Example sentences of "[not/n't] [vb pp] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Dexter sat with the superintendent while she dialled the head of the Press Bureau , who told her his phone had not stopped ringing all day : press and television news editors were demanding to know why Scotland Yard was keeping such a low profile on the Nicola Sharpe story . |
| 3 | Under a similar provision in the Bankruptcy Act 1914 it had been held that a defect in a bankruptcy notice of a kind such as could reasonably mislead the debtor was not a mere formal defect or irregularity within the meaning of that provision , and therefore rendered the notice a nullity even though it was not calculated to cause substantial injustice . |
| 4 | He opposed the Criminal Law Amendment Bill on the grounds that ‘ repressive legislation of this kind is not calculated to improve public morals ’ . |
| 5 | Lloyd George claimed that the pension was not intended to give full subsistence , merely an addition and an incentive to desirable private saving . |
| 6 | It was not intended to give this impression , and we take this opportunity to make that clear and to apologize for any embarrassment caused . |
| 7 | He had not intended to cause serious injury to Mr Redmond . |
| 8 | He had not intended to cause serious injury . |
| 9 | She had not intended to go that way . |
| 10 | The places too — with the exception of certain points of interest in New York — are imaginary and not intended to represent specific places . |
| 11 | 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) ) . |
| 12 | But the opacity , unlike the ludic obscurities of French poststructuralists , is not intended to undermine traditional meaning . |
| 13 | 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 ’ . |
| 14 | 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 ’ . |
| 15 | The British and US governments , which have both signed but not yet ratified these Protocols , were the only signatories to make the explicit reservation ‘ that the new rules introduced by the Protocol are not intended to have any effect on and do not regulate or prohibit the use of nuclear weapons ’ . |
| 16 | When signing the protocol on 12 December 1977 , both the UK and the USA declared that they did so on the understanding that the rules in the protocol were ‘ not intended to have any effect on and do not regulate or prohibit the use of nuclear weapons ’ . |
| 17 | The figures we have used are made up and are not intended to indicate any trend in Oxford . |
| 18 | In terms , for instance , of the teaching of reading it was said that if children were not taught to read great books the result would be a wearing away of the national culture . |
| 19 | Clearly , the expectation is that young people will be steered away from companies or employers who have not undertaken to provide good quality training . |
| 20 | It allows you to check that you have not forgotten to do essential jobs and , if you have , it provides the chance to rectify the mistake . |
| 21 | Diplomatic throughout , Dr Greenspan insisted that he was no expert on the Soviet economy , and had not come to offer instant solutions . |
| 22 | This suggests that a localised , contained conflict was not considered to justify discriminatory suspension of third party rights . |
| 23 | 5-Fluorouracil , which was the standard treatment until one or two years ago , was not considered to prolong median survival , although a controlled trial against no chemotherapy has never been done . |
| 24 | While Miles and Gregory have still to decide whether to stay with Wigan for another season , the continuing dominance of a club which only 10 years ago was not considered to have one player good enough to start the series against Australia , is almost total . |
| 25 | Tish Reid beat Gill in a trial but is not considered to have Olympic potential in a single . |
| 26 | You will probably be relieved to hear that you 're not expected to memorize that table and to regurgitate it in the exam . |
| 27 | Although these managers are not expected to take any responsibility for it , this does mean that notification of a failure in a module is passed through the LIFESPAN system , and individual managers can decide what impact the reported failure has on their modules and packages . |
| 28 | Although these managers are not expected to take any responsibility for it , this does mean that notification of a failure in a module is passed through the LIFESPAN system , and individual managers can decide what impact the reported failure has on their modules and packages . |
| 29 | ( 139b ) … reflected solar radiation is not expected to cause sizable errors in the measurements of planetary radiation . |
| 30 | 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 . |