Example sentences of "not [adj] [verb] this [noun] " in BNC.

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1 I , I ca n't understand the secretariat allowing this to come out were told by the president that it was not possible to use this money unless it was grant related .
2 Therefore , it is not possible to use this condition to argue that a future is underpriced , only that it is overpriced .
3 All that I have said in the last chapter about preparation and being able to sort out important issues is again not possible given this scenario .
4 Unfortunately the practice ratings from Study 1 were not recorded so it is not possible to test this hypothesis .
5 It is not possible to answer this question in terms of the technical efficiency of the device ; its inherent qualities , however admirable in principle , were directly affected by economic factors .
6 It is not possible to consider this scheme in a tort book and students should consult a specialist work for detail .
7 It is not possible to review this novel without such a background sketch , however flimsy .
8 However , it is not possible to make this inference from the data as they are based upon subjects ' responses to a single question .
9 It is , however , not possible to accept this judgement in view of the consistency with which either sign appears in very specific musical contexts .
10 It is not possible to provide this ordering for users of ORACLE RDBMS .
11 Mr. Beloff was not disposed to challenge this proposition although he said there might be room for dispute as to whether some of the damage which has in fact been suffered was caused by Norwich 's termination of the agency agreement .
12 Mr. Beloff was not disposed to challenge this proposition although he said there might be room for dispute as to whether some of the damage which has in fact been suffered was caused by Norwich 's termination of the agency agreement .
13 The Paris–Bonn axis , it is true , was about to be formalized , with the signing of the Franco-German treaty in January 1963 , but it quickly became clear that the Federal Republic was not willing to make this axis the basis of its foreign policy .
14 " I 'm not prepared to countersign this report as it stands .
15 Although in 1284 Edward I had considered that ‘ the comté of Bigorre is held freely from … the king of England , so that the king of France is not recognised as sovereign there ’ , Philip the Fair 's lawyers were not prepared to accept this view .
16 Even if you are not prepared to reject this form for professional accountability , as Sockett does , you might feel that simply holding the teacher responsible for the results contravenes natural justice .
17 He went through the ritual of lighting the cigar and took a first luxurious puff before continuing : ‘ It 's not easy to put this sort of thing in proper perspective . ’
18 It is not easy to achieve this effect if they do not take into account the dimension and spacing of the steps as well as their particular quality , which must be in tune with the music if it is to make sense .
19 Anti-monopoly regulation is not likely to stop this sort of move : entry remains unrestricted and the business is too small for regulators to intervene .
20 The BSO is not likely to support this function very successfully because it is a relatively broad and unspecific classification scheme , with only sufficient specification for the classification of organizations concerned with the control of information ( for example , libraries , clearing houses , abstracting and indexing agencies ) and not to support the indexing of , say , individual periodical articles .
21 And I says to him , you 're not supposed to use this entrance .
22 Erm , again if you 're not comfortable doing this kind of thing then you should n't do it obviously , and the last thing on the monthly calendar card is as you 'll see er , er on the twenty fourth , twenty fifth , twenty sixth and twenty seventh , it has another personal message there .
23 While , of course , it is necessary to become sensitive to the needs of others , even if this means taking on a little of their pain at the time , it is not good to allow this negativity to linger ( remember my experience with Charlotte ? — Chapter 3 ) .
24 Accelerated growth of algae partially poisoned with copper sulphate has been claimed when these were treated with a 30th potency of copper sulphate , but Moss was not able to repeat this work .
25 Partly for reasons of confidentiality , we are not able to describe this company 's environmental analysis activities in more detail .
26 This is a very useful book , and I hope that the organisers can be persuaded to hold other symposia covering areas they were not able to cover this time — eg corrosion inhibition in manufacturing engineering .
27 If a child is not able to meet this criterion , then the method is not appropriate .
28 It is not advisable to attempt this walk in conditions of poor visibility since the plateau is featureless and it 's difficult to know when you are close to the Ben Crom crags .
29 It is not difficult to pinpoint this appeal .
30 It is not difficult to understand this assumption , even when its projection elsewhere may be unjustified or oversimplistic .
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