Example sentences of "[not/n't] [vb pp] [to-vb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | At first it is not easy … we usually find that we have completed the task at hand and then we remember that we have not stopped to think first . |
| 3 | Under a similar provision in the Bankruptcy Act 1914 it had been held that a defect in a bankruptcy notice of a kind such as could reasonably mislead the debtor was not a mere formal defect or irregularity within the meaning of that provision , and therefore rendered the notice a nullity even though it was not calculated to cause substantial injustice . |
| 4 | He opposed the Criminal Law Amendment Bill on the grounds that ‘ repressive legislation of this kind is not calculated to improve public morals ’ . |
| 5 | Lloyd George claimed that the pension was not intended to give full subsistence , merely an addition and an incentive to desirable private saving . |
| 6 | It was not intended to give this impression , and we take this opportunity to make that clear and to apologize for any embarrassment caused . |
| 7 | The system model , although not intended to reflect ideal functional groupings , also indicated that a sub-division of activities to those directly concerned with course delivery ( ie the operational functions ) , and those concerned with non-teaching tasks ( ie the support functions ) , was appropriate to align systemically-related activities . |
| 8 | He had not intended to cause serious injury to Mr Redmond . |
| 9 | He had not intended to cause serious injury . |
| 10 | On the same day that he received Palmerston 's letter , he replied that he had not intended to say that Gothic was re-established as the leading English architecture of the day , but rather its history and origin made a strong case for its revival in those countries where it had first flourished . |
| 11 | She had not intended to go that way . |
| 12 | The places too — with the exception of certain points of interest in New York — are imaginary and not intended to represent specific places . |
| 13 | These are not intended to represent any specific location , but explore possible burial histories for an undeformed layer cake thrust sheet built up from the following thicknesses : 2.5 km of Cambrian ( after Caledonian erosion — originally 2.75 km ) ; 3 km of Devonian ; 2 km of Lower Carboniferous ; 2 km of Upper Carboniferous . |
| 14 | 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) ) . |
| 15 | In most cases , however , a transfer of property from the former husband to the former wife will fall within the provisions of s10(1) mentioned above and the Inland Revenue have issued a Press Statement ( see Orange Tax Handbook 1992/93 , Butterworths , IHT Statements of Practice , E12 ) to this effect : Transfer of money or property pursuant to an Order of the Court in consequence of a Decree of Divorce or nullity of marriage will in general be regarded as exempt from Inheritance Tax as transactions at arm 's length which are not intended to confer any gratuitous benefit . |
| 16 | In the paragraphs that follow the references to party manifestoes are not intended to do more than to highlight some of the more obvious differences in emphasis . |
| 17 | But the opacity , unlike the ludic obscurities of French poststructuralists , is not intended to undermine traditional meaning . |
| 18 | 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 ’ . |
| 19 | 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 ’ . |
| 20 | It was not intended to sound biased . |
| 21 | She had not intended to bring this out into the open in quite this way , but she was left with little option , and she had a vague instinct that in the long run it might reap results . |
| 22 | Although a minority have wanted and planned having a baby , most have not intended to get pregnant , at least not consciously . |
| 23 | The British and US governments , which have both signed but not yet ratified these Protocols , were the only signatories to make the explicit reservation ‘ that the new rules introduced by the Protocol are not intended to have any effect on and do not regulate or prohibit the use of nuclear weapons ’ . |
| 24 | When signing the protocol on 12 December 1977 , both the UK and the USA declared that they did so on the understanding that the rules in the protocol were ‘ not intended to have any effect on and do not regulate or prohibit the use of nuclear weapons ’ . |
| 25 | Not surprisingly , given the well-known stance of the Seven on political unity , EFTA was not intended to have any political implications , and so it was not deemed necessary for it to have an elaborate institutional structure . |
| 26 | The fact that you have been able to spend your whole time on the core of the question is itself some indication that the question was not intended to have any wider scope . |
| 27 | This money is not intended to provide any immediate benefit and the plaintiff suffers no immediate loss as a result of the loss of his wages . |
| 28 | The figures we have used are made up and are not intended to indicate any trend in Oxford . |
| 29 | At a Local Government conference , someone at the venue had put up the mikes but had not checked to make sure they were fixed properly , so they were slowly drooping ! |
| 30 | In terms , for instance , of the teaching of reading it was said that if children were not taught to read great books the result would be a wearing away of the national culture . |