Example sentences of "[not/n't] [vb pp] in a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do you tell me that my brother is not treated in a like manner ? ’ |
| 2 | I sincerely hope that Mrs. X 's complaint was not treated in a dismissive way because , as she readily admitted , she was drunk at the time of the assault . |
| 3 | Despite introducing some dynamic elements into the discussion , these are not treated in a formal way . |
| 4 | If your aircraft is not painted in a standard colour you will often find details of the exact type and colour in the airframe log book . |
| 5 | Even the transition from an artificial to a natural system was not completed in a uniform manner throughout the scientific community . |
| 6 | The Court held on the one hand that the protection of the Directive was a matter of public policy and so the worker could not trade away his right under the Directive to the maintenance of the same terms and conditions , even if ‘ the employee obtains new benefits in compensation for the disadvantages resulting from an amendment to his contract of employment so that , taking the matter as a whole , he is not placed in a worse position than before ’ ( point 15 ) . |
| 7 | The jaws are armed with blunt papillae which are not arranged in a regular series . |
| 8 | Hooks not arranged in a complete band , are often arranged in discreet units separated from one another . |
| 9 | Questions 1 to 4 cover considerations necessary for any type of intervention but they are not arranged in a logical , systematic order . |
| 10 | Unfortunately the slips are not arranged in a chronological order and documents relating to the early modern period are scattered throughout the calendar . |
| 11 | The English tradition that it is tor Parliament to do the taxing is so deep-seated that the court would probably assert a legal presumption , as a matter of statute interpretation , that powers of taxation are not included in a statutory delegation of power unless clear words are used , and that a general formula like that in the statute stated in the question is not sufficient . ’ |
| 12 | Many of the prescriptions for creativity embody means of enabling the worker to break away from established continuous patterns of thought , since such patterns of thought are held to hinder access to new ideas not contained in a logical sequence from the starting point of the problem . |
| 13 | To mimic this , we should have to speed up our stroboscope so that its flashes came twice as fast as the cycles of mains electricity , which are not noticed in a fluorescent strip light . |
| 14 | The implications for our understanding of the nature of government and law are not presented in a systematic fashion until On Human Conduct . |
| 15 | ( 1 ) This chapter is not written in a standard academic register ( such as you might use in an essay ) . |
| 16 | He had thought that children were supposed to be sharp and un-sentimental and though Emmie had not written in a sentimental way exactly , she had written about her family as if they were perfect . |
| 17 | The Bible is not written in a secret spiritual code which must be cracked if its message is to be understood . |
| 18 | The story is not written in a didactic style . |
| 19 | I.C.A.C. sought to appeal , and the occupiers contested the jurisdiction of the Court of Appeal , on the ground that the order of the judge was not made in a civil cause or matter . |
| 20 | And even though ‘ Trout ’ has a message , it 's not done in a tedious , obvious way — it does n't hammer you over the head . ’ |
| 21 | Have your detective say it is very important to tell whether something is or is not done in a certain way ; then show that thing being done in either of the ways mentioned ; but immediately before that happens put in , quite boldly , what it is you want to slip past your reader . |
| 22 | Many services like medical care are not bought in a normal commercial transaction by a user , but are bought via an intermediary or a third party , the insurance company . |
| 23 | a small illustration in a book not enclosed in a definite border . |
| 24 | Ultimately MAS should not be associated with an Information memorandum which is not produced in a professional manner . |
| 25 | This has not occurred in a simplistic or deterministic manner , as can be seen from the retention of the abolition of the death penalty . |
| 26 | Unlike the previous passage , this one has several vocabulary items specific to ( originally ) black youth culture , for example bredder ( brother — in the community rather than biological sense ) , sound ( a large mobile disco — but see Gilroy 1987 : 164ff for a fuller description ) , spar ( friend ) , skirt and daughter ( both words for women ) , while other words like trod and check are not used in a Standard English way . |
| 27 | As with so many armorial terms the word ‘ quarterings ’ is not used in a conventional way and applied to a shield divided merely into four ; indeed there can be as many ‘ quarterings ’ as there are family affiliations — perhaps the record is held by the five-surnamed Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville family , whose full achievement of arms boasts 719 quarterings . |
| 28 | * Explain technical terms , particularly if your writing is not rooted in a specific theoretical or critical tradition ; if the terms you are using seem difficult to explain , avoid them if you can , or at least explain the difficulty ( see p. 81 ) . |
| 29 | Thirdly , there is an autonomous definition of conservatism in which conservatism is not necessarily connected to any economic group and is not rooted in a particular historical configuration . |
| 30 | The leading Spanish master , who has not shown in a commercial gallery in London since 1965 , was the subject of a study at the Hayward Gallery in 1990 . |