Example sentences of "[not/n't] [adj] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 I believe that such a sharing will lead to each school establishing its own targets : not narrow targets like those listed by well-intentioned politicians but much broader-based priorities .
2 Some may be given an ample incentive , like Rodney Brooke , former chief executive of Westminster City Council , who received a £1 million early retirement package for not revealing details of the Council 's sale for 15p of three cemeteries .
3 However , the manual system lacked a direct link with a title listing , i.e. , the end result of the consultation was a classification number and not specific titles from which further refinement could have been made .
4 These are not accidental oversights on the part of the academic community .
5 Now workers say management created South Korea 's problems by not investing profits into expansion ; management say workers wanted too much money .
6 Throughout her article , Blum-Kulka renders Hebrew expressions used by the interviewer to direct each talk with natural-sounding English expressions which are not literal renderings of the Hebrew but which express similar modal meanings .
7 Officers need to correlate information and if visits are necessary they should decide , with the chief executive 's support , the need to visit Europe , not Labour Councillors on a junket costing twenty thousand out of the pockets of our Charge payers .
8 But these were not normal times for me .
9 More often the photographic session will be in the studio and it will be virtually impossible to work with people who are not professional models in these very artificial circumstances .
10 So Kimon 's rivals , Pericles and Ephialtes , were not political newcomers in 462 .
11 But in West Germany they are not political votes in the same overriding sense , because the outcome of constituency elections does not determine , as it does in Britain , how many seats each party will finally win .
12 Hassan issued a public statement on Sept. 13 , 1989 , declaring that the hunger strikers were " not political detainees at all " but " common law detainees who were indicted for violent acts which harmed public security " .
13 Aftab Jafferjee , prosecuting , said the couple and the girl 's parents were happy for not guilty verdicts to be entered .
14 During the trial , the judge ordered not guilty verdicts to be entered on two of three counts the lawyer had faced , of false accounting and of procuring the execution of a valuable security .
15 Psychiatrists shrink from not guilty verdicts on insane
16 The jury delivered the not guilty verdicts on the fourth day of the trial .
17 The jury delivered the not guilty verdicts on the fourth day of the trial .
18 A jury returned not guilty verdicts on two charges against the former deputy council leader over car park deals in Liverpool .
19 Unemployed Wisdom Smith , 19 , and student Daniel Winter , 19 , were released from the dock at Bristol Crown Court on the seventh day of their trial after a jury returned formal not guilty verdicts on the direction of the judge .
20 Waiting lists also tend to be longer , and these are not complete indices of need since council allocation rules often exclude certain persons from them .
21 The first of these putative Na + /H + exchangers has 95% homology with the previously cloned human fibroblast Na + /H + exchanger , with which it also shares several functional characteristics , including extreme sensitivity to amiloride. furthermore , immunocytochemical studies showed that polyclonal antibodies to a fusion protein incorporating this sequence localise to basolateral but not apical membranes from rabbit ileum .
22 There are just over 29,000 farm units , some of which are not full-time occupations for the owner .
23 The magistrates were held entitled to find that the constables were not private friends at the certificate-holder bona fide entertained by him , and to convict him of a contravention of subs .
24 She cut through the heady memories and concentrated her mind on what Steve was saying while she watched a superb glossy white yacht coming in to berth at the jetty not fifty metres from the window of the restaurant .
25 ‘ On the towpath , not fifty yards from Fedorov 's gatehouse .
26 Few countries in the world — certainly not economic sloths like Japan or West Germany — came near such a rate of progress .
27 As my hon. and learned Friend has accepted the closure of Bir Zeit is part of the systematic infringement of the Geneva convention by Israel which has been going on for years , should not a more robust approach therefore be taken , both by our Government and by the European Community , and should not economic measures at some stage be taken in relation to Israel to prevent the continuation of such unacceptable violations of human rights and of the Geneva convention ?
28 Consideration of the likely burial and thermal history suggests there may be areas where gas if not liquid hydrocarbons from Palaeozoic source rocks could be preserved .
29 Not poor-quality editions in imitation leather .
30 Where there are good house-groups personal learning is more likely , though groups are not conducive places for everyone .
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