Example sentences of "is not [verb] on [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only this time , the opponents of culling would be armed with more evidence that such a cull is not justified on scientific grounds . |
| 2 | The management fee will be one-half per cent on the investment each year that the profit or yield is not realized on that investment . |
| 3 | Is he aware that that drug is not grown on some poppy field in South America but that 98 per cent . |
| 4 | A contract for the sale of future goods is not made on any false assumption that the goods are in existence at the time of the contract . |
| 5 | The point is not lost on developing countries : if the rich countries think the strategy beneficial , there must be something in it for them too . |
| 6 | Men get sent back from specialist posts to uniform duties as a punishment and the strength of this metaphorical move downwards or backwards ( you can never move ‘ up ’ or ‘ forwards ’ into uniform ) is not lost on young officers . |
| 7 | The programme is not binding on any of the signatories but is likely to influence the lending and spending of Western donors . |
| 8 | The decision of the Divisional Court in the Manchester Corporation case is not binding on this court and , although it may in the event have reached a conclusion with which I would now agree , I find the reasoning by which that conclusion was reached wholly unconvincing . |
| 9 | Further , it is not binding on this court . |
| 10 | The parricide probably occurred in different parts of the globe , where groups were at the first stage in the evolution of Homo sapiens , It is probable that the killing was done , although Freud is not insistent on the point , if the horror of the actual deed has been faced emotionally and the resistance to the idea that it was a deed is not based on emotional resistances . |
| 11 | But the model he constructs ( and whose principles he expounds so clearly in his opening pages ) is not based on such rigorously maintained categories . |
| 12 | The ‘ technocratic consciousness ’ that takes the place of the old bourgeois ideology is not based on collective repression . |
| 13 | So it would seem that even a defence may be an abuse of process if it is not based on private rights . |
| 14 | The reader who wishes to recap on why the Keynesian treatment of the theory of labour supply is not based on irrational behaviour is referred to Chapter 5 , the section entitled ‘ Wage stickiness and money illusion ’ . |
| 15 | The method of sampling , however , is not based on random chance , and no quantification of statistical sampling error is possible . |
| 16 | However , in order to expose the nature of capitalism , Marx first had to show that capitalism is not based on some eternal immutable truth , as presented by economists , but is the product of a long history . |
| 17 | Denying the vote to children is not based on some false assumption about 10-year-olds ' political knowledge , nor to deny that they have interests , nor to protect them from the harm their votes might do . |
| 18 | It is not based on military criteria , and it will do nothing whatever for Scotland . ’ |
| 19 | The belief that Candida can affect distant parts of the body — including the brain — is not based on hard scientific evidence . |
| 20 | Windows 3.0 users will not have the Midi-Mapper and Drivers Icons , and the 386 Enhanced icon is not displayed on 80286 machines . |
| 21 | In practice , it is standard for agreements to seek to exclude any liability for pre-contractual representations by including entire agreement provisions under which the acquirer confirms that it is not relying on any representations , etc. other than those included in the agreement . |
| 22 | For this reason it is normal for the vendor to define precisely which documents comprise the sale agreement and to ensure the purchaser acknowledges that it is not relying on any statements of fact unless contained in these documents . |
| 23 | Samson Agonistes is not centred on Greek legend which was the staple of classical tragedy but , as Milton 's age believed , on Christian truth , and on truths capable of being repeated in Milton 's present . |
| 24 | It was " of vital importance that the momentum gained at Madrid is not dissipated on procedural matters " . |
| 25 | Overeating through boredom is a greater danger , so you should monitor the patient quite carefully to make sure he is not putting on excess weight . |
| 26 | An ordinary NHS patient can ask to be given a greater degree of privacy in a separate room if it is not needed on medical grounds for other patients , and can pay for the privilege . |
| 27 | Employees of outside contractors sometimes work on nuclear sites , and information about them is not held on nuclear industry 's employee databases . |
| 28 | The following contact relationships are also illustrated : South Mountains granodiorite sites , Tsm host 1 and Tsm host 2 , intruded by microdiorite dykes , Tmd dyke 1 and Tmd dyke 2 , respectively ; Telegraph Pass granite site , Ttp host 3 , intruded by microdiorite dyke , Tmd dyke 3 ; and remagnetized Precambrian host rocks , PC host 4 ( this site is not shown on other equal-area projections of this figure ) , intruded by felsic dyke , Tfd dyke 4 . |
| 29 | One rail bridge , well camouflaged , is not shown on any map . |
| 30 | This is misleading in that baptism is an initiation rite within Christianity as a whole and is not performed on dead people . |