Example sentences of "not [adj] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah but that 's not bloody there and then ! |
| 2 | Secondly , section 6(3) ( b ) : even if the school is not over-subscribed so that section 6(3) ( a ) does not apply , governors may request the local education authority to make arrangements under section 6(6) and if they do the governors are not obliged to comply with any parental preferences incompatible with such arrangements . |
| 3 | ‘ Well , she went just for a lark , y'know , but this Mabel , she 's very serious , never got married , y'know — not surprisin' either when you see 'er in a strong light . |
| 4 | and , and if those are bad or not supportive enough or actually destructive , |
| 5 | Detailed analysis of the remaining 75 per cent is not possible here but official statistics show that it relied heavily on soft markets desperate for basic manufactured goods . |
| 6 | The father of modern psychology , Sigmund Freud believed ‘ … psychiatry is not possible near or above the age of 50 ; the elasticity of the mental processes on which the treatment depends is as a rule lacking — old people are not educable . ’ |
| 7 | While he was on the correct route he was not guilty even though he intended to steal . |
| 8 | If the accused leaves without paying because he is absent-minded , he is not liable , and remains not guilty even though he discovers his mistake afterwards . |
| 9 | Er I remember it so vividly because it , at our house it was quite er an event because mother and father were so Labour and my brother , who erm he , I do n't know why , he 's not alive today and I ca n't so I , and I 've no idea , I do n't think I ever asked him because I 'd be too young , but I do know that the friction was in the house because he was working for the Conservative and she was the first woman that we ever elected er she , this , this lady did . |
| 10 | Books are not scarce even if they are somewhat costly . |
| 11 | Mrs Browning did not wish to hold him , saying she feared her arms were not strong enough and that her cough might disturb him . |
| 12 | Upon taking up his new post , he discovered that the bearings were not strong enough and put great strains upon the axles which broke regularly . |
| 13 | They 're not strong enough and they have n't been trained . ’ |
| 14 | erm What I 've I 've had a look at their team on paper , and erm they 're not strong enough and erm you know , they need more than Marvin at the moment ; they need two or three good blokes , they 're a bit too sort of erm balanced really , you know , they have n't got any big fire power , so erm you know , I think they 're in a bit of a spot down there , even though they probably think they 're not . |
| 15 | Keep your pride and remember you 're not helpless just because you 're not active any more . |
| 16 | Lastly , the CPA 1987 is not retrospective so that products supplied before 1 March 1988 are not covered . |
| 17 | It is not clear however whether it has a neuronal-specific regulatory role , because the data obtained in non neuronal cells were obtained by transient transfections in cells that do not show any hypersensitive sites in this region of the promoter of the endogenous NF-L gene . |
| 18 | But it is not clear yet whether after the formalities are over , the Prince will be rolling up his sleeves and getting his hands dirty as he did on two previous visits to Mr MacKillop 's 92 acres of arable croft on Berneray . |
| 19 | It is not clear however that it has been the stronger adversary which has done so , rather than a weaker party with its back to the wall . |
| 20 | Bill Muggeridge , he noted with regret , had been free for the first hour , when Pumfrey and Fenniway had been busy with the Fromes , but was not free again until after lunch . |
| 21 | Slowing down does not help , and generally the driver is not brave enough or quick enough to try accelerating . |
| 22 | She 's gon na say you 're not old enough or something . |
| 23 | But feuding and fighting are not acceptable just because they occur so frequently . |
| 24 | Although Sun 's architecture is termed ‘ excellent ’ , Butler Bloor claims that its hardware range is not comprehensive enough and that the company still has the feel of a workstation vendor . |
| 25 | And whoever is not clever enough and not at any price can get the object of his desires , I shall , for my fee , make sure he succeeds , for I am very skillful . " ) |
| 26 | Pleistocene changes of sea level were not simple up and down movements with reversion to a pre-existing level , but oscillations superimposed on a generally downward movement . |
| 27 | A comprehensive account of organogenesis is not appropriate here but a brief account of the formation of the major organ primordia will be given . |
| 28 | Such speakers may make overgeneralisations which are not appropriate either as HE or as SE , for example : " I 've done a course two years ago " ( Harris 1984 : 315 ) . |
| 29 | That it is firmly tied must be correct ; the inhabitants of Brave New World are not autonomous precisely because they are denied access to relevant information . |
| 30 | Such events occur once every 30 years on average in our Galaxy , and a good proportion are not visible optically because of intervening matter . |