Example sentences of "[not/n't] [adj] [to-vb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was not pleasant to feel like a mindless bore . |
| 2 | Where proceedings are commenced in the wrong court or transferred in contravention of the APO they are not rendered invalid and it is not possible to appeal against a final order on this basis alone ( APO , art 21 ) . |
| 3 | It is not possible to talk of a ‘ further education special needs sector ’ as it is of a ‘ special school sector ’ . |
| 4 | Several rhynchosaurs have been found in association with fragments of plants ( though it is not possible to say from a juxtaposition of fossils whether those fragments were ever inside the animal ) and the diet probably consisted of leaves , stems , fruit and seeds of seed-ferns , conifers , ginkgos , equisitales ( horsetails ) and ferns ( Figure 2 ) . |
| 5 | I had already discussed with Roger Penrose the idea of defining a black hole as the set of events from which it was not possible to escape to a large distance , which is now the generally accepted definition . |
| 6 | As in so many debates on the nature and location of power in Britain it is not possible to come to a firm and lasting conclusion as to the nature of prime ministerial power relative to the position of the cabinet since Prime Ministers have always differed in their degree of command of the cabinet . |
| 7 | It is not possible to come to a clean and simple judgement . |
| 8 | It is not possible to come to a firm conclusion about this project in financial terms at the moment . |
| 9 | Unfortunately , often it is not possible to comment on a given source study 's assumptions as only summary calculations are presented . |
| 10 | As a consequence , it was not possible to privatise in a way that put customers ' and consumers ' interests first because the overriding interest was the Conservative Government and ensuring maximum take up . |
| 11 | Although it is not possible to apply for a PEP in joint names , a husband and wife can each invest up to £6,000 in separate plans . |
| 12 | Note that it is not possible to apply for a family assistance order ; the court must act of its own volition . |
| 13 | Whilst it is not possible to conceive of a designing system which can take into account influences which are beyond the designer 's knowledge and comprehension , it is possible to generate a fundamental design procedure in which all relationships , known to the designer , are " captured " and tested for . |
| 14 | For example , it is not possible to differentiate between a hilar stricture caused by focal sclerosing cholangitis from one resulting from a cholangiocarcinoma , or a distal stricture due to cancer of the pancreas from a stricture caused by chronic pancreatitis . |
| 15 | The Queen was not due to return from a tour of the Far East until two days later . |
| 16 | It is therefore not adequate to speak of a local economy . |
| 17 | She was not afraid to go before a judge , ’ he said . |
| 18 | From that moment they drew breath more easily , not afraid to talk above a whisper , and undismayed by the echoing sound of their own footsteps . |
| 19 | ( 1986 ) and Borgman ( 1980 ) have found from their studies that older children especially are not willing to move to a new family if contact with their biological families is to be severed , though of course some children may be unable to voice their reluctance and tend to go along with the plans . |
| 20 | He was not prepared to put on an act , to don a tiger skin and go roaring about . |
| 21 | The hon. Member for Dagenham said that the Government are not prepared to move to a property tax and he is absolutely right — we are not . |
| 22 | Not only was a papal judgement difficult to get , but there were some points on which Anselm was not prepared to abide by a papal judgement unreservedly . |
| 23 | Nevertheless in Guildford Rural District Council v Fortescue the court was not prepared to accept as a general proposition that mere intensity of user could never be relevant . |
| 24 | The Dean was not prepared to get into a wrangle with Wheeler about a diocesan servant . |
| 25 | As noted in pp 30–31 , the life of this committee is not easy to chart for a number of reasons , and this has made it difficult to determine precisely what has been achieved and to what extent this is attributable to the project . |
| 26 | Mind you , the two-note , fifth-interval bends in bars 5 , 6 and 7 are definitely not easy to simulate without a tremolo arm , so the best of luck to you ! |
| 27 | The Government adverted to this problem in its White Paper , recognising that ‘ it is not easy to define in a manner which conforms with the normally precise definitions of the criminal law , but which at the same time is sufficiently general to catch the variety of conduct aimed at . |
| 28 | For example , a lecturer may have irregular commitments outside the Course , or the institution , which are not easy to record in a computer ( unless complicated data structures are used ) and are even harder to gather accurate information about in the first place . |
| 29 | While it is not easy to establish as an empirical matter what the current income-wealth distribution is , even if it could be established , the question of what degree of inequality should be the trigger for government policy remains . |
| 30 | ‘ It 's not easy to dispose of a body . ’ |