Example sentences of "not [adj] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such a charge is not registrable against the clearing member under s 395 of the Companies Act 1985 . |
| 2 | She said yesterday that it was not profitable for the new trust members to speculate on why the Scottish Office had not appointed a member of the medical school . |
| 3 | In the 1960s , the under-twenties accounted for only 5 or 6 per cent of total unemployment : in April 1985 , the figure was 15.6 per cent and this was not untypical of the early 1980s . |
| 4 | Lyric poetry is not subjective in the ordinary sense ; and in its freedom from subjectivity it should be thought of in the same terms as music . |
| 5 | Further discussion revealed that the speaker 's brief on the ‘ death and dying ’ subject was not specific to the expressed needs of care assistants . |
| 6 | The results of the model developed in the following sections are not specific to the particular type of private good we have chosen , reputation . |
| 7 | This probe also detects additional fragments not homologous to the human probe . |
| 8 | it 's not uniformed for the whole sentence |
| 9 | And he admits : ‘ It is not normal for the Spanish people to leave the place where you were born for long spells . |
| 10 | The predicted size of this fragment was 1076 bp , however , the full length fragment was not discernable in the other cell lines tested suggesting that it 's occurrence is rare . |
| 11 | The final conclusions of the national committee were , firstly , that it is not possible with the available data to establish a definite causal relation between the use of gangliosides and acute polyneuropathies and , secondly , that patients diagnosed as suffering from acute neuropathies should have a detailed drug history taken and should be followed up ( Grupo de Trabajo Gangli-Msidos , 18th session of Spanish National Committee of Pharmacovigilance , Spain , 1992 ) . |
| 12 | These provide an opportunity for the tutor and the students to respond to each other and to discuss problems in a way which is not possible with the normal marking of test papers at a distance . |
| 13 | Drawing on an analysis of American inter-organizational relations Lindblom argues that it is simply not possible for the central state to impose its wishes on the local state . |
| 14 | Yet it was clear that intensive farming was not possible on the poor Pomeranian soil . |
| 15 | In a moment of clarity , just before her eleven a.m. medication on Friday , a bewildered Elinor threatened to leave and was told by a nurse that this was not possible without the prior permission of the matron . |
| 16 | The main difference was that restitution , often viewed as appropriate by the Sinhalese , was not possible through the colonial court system . |
| 17 | It may not in all cases be sufficient to advise a client that the action which he desires to take is not possible under the existing law ; circumstances may arise in which the proper answer is that if the law does not allow the action to be taken then the law itself should be changed . |
| 18 | It was not possible from the divisional information to determine if the product was profitable overall . |
| 19 | Although low levels ( 1–7% ) of interstrand crosslinking have been reported for cisplatin ( 1 ) it is not possible from the present data to define the sequence specificity of such crosslinks . |
| 20 | As we have seen , the policy process is dynamic and flexible , and it is not possible in the real world to draw a firm distinction between policy initiation and policy implementation . |
| 21 | At present , this is just not possible in the vast majority of NHS hospitals , because the quality of management information systems is so poor . |
| 22 | He had obviously not allowed his degree course to affect his view of what was and was not possible in the physical world . |
| 23 | Also on Oct. 21 Mitterrand called on Raymond Lacombe , the chairman of the farmers ' union FNSEA ( Fédération nationale des syndicats d'exploitants agricoles ) , to control his supporters , describing the attacks by " gangs " who were not representative of the main body of farmers as " unacceptable " and ordering the police to intervene to restore law and order . |
| 24 | A real rate of interest , which would be calculated as an annual rate per cent , takes into account the following facts : — the period of the loan may not be for a full year : interest is only charged on the actual amount borrowed ( eg not including any deposit paid ) ; — if regular repayments are being made , the full amount of the loan is not outstanding over the full year . |
| 25 | He was found not guilty of the serious charge of seditious libel but guilty of the lesser misdemeanour of creating a public mischief . |
| 26 | Barry was indicted on a further six misdemeanour charges on May 10 , five of which related to drug possession and one to conspiracy ; the mayor pleaded not guilty to the fresh charges on May 15 . |
| 27 | The prisoner pleaded Not Guilty through the preliminary hearings and trial in the King 's Bench Court , where Mr Justice Embury found him guilty and sentenced him to death by hanging . |
| 28 | However , two officers found not guilty by the military tribunal were given sentences of two and three years . |
| 29 | Here there is recorded an old custom that is still not extinct in the Basque country , of emigration to the Americas , and especially South America . |
| 30 | The door was permitted to be of the cottage order , double , the bottom half , lower than that of a stable door , was designed to keep children in and chickens out — not that chickens were approved , their appearance was not conducive to the small dignity of the Gate Lodge . |