock Exchange and the USM ) , whereas an off-market purchase is one which is not made on a recognised investment exchange ( ie by private contract ) or is so made but the shares are not subject to a marketing arrangement on that exchange . |
| 15 | To maintain this focus , the book does not dwell much on forms of expert determination where the decision is not made by a third party or the decision is interim . |
| 16 | It has two essential components : identification of the debt and a clear statement that proceedings will be issued if payment is not made within a certain period , say ten days . |
| 17 | If the business is not transferred as a going concern the common law position will apply , and the employees will remain with the vendor if the purchaser does not wish to employ them . |
| 18 | Solid as a bull whale in his confidence and peering through eyes that suggest he is not lacking in a little magic himself , Hugh Smith calmly rebuts every argument that London is in decline . |
| 19 | Ambivalence poses the crucial problem of enforcement for regulatory agencies and their field staffs , because their authority is not secured on a perceived moral and political consensus about the ills they seek to control . |
| 20 | The social class bias in university entrance is not matched by a corresponding bias in university performance . |
| 21 | Because of this the Judaeo-Christian world-view recognises the need to create political and economic structures which ensure that the family is not debarred from a permanent interest in economic life . |
| 22 | River ( 1964 ) affirms that if a response " is not reinforced by a satisfying or rewarding state of affairs , it will tend not to recur and so will gradually disappear from the individual 's repertoire by the process of extinction " . |
| 23 | Perhaps what has saved it is the fact that it is not situated on a major road . |
| 24 | As the transmitter itself is not connected to a real earth or ‘ ground ’ it is essential that the instrument used is adequately screened and all wiring connections are in good condition . |
| 25 | Under 5.1(12) , however , the election of a board member is not vitiated by a technical defect in the proceedings which has not prejudiced other interested parties in the election , and , under s.2(6) , the grant of a new licence is not to be objected to on the ground that any of the members of the board granting it were not qualified to grant the licence . |
| 26 | This may be defined as care provided by family , friends and neighbours which is not organized via a statutory or voluntary agency and is not undertaken for financial reward . |
| 27 | Alford distinguishes the lay popular interest in development of services as the third and largely repressed force : it is not organized as a permanent lobby and is not party to the agenda setting between the monopolists and the rationalizers . |
| 28 | The Victorian pub is now threatened in two ways : because it is not understood as a historic document , and because certain isolated elements in Victorian pub design have been overemphasised at the expense of others . |
| 29 | Where a ’ token ’ start is made on site , the local planning authority may serve a completion notice advising that the planning consent will be revoked if the development is not completed within a defined period of not less than one year . |
| 30 | It is important that the category of children with moderate learning difficulties , which has escalated to frightening proportions , is not replaced with a new category of disruptive pupils . |