Example sentences of "[adv] [not/n't] [adj] [to-vb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ‘ modal ’ fruit in both tropical and temperate regions is a 7–9 mm black or red berry , but as there is a greater gape range in tropical birds , it is perhaps not surprising to find a wider range of fruit and seed size there . |
| 2 | It is thus not easy to refute the idea that cultures and outlooks dominated by oral modes , literacy and print , or electronic media are in many respects distinctive . |
| 3 | It is thus not necessary to produce an engineering drawing specifically for the purpose of showing everyone what it looks like . |
| 4 | Hayek is thus not content to leave the protection of liberty to the nobility of spirit of rulers . |
| 5 | Above all , service was voluntary and thus not liable to produce the grievances that accompanied selection for compulsory service . |
| 6 | As Piaget said himself when reporting his original data , it is just not possible to explain the seven-month-old 's failure to search in terms of memory failure ( that is the baby knows that objects exist unperceived but keeps forgetting that this object went behind there ) because if an organism had a memory this bad it would ipso facto lack object permanence . |
| 7 | It is just not possible to keep an accident investigation organisation at constant readiness every day and night , high days and holidays , and at the same time guarantee to be able to send investigating teams that are always personally experienced with the particular type of aircraft involved . |
| 8 | Second , any refusal of an offer of work because an engagement with another organization had been accepted , although normally not sufficient to debar a casual from further offers , would constitute a break of employment . |
| 9 | The majority was still not ready to abandon the belief that humankind was intended to dominate the earth . |
| 10 | It is sad to see that the ruling body of American golf is still not willing to invite the best players to compete in its Major Championships . |
| 11 | Second , it is usually not difficult to write an agreement in such a manner that it does not take a form which is registrable . |
| 12 | The flight of religious sects seeking greater freedom to pursue their often rather peculiar activities was probably less significant than in the previous half-century , if only because mid-Victorian governments held no strong views about orthodoxy as such , though probably not displeased to see the heels of the British or Danish Mormons , whose penchant for polygamy created problems . |
| 13 | It is probably not accurate to regard the employer 's duty as a series of separate obligations but rather as a single duty to take reasonable care for the safety of employees . |
| 14 | It was also not possible to correlate the motility of the exercise periods durng the recording as patients were not subjected to any strenuous form of exercise during the recordings . |
| 15 | Since recall goes up as precision goes down , it is clearly not possible to achieve a system which gives full recall at the same time as full precision . |
| 16 | Under such unfavourable circumstances it was clearly not possible to pursue the Youth Allyah dream of creating a genuine community and to run it on democratic lines like a Kibbutz . |
| 17 | Tony Benn is clearly not able to resolve the position of the monarchy within our system but he highlights a problem that may need to be confronted at some point in the future . |
| 18 | Figure 7.5 shows the differences in P(A) for the films that were used in this study , a comparison of this figure with Figure 7.1 suggests that although the total amount of information in a stimulus does play an important role in memory it is clearly not sufficient to explain the recognition results . |
| 19 | Well , maybe they do , but making any old noises is clearly not sufficient to enter the rationality stakes ; I must at least say something . |
| 20 | Export growth over the same period has shown an increase of only 36 per cent which , although better than the world average growth of 28 per cent , is clearly not sufficient to cover the large increase in import demand . |
| 21 | Massive chunks of history are missing and it is really not possible to understand the Abstract Expressionists without reference to how they incorporated or reacted against those earlier tendencies . |
| 22 | Erm not up to visitors , ma erm , sh she has limited the times she 's visited because she 's got the children , and he 's just really not able to stand the children |
| 23 | Directors would normally maintain such lists of candidates in order of the date of receipt of the applications , but this apparent fairness had occasionally to be circumvented in case of urgent necessity by borrowing from another director with a less crowded list in the case of an older candidate , for it was often not feasible to advance a candidate over the heads of others in a list for fear of giving lasting offence . |
| 24 | In horses , although a history of donkey contact and clinical signs may be suggestive of D. arnfieldi infection , it is often not possible to confirm a diagnosis by demonstrating larvae in the faeces . |
| 25 | It is often not possible to distinguish the weakest component , and only the relative intensities ( 9:6 = 3:2 ) serve to distinguish this case from that of a group containing only one chlorine , for which the intensity ratio is 3 : 1 . |
| 26 | It is often not convenient to square a large integer so a selected part of the key may be squared instead . |
| 27 | It 's simply not possible to form an opinion on it . ’ |
| 28 | It is an integral part of modern culture that it is simply not possible to envisage a model of freedom , including that abstraction needed for the achievement of equality , which would not have as one of its component parts the tendency towards alienation . |
| 29 | If players have the freedom to act in their best interests as a response to the signals of the market place , it is simply not possible to determine the outcome of the game by reference to certain ideals of social justice . |
| 30 | On the other hand , the low prospective profitability could be due to the enterprise becoming trapped in a clearly sub-optimal line of production , i.e. one in which consumers were simply not willing to pay a price for the commodity sufficient to cover its costs of production ( including the opportunity cost of investment funds expressed in the rate of interest charged by the national investment bank ) . |