Example sentences of "[not/n't] [vb pp] as [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The advantage of the method of analysis suggested here is that these international influences are not treated as isolated and exogenous instances , as if operated by deus ex machina , but are explicable and connected within the context of the workings of the world economic system . |
| 2 | The reason why this specific condition is not regarded as repeated is that it is incompatible with the condition to which the substitution is subject : the substitutes are to be admitted if no children are born to the testator or if any born die before puberty , whereas the manumission is subject to the condition that there are children who are still alive at puberty . |
| 3 | For , although there was an absolute past , it was normative and was not regarded as receding . |
| 4 | The significant point about this first view is that whichever label is used the expansion in procedural rights is not regarded as involving any fundamental change in the nature of natural justice . |
| 5 | If words such as scio and non dubito in the second half of the second century were not regarded as showing clear intention to set up trusts , might they have been after these cases ? |
| 6 | " My kingdom is not of this world " was not regarded as releasing the pope from an active role in government , though it did express the great moral fervour that fuelled the late eleventh- and early twelfth-century reforms — especially in the attack on clerical marriage and in the drive to rid the Church of unchaste priests and to control the proprietary church system ( secular theocracy ) . |
| 7 | The agricultural export economy was not regarded as needing a skilled workforce and little priority was given to schooling for the majority of the population . |
| 8 | Today 's vagrants , squatting under railway arches and in shop doorways , are not regarded as having strayed from anywhere . |
| 9 | When someone has been asked to make over on death whatever remains of an inheritance , and from the price of objects sold buys other objects , he is not regarded as having diminished [ the estate ] in respect of the objects sold … but the objects thus bought should be made over in place of the ownership which has changed … . |
| 10 | Similarly , a woman who submits to sexual intercourse having been threatened with or fearing serious injury or death is not regarded as having consented . |
| 11 | Although people in the Cape Town ballet world thought highly of his promise , John 's talent as a choreographer was not regarded as proved by the time he left South Africa ( at only eighteen , why should it have been ? ) , and other young choreographers were at least as highly thought of . |
| 12 | A large shareholding ( for example , the Solvay group 's 9.7 per cent stake in Allied Chemical ) is not regarded as giving control in the absence of regular participation in management . |
| 13 | — Birds not listed as forbidden . |
| 14 | The EMS , founded in 1979 , had not collapsed as had been predicted in many quarters , rather it had achieved some success in stabilising exchange rate fluctuations , and in helping to promote convergence of inflation rates . |
| 15 | But by definition , science itself was not considered as penetrated by social context ; if it was it would no longer be science , at least not ‘ pure science ’ : |
| 16 | The judge is not reported as making any speculation as to the source of this knowledge , which is obviously from the newspapers themselves . |
| 17 | Gilgamesh is not reported as having any significant dreams after Enkidu 's death , and despite his continuing efforts to penetrate the mysteries it becomes increasingly apparent that his powers have waned and the gods have turned against him . |
| 18 | The four circles are not presented as dealing with quite separate topics , such that to move from one to another would be in any sense a change of subject , but rather as four equally fundamental and interlocking dimensions of the same ground-motif that runs throughout : that Jesus Christ is the actualisation and realisation in time and history of God 's eternal decision to be God for and with man ; he is himself the everlasting covenant of God with us , and in that covenant the meaning and purpose of the created universe itself is contained ; and in him too lies the uncovering and overcoming of man 's estrangement from God by the divine ‘ No ! ’ of the cross which leads on to the ‘ Yes ! ’ of the resurrection . |
| 19 | Units have tended to fall not rise , so the value of many endowments has not grown as expected . |
| 20 | In practice , the ambiguities of class blurred the theory ; rich Kenyans had privileges that made them virtually equal to the British , and a large number of the British — including the instruments of power , the soldiers — were not accepted as equals by the Establishment . |
| 21 | Curiously , however , marriage was not seen as requiring an ecclesiastical ceremony before the twelfth century . |
| 22 | Elections are not seen as providing a pathway to power . |
| 23 | These situations and circumstances are not seen as operating as ‘ causes ’ , in a determinist sense , but as offering incentives or disincentives that will have some degree of probability of influencing the direction in which the choices are made . |
| 24 | Mourning and depression are not seen as overlapping through different processes ; rather , early loss or bereavement actually produces the vulnerability to psychiatric disorder ( which may not necessarily be depression ) . |
| 25 | Arts teachers are also not seen as helping their own cause in as much as classroom practices in the arts might not be living up to the expectations of other professional staff . |
| 26 | Those perceived to be ‘ university material ’ were directed to high status choices , academic subjects , and those not seen as having the potential for higher education , despite having the same raw marks , were encouraged to opt for a more ‘ realistic ’ course . |
| 27 | The humble agent had now virtually disappeared , and where he survived was not seen as having any diplomatic status ; but relatively new categories of chargé d'affaires and secretary of embassy or of legation were appearing . |
| 28 | Yet , in Hungary anti-Semitism itself is not seen as posing an impediment to democracy . |
| 29 | While this was not seen as condoned truancy , headmasters warned that it was sending signals about the relative lack of importance of regular attendance . |
| 30 | So why was this condition not seen as giving prospects of profit and therefore providing adequate incentive to new investment which , in turn , would have strengthened the balance of payments and made sterling less of a handicap ? |