Example sentences of "not [be] [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The court may not be stipulating a particular substantive conclusion ; it may however be explicitly or implicitly ruling out certain options by the way in which it addresses and answers the preceding issues . |
| 32 | but I shall not be drawn a second time |
| 33 | Bush stressed that he would not be making a final decision until he had heard the reports from Cheney and Powell . |
| 34 | ‘ This , ’ he says , ‘ would allow the display in rotation of a lot more of the paintings that can not be found a permanent hanging space . ’ |
| 35 | GRAHAM Taylor will not be offered a new contract by the FA — unless he leads England to a successful World Cup . |
| 36 | My personal view , and I must emphasise that I have n't discussed it with John , is that we should not be offering a general horticultural advice service to all and sundry , but that we should restrict this to areas where we have recognised expertise — Alpine & Rock Gardens , Arboriculture , Glasshouse cultivation and others . |
| 37 | Her second visit could not be accounted a complete success , though we were much more intimate than before , and wept a lot together about the baby . |
| 38 | Although she will not be running a great deal , I think she will win a decent prize and could easily prove top flight . |
| 39 | The epidemiological evidence shows that nitrate can not be having a major effect on cancer in the general population in the UK . |
| 40 | Suppliers are asked to state clearly where the overall responsibility for the success of the project will lie , if any aspect of the relationship proposed can not be considered a straightforward one of OUP as purchasers of goods and services from the supplier . |
| 41 | The Severn could not be considered a complete failure , however , for from it was developed the very successful Saro A.27 London flying-boat . |
| 42 | The HGT-1 cell line was isolated from a human gastric adenocarcinoma , and can not be considered a complete model for the parietal cell as it does not secrete hydrochloric acid . |
| 43 | 1987 ) the court held that the police had wrongly considered the theft of 28 dogs owned by a Hunt as a serious arrestable offence as the loss to the members of the Hunt could not be considered a serious financial loss . |
| 44 | It would not be considered a serious loss by the company and the financial gain to the robbers was not necessarily substantial . |
| 45 | Nevertheless , they counter that the physical environment should not be considered a constant , even over the relatively short period of agricultural settlement in Great Britain , in part because of climatic change and its consequences , in part because of changes wrought by land use practices , and in part because of changed perceptions of the environment ; see also Prince ( 1971 ) , and Blaikie and Brookfield ( 1987 ) . |
| 46 | However , an environment in which people can not sleep adequately because of excessive noise can not be considered a safe environment . |
| 47 | If tomorrow someone discovered that Atlantis actually existed , he would not be adding a new property to the island state talked about in Plato 's Timaeus , but dispelling the suspicion that Plato , or someone else before him , invented the legend . |
| 48 | Police have warned that despite last nights events , car thieves will not be allowed a free ride in the Oxford area . |
| 49 | Tension over the status of the territory continued in 1990 , continuing allegations from Logologofolau that his elected colleagues , together with the traditional chiefs , were not being given a sufficient say in decision-making by the French-appointed Chief Administrator . |
| 50 | ‘ I am very unhappy that public representatives and ratepayers are not being given a true picture . ’ |
| 51 | But now Cleese breaks his silence to talk about fame , fortune and ‘ the fear of not being thought a nice chap ’ and in the process makes a remarkable offer to the press |
| 52 | ‘ The crippling thing is the fear of not being thought a nice chap . |
| 53 | ‘ One hears a great deal about interference from boards of directors in football and of managers not being allowed a free hand to run their teams . |
| 54 | Well but I mean , Brian was saying himself you know he ca n't remember at least he 's says he 's been working down London when he has n't been earning a hundred pound a day you know , it 's something , we just accepted it , he said over the years I 've been earning a hundred pound a day he says , and that was it you know yo yo just do . |
| 55 | But Beatrice complained sadly that she had nothing to wear that had n't been seen a hundred times . |
| 56 | Gullible had n't been driving a great big lorry around the place and putting down rat poison . |
| 57 | ‘ A little birdie tells me you have n't been doing a great deal of singing recently . |
| 58 | Walter had me into his panelled wankpit of an office , classified my request to change the name on my cheques from N.O. Russell to Oliver Russell as not central to the Bank 's policy for the 1980s , and reminded me that unless funds were forthcoming to camouflage my black hole of an overdraft I would n't be getting a new cheque-book even if I called myself Santa Claus . |
| 59 | You wo n't be given a great deal of feedback in that session , just enough to get you going . |
| 60 | In his post match press conference Tony Jacklin also chose to stress the marvellous atmosphere the match had been held in before going on to reiterate that he would n't be serving a fifth term as Captain . |