Example sentences of "not [vb pp] in a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mrs. Upton explained that the polling station was changed this year to the Forestry Commission 's office in Alice Holt Forest , so that it would be more centrally located for Bucks Horn Oak voters , and not situated in a school which would then have to be closed for the day . |
| 2 | Attitudes towards employment , retirement , and early retirement are not formed in a vacuum . |
| 3 | Look in the locker under the passenger seat for its original colour as it is usually not repainted in a respray . . |
| 4 | Second , since it is raised by the salesperson , the buyer is not placed in a position where , having raised a problem , he feels that he must defend it . |
| 5 | Take the High Road , which has been running for 13 years , does n't make the ratings tables because it is not slotted in a peak viewing time across the country . |
| 6 | Things like that were not forgotten in a hurry . |
| 7 | The Tax Faculty reiterates its earlier proposed solutions that the group income provisions should be extended to include dividends paid to a parent resident in another member state and that dividends derived by a UK intermediate holding company from an EC subsidiary should not attract ACT if the ultimate parent is not located in a member state . |
| 8 | I had not looked in a mirror for a long time , not closely . |
| 9 | And I mean if they 'd not looked in a paper in nineteen eighty seven eighty eight , and realized that fifteen percent of the fund had suddenly gone missing cos it had you know dropped they they 'd have still got income from their investments , and if they did n't need to cash it , then it would have been no problem at all . |
| 10 | The main difficulty from our point of view was that AIB was not organised in a manner that lent itself to giving instruction . |
| 11 | Let us say that , although not trapped in a fight for survival , we are all still caught up in the ordinary competitiveness of business , social gamesmanship , and marriage . |
| 12 | However , the study was not designed in a way that would allow the conclusion that physicians were as accurate as psychiatrists in their diagnoses and recommendations . |
| 13 | ‘ What she needs is not contained in a prescription bottle . |
| 14 | There is no cover provided by the policy for theft of property not contained in a building i.e. theft from a motor vehicle is not covered . |
| 15 | She turned on Constanza ; Constanza lost her head , she struck back , she said the things she had not said in a life-time , the things that should not be said . |
| 16 | Although a descriptive grammar gives detailed coverage of the facts about a language , it is not written in a form which can be used directly to acquire speaking control of the language . |
| 17 | After all , earth was not made in a day and there is always scope for a second project once the first has been completed and shown to be a success . |
| 18 | The choice of research topic is not made in a vacuum , but is influenced both by the researcher and by the context in which the research is to be done . |
| 19 | Common-law decisions are not made in a vacuum . |
| 20 | Contraceptive IUDs as such were not developed until 1930 by Ohta in Japan , and were not made in a form suitable for mass use until after the Second World War . |
| 21 | He could drink for twenty-four hours without stopping , but it was not done in a hurry . |
| 22 | Housing turnover has collapsed to levels not seen in a generation — and in just two months , September and October , house prices fell by 4% , enough to virtually wipe out the deposit the first-time buyer could normally expect to pay . |
| 23 | Moss escaped with his life but the famous " Lucky No.7 " car of his was not seen in a Formula One Grand Prix again although he did later return to saloon car racing . |
| 24 | Mistress Southwell was a Roman Catholic and with several others sought to surround the events of the Queen Elizabeth 's last illness and death with ill-omens and to suggest that she had not died in a state of grace ’ . |
| 25 | But , of course , they 're not equipped in a lot of senses . |
| 26 | A doppelganger is invisible except to its owner and is not reflected in a mirror . |
| 27 | This is in turn largely explained by a sharp deterioration in Britain 's unit costs relative to those of her competitors which , until 16 September 1992 , was not reflected in a change in the exchange value of the pound . |
| 28 | If a viable product is not produced in a total of three years it is felt that the project should be abandoned since the technology in use will have been superseded and a competitive product is likely to be nearing launch . |
| 29 | If a viable product is not produced in a total of three years it is felt that the project should be abandoned since the technology in use will have been superseded and a competitive product is likely to be nearing launch . |
| 30 | Such costs and benefits ( termed social costs and social benefits ) are external to the firm and are not measured in a firm 's costs or revenue accounts . |