Example sentences of "not [vb pp] [prep] [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Already , in effect , US military commanders — in this case , the commander of US naval forces in the Western Pacific — were testifying to the domino effect : if Chinese communists were not stopped in South China , Indo-China , Burma , and perhaps Malaya , would then fall , either from internal subversion or external attack . |
| 2 | I think it dawned on him then for the first time that there were two streams , and that the pond was not formed by Burden Creek . |
| 3 | With one exception previous studies of acute renal failure were renal unit based and did not include those patients who were not referred for specialist opinion . |
| 4 | This study shows that some patients are not referred for specialist opinion , the shortfall being mainly among elderly people . |
| 5 | This was not calculated for sleep position and breast feeding because of the similar exposure distribution of these two variables among Maori children and their controls ( table IV ) . |
| 6 | In one of these three patients the bleeding started in another ulcer not seen during the first endoscopy and therefore not treated with heater probe . |
| 7 | Whenever a specific sanction is not prescribed by Community Law , it is left to the discretion of the Member States to choose among the different solutions suitable to achieve the objective of the provision infringed . |
| 8 | The overall mortality reduction in the five included community studies ( fig 1 ) was highly significant , both statistically ( two tailed p<0.0000001 ) and clinically : a common odds ratio of 0.70 ( 0.62 to 0.79 ; confidence interval not adjusted for cluster design of community studies ) indicating a risk reduction of 30% — that is , a reduction of about a third in mortality from all causes . |
| 9 | He had not adjusted to prison life as Nehru was able to do ; he had found it ‘ a shattering experience ’ . |
| 10 | It was not intended as music fur dancing . |
| 11 | The late '40s means ‘ bebop ’ , much harder and faster than the ‘ swing ’ tempos of the '20s and '30s , and certainly not intended for dance halls . |
| 12 | Plastics not intended for food use vary : some may leach dye into the water , and some can be toxic . |
| 13 | More fertilizer might mean more grain ( and more carbon dioxide and nitrous oxide to add to the greenhouse effect ) , but there obviously comes a point where more fertilizer does not mean a bigger yield or perhaps is not justified on cost grounds , particularly when grain prices are low , as they were for part of the 1980s . |
| 14 | But they were not successful ( Queen Wilhelmina and the government escaped ) and they were certainly not disguised as servant girls . |
| 15 | Helmut had not heard of M. Lévy . |
| 16 | ( Today no one would dare propose such a thing , even purely as a thought experiment , but in Schrödinger 's time they had not heard of animal liberation . ) |
| 17 | As the tracks were not completed at West Croydon , such transfers proved rather difficult and cars had to be moved at night , using temporary rails to bridge the gap at the top of Tamworth Road . |
| 18 | Birth dates are not given on marriage certificates , only ages , and his mother 's was there as twenty-five , which meant she must have been born in 1926 and have been twenty-seven when he was born . |
| 19 | Consequently , they recommended that ‘ campaigning ’ should be funded from elsewhere and not undertaken by law centres . |
| 20 | Facet analysis underlies the structure , but is not emphasized by facet indicators as in a more conventional faceted classification scheme . |
| 21 | Deciduous trees appear less affected than conifers , partly because they offer a smaller area of foliage , and partly because they shed their leaves each autumn and hence are not exposed to air pollution for such a long time as conifers . |
| 22 | Last week the UK Department of Health confirmed its earlier recommendations that the risk of cot death is reduced if infants are laid to sleep on their backs , if they are not exposed to cigarette smoke before or after birth , and if they are not overwrapped or overheated , especially when feverish or unwell . |
| 23 | This study shows that the motor activity of the normal human oesophagus is not limited to contraction waves in response to swallowing , but that non-deglutitive motility patterns occur in almost all normal gullets . |
| 24 | In making such an appraisal , the MMC is not limited to competition questions , but is supposed to consider all factors which appear relevant : the balanced distribution of industry and employment in the UK is listed as relevant and , in the past , the MMC has also examined the effect on the balance of payments and on imports . |
| 25 | It is recognised that full configuration control of software is not limited to source code and that it is desirable to control the whole environment in which the target machine-code is produced . |
| 26 | It should be noted that the SGSA , s 2 is not limited to business contracts . |
| 27 | Some might joke unkindly that road deaths in the region are not limited to traffic accidents . |
| 28 | Is energy not conserved in quantum mechanics ? |
| 29 | In Offe 's work ( see Keane , 1984 ) , the origins of the contradictions of the welfare state in late capitalism are not located in class struggle , but in conflicts among the subsystems of socialization , economy and the state in late capitalism . |
| 30 | Their achievements , such as wage rises and the setting of minimum wage levels , were not won through class struggle , but received as favours from local government in the expectation of their political support in return . |