Example sentences of "not [adj] [to-vb] the [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite this application of man power , it was not possible to achieve the same rate of progress as had been made in the Lowlands . |
| 2 | Others may limit your way so that no matter how promising your situation or how creative you can be with money , you are not free to make the most of it . |
| 3 | It is not easy to survey the many areas in which there has been not only response to Dei Verbum , but also developments traceable to its influence , yet going far beyond what most of the Council 's members could have foreseen . |
| 4 | These coefficients are sensitive both to the difficulty of a test as well as its reliability ( consistency ) and so it is not easy to assess the latter . |
| 5 | We 're not likely to make the same mistakes again . |
| 6 | Branson was not able to inspire the same sense of esprit de corps among the hastily assembled team of Event journalists as he had always done among the staff at Virgin , and the magazine quickly became rife with internecine dispute and conspiracy theories . |
| 7 | Almost simultaneously de Gasperi died ; his successors were not able to stamp the same authority on Italian foreign policy . |
| 8 | And I am told that it is not advisable to use the same batch of acid for etching copper as has been used for etching zinc because the deposits of two metals in the acid creates erm an unpleasant , noxious , possibly poisonous gas and I do n't know what that would do . |
| 9 | The committee has accused the Food and Drug Administration ( FDA ) of failing to impose adequate regulations on the bottled water industry , which at present is not obliged to maintain the same standards as the public water supply . |