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

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1 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 .
2 Because of the variable nature of the factors contributing to manoeuvre-induced instrument errors , it is not possible to give positive guidance as to the magnitude — or even sense — of the errors likely to be encountered during a given manoeuvre .
3 Yet employers were not prepared to give similar support to organisations of white-collar and professional employees .
4 But the SFA have made it clear they are not prepared to give complete clearance for all the games to be shown in Scotland .
5 WordPerfect Corp , Orem , Utah says that things are now in place for an initial public offering sometime in the future , but it is not prepared to give any indication of when the long-awaited event might happen .
6 With the vast number of products these guides attract , we are not able to give each item a hard edged review .
7 Central government was thus not able to give clear guidance drawn from the Worcester case for hospital managing authorities in the rest of the country .
8 It is not difficult to give many examples of societies where membership of descent groups is gained through women and where membership of descent groups is gained through women and where the status of women is comparatively low .
9 As in every case the recalcitrant MPs had been chosen from a list of several hundred aspirants by the very persons now so aggrieved , Patten was not inclined to give much weight to their judgement .
10 In Chambers v Goldthorpe [ 1901 ] 1 QB 624 , the Court of Appeal had to assert , at some length , that a formulated dispute was not necessary to give arbitral immunity to an architect certifying payments due to a contractor under a building contract .
11 This is perhaps not surprising given that bidders are attracted to targets for a variety of reasons that may be unconnected with the potential for improving the target 's management .
12 In other words , it might be argued that wealth , whether inherited or earned , is not sufficient to give real power , and neither are the traditional status groups such as the clergy , the military and intellectuals able to command as before .
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