Example sentences of "[is] [not/n't] [verb] [to-vb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This study is not constructed to test general theories about the relationship between crime and social change or the state . |
| 2 | It is not scaremongering to raise these spectres . |
| 3 | Such payment is not made to keep alive the right to recover it , inasmuch as the opportunity is thus afforded of contesting the demand , and payment in such circumstances is a payment to close the transaction and not to keep it open . |
| 4 | Such payment is not made to keep alive the right to recover it , inasmuch as the opportunity is thus afforded of contesting the demand , and payment in such circumstances is a payment to close the transaction and not to keep it open . |
| 5 | He opposed the Criminal Law Amendment Bill on the grounds that ‘ repressive legislation of this kind is not calculated to improve public morals ’ . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | In all these cases , the Attorney-General is not bound to take legal action , even if the law has clearly been broken . |
| 8 | Parliament is not bound to follow this in the future . |
| 9 | Thus if a manufacturer agrees to do something " as soon as possible " he " is not bound to discard all other work for the occasion " ( Hydraulic Engineering Co Ltd v McHaffie Goslett & Co ( 1878 ) 4 QBD 670 , per Bramwell LJ ) . |
| 10 | However I am satisfied that the MoD is not trying to brush this under the carpet . ’ |
| 11 | If private enterprise in a capitalist society is not trying to do that , there is no point in private enterprise — nor , for that matter , in a capitalist society . |
| 12 | I told him he is not trying to get fit in time . |
| 13 | 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 ’ . |
| 14 | 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 ’ . |
| 15 | But the opacity , unlike the ludic obscurities of French poststructuralists , is not intended to undermine traditional meaning . |
| 16 | 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) ) . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | A way round this hearsay evidence is for the officer to say ‘ The passenger Mr. Jones says he is not licensed to drive this car so I am reporting you ( the defendant ) for quitting a vehicle ’ etc . |
| 19 | ( 139b ) … reflected solar radiation is not expected to cause sizable errors in the measurements of planetary radiation . |
| 20 | Expansion of radio-based signalling will lead to a further cut in technical staff on the rural lines , but this is not expected to cause great discontent . |
| 21 | The rest of continental Europe is not expected to see any significant growth during the year . |
| 22 | Fiscal equality is not expected to reduce racial isolation . |
| 23 | The unit , to be attached to the UN Centre for Urgent Environment Assistance , is not expected to become operational before 1994 . |
| 24 | It was a perfect day for Bayle to celebrate his 23rd birthday , though he is not expected to contest any of the remaining 11 ties , except perhaps his native French round in July . |
| 25 | Because he is waiting to see if the anticipatory breach turns into non-performance in fact , he is not expected to buy any replacement goods until the date of actual non-performance . |
| 26 | The change in the formula for grossing-up net interest caused some uncertainty , though it is not expected to have any significant impact on the level of net dividends companies pay . |
| 27 | The new laboratory will employ six to 10 people in an area of science that is not expected to produce marketable results for five to 10 years . |
| 28 | The important point is not to try to harmonise this account with that of Luke in the Acts — after all , John in all probability never read Luke 's work , and presents the material in a very different manner and with different aims . |
| 29 | Lazarsfeld 's proposal is not to try to resolve methodological problems philosophically but to see what follows by way of research practice if we recognise that we can never investigate phenomena directly . |
| 30 | Our concern here is not to try to disentangle New Liberalism from Fabian socialist thought . |