Example sentences of "[not/n't] normally occur [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Studies of the natural constraints on learning suggest that what is learnt , and when , is probably under a genetic surveillance so that learning does not normally occur outside the context of an evolutionary stable strategy . |
| 2 | Incentives are considered artificial if the rewarding events would not normally occur as a consequence of the behaviour outside the training situation ( e.g. being given stars or happy faces for getting dressed ) . |
| 3 | Also , Mrs Valerie Riches will speak on the content of many of the sex-education programmes used in British schools , which in practice offer only a moral sexual instruction , and subject the young to ideas which would not normally occur to them . |
| 4 | By " special constructions " we mean in particular cumulative lists of adjectives as in ( 12 ) , where , however , the order may be explained by the quite general if ill-defined tendency to leave " heavy " constituents to the latest possible point , as in ( 13 ) : ( 12 ) policies foreign , social and educational ( 13 ) that salesman has just come back who kept getting in the way when you were trying to vaccinate the ewes last week Postnominal associatives may also just possibly be admitted in constructions expressing sharp opposition : ( 14 ) scientists nuclear but not biological The latter type , however , is at best questionable ; and , as a good general rule , we may say that associative adjectives do not normally occur in postnominal position . |
| 5 | We can quickly find , by taking the examples of associative adjectives in Chapter 2 , that these do not normally occur after their noun either . |