Example sentences of "[not/n't] [vb pp] on a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps what has saved it is the fact that it is not situated on a major road . |
| 2 | is not justified on a general reading of that case . |
| 3 | A package which is to be submitted for approval/has already been submitted for approval includes modules which are not listed on a corresponding Design Change ( DC ) . |
| 4 | Even if you 're not parked on a yellow line , the police can imagine you 're travelling at forty when you 're just doing thirty and so on . |
| 5 | Although not located on a structural culmination , the well had a small show of methane at the top of the Lower Permian Sandstone beneath the Magnesian Limestone and Zechstein salt . |
| 6 | And the presidential election is not won on a first-past-the-post basis by simply tallying the votes for Bush , Clinton and Ross Perot across the country . |
| 7 | Statistics for the number of recipients of all benefits are not collected on a regional basis . |
| 8 | " This is a fascist policy " , he remarked , " only the collective effort of nation states can guarantee that such a policy is not imposed on a world-wide scale " . |
| 9 | What would happen if the Institute were not accepted on a new Register ? was glad of the opportunity to speak on the matter and as the Institute representative on the Committee he was disturbed by the lack of progress by the appointed agent . |
| 10 | A market purchase is one made on a recognised investment exchange ( which includes the London Stock Exchange and the USM ) , whereas an off-market purchase is one which is not made on a recognised investment exchange ( ie by private contract ) or is so made but the shares are not subject to a marketing arrangement on that exchange . |
| 11 | It was in the 2nd round of the FA Cup in December 1937 when the Palace had had to make the long trip to Accrington on one of the rare times when the draw for this round was not made on a geographical basis . |
| 12 | Ambivalence poses the crucial problem of enforcement for regulatory agencies and their field staffs , because their authority is not secured on a perceived moral and political consensus about the ills they seek to control . |
| 13 | One of the problems with old masonry door steps is that , very often , they are not bedded on a damp-proof course . |
| 14 | Unlike the other three types of scheme , the amount of pension you receive is not based on a fixed formula but ( within Inland Revenue limits ) is dependent on the investment performance of the fund into which your own and your employer 's contributions on your behalf have been paid . |
| 15 | Mr Bowman warned a moral panic not based on a real perception of the situation , could lead to bad or ineffective legislation . |
| 16 | It is crucial , therefore , that mathematics be recognised as being of less value if it is not based on a multicultural approach . |
| 17 | Her perception was not clearly defined by sensations and she made a value judgement not based on a logical process . |
| 18 | How workers understood work , therefore , was not based on a simple perception of its demands , but was refracted through available discourses on the nature of the wider society . |
| 19 | With reference to old people of over 75 , who are here our main concern , there is a further aspect of ageist stereotyping which is prevalent and regrettable ; that is , the tendency to make negative assumptions about the capacities of individual old people which are not based on a proper appraisal of their state . |
| 20 | Zimbabwe 's economy is not based on a single commodity like Zambia 's and it did not experience the mass exodus of whites and ‘ scorched earth ’ policies of the Portuguese in Mozambique and Angola . |
| 21 | Unlike realism , liberal pluralism is not based on a single set of ideas developed over time , but embraces a variety of approaches . |
| 22 | The purchaser may want the earnout to run for at least two years to ensure that the earnout payment is not based on a one-off peak in earnings . |
| 23 | It is essential , therefore , when employing freelance staff , or anyone else who is not employed on a permanent contract of employment , to make contractual provision for determining ownership of copyright . |
| 24 | If annual leave is not distributed on a whole hospital/unit basis , what is the rationale for it be devolved ? |
| 25 | One of the best and cheapest around is the Alesis 3630 which , at only 1U , offers features often not found on a single model . |
| 26 | The Centre of African Studies in Edinburgh has always maintained a focus on the whole of Africa , and has not concentrated on a particular region — such as West or Southern . |
| 27 | In contrast with most other studies on exfoliative cytology for bile duct strictures this study has not focused on a particular primary site of tumour but rather the overall use of cytology with biliary strictures . |
| 28 | And the Department of Trade and Industry supervises the whole scheme by approving the bodies that operate it , which effectively means approving their rules and mode of operation as well ; so it 's under government control even if the government is not involved on a day-to-day basis . |
| 29 | Shift workers would enjoy far more normal social lives if their leisure was not superimposed on a seven day cycle of work and leisure , which they can not share . |
| 30 | Ambiguity of this kind and degree demonstrates very forcibly that words are not determined on a one-to-one basis by the idea or thing which they supposedly represent . |