Example sentences of "[not/n't] [vb pp] as [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although people in the Cape Town ballet world thought highly of his promise , John 's talent as a choreographer was not regarded as proved by the time he left South Africa ( at only eighteen , why should it have been ? ) , and other young choreographers were at least as highly thought of . |
| 2 | But by definition , science itself was not considered as penetrated by social context ; if it was it would no longer be science , at least not ‘ pure science ’ : |
| 3 | The four circles are not presented as dealing with quite separate topics , such that to move from one to another would be in any sense a change of subject , but rather as four equally fundamental and interlocking dimensions of the same ground-motif that runs throughout : that Jesus Christ is the actualisation and realisation in time and history of God 's eternal decision to be God for and with man ; he is himself the everlasting covenant of God with us , and in that covenant the meaning and purpose of the created universe itself is contained ; and in him too lies the uncovering and overcoming of man 's estrangement from God by the divine ‘ No ! ’ of the cross which leads on to the ‘ Yes ! ’ of the resurrection . |
| 4 | In practice , the ambiguities of class blurred the theory ; rich Kenyans had privileges that made them virtually equal to the British , and a large number of the British — including the instruments of power , the soldiers — were not accepted as equals by the Establishment . |
| 5 | Mourning and depression are not seen as overlapping through different processes ; rather , early loss or bereavement actually produces the vulnerability to psychiatric disorder ( which may not necessarily be depression ) . |
| 6 | I was not shown as voting for the Government motion in Division 15 . |
| 7 | ‘ failed to comply with a condition subject to which it was granted ’ This element is proved by outlining the fact that ‘ L ’ plates were not displayed as required by law . |
| 8 | Only one of the infants with these malformations was delivered by elective caesarean section ( the one with Vater syndrome ) ; three of the four others were not recognised as presenting by the breech until labour was established , which limited the scope for prenatal diagnosis . |
| 9 | Composite rate tax is not defined as falling within the description of income tax , but only as ‘ an amount representing income tax : ’ see section 343 of the Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1970 . |
| 10 | This , as we have seen , explains the impossibility of the infinitive in * To snow would be pleasant as against its possible use in I want it to snow : if the generalized person of the infinitive of weather verbs is not specified as referring to the only support with which the notion denoted by these verbs is conceivable , namely it , then one feels a possible reference to any of the ordinal persons which can be referred to by the infinitive 's generalized person ( " you " , " me " , etc. ) , and so the sentence does not make sense . |
| 11 | It seems likely that in glacial periods reefs would only have been karstified and not destroyed as envisaged by Daly . |
| 12 | Where the price is not determined as mentioned in subsection ( 1 ) above the buyer must pay a reasonable price . |
| 13 | ( 2 ) Where the price is not determined as mentioned in sub-section ( 1 ) above the buyer must pay a reasonable price . |