Example sentences of "not [adj] [prep] [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The tone of these is not untypical of Commission Directives concerned with the internal market . |
| 2 | The whole question of ‘ negative image ’ is not specific to West Belfast , it affects the whole of the North of Ireland . |
| 3 | This picture is not specific to neurology services in this regional centre . |
| 4 | Joint promotions are not specific to consumer goods , but are to be seen more often as companies attempt to find new promotional techniques . |
| 5 | Primers were made from a section of mycobacterial specific ( 65 kilodalton gene , TB1 and 2 ) groEL gene which is conserved among known mycobacteria but not specific for M tuberculosis . |
| 6 | Bob Weighill , the home unions secretary , added : ‘ It is not normal for rugby union players to work while on tour . ’ |
| 7 | This is not possible with videocassette players . |
| 8 | Writing allows private communication with the computer that is not possible with speech recognition . |
| 9 | This is not possible as Part Numbers must be unique . |
| 10 | This approach is not possible for hepatitis B virus negative hepatocellular carcinoma , however , which is more common than hepatitis B virus related hepatocellular carcinoma in the West . |
| 11 | Whilst it was clearly not possible for news organizations to make many savings in editorial costs since they employ relatively few full-time journalists , they necessarily turned to the production areas . |
| 12 | Because of them , unlike the case of business contracts discussed above , the practice of the insertion of possibly invalid or unreasonable exclusion clauses " in terrorem " is not possible in consumer contracts , since failure to notify a consumer of his statutory rights , or misleading him as to what they are , is a criminal offence . |
| 13 | An Old Bailey jury that included nine women found Sheila Beeson , 29 , not guilty of child cruelty . |
| 14 | Jane was fond of history and old houses , but was not guilty of folie de grandeur . |
| 15 | ‘ I 'm not used to science stories making all that much of a splash , ’ he said , carefully not looking at Graham sitting silently beside him . |
| 16 | In more specific terms of the language , Newport and Bellugi ( 1978 ) were able to show that deaf people are not deficient in category structure in ASL because there appear to be no signs for category names such as ‘ tool ’ or ‘ furniture ’ . |
| 17 | Headphones are not practicable for hearing aid wearers because the proximity of the headphone causes acoustic feedback in the aids . |
| 18 | This is obviously not conducive to ward learning , and valuable clinical experience is wasted . |
| 19 | Although seroconversion rates after a supplemental ( fourth ) dose of OPV were , in contrast , somewhat lower than expected , rates of secondary 4-fold rises in antibody ( ‘ booster ’ responses ) in seropositive children who received OPV were similar to those found in earlier studies , which suggests that the low response rates in seronegative children were not due to vaccine subpotency . |
| 20 | If that 's the difference between us which are not due to migration environment . |
| 21 | The linguist Charles Li , writing in his introduction to a highly speculative volume on the mechanisms of syntactic change ( Li 1977 ) , claims that with a few exceptions the only documented types of word order changes that are not due to language contact are SOV to ( VSO ) to SVO . |
| 22 | The cause is almost certainly internal and not due to market pressures . |
| 23 | It is clear the vast majority of cancers are not due to radiation exposure at work and therefore in most cases , no compensation will result . |
| 24 | Amphibian decline " not due to acid rain " |
| 25 | Er and you 'd get some feedback to us from the Neighbourhood Watch point of view er and it 's not peculiar to Neighbourhood Watches but er from , from your point of view you also have access to the police in that er eventually there should be a liaison built up , not overnight I mean it wo n't , it wo n't happen tomorrow morning either , but there 'll be a lia liaison between the , the local police officer and yourselves er and if there 's any problems that you may have , you know and you 'll be able to communicate back to them . |
| 26 | A turbulent and unruly nobility was not peculiar to south-west France , but the underlying causes of that turbulence warrant investigation . |
| 27 | Is it not clear from Government statements that the future of the adult education service is at great risk ? |
| 28 | But most musicassettes still use only the very cheapest ferric oxide tape , so quality is poor and musicassettes are not popular with hi-fi buffs . |
| 29 | It is said that , before he died , St Magnus asked his executioner to kill him by an axe stroke to the head , rather than suffer decapitation : ‘ For it is not seemly to behead chiefs like thieves . ’ |
| 30 | On the particular facts McCardie J found that the house and its contents were not free of tuberculosis bacilli and it was not fit for human habitation . |