Example sentences of "not [adj] [adv] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The following morning he went to Dawson 's house , thereby missing a telephone call from the King 's private secretary asking him to go to the Palace before luncheon ( it is not clear why the message was not passed on ) . |
| 2 | It is not clear why the motives of the White Paper of 1943 , the intentions of the inspectorate and the hopes of educational reformers were so little heeded in the specific detail of selection . |
| 3 | It is not clear why the disease is usually not apparent until calves , turned out to graze in the spring , have been at grass for 2-5 months . |
| 4 | It was not clear why the matter deserved a book to itself . |
| 5 | It is not clear why the theft or robbery count should be considered before that of handling except that the theft or robbery must have come first in time . |
| 6 | * It is not clear why the effect of the retention interval should be especially marked when the pre-exposure flavour is different from that used in the subsequent phases of the study . |
| 7 | In any case , it is not clear why the period of five years has been chosen . |
| 8 | It is not clear why the consent of the parties should be a precondition to leapfrog appeals , and the issue was contentious when the Bill was debated in Parliament . |
| 9 | It is not clear why the age of 65 was taken as the cut-off point for these screening programmes . |
| 10 | They say the two men should stand trial in Scotland or the United States , though it is not clear how the West would react to Col Gaddafi 's suggestion , now apparently retracted , that it could take place in another Arab League country . |
| 11 | So far it is not clear how the G and C cells know when to stop following the Q cells and select an A or P pioneer . |
| 12 | It 's still not clear how the man set fire to himself , but as a remand prisoner he was allowed cigarettes and matches in his cell . |
| 13 | ‘ It is still not clear how the child came to be in the river , ’ a police spokesman said last night . |
| 14 | This would at least have allowed the dollar banana firms , such as Chiquita , to import as much as they want , and it is not clear how the dollar banana quota is to cope with a possible increase in demand . |
| 15 | Here , there are also formal links ( So , she , etc. ) but it is not clear how the sequence makes sense . |
| 16 | • It is not clear how the duration of sleep could be controlled as regularly as is observed to be the case . |
| 17 | if it is not clear how the words were in fact understood , the question is how a reasonable listener would have interpreted them in the particular context . |
| 18 | One group of alternants clearly originates with the extension of the general unrounding of ME u ( as in cut , dull ) to initial labial items , such as pull , but it is not clear how the words originating from shortening in the ME o set can be predicted phonologically ( for example , if took belongs to the set , why not cook ? ) . |
| 19 | Even Wilson himself was not clear how the miracle had been worked . |
| 20 | Given Funai 's denial of any involvement , it is not clear how the Fondation will achieve its aims . |
| 21 | It 's not clear how the accident happened . |
| 22 | If on the other hand the form of division of labour within enterprises is not homogeneous then the concept of ‘ division by strata ’ must be more nebulous and approximate . |
| 23 | not ideal so we say to you it 's not ideal so the supervisor , so you have to say to , this has got ta be sorted , this is not ideal , this is n't gon na work when you 're not here . |
| 24 | Secondly , computer mapping allows the user to experiment ; if the final product is not satisfactory then the labour involved in redrafting the map is negligible in comparison with manual methods . |
| 25 | It is not obvious why the Court was concerned with the possible application of Magistrates ' Courts Act 1980 , s.133 to the activation of the suspended sentence in this case ( although it concluded that it did not apply in any event ) . |
| 26 | I am not sure why the Minister would not take that on board . |
| 27 | I am not sure why the idea of an old woman in an unlit room reading out newspaper headlines for her grandson tickles me so , but it does . |
| 28 | We are not sure why the Greeks chose the number 360 but it may have been because 360 can be divided up in a lot of different ways . |
| 29 | I am not sure why the hatred exists . |
| 30 | but there 's a right time and a wrong time for doing it , see cos basically if you were getting the money , the phone calls that were , that were done a since Christmas right , I 'm not sure how the bill runs , it probably runs December , January , February er I think they run a quarter on the phone bill , and its a three month period |