Example sentences of "[is] not [verb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Editor , — We strongly support A L Clark and A J S Coats 's conclusions that screening for hypertrophic cardiomyopathy is not justified at present and that more research is needed on both the effectiveness of early treatment and the natural course of minor abnormalities detected by screening .
2 More fertilizer might mean more grain ( and more carbon dioxide and nitrous oxide to add to the greenhouse effect ) , but there obviously comes a point where more fertilizer does not mean a bigger yield or perhaps is not justified on cost grounds , particularly when grain prices are low , as they were for part of the 1980s .
3 Indeed , the refurbishment of the 220 building results from AEA 's commercial considerations and is not necessitated by Ministry of Defence contracts .
4 The search for a laterality index that is not biased with respect to accuracy recently led Bryden and Sprott ( 1981 ) to propose the adoption of a new index , lamda , based on the log odds ratios ( P/ ( l — P ) ; P/ ( l -P ) where PR and P , are the respective probabilities of a correct response at the left and right sides .
5 It is therefore important that the procedure used to produce a sample of visitors is not biased by size of group .
6 Donna Landry entertains very little doubt that Leapor 's poetry is basically lesbian though the case is not argued in depth .
7 Within 15 minutes the human eye begins to become accustomed to the dark — provided it is not blinded by light , in which case , you have to start all over again .
8 who is not blinded by power or money ,
9 AIthough the term is not examined in detail here , it will be clear from both this chapter and Chapter 3 on services , as well as Chapter 6 , that the division between manufacturing and services has always been blurred and is becoming , perhaps increasingly , problematical .
10 Even where such material is not incorporated by reference apparently reference may still be made to it for contextual or confirmatory purposes .
11 To accept Nozick 's criticism is not to judge in favour of Nozick 's conception of justice against Rawls , any more than acceptance of Gilligan 's argument involves rejection of Kohlberg 's abstract principles of justice .
12 Even so its application is not reserved to science and technology .
13 CBP100 is sometimes present in immunoprecipitates from UF9 cells but is not detected following differentiation ( data not shown ) .
14 Bravo and MacDonald-Bravo report that the soluble form is not detected by immunofluorescence if methanol is used for fixation .
15 If a court feels that a particular act which is not authorized by statute requires positive legal authorization , it may be able to achieve this by extending an existing prerogative power into a new area .
16 ‘ ( Wo ) man is not destroyed by suffering .
17 Prof Lacey 's main concern , BSE , however is not destroyed by cooking and present lack of knowledge about Creutzfeld-Jakob disease is not reassuring .
18 If it is not placed under tension and pulled it will disappear .
19 just for fun , you know but I 'm not a believer in using your fists , you ought to be using your brain to teach with but there were no there are no sanctions , if you say you must stay behind after school , you have to send a letter home and half the parents will write back and say my son or daughter is not staying after school and that is that !
20 This ensures that anxiety is not exacerbated by fear of the unknown .
21 By an originating summons dated 18 December 1991 the plaintiffs , the Halifax Building Society , the Woolwich Equitable Building Society , the Leeds Permanent Building Society , and the Alliance and Leicester Building Society , sought ( 1 ) a declaration that , upon the true construction of the ombudsman scheme recognised under Part IX of the Building Societies Act 1986 , the first defendant Stephen Bristow Edell , the ombudsman appointed under the scheme , was not entitled to investigate or determine ( a ) the complaint against the first plaintiff received by him from Michael Robert Allen and Christine Allen , the second and third defendants respectively , alleging that the report and valuation for mortgage assessment prepared for the first plaintiff had been negligently prepared , ( b ) the complaint against the second plaintiff received by him from Jeffrey Leonard Brommage and Heather Maureen Brommage , the fourth and fifth defendants respectively , alleging that the report and valuation prepared for the second plaintiff had been negligently prepared , ( c ) the complaint against the third plaintiff received by him from Lawrence Frederick West and Christa West , the sixth and seventh defendants respectively , alleging that the report and valuation prepared for the third plaintiff had been negligently prepared , and ( d ) the complaint against the fourth plaintiff received by him from Joseph Paul Hardcastle and Astrid Marie Hardcastle , the eighth and ninth defendants respectively , alleging that the report and valuation prepared for them had been negligently prepared ; and ( 2 ) a determination , upon the true construction of the scheme , whether and if so in what circumstances the first defendant was entitled to investigate and determine a complaint relating to an allegation of failure to exercise the requisite degree of professional skill and care on the part of a valuer or surveyor employed by the building society against which the complaint was made in relation to a report by him on the condition or value of any property where the report in question consisted of : ( a ) a written report prepared pursuant to section 13 of the Building Societies Act 1986 for a building society on the value of the land which was proposed as security for an advance to be made by the society and on any factors likely materially to affect its value made by a person who is competent to value and is not disqualified under section 13 from making a report on the land in question , ( b ) a written valuers ' report and valuation for mortgage prepared for the first plaintiff , ( c ) such a report prepared for the second plaintiff , ( d ) such a report prepared for the third plaintiff , ( e ) such a report prepared for the fourth plaintiff , ( f ) a house buyer 's report and valuation prepared by a chartered surveyor subject to the standard conditions of engagement of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors , ( g ) a flat buyer 's report and valuation prepared by a chartered surveyor , ( h ) a home buyer 's standard valuation and survey report prepared by an incorporated valuer and auctioneer subject to the standard terms of engagement of the Incorporated Society of Valuers and Auctioneers , ( i ) a written report known as a ‘ home purchase report ’ prepared by a chartered surveyor or an incorporated valuer and auctioneer subject to the standard conditions of engagement of the second plaintiff , ( j ) a written report known as a ‘ house buyer 's report ’ prepared by a chartered surveyor or an incorporated valuer and auctioneer subject to the standard conditions of engagement of the third plaintiff , or ( k ) a structural survey report .
22 It is not taxed at source .
23 If the selling shareholder is a corporation , the Revenue takes the view that , because the distribution element is franked investment income and is not charged to corporation tax in the company 's hands , the full amount of the sale price should be brought into account in the company 's computation of chargeable gains .
24 Obviously this kind of argument is not limited to biochemistry .
25 This study shows that the motor activity of the normal human oesophagus is not limited to contraction waves in response to swallowing , but that non-deglutitive motility patterns occur in almost all normal gullets .
26 In making such an appraisal , the MMC is not limited to competition questions , but is supposed to consider all factors which appear relevant : the balanced distribution of industry and employment in the UK is listed as relevant and , in the past , the MMC has also examined the effect on the balance of payments and on imports .
27 It should be noted that the SGSA , s 2 is not limited to business contracts .
28 It is recognised that full configuration control of software is not limited to source code and that it is desirable to control the whole environment in which the target machine-code is produced .
29 Exorcism is not limited to Christianity .
30 Moreover , the test applies to all unusual or unreasonable terms , and is not limited to exclusion and limitation clauses .
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